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In India, after TRAI's decision to chop off bogus mobile subscriber base in June last year, the number of GSM connections had continuously been declining till the end of December 2012. But it would be great news for every...

On Wednesday, Norway-based telecommunication company--Telenor--emerged as the biggest bidder in India’s controversial mobile telecom 2G spectrum auctions. It's pretty-known why the refresh 2G auction was conducted by Indian regulators. In February this year, honorable Supreme Court of India cancelled...

As expected, first day of 2G spectrum bidding in India got lackluster response from telecom vendors. Telecom operators complaint that the starting price set for the 2G spectrum by Indian telecom regulators was quite expensive compare to 2G auction...

Indiscriminately, the scenario of Indian telecom industry has steadily been changing over the past few years and now, the country is the world’s second largest market in terms of subscriber base. Availability of low-priced devices, affordable services by carriers...

In last 12 hours, I bumped numerous times with the ‘news’ floating around almost every news portal, blog and social networks – Bharti Airtel has become world’s 4th largest Telecom operator in terms of number of subscribers. Be it...

Apple’s latest move will surely entice many smartphone users in India. The company has decided to withdraw the exclusive sales rights from Airtel and Aircel ending their monopoly in iPhone segment in India. This year both the companies won’t...

Mobile data consumption in India is steadily growing due to increasing number of smartphones and greater availability of data-driven services. This time, businesses are quite liberal for 'Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD) module, means employees can use their own...

There is a buzz in Indian telecom industry that the telecom subscriber base declined 20.7 million in July 2012. Indeed, it’s the first time ever in Indian Telecom history and subscriber base (wireless and wireline) reached to 944.81 million...

Yesterday, no any new foreign player participated in first pre-bid conference hosted by department of telecommunication in India related to 2G auction. As per the previous norm, the foreign vendors had to form a joint venture with an Indian partner...

Bharti Airtel is the first player that introduced 4G services in India--launched 4G TD-LTE  services in Kolkata in April and Bangalore in May of this year. However, the services provided by the telco seem somehow expensive and the market...