The website of telecom regulator Trai remained inaccessible for a few hours for the second consecutive day due to a technical snag in its system provided by the National Informatics Centre. The site has been facing frequent outage since Monday ...
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Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked state-run operator BSNL to improve quality of services, especially in border and extremist-affected areas, in a bid to become market leader and win back people’s confidence. The minister also said that the government ...
Read More »Trai to Unveil New Service Quality Benchmarks to Curb Call Drops
To check the call drop menace, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will soon put in place a new set of ‘service quality benchmarks’, non-adherence to which may lead to stricter penal action against the mobile operators. The new parameters ...
Read More »How to Book Train Tickets With IRCTC Using SMS
Our government is going increasingly digital and with mobile penetration and number of smartphone users in India skyrocketing, it’s getting easier than ever to do things online or via our phones. The catch is that most people don’t actually know ...
Read More »48 Percent of Indians See No Difference Between 2G and 3G Internet
If you thought you were the only one who finds the 3G services offered by Airtel/ Vodafone/ *Insert name of your operator here* useless, think again. According to an Ericsson consumer insight report released in New Delhi on Tuesday, 48 ...
Read More »Nokia-Alcatel Deal May Force Ericsson to Expand Fixed Line Range
Sweden’s Ericsson, the world’s biggest maker of mobile telecoms equipment, will probably have to expand its range of fixed line products to defend its turf following Nokia’s purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. As the Finnish and French firms combine, Ericsson will face ...
Read More »Asus ZenFone 2 Review
Way back in 1989, Asus started out as a consultancy service for motherboard manufacturers. According to industry legend, Asus got a leg up in the industry after designing a motherboard for Intel’s 486 CPU without access to a processor, even ...
Read More »Gionee Elife S7 Review
We’ve come to expect China-based Gionee to push the boundaries of smartphone slimness. The Elife S5.5 and its successor, the Elife S5.1 – the model numbers indicate their slimness in mm – are examples from the recent past. However, other ...
Read More »USB Type-C – What It Is and What It Isn’t
USB Type-C, the supposedly magical new standard that promises to solve all our connectivity problems, is finally real and ready for mainstream use. Type-C has been in development for a while – we first heard about it over a year ...
Read More »Micromax Bolt S300, Bolt D320 Budget 3G-Enabled Smartphones Launched
Micromax has launched two budget 3G-enabled smartphones, the Bolt S300 and Bolt D320. Both phones are available in Black colour, and come bundled with two month free data plans for Vodafone users. The Micromax Bolt S300 will be available in ...
Read More »Xiaomi Mi 4 and Mi 4 ‘Lite’ Get a Price Cut
Xiaomi at its Tuesday event in China revealed new devices on the occasion of its fifth anniversary, alongside announcing a price cut for the Mi 4. The firm’s 2014 flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi Mi 4 will now retail at CNY ...
Read More »HTC Desire 820s Review
Nearly a year ago, HTC launched the Desire 816. This phone had a serious impact on the market, because it offered solid specifications and quality at a mid-range price. This was followed by the HTC Desire 820, another successful device ...
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