Slowly, yet steadily, 3G is starting to work in India. Here are three reasons we believe 3G will pick up.
Roaming Charges to Come Down; Free Roaming Remains a Pipe Dream
India’s telecom regulator has reduced the ceiling price that a provide can charge consumers while they are in roaming. With this, roaming charges are set to come down.
Short Take: Why locating FB, Google servers in India is not a good idea
The recent demand, by Indian internet service providers that foreign tech companies like Facebook and Google must set up servers in India in the guise of protecting the Indian citizen’s privacy is such a sham!
Reliance Industries to Triple Telecom Unit Headcount as 4G Launch Nears
The Mukesh Ambani led group is making its second coming into the Indian telecom sector and is the only provider to have pan India lisence for 4G service.
Nokia Tax Appeal Dismissed; Company May Move Delhi High Court Again
Tax authorities have dismissed the company’s appeals against an income tax bill of Rs 2,080 crore
Telecom Regulator Tells Spammers to Take A Hike [Blacklist Spammers; Imposes SMS Termination Charges]
The idea is to tighten the regulations to control Unsolicited COmmercial Communications. The subscriber sending such messages will be blacklisted.
Indian 3G subscriber Access 3X More Data Than 2G Users. Consume 434 MB Data Per Month
3G service subscriber consumes about 434 MB of data at an average per month and 2G service subscribes consume 115 MB per month.
Aadhaar will Do; Soon No Paper Work for New Connection: Reliance Communications
Basically to get a new connection, you don’t have to submit any papers to the operator. All you need to do is to walk into a retail shop which sells reliance connections and provide them with your Aadhaar details.
Vodafone Data Revenues Grow 20% in India With 3.3 mn 3G Users
Increasing data consumption is a good sign for the Internet economy in India. This means more consumption and more opportunities to sell goods and services to the Internet enabled consumer.
RCOM adds a million 3G customers in three months, has 29.4 Mn data customers in total
The company 3G user base grew by 16.6% during the quarter compared to the third quarter of FY 2012-13.