Upfront payment of Rs 32,000 cr just half of Budget estimate; no takers for 700 & 900 megahertz bands
Good pay hikes, positive macroeconomic factors and the taming of inflation have had a positive effect on purchases
Jio makes data on call drops public, says 121 mn calls failed in a day
The company will meet DGCA next week and is putting in place a strategy to contain the damage
Plans a high-voltage relaunch of Note7, multi-media campaign before new iPhone launch
Sunil Bharti Mittal, bottom, left, says he is fond of Bill Gates' famous quote: "Success is a lousy teacher." Back from a long foreign business trip, the founder-chairman of Bharti Enterprises talks to Malini Bhupta and Kiran Rathee about the challenges posed by Reliance Jio and how he is determined to come out on top once again. Mittal says , today, Airtel is as ready as Jio in pure-play 4G operations.
The move by the government to make local language support a must in mobile phones is aimed at making users communicate in local languages and access government services
Companies bank on festive season to beat slow market blues
Tata has 6.13 million followers on Twitter and has tweeted only 119 times since he joined the microblogging platform in April 2011
Ministers will travel to different countries across the world, mostly where no ministerial visits have taken place in the last 20 to 25 years, to establish 'sampark' (contact) and 'samvad' (communication).
Big three telecom companies term Jio's free voice calls predatory pricing
Last year, Apple had shipped close to 2 million units into India, this year, the target is to reach 3 million units
Indians prefer to buy electronic products such as smartphones offline. The reason being the ability to "touch and feel"
The DigiLocker platform, launched on July 1, 2015, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has 2.1 million registered users and 2.4 million documents have been uploaded
'In two years there will be consolidation. Look at the Indian brands now. Only three of us are surviving, many others have died. What will differentiate us are two things -- timing of our launches in the market and the communication to the consumer," Narendra Bansal, CMD of Intex, tells Arnab Dutta.
Interestingly, in December 2014 also, the DoP had issued an order blacklisting HCL Infosystems and its subsidiaries for a period of five years.
Operating systems are increasingly subject to cyberattacks, as many are built around legacy technologies with weaker protocols
The four 'gaushalas' or cow shelters will work on improving productivity of Indian cows up to 10 times
Analysts believe making mobile data more affordable will fuel mass market adoption of data services
Consumers and businesses can tweet to communications minister Manoj Sinha (@manojsinhabjp) using #DOTSeva, #BSNLSeva, #MTNLSeva, and #PostalSeva.
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