The Big Two telecom companies have accelerated their moves towards this next-gen technology, though they have chosen very different routes to getting there.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) seems to be in a state of confusion on deciding the number of slots of 3G spectrum to be auctioned. It is now in favour of auctioning only two blocks and immediately assigning the spectrum to the successful winners.
The government is learnt to have decided to allow only three private players to offer 3G mobile services for which the spectrum would be auctioned next month and the successful bidders would be asked to pay 100 per cent of the bidding amount in March this year.
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The company is also looking to invest in Indian start-ups.
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Steering India towards a new level of wireless telephony, the government on Monday announced immediate release of spectrum for 'third generation' (3G) mobile services and allowed users to switch operators while retaining the cell phone numbers. Number portability, which would allow users to change their service provider while keeping the numbers unchanged, will be introduced in the four metropolitan cities at the earliest.
With major tweaks -- and at 29k -- Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 ticks all the right boxes, says Kakoli Chakraborty.
Stung by the flood of competitively priced phones from Micromax and Xiaomi, Samsung has decided to prop up the budget segment by offering 4G-enabled smartphones in India.
Foreign operators may fail to provide quality 3G services, unlike their Indian counterparts, as the Department of Telecommunications is offering spectrum in tranches of 5 MHz, which is insufficient for starting operations.
HTC One M9+ has a sharp display. Viewing angles are perfect and watching vidoes on the device is a treat.
The AMOLED screen at a resolution of 2560x1600 is vivid and offers deep blacks, says Veer Arjun Singh
Samsung Galaxy M30 is a good-looking phone with a good screen, battery and camera, says Veer Arjun Singh.
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Sony has added an Vaio CR - Apple MacBook-like notebook - to its Vaio line of notebooks. It promises to be functional, faster and more appealing than its predecessors.
If we consider the design, the Nokia X5 topples all its competitors at this price range but the hardware specs are a concern.
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The much-awaited Lumia 535 has hit the stores in India.
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Even before the real 3G mobile services takes off, competition at the trial level is hotting up with Reliance Communications applying for the radio waves for testing of interface for both GSM and CDMA based services.
The screen does the job, the speakers don't.
Ringing Bells will start with the assembly of handsets in Phase-I.
If you earn enough to afford a smart PC-cum-TV, you'd probably go for this one. The guts of the HP TouchSmart IQ770 are laptop-like components that have been custom-fitted into a compact desktop unit. The base unit houses an Asus motherboard built around an Nvidia GeForce Go 6100 chipset, a dual-core AMD Turion 64 processor running at 1.6GHz, 2GB of dual-channel DDR 2 memory (a realistic amount to run the full version of Vista).
The TicWatch C2 from a Chinese wearable maker Mobvoi is now officially available in India through its website and online retail partner Amazon.
Place it within Rs 30,000-35,000, and it becomes an automatic recommendation, says Himanshu Juneja
Purchasing a desktop or a laptop today is both easy and complex.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Friday recommended lowering spectrum charges paid by service providers to the government to 4% from 6% -- a move which may further bring down telecom tariffs.
But remember the tablet does not support VoLTE services and is not compatible with Reliance Jio.
HP's dx2700 might not parallel Vaio in looks but the machine delivers.
Lenovo's Motorola is hogging the limelight like never before with the unveiling of the Moto G3, Moto X Play and Moto X Style on the same day. We try to unravel what exactly you must know about the Motorola Troika.
The handset features a 5-inch IPS display with 2,540 mAh battery combined with 1.3 GHz quad core processor.
HCL Infosystems Ltd, a leading IT company, on Monday announced the launch of 'HCL PC for India' at a price of Rs 9,990.\n\n
Google uses solar panel and wind to power electronic equipment in the balloon throughout the day.
Who says feature phones have become a thing of past?
Micromax's Canvas Selfie wants to make women 'more presentable'.
Acer, one of the world's top five branded PC vendors, on Wednesday announced the launch of its Acer Power 290 series PC for the SMB market, based on Intel's latest Pentium 4 processor technology.
The dry-run for roll-out of 3G mobile services is finally taking off, as the government has provided low-power spectrum to GSM players like BSNL, MTNL, Bharti and Hutch to carry out interface check on a non-commercial basis.
The back screen is the Yotaphone's second screen that uses the electronic paper technology and this screen never turns off - even when you are out of battery.
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