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Airtel broadband plans redefined with new high speed broadband plans
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Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of new broadband plans, where broadband speed starts from a minimum of 2mbps in Top 10 cities and from 1mbps onwards for all other cities across the country. The initiative is yet another milestone in Airtel’s journey of massifying high speed broadband experience for its customers.
In these new broadband plans, the minimum Broadband speed that will be offered in Top 10 markets – Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune, will be 2mbps. For all its other markets, across its service areas in the country, the new plans offer a minimum Broadband speed of 1mbps (Subject to technical feasibility).
The experience comes at attractive price points with enhanced usage limits. Now Airtel Broadband customers can go ahead and choose their Plans that suit their High Speed Data Usage needs starting from 3GB right upto 150 GB! To add to this, in select markets, customers can double their speeds to 4mbps for just INR 100 more! The 4mbps plans start @INR 1099. (more…)
India ready for 4G or LTE by 2012, say experts
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by Gourav Sharma
in 4g
India is all set to move on from 3G to 4G, technically known as Long Term Evolution in mobile broadband, leading industry and technology experts said at LTE India 2011 international conference organized by Bharat Exhibitions today.
“With mass adoption, lowest cost per bit, highest capacity, best user experience and a true global standard, the world is stepping into 4G expecting 380 million LTE subscribers and 80 plus LTE networks by 2015” said Mr. Sujit Bakre, Nokia Siemens Networks head of 4G business development.
“India could lead LTE-TD broadband technology developments” Mr. Mallikarjuna Rao, chief technology officer of Aircel said at the conference. The reason: “lot of competence in this area is returning to India from outside”. DOT, Ministry of Communications & IT, advisor (technology) Shri J. Gopal was guest of honour at the international conference, second one in the last two years on this latest development in mobile phone broadband technology. (more…)
MTS MBlaze High Speed Mobile Broadband Service Launched in AP
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Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) has announced the launch of its high-speed mobile broadband service, MBlaze in Andhra Pradesh. MTS has rolled out its high speed mobile internet services in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati, Warangal, Rajahmundry and Kakinada. Bringing in portfolio of world-class services and innovative offers, MTS becomes the first telecom service operator to provide High Speed Mobile Broadband services at Tirumala Hills in Tirupati. MTS now provides High Speed Mobile Broadband services in over 60 towns across the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
MTS provides High Speed Mobile Broadband services in over 100 Indian cities including the top five metros. The company is rapidly expanding its high speed data (HSD) network and currently addresses over 92% of data potential across India. MTS users can choose from a variety of packs according to their needs. (more…)
Bundling of Telecom Services- Challenges to Growth
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Most of the Indian operators offer multiple services but the truly bundled offers are yet to take up. There are several factors that lead to this performance gap, a few of which are:
- Broadband Penetration: Most of the Indian operators, such as Airtel, Reliance and Tata, have a very penetration of their broadband offerings. This is because their networks are based on legacy infrastructure and have low geographical coverage and legacy. Thus, their networks are currently not capable to handle trul multi-play offerings. However, once the networks of these operators have been upgraded, the consumers will witness the advent of truly converged offerings (all services on a single common back-end network) with better quality of service (QoS). (more…)
Bsnl aims for broadband in every Indian village Sachin Pilot
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by Gourav Sharma
in Broadband
India is charting a grand scheme targeting its rural outback to reach telecom and broadband services to each of its 626,000 villages, using funds to the tune of $3.5 billion lying unutilised in a dedicated fund. Outlining the contours of this ambitious programme, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot told in an interaction that 11,000 communication towers will be set up for the purpose, several in villages bordering Bangladesh and Pakistan.
“We are close to launching a programme of putting up these towers in villages where the population is less than 500 people and sometimes less than 200. It will be deployed by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd,” said the minister.
“You will hear more on this very soon.” He said all service providers – private or state-run – have been allowed to install telecom towers to receive signals within 500 metres near the international borders to strengthen the existing communication system in rural areas.
According to Mr. Pilot, many of the towers will be in the tribal belts of Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Assam in the northeast, as the government’s priority, as opposed to that of private players, was to get villages into the telecom loop as well.
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