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Vi (Vodafone Idea) is shutting down its 3G services in Delhi from January 15. As a result of the new change, the operator has started asking its customers in the Delhi circle to upgrade their existing SIM to 4G. The move is a part of Vi's ongoing spectrum re-farming under which the operator is using its 3G spectrum for 4G services. It was already put in place in Bengaluru and Mumbai earlier this month. Vi customers in the capital city need to upgrade their existing SIM to 4G by visiting their nearby stores.To inform…

As many as 1,000 mobile network towers will be installed in the Maoist-affected areas of the newly formed Alluri Sitarama Raju (ASR) district in Andhra Pradesh in the next one year.Satish Kumar, the Superintendent of Police (SP) on Saturday told ANI, "The mobile service providers are ready to establish 1,000 new mobile towers in tribal pocket hill areas. Jio is coming up with 700 towers. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is going to set up 300 towers in three phases in the next one year."The district police and the…

Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) has signed an agreement with Galore Networks for collaborative development of 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) products and solutions.The collaborative framework is aimed at accelerating indigenous development of 5G in line with the vision of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' and 'Start-up India', a release said on Friday.The agreement comes at a time when the Indian market is gearing up for the launch of 5G services that will usher in ultra high speeds — about 10 times faster than 4G — and…

TRAI chairman P D Vaghela on Monday exhorted telecom companies and Wi-Fi providers to work collaboratively on developing innovative business models that would unleash combined power of mobile and Wi-Fi technology to improve digital infrastructure.Speaking at an event of Broadband India Forum (BIF), TRAI chief noted that with proposed induction of 5G services, an "exponential" rise in data usage is right around the corner."With technologies like industry 4.0, 5G broadcast, Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR, machine-to-machine…

Reliance Jio has expanded the reach of its 4G services in Ladakh region to a village close to Pangong lake, an area which has been a friction point between India and China in recent years. Officials said Reliance Jio launched its 4G voice and data services at Spangmik village near Pangong lake in Ladakh.Jio became the first network to provide 4G mobile connectivity in and around the Pangong area, a popular tourist destination, officials said.Lok Sabha member from Ladakh Jamyang Tsering Namgyal inaugurated the Jio mobile…

Till now the advancements in the telecommunication industry goes hand in hand with the mobile world. The smartphones of today are compatible with technologies like 4G and 5G but would it be the same when 6G will arrive? The Nokia President and CEO, Pekka Lundmark, does not agree. Rather he goes beyond and believes that smartphones won’t be required when 6G will come into being. Lundmark was expressing his views at the World Economic Forum in Davos. According to Lundmark the smart…

The country's top three private telecom operators will resort to another round of tariff hike in the second half of the current fiscal and will close FY23 with a revenue growth of 20-25 percent, a report said on Tuesday.A growth in average revenue per user is essential for the industry to invest in the network and spectrum, and if they do not do so, it can result in poor service offerings, domestic rating agency Crisil's research wing said in a report.After years of intense competition following the entry of the…

The government has allocated a project worth Rs. 3,683 crore for providing 4G mobile services in uncovered villages of aspirational districts, an official source said on Monday.Under the project, Bharti Airtel will install 1,083 mobile towers with an expenditure of Rs 847.95 crore in Jharkhand and Maharashtra and Reliance Jio will roll out 3,696 towers for Rs 2,836 crore, the source said. The project was allocated to the companies in May."The project to provide 4G coverage in uncovered villages of aspirational district of…

India's data usage has grown at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 53 percent over the last five years between 2017–2021, according to a report released by telecom giant Nokia on Tuesday. The country also saw growth of its mobile broadband subscribers to more than double in the last five years. The Finnish company stated that 4G played an important role in the growth of the country's mobile broadband ecosystem, with 4G data seeing an increase of 31 percent in 2021.In its annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report,…