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Coming Together In Strategy

On the eve of at Tech Mahindra winning the $ 1 Billion AT&T transformation deal, Manish Vyas, President, Communications, Media & Entertainment Business, and CEO, Network Services at Tech Mahindra, talks to us

Chatbots Working Magic

When was the last time you dialled the helpline number of a brand and ended up waiting for more than 5 minutes in the telephonic queue? It would be a long time back. Gone are the days when you were forced to deal with customer representatives who were located far from your geographical location. On the other hand, even the automated IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system could not cater to all our needs effectively

BSNL-MTNL Merger

In anticipation of getting two government-owned telecommunication entities profitable, the Union Cabinet yesterday laid out its revival package of merging BSNL and MTNL

Being Client Centric

Bharti Airtel Global Chief Information Officer Harmeen Mehta talks to us about the power and role of new technologies in making Airtel more and more customer centric

Making Smartphones Last Longer: The Rise Of Battery Capacities

Smartphone brands are responding to the consumer demand with increasing battery capacities as a differentiating factor

How Will Apple's New iPhones Fare

Apple has unveiled its 2019 generation of iPhones, alongside a greater emphasis on content, via Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade

Cloud To Client

Anand Bhaskar, MD, Service Providers Sales, Cisco India & SAARC, speaks about the various dimensions coming up in the telecom sector

Designing 5G

A discussion on the 5 architecture and related topics

Fast tracking 5G

Leaders from the Telecom sector come together to speak about the speeding up of 5G in India

Telecom For Entertainment

PwC, in a recent report, has revealed that the global OTT video market is doubling in size between 2019 and 2023 to $72.8 billion. Contributing immensely to that global market growth is India’s OTT video market. Witnessing this bubble, Indian telecom operators have redefined its selling strategies to orient their voice and data plans to suit the increased demand from subscribers for OTT and other entertainment services. Avneesh Khosla, Operations Director, Marketing, Vodafone Idea, in an interaction with us, describes how Vodafone Idea is providing a single platform to its subscriber base to view OTT video content and how the service provider is scaling up and unifying its entertainment services to retain subscribers amidst severe competition in the industry

The Mobile Browser Has Become A Gateway To The Internet

In an interaction with Voice&Data, Robert Bu, General Manager, UCWeb India reveals the changing patterns in news consumption and future of news media in the digital world and how important it is to the company’s global plans. Excerpt

Tuning Up For The New Data Era

Today’s networks must be recalibrated to respond to different classes of services and smart devices in an increasingly differentiated manner.

Strengthens Digital Economy

Successful entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO, Paytm, has thoroughly examined the budget. He says, “It is a digital economy budget. Government has pushed the digital theme in every area of the budget.

Transforming user experience in ‘algorithm-driven economy

The third season of Netflix’ Black Mirror series started with an episode called “Nose-dive”, in which people rate each other constantly in a 5-star rating system. Every interaction with a fellow human triggers a rating, which in turn, sends the person’s publicly visible average rating up or down. This rating determines their value in the society, their access to various services, and their employability.

Gst for Telecom Needs Further Tuning

The proposed GST must ensure that the rates of taxes are low on services as well as mobile handsets in order to ensure affordability of telecom services and the highly productive ripple effect on India’s GDP.

'Speed In Issuing VNO Licenses Is Required'

Amitabh Singhal, President of Virtual Network Operators Forum (VNO Forum) in conversation with Voice&Data throws light on specific issues that the fledgling VNO industry in India needs to counter and the need for speed in issuing VNO licenses. 

Get Telcos To Enter BhartNet Gray

Government needs to focus on competition in the last mile. 

Network Slicing Is A Must For 5G Roll Out By Telecoms

GautamBilla, Director Engineering at Ciena India discusses what Indian telecom operators need to know about network slicing to take full advantage of newly enabled 5G use cases

Organizations Now Recognize The Importance Of Big Data And Chief Data Officer

Big data is enabling organizations to gain insights into their businesses letting them to harness all aspects of their business. Voice&Data quizzed Amit Sanyal, Business Head, Consumer Value Solutions at Mahindra Comviva to understand how big data is changing the way businesses work. 

Ruckus Acquisition Strengthens Brocades Strategic Presence

Brocade is a strong networking player which is deeply entrenched in the service provider space globally and India. The company has over the years grown organically as well as inorganically. Brocade’s recent acquisition of Ruckus Wireless has flexed company’s muscle. Voice&Data spoke to Andrew Coward, VP of Service Provider Strategy at Brocade who was recently in India. Coward divulged how the company plans to move ahead in multiple markets including India.

CyberPlat Set To Introduce Innovative Banking, Telecom Products, Services

Steering steadily with 18 years of experience as an enabler for electronic payments, CyberPlat Electronic Payment System has made a pioneering inroad in the global fin-tech industry. CyberPlat is best defined as the first Russian electronic payment system. In an exclusive interaction with Voice&Data, Alok Jha, Managing Director of CyberPlat India, reveals how CyberPlat has grown to become a formidable player in the payment industry in India. Excerpts from the interaction:

Ailing BlackBerry Exits Smartphone Manufacturing

Blackberry’s fall from stardom will be a classical case study in management schools in the years ahead.

The VNO Arrives

Could this new breed help stabilise the turbulent telecom in India?VNOs are now a reality in India. Aerovoyce is the country’s first MVNO that has started its operations from Tamil Nadu. One would wonder why would VNOs be an interesting development about India where we are already seeing consolidation taking place and the remaining bleeding money. So, how VNOs would not add to the worries?

Gaining Market

Smartphones are probably going to make up for 62% of all mobile phones sales in India in 2018, up from 50% in the final quarter of a year ago

Redefining Telemedicine Dynamics

Sensors, mobile app, cloud service and intervention are the major components of a telemedicine solution 

Transformational Buildouts

The focus was on laying the infrastructure that could help deliver next generation services in a fast approaching digital era 

Transformation-driven

With a decisive shift from legacy networks already underway, telcos’ needs for smooth migrations to 4G LTE are loud and clear

Blockchain Start Up From India, uTrade To Expand Market Reach

Founders Kunal Nandwani, Ashish Grover, Harwinder Sidhu, and Mayank Mathur teamed together in 2011 to setup uTrade Solutions. The idea behind their venture was to enable smarter trading by specializing in low latency algorithmic trading platforms 

The 3G Binge, And A 4G Bloodbath!

Is it really RJio vs rest of telcos in India? The big picture

GST, A Missed Oppurtunity For The Government

The fact is telecom is notified as an essential service under the Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1968, but this has not translated into any financial help for the sector. The change to the GST regime was a great opportunity for the government, given the importance of the sector and its impact across economic, social and cultural progress of the country, to help, at a time it was most needed.