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Let's Differentiate Between Broadband And Ultra Broadband

We are unfair with broadband in India. Mere > 512 KBPS is broadband in the country. While we are looking at leading digitally evolved countries as our role models, why do we have sorry to say, third world country benchmark for defining broadband?

Google's Boost

Planning to assist billion people online and make web more helpful, Google pulls down the language barrier

The New Normal

Laptops and desktops now the preferred device for watching TV 

Pune Police Deploys Workapps Chat

Pune Police goes paperless; chats for communication

What Next After The Smartphone Revolution?

Rise of an ecosystem era marks the beginning of the next technological revolution.

RJio Set To Usher In Digital Life In 2017

Jio Digital Home and JioCarConnect, the two game changing offerings from RJio, are set to hit market in 2017.

At Xius, we've an integrated offering ready to enable VNOs

With over two decades of IT and telecom industry experience behind him, GV Kumar, the founder and CEO of Xius, a telecom technology product company, has come up with an innovative consortium approach to enable the companies applying for Virtual Network Operator (VNO) license in India, after the sector was thrown open earlier in 2016 to fast track Digital India mission. At the Xius Global Delivery Center in Hyderabad, Telangana, in an interview with Voice&Data, Kumar elaborates on how Xius is enabling VNO aspirants and contributing to the VNO ecosystem in India.

Telecom Indurstry Deserves Lower Tax Rate Under GST Regime: TAIPA

Higher tax rate of 18% and non-availability of input tax credit will lead to more burden on the overall telecom sector ultimately impacting the tower infrastructure roll out and thereby advance technologies too.

Foundational IT Projects From Yore - ERNET Powering

With UNDP grant of more than $10mn and Turing Award winner Dr. Vint Cerf (Co-inventor of TCP/ IP, currently with Google) as an Adviser, ERNET project brought computer networking and Internet to India.

'We Will Continue To Invest In Communications And Networking Portfloio'

Pierre Samson: ALE operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand has formed four regional sales organizations to better serve its partners, customers and their markets. By placing a focus on specific market segments for growth and accelerating the shift to new business models, each of the four regions have their own dedicated sales staff supporting their defined industry-specific sales strategy, cloud sales strategy and channel strategy, with a complementary sales enablement and services delivery.

PurpleHealth Bridges Doctor-Patient Gap The Digital Way

Led by CEO and Co-founder Vikram Nair, PurpleHealth aims to build a collaborative healthcare platform through integrated technology that connects the diverse constituents in the healthcare space. 

Why Jio Will Find It Difficult To Scale Scale Subscribers & Revenue?

Jio from technology point of view is a disruptor in the market by bring-ing in not only some of the latest technologies in the country but also attempting to make data take precedence over voice.

India Broadband Highway

 As Bharatnet rolls in phase II Voice&data talks to 5 industry leaders to take stock of the project

One Million WiFi Hotspots Needed

Indian tower companies see a huge opportunity in fibre as less than 25 percent of telecom towers carry fiber optic cables in India. 

Public WiFi Is Game Changer

RailTel’s retail broadband initiative - Railwire model, in collaboration with local entrepreneurs, is solving the issue of last mile connectivity and also creating livelihood opportunities for locals.

Broadband Speed Counts

Technology powered by speed of high speed internet gives Indian firms the opportunity to leapfrog and transform into trailblazers.

15,000 Farmers Are Using Mobitech Wireless Solutions

Spearheaded by Salem-Based S P Raja Kumaran, Mobitech has developed and offered products for farmers who can — through the cell phone —know the level of huge water tanks; the location of farmer vehicles; switch on/off diesel generators; and the level of water received from Government water supply schemes

A Stellar Experience at All Touch Points Is Needed

Alok Kumar, an engineer from IIT Kharagpur, has been instrumental in laying the foundations of Service Delivery organization for leading telecom operators in India – both in the mobile / fixed line & data services.

Security of digital payments, wallets needs attention

Post demonetization, there has been a monumental surge in digital transactions in India. As per report, wallet payments have soared by 300% after November 8, 2016 and some of the transactions statistics are an eye opener.

Mind Your Fleet Unites Local Cab Rental Companie With A Unified App

Malvinder Singh Rikhy and Jitender Arora co-founded Mind Your Fleet to provide a SaaS-based service, enabling the customer to access a wide variety of car and bike rental companies through a single platform – taking on Uber, Ola in the process

'Micromax Is Set For A Big Leap'

Micromax Co-Founder, Rahul Sharma, remains determined in the face of intense competition from Chinese smartphone brands. In an interview with Voice&Data, Sharma, who scripted the ‘Challenger Brand’ Micromax success story, finds himself challenged for next level growth. He shares more on the roadmap. Here’s why Sharma thinks Micromax will remain a winner in the war for India smartphone market

Panasonic Targets To Sell 3 Million Smartphones In India, This Year

Pankaj Rana, Business Head, Mobility Division, Panasonic India says leveraging channel strength for India smartphone market and Arbo –the intelligent virtual assistant in Panasonic phones will see them through the competitive smartphone market

6 TCL Alcatel Handsets In Fray

Voice&Data: What is the number of TCL Alcatel mobile phones available in the market today?

We Intend To Launch Premium, Slim Metal Body Smartphones

Akshay Dhoot, Head of Technology, at the videocon Group, elaborates on the Videocon strategy for India market in an interview with Voice&Data.

HTC Traction Comes From Offline Sales

Voice&Data: Online or Offline – from where is HTC getting greater traction?

Karbonn Focuses On Local Languages

Shashin Devsare, Executive Director, Karbonn Mobiles shares business insights and the focus on Indian languages for Karbonn:

The Making Of Indian Railways Passenger Reservation System

Indian Railways (IR) is the second largest train systems in the world carrying more than 20 million passengers every single day.

Payoneer Powers Seamless Cross-Border Payments

Founded in 2005, and headquartered in New York, Payoneer is venture-backed, profitable and ranked in the top 100 of Inc. 5000's Financial Services companies. It enables professionals and business owners receive cross-border payments in multiple ways

Re-Imagining E-Waste For A Faster#DigitalIndia

Policies and incentives need to be designed to encourage the re-use of assets that can be re-deployed argue Arvind Gupta & Sapan Jain.