The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday held the lack of investment by mobile service providers in the network infrastructure, including mobile towers, responsible for the problem of call drops. It said the investment had not kept pace with the increase in usage and the number of subscribers. In an affidavit filed in…
Salil Kapoor couldn’t have timed his move better. Last week, the chief operating officer of Essel Group’s DTH platform Dish TV joined HOOQ as managing director of its India operations. Headquartered in Singapore, HOOQ is a video-on-demand service or what’s also known as an OTT platform. OTT, or over-the-top, content in broadcasting refers to delivery…
Every second, internet users around the planet send more than 25 lakh emails, perform 50,000 searches on Google, send more than 10,000 tweets, upload 2,562 pictures on Instagram and transformer over 29,500 Gigabytes of data. And though in its early years, access to this resource was limited to developed countries, the world-wide web is soon going to be…
Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative, four techies from Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district have turned three remote villages into first free Wi-Fi hamlets in the country without government funding. Shakeel Anjum, Tushar Barthare, Bhanu Yadav and Abhishek launched the service at Shivnathpura village on October 4 and later extended the facility to…
Netflix is the world’s top video streaming service that allows users to watch content on screens ranging from a smartphones to a smart television. It works with a variety of other devices like PlayStation and Apple TV, letting users stream directly onto larger screen. Netflix is also the creator of a lot of original, made…
After Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) asked Facebook Free Basics supporters to send in specific responses to the net neutrality consultation paper, the social network has started an email campaign to gather support. The plea is that TRAI’s net neutrality rules should not “end up depriving people of the opportunity to come online”. Facebook has already…
The government has dropped the idea of defining the term marketplace, casting a cloud over the model widely used by e-commerce companies to circumvent foreign investment rules. Marketplaces are websites that connect buyers to sellers, offering services such as warehousing, logistics and payments. There is no definition of an online marketplace under current FDI (foreign…
If its followers were a country, it would be twice as populous as China. These 2.5 billion people give an hour every day to their faith—email. As with all things Internet related, email gained adherents at a prodigious rate. The first email message was sent in 1971, but widespread use began only by 1995. In…