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Airtel and Jio get into 5G sprint
October 8, 2022
Last week as the 5G network was officially launched in India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Mobile Congress (IMC), two of the biggest players in telecom, market leader Reliance Jio and its closest rival Bharti Airtel announced their own plans to start rolling out th...
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CCI probe against Amazon, Flipkart: An unfair practice?
June 23, 2021
After having dominated the rapidly growing ecommerce market in India for over five years, with a combined market share of over 90 pc in the USD 64 billion market in 2020, ecommerce giants Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart are facing multiple challenges that could see their market...
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Reliance unnerved by farmers’ calls for boycott
December 15, 2020
It was less than a week ago that protesting farmers launched a boycott of Reliance Jio and began throwing their Jio SIM cards away as a sign of protest against one of the companies that they believe are likely to gain at their cost due to the recently enacted farm laws. There wer...
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Facebook and Airtel launch ‘Express Wi-Fi’ in India
May 10, 2017
After tasting criticism for disregarding the principle of net neutrality by introducing ‘Free Basics’ programme in 2015, Facebook recently came up with 'Express Wi-Fi' services in India, offering Internet facilities through public hotspots in rural areas, which is a follow up...
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Movies on Wheels: Indian Railways to show films onboard
March 27, 2017
As part of a proposed non-fare revenue policy by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu floated in January to incorporate the digital medium for upgrading the quality of services provided.
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Google play music service now in India
September 30, 2016
Google officially announced a bunch of services related to India but the Google Play Music service was not among them; the service was quietly launched on their website and confirmed of later. The good news comes with its set of drawbacks.
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Digital India
May 25, 2016
Keeping pace with the rest of the world, India has been moving to a digital economy fairly rapidly. However, there exists a ‘digital divide’ due to poor connectivity and other grey areas, which need to be addressed to leverage the digital economy. In response to some o...
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