“Huawei became the second largest smartphone brand by shipment without a significant presence in an important market like the United States,” Shobhit Srivastava, Research Analyst at Counterpoint Research, said in a statement. “At this pace, we expect Huawei to remain ahead of Apple at the end of 2019,” Srivastava said, adding that a dual-brand (Honor) strategy has helped the company build a youth connect and gain market share in a sluggish Chinese market....

India is expected to get 5G networks in 13 select cities by August 15, 2022. While the date likely looks impossible from the speed at which developments are taking place right now, to enhance the role that 5G networks in the county, India is reportedly going to add 8 lakh new mobile towers in the next two years. According to a TNN report, the Indian government is looking to give an aggressive push to the telecom sector by adding these many new towers, which are more than double the current strength....

India travels to New Zealand for the upcoming T20 series. India will look to redeem their T20 supremacy post their semifinal defeat to England in the ICC T20 World Cup. The series begins on the 18th of November. The Indian team is travelling with a young squad, and the senior players have been given some rest post the World Cup campaign. Hardik Pandya Will be Captaining the Indian Team. It will be for the first time that Hardik Pandya will be captaining the Indian team in a complete series....

Tom Bartlett, president and CEO of American Tower Corporation (ATC) in the earnings call on Thursday said that the Indian telecom networks are ill equipped to handle 4G levels of traffic for more than billion people. The company had earlier reported the second quarter financial results for the period ended June 30, 2020 with ATC recording an 1.2% increase in its total revenues to US$1,913 million. ATC said that its property revenue increased 2....

Male Viewership has Been Increased Since the government has announced the lockdown period, people are working from home. Also, they are relying more on TVs and OTT platforms for their entertainment. As per the study, the Viewership of male audience has been increased drastically amid week 2 of COVID-19. Nearly 41% of the viewers are male, whereas 33% accounts for female viewership. Talking about kids, The NCCS A and 2-14 age group kids have recorded the highest growth....

Google on Tuesday announced the launch of the “people cards” feature in India. The company said that the people cards are like a “virtual visiting card” that enables users to build up the online presence by highlighting their existing website or social profiles. Google said that the users can also add “other information” about themselves that they want “others to know” about them. The company said that the people cards are ideal for those “who aren’t famous” and that the feature is designed to aid people to find a person or an information....

Gone are the days when one texting app (WhatsApp) ruled and dominated the Indian market. Indian users are picking up and using several texting applications with different purposes in mind and uprooting the market’s old trend. According to a report from techARC, users keep multiple texting applications on their smartphones for chatting and sharing stuff. The founder and chief analyst of techARC, Faisal Kawoosa, said that the future of texting apps in India would be pluralistic in India — more details on the story ahead....

The Indian telecom market is currently “witnessing” almost 40% year-on-year (YoY) growth in data volumes, said Bimal Dayal, managing director of Indus Towers in the fourth-quarter earnings call on Friday. According to Dayal, the surge in data volumes is “fairly rapid” and will “continue to drive growth” for all the industry players. Indus Towers on Thursday reported its fourth-quarter results for the period ended March 31, 2021, with the company recording Rs 1364 crores as consolidated profit after tax, translating to a 38% YoY increase....

Infinix Smart HD 2021 is all set to launch in India on December 16, 2020. The price of the device has been revealed through a listing on Flipkart. Infinix Smart HD 2021 will launch on December 16, 2020, 12 PM and will be sold exclusively through Flipkart. The device might come with a teardrop notch at the front housing the selfie camera and at the back, a dual-camera setup. The chipset of the device has not been confirmed yet, but there are a lot of details which could be seen through the Flipkart listing....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Saturday withdrew an order that required the institutional buyers to purchase annual tariff plans of BSNL broadband, landline and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connections. According to the earlier order issued on April 9, BSNL said that its services would be offered only to those institutional buyers who availed the annual tariff plans. The operator highlighted that the institutional buyers include central, state and private organizations. Crucially, BSNL said that the annual plan order was applicable only to the institutional buyers with the operator introducing no changes for the retail and individual users....

iPhone 13 Dominates the Indian Market in 2022 The popularity of the iPhone 13 demonstrates that there is still a market in the nation for high-end electronics. While it’s unclear why iPhone came in the first place, it could be because of the holiday discounts, when the iPhone 13 was offered for as little as Rs 57,990, a significant discount from its original launch price of Rs 79,900. It’s possible that these promotions helped the iPhone 13 stand out in a crowded market by making it more affordable for a larger variety of customers....

It’s anticipated that Apple’s iPhone 14 series, which includes the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Max, and iPhone 14 Pro Max, will launch in September of this year. A recent report claims that the Cupertino behemoth has requested a rise in iPhone 14 model shipments from 90 million to 95 million. In an effort to meet up with demand for the future models, Foxconn, the company’s main supplier, is claimed to have increased the recruitment bonus for iPhone workers....

iQOO 3 India Prices Tipped for Both 4G and 5G Variants iQOO 3 will be the company’s first device to launch in India and the company seems to be preparing both 4G and 5G variants of the handset. The iQOO 3’s 4G variant to retail around Rs 35,000, while the 5G variant will retail for less than Rs 45,000. It will be a reasonable price for a 2020 flagship smartphone; The 5G variant of the iQOO 3 may not see a lot of takers, but if the company gets the pricing right for the 4G variant, it will see a lot of takers since it will arrive ahead of flagship phones from OnePlus, Xiaomi and Asus....

iQOO 8 is going to launch very soon in China. A high-level company official released a teaser video hinting that iQOO is going to conduct a launch event on August 4, 2021. The launch event could be very well for the iQOO 8 series. As per the latest developments, the iQOO 8 series might launch with the flagship Qualcomm mobile chipset - Snapdragon 888 Plus. A popular tipster that goes by the name Digital Chat Station (DCS) revealed what the users could expect from the upcoming iQOO 8 series in China....

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea will be very happy with one aspect of the draft telecom bill 2022. All three telcos had started facing a lot of competition from OTT (over-the-top) communication applications. Apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and more gave consumers the ability to make voice calls over data without any geographical bounds. This meant that consumers no longer needed to worry about international calling charges. All that the consumers needed was an active internet connection which the telcos were providing them at a very affordable cost....

All the private telecom operators in India are going to benefit from the fact that there are fewer players participating in the spectrum auction for the C-band spectrum. In the pre-Jio era, there were many operators fighting for a limited quantum of the spectrum, which resulted in bidding wars. But this time, there are only three private telcos, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi), who will be purchasing fresh C-band spectrum from the government....

Reliance Jio introduced a new Rs 749 plan to existing JioPhone customers alongside two plans for new JioPhone users. The country’s largest telecom operator with over 400 million users under its belt also said the JioPone subscriber base has hit 100 million in just over three years. The telco is also starting a new movement called ‘‘2G-MUKT BHARAT,’ under which it is aiming to convert all the feature phone users of rival telcos into JioPhone users....

Reliance Jio, a leading telecom operator in India, also plans to offer satellite broadband services through its satcom (satellite communications) arm - Jio Satellite Communications Ltd (JSCL). The company applied for the Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite Services (GMPCS) license earlier this year. OneWeb, backed by the Bharti Group, has already secured this license. According to an ET report, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has provided JSCL with a letter of intent (LoI) for the same....

ZEE5 is one of the most popular OTT platforms in India and it has Premium subscription as well. It is particularly famous for providing rich local content to Indian customers. JioFiber users will now be able to access the ZEE5 Premium content for free. At the moment, Airtel Xstream Fiber customers are availed with the benefit of free ZEE5 Premium subscription when they purchase any of the fiber plans. But now, JioFiber users will also get the free ZEE5 Premium subscription when they purchase select plans from the telco....

Gaming laptops have become quite popular in the last few years. One of the most popular gaming laptop series from Lenovo is ‘Legion’. Today, Lenovo Legion 5 has launched for the Indian market. The laptop comes powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor paired with six ultra-responsive cores. The processor can be configured with up to Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti discrete graphics. Inside the laptop are two speakers from Harmon Kardon which come with the support of Dolby Atmos headphone....