Business
Voice and Data
'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.
4 min |
April 2017
Voice and Data
Get Telcos To Enter BhartNet Gray
Government needs to focus on competition in the last mile.
2 min |
April 2017
Voice and Data
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
4 min |
April 2017
Voice and Data
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.
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October 2016
Voice and Data
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.
3 min |
October 2016
Voice and Data
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:
4 min |
October 2016
Voice and Data
Ailing BlackBerry Exits Smartphone Manufacturing
Blackberry’s fall from stardom will be a classical case study in management schools in the years ahead.
3 min |
October 2016
Voice and Data
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?
3 min |
May 2017
Voice and Data
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
2 min |
May 2017
Voice and Data
Redefining Telemedicine Dynamics
Sensors, mobile app, cloud service and intervention are the major components of a telemedicine solution
8 min |
May 2017
Voice and Data
Transformational Buildouts
The focus was on laying the infrastructure that could help deliver next generation services in a fast approaching digital era
8 min |
August 2016
Voice and Data
Transformation-driven
With a decisive shift from legacy networks already underway, telcos’ needs for smooth migrations to 4G LTE are loud and clear
5 min |
August 2016
Voice and Data
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
4 min |
April 2017
Voice and Data
The 3G Binge, And A 4G Bloodbath!
Is it really RJio vs rest of telcos in India? The big picture
8 min |
June 2017
Voice and Data
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.
4 min |
June 2017
Voice and Data
Cisco India Sharpens Focus On SME Outreach
The ICT major is looking at growing its SME outreach to a million enterprises by 2020
4 min |
June 2017
Voice and Data
Secure IoT Ecosystem
5 stages that need consideration from security and privacy aspect during implementation are – design, implementation, deployment, operations and disposal
6 min |
June 2017
Voice and Data
In Focus To Launch 16 New Handset Models
Under licensing agreement signed with Foxconn, InFocus has re-launched as a new brand in the India market. Its Turbo5 smartphone, is a first from a series of product lineup especially developed for the India market. Piyush Puri, VP India & South Asia, Innocom Electronics shares more in an interview with Voice&Data:
2 min |
July 2017
Voice and Data
Plan Disruption, Go 'Platform First'
Start planning your platform now and ensure that it has the pliability to be moulded into a future version that truly serves your organization
4 min |
July 2017
Voice and Data
India Gears to Go Cashless
Inclusion is the challenge. Banking as well as non banking players must collaborate with regulators and the government to bring about innovative banking solutions and schemes to bridge the divide.
6 min |
November 2016
Voice and Data
Get a handle on Order-to- Activate Framework
The trick is to create an intervention that examines end-to-end processes by placing a wrapper around upstream and downstream functions, says Vinay Firake of Wipro
4 min |
November 2016
Voice and Data
Ravi Shankar Prasad advises India industry to actively engage with ICANN in building ‘Internet of the Future'
The country of 50 political par ties and 22 regional official languages, India needs to just as actively participate and engage with the global ICANN community.
2 min |
November 2016
Voice and Data
Jammu, Srinagar set for Smart Transportation System – MRTS
J&K metro projects would be taken up in Srinagar and Jammu under multilateral funding from Japanese Official Developmental Assistance (JODA) as a part of rapid transit system. The decision has been taken to go ahead for a metro length of 45 km in Kashmir and 30 km in Jammu.
6 min |
November 2016
Voice and Data
Robust authentication, a must for railway transformation
For the travel industry to successfully transform, the solution lies in our pockets. Multi-factor authentication is the best way to protect customer data and using our mobile phones to do so ensures a smooth service for everyone
3 min |
November 2016
Voice and Data
Technology Trends: Clouds Is Calling
The network storage landscape has been disrupted irreversibly by cloud service providers who are there to stay and co-exist with incumbents.
5 min |
March 2016
Voice and Data
Less Wire Is Not No Wire
The fundamentals haven’t changed yet — a well-considered mix of mobile, wireline and satellite technologies still forms the core of a robust connectivity strategy.
4 min |
March 2017
Voice and Data
Adaptability Is Paramount
Investment strategies need to ensure that enterprise networks stay geared to support the growing cloud and mobility needs.
4 min |
March 2017
Voice and Data
Our First 5G Capable Radio Is A Showcase Of Cost Efficient Evolution To 5G: Christian Hedelin, Ericsson
Christian Hedelin, VP & Head of Strategy, Network Products at Ericsson shares his views on 5G, how they will make their way in India’s mobile networks, and what are some of the network innovations that Ericsson is working on.
9 min |
March 2017
Voice and Data
VNO's –Glass Half-Full Or Half-Empty?
When RJio announced the launch of its ser-vices last year, Siva-kumar Kuppusamy, Founder and CEO, Aerovoyce, had sleepless nights. Not only Kuppusamy, who launched the first VNO (Virtual Network Operator) in the country, but many others like him were of the belief that the future of their business is going to be in doldrums.
2 min |
May 2017
Voice and Data
AwakeY Transforms Smartphones To Digital Key
AwakeY’s lock accessory works on Bluetooth, and is accessed by your smartphone
5 min |