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Vodafone SuperNet 4G in
2,400 towns by March 2017
V
odafone
India
will soon make
available the world’s
largest 4G network in
2,400 towns and across
eight additional
circles
by
March 2017.
The key circles
of Assam &
North
East,
Maharashtra &
Goa, Odisha,
P u n j a b ,
Rajasthan,
Tamil Nadu (including
Chennai) and UP (W)
will shortly join Mumbai,
Delhi & NCR, Kolkata,
Karnataka,
Kerala,
Haryana, Gujarat, UP
(East) and West Bengal
in offering Vodafone
SuperNet 4G services.
Sunil Sood, MD &
CEO, Vodafone India,
said,
“We
are actively
working to
expand
4G
coverage in
our
circles
to offer our
hundreds
of
million
customers
data experience. We
have enhanced our 4G
rollout plans, following
the spectrum auction in
which we emerged as the
biggest winners."
COAI installs 129,101 BTS
to improve call drops
C
OAI
has
reaffirmed
its
commitment
to
improving the call drops
situation in the country
by installing 129,101 BTS
in about four months,
exceeding the target set
by double the number.
The telecom operators
had in June presented
to the Communications
Minister a 100-day plan in
which they had committed
to an investment of
Rs.12,000
crore
for
installing 60,000 BTS in
the country to address the
issue. Rajan S. Mathews,
Director General, COAI,
said, “Most operators
have executed the 100-day
plan that was submitted
to
Communications
Minister in June, and the
results are evident in the
decreased numbers of call
drops in the country.”
D-Link launches Stackable
Managed Gigabit Switches
D
-Link
has
announced
its
next-generation
Layer
2+/Layer 3 Managed
Gigabit switches – the
Gigabit SFP ports, 10 GbE
SFP+ ports, advanced
security features, and
advanced QoS, the DGS3630 switches can operate
DGS-3630 series. Loaded
with advanced software
features, the new DGS3630 switches deliver high
performance, flexibility,
and
fault
tolerance
for maximum return
on investment. With
10/100/1000 RJ45 ports,
in the core, distribution
or access layer of the
network. High port
densities, switch stacking
and easy management
ma ke the DGS-3630
switches suitable for a
variety of applications.
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Qualcomm to
acquire NXP
Q
u a l c o m m
and
NXP
Semiconductors
have
announced a definitive
agreement under which
the former will acquire
NXP.
A subsidiary
of
Qualcomm
will
commence a tender offer
to acquire all of the issued
and outstanding common
shares of NXP for $110 per
share in cash, representing
a total enterprise value
of approximately $47
billion. “This accelerates
our strategy to extend
our
leading
mobile
technology into robust
new opportunities, where
we will be well positioned
to lead by delivering
integrated semiconductor
solutions at scale,” said
Steve Mollenkopf, CEO,
Qualcomm.
The
combined
company is expected to
have annual revenues of
more than $30 billion,
serviceable
addressable
markets of $138 billion in
2020.
4G subscribers
to reach 280
million by 2020
T
he number of
4G connections
in India is expected to
grow rapidly from just
3 million at the end of
2015 to 280 million by
2020, according to a new
report released by GSMA
Intelligence.
As
of
mid-2016,
around
430
million
people had access to
mobile internet services,
a figure that will increase
to almost 670 million by
2020. GSMA Intelligence
forecasts that India will
have 390 million 3G
subscribers by 2020.
The new report,
“The Mobile Economy:
India 2016”, noted that,
at the end of June 2016,
616 million unique users
had subscribed to mobile
services in India, making
it
the
second-largest
mobile market globally.
Nokia launches LTE-based
public safety solutions
N
okia
is
expanding
its
LTE-based public safety
solutions
with
the
launch of the Nokia
Group Communications
controllers to share live
video feeds with each
other to enhance their
knowledge and ability to
react in any situation.
The public safety
portfolio. The portfolio
has
pre-integrated
applications on to a range
of devices to meet the
high-quality, high-security
demands of public safety
agencies around the globe.
Fast call set-up times will
allow groups of field
workers and command
solutions are compatible
with 3G and Wi-Fi
networks and ensure high
service availability even if
there is no LTE network
coverage. Nokia Group
Communications
can
be used with the Nokia
Compact Network.
Dr Jitendra Singh launches
DoPT's employees online app
D
r Jitendra Singh,
Minister of State
PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances,
Pensions,
Atomic
Energy
and
Space,
has
launched
Employees
Online
(EO) app. EO App is a
mobile application of the
Department of Personnel
& Training (DoPT),
Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and
Pensions.
Dr Jitendra Singh said
that it is the need of the
hour to bring in hi-tech
systems in the governance
since the Department of
Personnel & Training
(DoPT) is the R&D wing
of the government and acts
as a role model to other
ministries/departments.
He said that it is essential
that we move to a mobile
platform.
Hikvision launches Unmanaged
Network PoE Switches
H
ikvision
has
launched
the
Unmanaged
Network
PoE Switches that will
meet the requirements
of all its customers and
help them to save on
cost and consumption
of power considerably.
An unmanaged switch
allows Ethernet devices
to communicate with
one another, such as a
PC or network printer,
and those are typically
“plug and play”. They
are shipped with a fixed
configuration and do not
allow any changes to this
configuration.
Ashish
Dhakan,
Managing Director &
CEO,
Pramahikvision
(India) Pvt. Limited,
said, “The unmanaged
switches from Hikvision
are cost-effective and
customer-friendly. Our
switches are designed
without compromising
quality or reliability.
They can be used in
all weather conditions.
They are suitable for all
applications in which
switch management is
unnecessary such as at
the field level in industrial
networks or in smaller
infrastructures.
These
unmanaged
switches
are able to provide
ideal solution to every
customer in every area of
application.”