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Park Street, Kolkata in X-Mas days, 2014

Tata Docomo WiFi (Public, Free for 20 Minutes) Review

Tata Docomo (earlier Tata Indicom Broadband) is offering free public wifi for sometime across the country. However initially the service was limited to certain places of Kolkata like in airport, Park Street area and Saltlake area with many white spots (=no coverage zone). And that time it was not free and plans were too costly for customers, as 2G was cheap.

When I came to know about free public wifi hotspots, I searched a lot of places over Kolkata to get it one. But like Kolkata's late entry into everything, free public wifi hotspots (free is upto a certain time) came late in Kolkata.

Anyway scenario has been changed, now many service providers are offerring free public wifi for certain period of time. I have tested Tata Docomo Wifi at Diamond Plaza Mall, Nagerbazar, Kolkata.

Aircel 3G - Whopping 1.38 MB/s

Aircel is offering HSPA+ services in Kolkata and it's blazing fast. 

On torrent download I was getting 1.38 MegaBytes per second, that's equal to 11.04 Mbit/sec

Reliance Jio Infocomm - Updates in September-October-November 2014

Last month was pretty busy for Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries.

New Appointments:

• Anupama Ahluwalia joined R-Jio as senior vice president. Earlier she was VP-Marketing at Coca Cola (India & South West Asia).
• Former Deutsche Telekom executive Rainer Deutschmann joined as new Chief Products and Innovation officer at Jio. He will take care of formulating the venture’s go to market strategy while overseeing various key software, content and mobile Internet elements of the venture.

Reliance Jio Joined COAI for Cracking Indus deal?

In between Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries had inked another tower sharing deal with world's largest tower company - Indus Towers, which is a joint initiative between Bharti Airtel's tower arm Bharti Infratel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular's parent company Aditya Birla Group.

This is the first time Jio collaborates with Aditya Birla Group's telecom firm by any means. Earlier Jio made two deals with Bharti Airtel for sharing each other's infrastructure and using to access bandwidth

Reliance CDMA Netconnect+ Tariff [September 2014] - Get 24 GB for Rs 999

Reliance has revised its Netconnect+ offerings. Now enjoy 24GB for Rs 999 on prepaid!

Reliance Netconnect+ device price: Rs 799
Bandwidth: Downlink upto 3.1 Mbit/s and uplink upto 1.8Mbit/s

Reliance has wide CDMA coverage as well as EVDO rev A coverage. But at the same time MTS India and Tata Docomo Photon has launched next gen EVDO technology - EVDO Rev B phase II and phase I respectively. MTS currently offers upto 9.8 Mbit/s download speed, while Tata Docomo Photon offers upto 6.2Mbit/s.

Happy Teachers' Day - Beautiful Flipkart Newsletter

Today is 5th September, and it's Teachers' Day in India.

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