Cellphone Operators

An Indian Institute of Technology Madras-incubated firm has developed a mobile operating system that can benefit India's 100 crore cellphone users. It is called BharOS and has been developed indigenously.

Israeli spyware firm NSO Group that created and sold Pegasus phone hacking tool said on Tuesday it had sold the country's police a variant that can access local cellphones but described it as being "weaker" than the export version.

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs 200, a top official of the company said.

Telecom operator Vodafone Idea (VIL) on Tuesday announced that it will raise prepaid tariff rates by up to 25 per cent with effect from November 25.

Amazon is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from US carriers T-Mobile US and Sprint, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.

A doctor in one of the largest government hospitals in Andhra Pradesh had to conduct a delicate plastic surgery by cellphone light as lights over the operating table went off. A shocking video of the surgery is doing the rounds in the state.

Former telecom minister A Raja was on Thursday acquitted in the 2G spectrum case along DMK chief M Karunanidhi's daughter M Kanimozhi and 15 others. Mr Raja was accused of allocating airwaves and licenses for cellphone networks in exchange for kickbacks and causing the state a loss of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore. He has also been accused of acceptinga 200-...

A homegrown cellphone operating system developed by a group of IIT men could be the first to become Aadhaar authenticated. Its makers are working out a system that will allow users to carry out online transactions using iris scanning system. The fool-proof method, the company hopes, will help popularise non-cash, digital transactions, which is one ...

Airtel's results highlight the turmoil in the world's second-biggest cellphone market following the entry late last year of Reliance Jio.

A major separatist network has been found operating from inside a jail in Kashmir's Baramulla, instigating unrest in the state, the police said. The clue to the network came after 16 cellphones were seized from the district jail after police carried out major crackdown in the district jail. The police said some hardcore terrorists and separatist pr...

Possibly for the first time in Kashmir, Chinese flags have been found in raids along with material that was allegedly to be used by terrorists - petrol bombs, anti-India publicity material, unauthorized cellphones and documents linked to terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

"Beware of sting operations," warned Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar at the start of the BJP weekly strategy session with all its lawmakers in the two houses.

During operations as crucial as a surgery to remove an infected part of intestine, doctors at one of Hyderabad's biggest hospitals have admitted that they worked by the light of cellphones - though for just seconds at a time - because of a massive power outage on Friday.

The proposed bill is heavily supported by the Distracted Operators Risk Casualties (DORCs) group.

An Indian Institute of Technology Madras-incubated firm has developed a mobile operating system that can benefit India's 100 crore cellphone users. It is called BharOS and has been developed indigenously.

Israeli spyware firm NSO Group that created and sold Pegasus phone hacking tool said on Tuesday it had sold the country's police a variant that can access local cellphones but described it as being "weaker" than the export version.

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs 200, a top official of the company said.

Telecom operator Vodafone Idea (VIL) on Tuesday announced that it will raise prepaid tariff rates by up to 25 per cent with effect from November 25.

Amazon is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from US carriers T-Mobile US and Sprint, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.

A doctor in one of the largest government hospitals in Andhra Pradesh had to conduct a delicate plastic surgery by cellphone light as lights over the operating table went off. A shocking video of the surgery is doing the rounds in the state.

Former telecom minister A Raja was on Thursday acquitted in the 2G spectrum case along DMK chief M Karunanidhi's daughter M Kanimozhi and 15 others. Mr Raja was accused of allocating airwaves and licenses for cellphone networks in exchange for kickbacks and causing the state a loss of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore. He has also been accused of acceptinga 200-...

A homegrown cellphone operating system developed by a group of IIT men could be the first to become Aadhaar authenticated. Its makers are working out a system that will allow users to carry out online transactions using iris scanning system. The fool-proof method, the company hopes, will help popularise non-cash, digital transactions, which is one ...

Airtel's results highlight the turmoil in the world's second-biggest cellphone market following the entry late last year of Reliance Jio.

A major separatist network has been found operating from inside a jail in Kashmir's Baramulla, instigating unrest in the state, the police said. The clue to the network came after 16 cellphones were seized from the district jail after police carried out major crackdown in the district jail. The police said some hardcore terrorists and separatist pr...

Possibly for the first time in Kashmir, Chinese flags have been found in raids along with material that was allegedly to be used by terrorists - petrol bombs, anti-India publicity material, unauthorized cellphones and documents linked to terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

"Beware of sting operations," warned Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar at the start of the BJP weekly strategy session with all its lawmakers in the two houses.

During operations as crucial as a surgery to remove an infected part of intestine, doctors at one of Hyderabad's biggest hospitals have admitted that they worked by the light of cellphones - though for just seconds at a time - because of a massive power outage on Friday.

The proposed bill is heavily supported by the Distracted Operators Risk Casualties (DORCs) group.