Mumbai – Vodafone India Ltd, a unit of Vodafone Group PLC, where price raised on Tuesday of local and intra – city calls for its on – contract customers by at least 20%, indicating increasing stabilization in India’s low – priced telecoms market.

The company which is based on Mumbai which increased rates up to 1.2 paisa per second from 1 paisa per second effective from 1 may for the customers on contract with the mobile services operator.

In July last year, Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s largest mobile phone operator by subscribers, along with Idea Cellular Ltd. And Vodafone India hiked call rates for some of their services. The call tariffs have risen said by the Reliance communication Ldt, the second- ranker, and it was announced in August.

The Development is likely to add to a view chorused by the industry that high minimum prices proposed lately by India’s telecom regulator for the auction of second generation bandwidth will lead to higher prices for customers.

Firm competition and lower entry prices have led to call rates remaining as low as less than a U.S. cent a minute.

On April 24, TRAI the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Chairman J.S. Sarma had said that high bid prices that the authority has proposed shouldn’t be a cause for revising tariffs. He added that call rates had fallen in the past three years due to competition, and not because of spectrum prices.

TRAI has return the entire Regulatory structure of the Broadcasting, cable TV and DTH industry in India, dealing with issues such as carriage fee, channel prices and channel availability.

Once digitized all channels have to be offered on a-la-carte, or individual, basis to subscribers, TRAI said.

There will be a basic service Tier (BST) consisting of a minimum of 100 free-to air (FTA) channels for Rs.100.

IT is all up to the customer to choose and pick which 100 free channels they want to see for Rs.100 per month. It means they can make their own basic package.

Customers can also ask to the cable operator to provide a pre-designed basic tire with 5 channels of each genre – news and current affairs, infotainment, sports, kids, music, lifestyle, movies and general entertainment in Hindi, English and regional language of the concerned region.

However, if he or she wants pay channels, the minimum is Rs. 150 TRAI added.

In case if subscriber chooses to pay channels (s) with or without FTA channel (s) the MSO can fix a minimum monthly subscription not exceeding Rs. 150, If the total value of the channels/bouquets opted by the subscriber exceeds Rs.150, the actual subscription charges have to be paid, TRAI said.

The new system for the customer will get soon means, their cable networks which will support a minimum of 500 channels and they will be able to pay only more or less for those channels which they wish to watch. TRAI command a minimum capacity of 500 channels in the new system by coming two months and on first phase of cable digitization kicks in the cities.

Its network is currently available for 300 channels but Digitization is expecting to increase its capacity around 1000-1500. There is other good news in the new system for the broadcasters the channel owners of cable TV and the DTH networks.

Telecom major Vodafone has threatened to go for international arbitration over the government of India’s move to amend the tax law with retrospective effect.

The UK Company has alleged that retrospective amendment amounts to a denial of justice and a breach of the Indian government’s obligation under the bilateral investment treaty to accord fair and equitable treatment to investors.

But the truth of the matter is that similar amendments with retrospective effect have been carried out by the UK government as well to ensure that corporate do not avoid taxes. What is equally important is that these amendments have been upheld by British courts, and Vodafone happens to be a UK company.

The government sees the Vodafone case as one of tax avoidance as no tax whatsoever has been paid by the UK Company in any country in the purchase of the majority stake in what was then Hutch Essar for $ 11 billion.

The government has already made it clear that the amendment is not Vodafone-specific but aimed at bringing into the tax net big ticket deals carried out by other MNCs as well.

Actually, the moot point is whether a host country’s right to tax a business in its territory can be questioned under the bilateral investment treaty at all.

Kolkata, Apr 26 (IBNS) Vodafone Foundation, a charity registered in England, in association with Pratham Education Foundation, On Thursday, its declared that it will be provide learning solutions for over 50,000 deprived children in 1000 schools across India.

Vodafone Foundation has committed INR [140] million to provide the ‘Learning with Vodafone Solution’ across 1000 schools in India over the next 3 years.

A pilot project has been conducted in schools across Karnataka and Vodafone Foundation looks at building on this and replicating the same success in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Delhi.

‘Learning with Vodafone Solution’ uses inventive software developed by the Vodafone Solutions Team (Innovations Centre) combined with the beneficial effects of mobile technology.

It allows teachers to improve the classroom experience with wealthy graphical and multi-media substance together with an inventive method of coaching.

Laura Turkington -Director, of Vodafone India Foundation, said, that “We consider this is a great instance of how mobile communications can allow empowering life of thousands in the Indian market.”

Madhav Chavan – the Chief Executive Officer, Pratham, said, “We are hoping that during this teamwork with Vodafone Foundation, where we are capable to raise our understanding of technological involvements while also helping to create a release device for better learning for the children of our India.”

Today we are introducing a Google Drive a place where you can share, create, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you are working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and further than.

Through Google Drive you can create and collaborate the google doc which is built into google drive, thus you can work with others in real time on credentials, spreadsheets and arrangement. If once you select to share the content with others, you can include and respond to the explanation at anytime on anything (PDF, image, video file, etc.) and received the notification when other people comment on shared your items.

Its store everything safely and access it anywhere especially while on the go, as your all stuff is just there and you can access it from your substance from anywhere on the net, in your home or at your office, while organization of everyday jobs and also from all of your devices. You can install drive on your Mac or PC and you can also download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet. We are also working hard on a drive app for your iOS devices. And despite of platform, blind users can access Drive with a screen reader.

Through Search option everything you can search by keyword and filter it by file type, proprietor and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Let’s say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. You can search for a word from the text of the actual article. We also use image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for [Grand Canyon] and photos of its gorges should pop up. This technology is still in its early stages, and we expect it to get better over time.

You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s sufficient to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, or scanned copies of your parents’ love letters or careers’s value of business proposals etc and still have space for the story on which you are working on. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB.

Drive is build to work flawlessly with your general Google experience. You can connect photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and quickly you will be able to connect the stuff from Drive directly to emails in Gmail. Drive as well an open platform, so we are working with many and also with the third-party developers so you can do such things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mock-up directly from Drive. To install these apps, you can visit to the Chrome Web Store—and look out for even more useful apps in it for the future.

Imagine a life without a television! I know its not possible right?

As we are talking about digital picture quality then the high definition TV is good which gives you a sharper, crisper picture with up to five times high quality then the standard definition and more vibrant colours and not only that , you will get such a crystal clear surround sound that you can hear a pin drop.

Where as direct-to-home (DTH) services have come as a benefit to the TV viewers in India, in there today’s busy world it’s not always possible to sit and watch your favourite TV shows when it is broadcast on TV. Zee Group-Promoted Dish TV, where India has launched an interesting money saving technology for the consumers, as sensing a market opportunity. The DTH services provider’s Dish truHD + set – top box now offer unlimited recording capacity, at an amazing price of Rs 2690 for the customers.  At an essential level, Dish truHD+ is the high definition recorder service offered by Dish TV. Its unique feature the compatibility with any USB device which allow customers to simply plug and play an accessible USB stick/HDD, and assemble an entire library of their favourite programmes.

To store the recorder content the traditional digital video recorders come with an integral hard drive. But the Dish truHD+ comes with a creative fixed in recorder software and to enjoy the recording you just need to plug in USB storage device in the USB port which located at the back panel of the Dish truHD+ set top box. Thus, Dish truHD+ has double advantage of all HD and DVR features, at the price of existing HD box only. Therefore, the offer is suitable for new users as well as existing Dish TV customers looking to improve their box with the recording features. The price of Rs 2690 includes the new Dish truHD+ box along with one month Dish truHD Royale Pack.

As promotional offer of the Dish TV this is further providing a 4 GB USB drive free to get user comfortable to the thought of plugging an external device to use the recording features. The DVR has features include record, rewind, forward, pause the live TV etc.     What’s extra the customers get that you can also allow time based and event based recording on the box. You can instruct your set-top box to record your favourite TV programmes at the touch of a button.

So just connected to the Dish truHD+ with your LCD TV and watch the action begin whether it be the ongoing IPL cricket matches or HBO movies, the picture quality you will come to see a world class quality, customers can enjoy the dramatic picture quality of 1080i, 6:9 picture format with 5.1 surround sound that is far richer than standard definition viewing and comes with the latest MPEG4 technology.

In adding up to this the same box is used as DVR as well by a simple plug-n-play through an exterior USB device. This allow every one benefits of a traditional DVR like recording and playing back programmes, pausing or rewinding live TV, different play-back positions, and also available event based recording (EBR), time based recording (TBR) and so on. The Dish TV remote is too slim and easy to operate, while we use Dish TV box it has a display in the front it shows the channel number, and the current time when in standby mode. The display does add a lot of value, something you realise when in standby mode. The display does add a lot of value, something you realise when actually get to use it.

It is revealed that the third largest mobile network operator in India, Vodafone has introduced a new aspect for its post-paid customers.

Vodafone India has launched a new facility for its postpaid customers. This facility is across the country, allowing to those customers those who are enabling to get a new number when they shifting to different state.

As per the announcement, it has been inform that the executives of the company have stated that the customers face a lot of problem in getting a new number after shifting to a new place. Also, those of the customers face more problems in choosing the right tariff plans because customers who have been availing the benefits of the special tariff plans like higher credit limits, billing details, etc.,

It has been stated that the service have been introduced to help all individuals customers to get without changing their tariff plans and schemes and customers to get local numbers easily.

Also, it was show that in order to get the benefits of the service, the postpaid customer’s of the Vodafone Company will require applying for the service in his current location. At the new location, Vodafone executives will contact the customer, to give a new number and change billing address. Customer will need to give a copy of their identity proof to avail the service.

It has been declared that the new service started by the company is surely amazing. The service will help provide a release to all those customers who presently face problems while changing locations.

The Vodafone India’s Chief Commercial Officer Sanjoy Mukerji distinguished that the National Telecom Policy, which is line up to come into the later effect of this year, it will remove this difference as it features free-roaming, and pan-India mobile number portability.

This has been possible because Vodafone is present in all the 23 telecom circles and has a new state of art CRM system (Customer Relationship Management), Mukerji said that through this service, they aim to provide their post-paid customers a peaceful relocation experience and uninterrupted services on Vodafone.

A new Samsung Galaxy S III, which is going to be launched by the end of the may, So it is the rights of every new buyers to know 4 things about Samsung Galaxy S3.

As Samsung galaxy has assassin hardware, which has comes with a complete 1.4GHz quad-core processor which is top-of-the line of smart phone hardware. The other key hardware features which is comprise an 8MP rear-facing camera, a 1.9MP front facing camera, a 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display screen with a resolution of 1,280x 720 pixels, and a 2,100mAh battery. And for good trial, the phone’s design is both light and thin, as it weighs 133 grams and is just 8.6 millimeters thick. In all, the new Galaxy’s hardware is about as forward-looking while you can find it right now.

It has another one innovative features in new galaxy phone, it comes with software that know you its ability to actually watch, listen and respond to you through its camera and voice software. For example, the device’s camera can see you when you’re looking at it and it will act in response by keeping the screen lit up so you don’t have to periodically touch it to keep it from blacking out, and also the new Galaxy’s “S Voice” it is voice recognition software is a Siri-like feature that lets you give your phone commands without touching it. In other words, if your phone alarm goes off, you can shout out “snooze” to get it to shut its yap rather than fumbling around trying to press the off “button. Similarly, you can use S Voice to write emails, check the weather, take pictures, etc.

It will not initially support LTE, the Quad core processor which is pretty fast, other than they are also pretty large and Samsung it seems that could not fit an LTE chipset in with its super speedy CPU. So when this device hits the shelves in the Europe this month and in the U.S. next month, it will have HSPA+ connectivity and standard Wi-Fi options, but no LTE. For U.S. consumers this means that the initial version of the device will likely be available on AT & T and T-Mobile, both rely on the CDMA – based EV –DO Rev. A for their 3G technology.

Samsung has also said that it will release an LTE-capable version of the device for a time this summer so that you may want to hold off on buying it if you absolutely must have the fastest mobile broadband technology accessible.

sure, it runs on the latest version of Android as Like all the new Android devices which are hitting the market, the Galaxy S III runs on Android 4.0 (“Ice Cream Sandwich”) that has been intended to deliver the same customer experience across the different Smartphone and tablets. Among other things, the latest version of Android features a home screen that can unlock using facial recognition software; Android Beam, technology that lets users send contact information, directions, Web pages and more via near-field communications by tapping their phones together; and mixing it with the Google+ social network that lets users host online video chats among their circles of their friends.

As of now everyone know that Samsung galaxy is going too launched in the end of the May and the declaration of the Samsung galaxy S3 last week was not actual shock in terms of hardware, apart from its hard to observe its gaming possible. We are not just talking presently about the spec bump over previous versions of the phone but also some accessories that will give you an immersive gaming experience.

Other often than not when you are gaming people around you can hear everything you are doing – which as we know is not enjoyable for them and you. There are a number of headphones that will cure this subject but ruling the correct pair can be an issue, but as the galaxy S3 comes with Bluetooth 4.0 aptX connectivity it’s suggested that the pair of Sennheiser PXC 310 BT can would do the job very well.

Because of the GPU in the Samsung Galaxy S III is running faster by 65 percent than the Samsung galaxy S II it’s clear that you desire an accessory that will help to give you great enjoyment, and one such of the device has to be levelup ROAM Bluetooth controller, which has a similar set up to a PS3 controller. There is no dread of this device running out of power before your S3 smartphone, as it has ten hours of battery life.

To help get some more juice out of that battery (Which is important because we know how much playing games can eat away at battery life) it’s worth downloading the advanced Task killer. What this does is help reduce power of other processes running in the back ground.

If you would like to experience the Galaxy S3 gaming on a superior screen then you might always choose  the Samsung AllShare Cast Hub, which helps to represent whatever you are screening on your new smartphone – not exactly on equality with what Apple offers on their iOS devices but still with a good device.

These are just a few products that will help thrust you once you start the gaming.

New Samsung galaxy S III has been going to launch in India by this June, said samsung’s representative, adding up, it will be launched very soon in India after its introduction in Europe and UK on May 29^th that means its date is not so far to launch Samsung galaxy s3.

New Samsung galaxy S III has comes with highly advanced features, Samsungs has sophisticated features go beyond 4.8 inch Super AMOLED+ HD screen, 1.4GHz Exynos quad core processor, NFC and it also includes mind blowing new features like eye tracking, voice control and intelligent lock system also.

Well as far since Samsung Galaxy S3 is worried then all we can say is that different than any other advanced Smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S3 is a whole new concept of technology in itself which is determined to become a natural part of your life with an aim of making your world wider by empowering you to discover it freely and quickly.

The Samsung galaxy S III has comes with 8MP rear camera and 1.9 MP front cameras with face recognition, and 2100 mAh battery, and it was introducing with Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich OS.

Here are some best features of the galaxy S III

Smart stay: The front camera of the phone know whether you are directly looking at the phone screen and using it, and until that the screen is turned on. If the camera doesn’t detect your viewing, the screen would turn off automatically.

Direct call: This feature will help you when you are trying to text message to someone but in the end you decide not to do that and call the same person. For making the call you would be dialed automatically.

S Voice: here about this features where we talked with a bit of over enthusiasm, and to compare it with siri for iPhone although actually it is not. It pay attention to your instructions, except a very few ones. By using the Google search, rotating the camera on, while calling someone or checking the weather etc.

S Beam: The Near field Communication relocate is taken to the next level from the standard ICS based NFC that came earlier. The patter and the phone-to-phone transfer possible in a faster and superior way.

Burst Shot (Best Photo): In this features you can captures 20 pictures in a super fast mode, and all are displayed at once and out of them you may select the best shot and all the others are deleted. This is nothing new, as the HTC one X Camera already had a superior way, capturing 99 pictures in the same finest mode.

Samsung Galaxy S3 have another special things it has wireless charging is what we have heard of, but are not sure how it will work until we directly test it out.