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Mobile network down? Here's how you can keep your phone connected
For nationwide communications, you really do need phone towers and their supporting infrastructure
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Long-term mobile use increases brain tumour risk: AIIMS study
Study asserts phone radiation can cause tumours, finds mismatch between govt and industrial findings
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SC gives Centre two weeks to set up mobile user verification mechanism
Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar said that it is important to remove fictitious subscribers for a crackdown on fraudulent activities
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Mobile internet is changing fast in India, but don't let vanity metrics mislead you
Overall data penetration will grow more gradually by 2x to 600 million by 2020, reports Tech in Asia
Mobile companies seek 10-yr tax holiday, bat for components makers
It aims to produce 50 crore mobile handsets annually in the country with value around Rs 1.5-3 lakh crore by 2019
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India set to manufacture $80 bn worth of mobile phone components: Study
India surpassed US to become 2nd largest global smartphone market in terms of users in early 2016 and is on track to cross half a billion users mark within next 5 years
Govt mandates 20 percent local components in mobiles for export aid
Electronic Industries Association of India (ELCINA) said that new rules will ensure only those who are doing minimum acceptable value addition get benefit of Interest Equalisation Scheme
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Regional languages to be mandatory in mobiles
The government has mandated smartphone manufacturers to ensure all devices support Hindi and at least one local language
Govt to bring mobile coverage to over 55,600 villages in 5 yrs
At present, 5.41 lakh villages out of the total 5.97 lakh in India are covered by mobile services
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1 in 10 Indian mobile searches are about cinema: Google
Google offers a similar search experience for cricket in India
Mobile maker Transsion Holdings to set up manufacturing units in India
The company plans to have manufacturing centres in Noida, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
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55,669 villages to have mobile connectivity by 2019
Govt will also commission a project to connect 8,621 villages in the north-eastern region by installing 321 mobile tower sites by Sep 2017, says DoT
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