The State of India’s Digital Economy (SIDE) Report measures and analyses India’s digital transformation using data, information and evidence that are specifically relevant to the Indian context. In this, the report departs from the norm for global studies. While global indicators go for breadth rather than depth by choosing the …
“Today we made the world’s highest video call from Mount Everest base camp.” The statement by Pasi Koistinen, head of the telecom firm Ncell, could well become one of the landmark quotes in Internet history. On October 30, Koistinen’s firm, a joint venture between Nepali investors and Swedish telecom giant …
Cell phone technology has revolutionized the telecommunication scenario in India. Due to its several advantages, cell phone technology has grown exponentially in the last decade. Currently, there are more than 50 crore cell phone users and nearly 4.4 lakh cell phone towers to meet the communication demand. The numbers of …
Sixty-six per cent carry a mobile to school, says survey NEW DELHI: A whopping percentage of teens are heavily dependant on the mobile phone, which has also found its way into classrooms now. According to a survey conducted by ASSOCHAM, 66 per cent of adolescents between 16 and 18 years …
Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa launched an electronic waste management project to ensure an electronic waste free Sri Lanka. Central Environmental Authority (CEA) and 14 leading companies engaged in Information technology, Telecommunication and Home appliances also participated in the project. Sri Lanka Telecom, Mobitel, Dialog, Etisalat, Hutch and Lanka Bell …
To ensure an e-waste free environment in Sri Lanka, the Central Environment Authority (CEA) together with over a dozen business organisations who are operating in home electronics, information technology, telecommunications industries and waste management service providers have launched an electronic waste management project to eradicate the growing e-waste crisis in …
Starting this month, the government will begin a crack-down on cellphone radiation. From November 16, it would conduct nation-wide random tests to ensure that radiation from cellphone towers is within permissable limits. Radiation from cellphone towers has become a big issue in recent months, with consumer groups linking high radiation …
Thiruvananthapuram: Cellphone operators will soon have to seek sanction from the Wildlife Division under the Ministry of Environment and Forests before installing their communication towers.
THE government will make it mandatory for mobile phone towers to be powered by solar energy, a move it hopes will cut pollution and tamp down a key driver of diesel consumption in the country. However, this would raise construction costs by up to 50% for cellphone operators such as …
Till September 6, Gujarat’s Secretariat campus in Gandhinagar boasted the largest installation of solar panels in India. Now it has another distinction— the campus has become home to the country’s first smart grid. A smart grid transmits and distributes electricity using information and communication technology. It helps control electricity use …
Arecent UN report indicates an immense global disparity in access to broadband infrastructure. Broadband access is the cheapest in Macau in China, where it costs 0.3 per cent of the average monthly income. On the other end of the spectrum is Central African Republic, where it costs almost 40 times …
Is radiation from cellphone towers proving to be harmful for residents living around them? Whether the assumption that such radiation affects the health of human beings is hypothetical or has a concrete base is still a point of debate. To ensure that there is some clarity on the issue, Napean …
INFRASTRUCTURE and managed services provider, BS Transcomm, plans to provide telecom tower companies with solar and wind power solutions along with its existing fuel management solutions, a person familiar with the company
Mobile phones have mushroomed even as basic amenities such as sanitation has lagged. In the drought prone region of Jhansi, where governance initiatives have been as scarce as the rainfall, the district magistrate latched on to this new tool and came up with a round-the-clock toll free complaint centre.
Faced with criticism over the delay in sanctioning of Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) projects, Union Minister for DoNER and Mines Bijoy Krishna Handique traced the lapse on part of the States in securing the mandatory clearance from Central ministries to delay in sanctioning of projects by the concerned …
Mumbai: In the backdrop of some localities in the national capital region removing mobile towers on the ground that they pose radiation hazards, cellular operators on Monday refuted these allegations, describing them as
Mobile wireless technologies have the potential to aid speedy disease detection, treatment, and monitoring in remote communities. When combined with the power of computers and special software, they can work in real time and enable interventions by health authorities to prevent communicable diseases from turning into epidemics. The experience gained …
Israeli start-up firm Tawkon (pronounced talk-on) has developed a software to measure mobile phone handset radiation, to help users reduce exposure to emissions without giving up their phones. Tawkon
