VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

To increase the broadband penetration in the country. The mission made project BharatNet is to provide 100 Mbps broadband connectivity to all Gram Panchayats. India has plans to reach 600 million broadband connections as per National Telecom Policy 2012 says Minister for Communications Manoj Sinha.  Manoj Sinha said, “As per information provided by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), there were 422.19 million broadband subscribers and the internet penetration was 32.86% in the country as on March 31, 2017.”  In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Manoj Sinha said that the National Telecom Policy 2012 envisages 600 million broadband connections by the year 2020.... Read More

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the Global provider of ICT solutions and NTT Communications India announced that the company will invest over $160 mn (approx. 1K cr) for the expansion of its data centre in India with construction of the Company's two new data centers in Mumbai and Bangalore, through Netmagic, a subsidiary of NTT Com and one of the leading managed hosting and cloud service providers in India and will become operational by April 2018. NTT is committed to enable customers with high-quality infrastructure services as well as the management and security services to meet their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) outsourcing needs. With the increasing demand in cloud services continues ,NTT is gearing up with it’s state of art data centers in Mumbai and Bangalore,which will be accommodating 2,750 racks / 22MW power and 1,500 racks / 15 MW power respectively. With NTT Com’s high-speed, high-volume Internet backbone and network services, custom...

As per the news report, Canalys, a market research firm has reported that smartphone market has contracted for the first time in India. The report highlights that shipment of smartphone fell by 4% year-on-year to 27 million units in the country. This drop in the shipment is mainly due to the implementation of GST which took place on July 1,2017.  talking about the impact of GST, Rushabh Doshi, Canalys Analyst said that the entire market is confused over GST and a lack of awareness about the changes that are needed. He also added that the market has adopted a wait-and-see policy as the distributors and retailers are apprehensive about the impact on prices.... Read More

The Narendra Modi Government has decided to scrap the colonial tradition of presenting budget in the month of February.  Come 2019, the budget will be applicable from the first day of the new year. It is expected that the budget for 2019 will be presented latest by November 2018.  This also means that budget of the financial year 2018-2019, which will be presented on February 1, will be applicable only for nine months, up to December.  The government will also start realigning all the economic data with the.... Read More