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For the first time the telecom subscriber base in the country has registered a decline. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) data, users base has dipped to 944.81 million in July from 965.52 million. The TRAI reveals that the decline is driven by the wireless segment, which saw a slump of 26.1 million. Reliance Communications saw a loss of 20.48 million users. RCom was followed by Tata Teleservices, which lost about 2.4 million customers. Uninor lost more than 1 million users, while Videocon 0.41 million. Loop Mobile and state-run MTNL lost around 0.15 million subscribers in July. RCom says removal of inactive users has caused the drop. "With an objective to release the substantial blocked resources of number series and in context of DoT's stringent guidelines on issuance of fresh numbers, RCom has decided to deactivate the inactive prepaid subscribers who have not had any usage in the last 60 days," a RCom spokesperson is q...

Google promises access speeds more than 100 times faster  than some of the fastest available from traditional US cable and telecommunications companies. Google Inc unveiled its  Google Fiber broadband Internet service  in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday, promising access speeds more than 100 times faster than some of the fastest available from traditional US cable and telecommunications companies. "The Internet is a huge positive force, and yet we are at a crossroad," said Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette, who has played a lead role in overseeing the Fiber project. He said Internet speeds had leveled out for broadband since around 2000, and Google would making it 100 times faster. "We at Google we believe there is no need to wait," he said. The download speeds would be around 1 gigabyte a second, according to Google executives who were presenting a demonstration. Google invested in building out fiber in Kansas Cit...