Arpit spends his day closely following the telecom and tech industry. A music connoisseur and a night owl, he also takes a deep interest in the Indian technology start-up scene and spends rest of his time spilling poetry and stories on paper.
After Trai thundered down on the Broadcasters Audience Research Council (BARC), the council has finally resumed publishing weekly viewership data. After resuming its report, the BARC has put out data for week 13 of the period 23-26 March. The council had stopped sharing data publicly after Trai introduced the new … Read More
There has already been an announcement in the telecom industry about the deployment of more than a million Wi-Fi hotspots across the country by the year-end. Almost all big telcos like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL, are deploying massive Wi-Fi hotspot sites to extend internet availability for their subscribers. … Read More
There’s no doubt that the new Trai broadcasting regime will help DTH and Cable TV operators in increasing their revenue and ARPU. With the new pricing scheme coming into effect from April 1, subscribers are being moved to Best Fit plans. That said, under the new Best Fit plan, subscribers … Read More
Viacom18’s digital video-on-demand streaming service and India’s second largest AVOD OTT platform –VOOT has been on the turf for three years now. The platform is celebrating its third anniversary and has revealed that it has crossed the milestone figure of 100+ billion minutes of watch time. VOOT has also said … Read More
With the beginning of the cricket season in India as the Indian Premier League kickstarted, the TV industry also dawned a highly optimistic outlook. Amongst there, were also the DTH companies which had been thrashed recently by the new Trai tariff regime. The chance was a good one for these … Read More
India has seen a meteoric rise in the content segment in the past few years. The market has been flooded with on-demand video apps, OTT platforms and what not. However, when it comes to video, there is only one name which comes to people’s minds, and that’s Netflix. Now being … Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has demanded the telecom operators to furnish details of all the segmented tariff orders issued between April 2018 and March 2019. The details have been requested to be monthly and are to be submitted in 15 days by the telcos. The regulator further … Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) published the Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators report for Q3 FY19 – October-December 2018, quarter. From the industry perspective, this third quarter was a very crucial one since this period also witnessed the rollout of the new tariff regime in the country. As … Read More
Vodafone Idea Limited, the largest telecom service provider in India, is on the task of deploying an automated multi-cloud network across the country. The telecom operator has said that this new multi-cloud network will enable it to provide an unmatched network experience for its retail and enterprise customers. The largest … Read More
Just like the data tariff war triggered by the entry of Reliance Jio sent a wave of consolidation in the telecom industry, the new Trai tariff regime might have done something similar for the DTH industry. Previously, there were rumours of Airtel making an acquisition offer to Dish TV, but … Read More
Approximately, 54,000 people might lose their job at BSNL as the board of the company has accepted the proposal to lay-off a large number of employees. The news came from Deccan Herald and was reported by ET Telecom. It is noteworthy that the story of BSNL being in heavy losses … Read More
The Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator Reliance Jio has not only brought cheap tariffs and combo offerings into the telecom industry but also much more. Reliance Jio’s apps like JioSaavn, JioTV and more have also become some of the most used apps in India by the subscribers of the telco. … Read More
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