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About the author: 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.

Arpit Sharma July 23rd, 2021 11:45 AM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel to Rapidly Expand Data Centre Capacity In Tune With Digital Growth

Bharti Airtel is pushing its horizons on the business front. As per the reports on Thursday, it became pretty clear that Bharti Airtel’s business front, Airtel Business, which offers B2B services is becoming the most profitable of the lot which the company owns. On the same lines, in a recent development, we have come to know that Bharti Airtel will be driving more investment towards its data centres to the... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 23rd, 2021 1:18 AM 16 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Govt Support Starts With Increase In Investment Limit

Vodafone Idea has been under a cash crunch since the last year. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) reports have consistently been pointing out about the concerning churn rate of the telecom operator, which is just the opposite of the other telecom companies. While Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have been adding subscribers in the interim, Vodafone Idea has been losing subscribers except in the month of February this... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 22nd, 2021 5:27 PM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel Business Catches One Third of Market Share With Good Growth Numbers

Bharti Airtel has its hands in multiple areas. The Sunil Mittal-led company is not only helming the telecom industry but it also focuses on DTH and provides its services to enterprise and business customers as well. Although, Airtel is mostly known as a telecom operator in the country, but it’s the B2B venture of Bharti Airtel that fetches the company most revenue. The new report by ICICI Securities also details... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 22nd, 2021 4:25 PM 2 COMMENTS

BSNL Fibre Experience Broadband Plan Bundles 1000GB Data

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been in a frenzy of rolling out new offers for its subscribers. After launching a lot of offers on the prepaid segment, the offers on the wired broadband plans do not seem to be ending. Every other day, BSNL is coming up with new promotional schemes for its new and old subscribers both and today is no exception to this rule. If you recall,... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 21st, 2021 7:12 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel eSIM: Things You Must Know Before Applying

Bharti Airtel is one of the telecom operators providing the Airtel eSIM service to its subscribers. With the proliferation of devices that offer eSIM features to the users, it is imperative to know about this new phenomenon. If you were to buy a smartwatch in the premium segment, or an Apple iPhone, then chances are then you would have to resort to using an eSIM instead of a physical second... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 21st, 2021 6:28 PM 0 COMMENTS

5G in India Is Likely to Be Dominated by European Telecom Gear

The fifth-generation network is now being used in countries like the USA, China, and other places all over the globe. However, in India, the technology remains only limited to trials by telecom operators. The early auction of the 5G waves in these countries, coupled with robust finances and thriving telecom industry, led to the early launch of 5G in these places. However, the same is not the case for India.... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 21st, 2021 5:56 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel, Jio and Vi Subscribers Pay Way More for Plans With No Daily Data Limit

Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea are the three heads helming the telecom industry right now. If you are reading this on a mobile data plan, chances are you are most likely subscribed to one of the following operators. Now, with the increasing demand for data, all three of these companies have introduced many prepaid plans for their subscribers. The customers often find themselves lost in the portfolio, browsing... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 20th, 2021 6:11 PM 0 COMMENTS

Netplus Broadband Rs 999 Plan Offering TV, OTT and Unlimited Data With 200 Mbps Speed

Netplus Broadband is yet another wired broadband service provider which has been increasing its foothold in certain parts of the country. Apart from the big names which pop up everywhere, like Reliance Jio’s JioFiber, Airtel Xstream Fiber service, and BSNL FTTH, these companies sometimes offer better services in terms of speeds, cost, and other add-ons as well. As for Netplus Broadband, the company is mostly consolidated to the northern states... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 20th, 2021 5:07 PM 0 COMMENTS

BharatNet Global Tender Floated by Govt With PPP Model Vision

BharatNet is the ambitious project of the current government to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats and 6 lakh villages using a high-speed broadband network. This would bode well for these villages, the connected Community Service Centres, and other e-governance initiatives which are ongoing in the country. As per this latest development, the project, which is being implemented by BBNL (Bharat Broadband Network Limited), has floated a global tender for creation,... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 20th, 2021 4:57 PM 0 COMMENTS

Ncell Axiata to Deploy 900 MHz Band For 4G LTE Services in Nepal

Ncell Axiata, the telecom company based in Nepal is slowly ramping up its speed and coverage in the country. It is worth noting that Nepal being in the mountains, suffers from an acute connectivity issue since it is hard for the companies to deploy BTS and other connectivity equipment in that terrain. However, Ncell Axiata has been on this task and is slowly transitioning to the 900 MHz band for... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 20th, 2021 3:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel Digital TV Subscribers Can Now Watch Shemaroo TV and Devam as FTA Channels

Bharti Airtel’s Airtel Digital TV service is one of the topmost DTH services in the country. Also, for the subscribers of TV channels, if you are using Airtel Digital TV, then you would be amused to know about the addition of some of the new channels which Airtel has updated for its users. The DTH operators keep on removing and adding some of the channels to their platform, and for... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 19th, 2021 6:50 PM 12 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio to Both See Lukewarm Growth in FY22 Q1

The numbers are in from the analysts about the telecom industry’s growth and subscriber addition along with revenue in recent times, and it appears that the telecom companies have not been able to beat the lockdown. Despite the talk of heavy data usage for work from home and online classes, it seems that the telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea, will see lukewarm responses in terms... Read More