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About the author: Born in India, Yogesh loves to travel and has lived in multiple countries including New Zealand and Canada. His bylines can be found on various newspapers and blogs throughout the world, including Vancouver Sun, Surrey Now-Leader, Daily Hive , Investing News Network and Rach F1.

Bala Yogesh October 22nd, 2020 7:37 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Unveils MyAmbar App for Women Safety in India

Vodafone Idea Foundation, the Corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm of Vodafone Idea Limited on Thursday unveiled MyAmbar app in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation, Safety Trust, and UN Women. The MyAmbar app solution is said to be designed and developed especially for safety and empowerment of women in India. The company said that the app developed under the ‘Connecting for Good program’ is intended to aid women to understand and stand... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 22nd, 2020 2:27 PM 46 COMMENTS

India Among Lowest Ranked Countries for Mobile Internet Speeds: Ookla

India has dropped two places on the Speedtest Global Index for mobile in September while the country gained two places on the Index for the fixed broadband segment, Ookla highlighted on Tuesday. The company behind the Speedtest platform released its Speedtest Global Index for September with South Korea and Singapore topping the index for mobile and fixed broadband segments respectively. Ookla said that South Korea registered an average download speed... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 22nd, 2020 12:41 PM 0 COMMENTS

Zee5 Ties up with Meghbela Broadband, Select users to Receive Access for No Additional Cost

Zee5, a Over-the-Top (OTT) platform on Thursday announced that it has partnered with Meghbela Broadband in a bid to expand its distribution ecosystem. The company said that its platform has witnessed over three times growth in its user base as the users “are now looking at entertainment beyond the traditional Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Cable TV. Zee5 said that it has been “working very closely” with internet service providers across India... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 22nd, 2020 11:22 AM 6 COMMENTS

Truecaller Unveils Call Reason Feature on Users Demand

Truecaller, a mobile application that enables users to identify and block calls on Wednesday unveiled Call Reason feature. The company said that its latest addition to its platform, the Call Reason feature will let users know why someone is calling them with Truecaller highlighting its new addition as a “game-changer.” The Call Reason feature is said to be available only for Truecaller users on Android with the feature said to... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 21st, 2020 3:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio STBs Set to Integrate Netflix App, Indian Users to Receive Free Access

Netflix, the American streaming company on Tuesday said that it will be providing “everyone” in India a complimentary access to its services “for a weekend.” The development was shared by Gregory Peters, chief operating officer and chief product officer at Netflix in its third quarter earnings call. Peters said that the company hopes to “create an event” and “get a bunch” of people to sign up for its services. Netflix... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 21st, 2020 1:29 PM 0 COMMENTS

ACT Fibernet Streamlines Broadband Plans, Second Revamp in One Month

ACT Fibernet, the third-largest wired broadband service provider in India has revamped its broadband plans in Delhi for the second time in one month. The operator on Tuesday updated its web portals with ACT Fibernet now listing only three plans to its users in the region. The third-largest wired broadband service provider in India had earlier listed six plans to its users in Delhi. In late September, the operator had... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 21st, 2020 11:58 AM 80 COMMENTS

Multiple Fibre Cuts Pull Down Vi Network in Southern Region, Services Restored

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest wireless operator in India restored its services in Kerala late Tuesday after “multiple fibre cuts” resulted in the disruption of its network in the region. According to multiple Vi users on Twitter, there was a network outage on Tuesday between 4 pm to 6 pm. Further, select Vi users have also highlighted that it was the “second time” that they faced the network outage in... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 20th, 2020 6:44 PM 0 COMMENTS

Ahmedabad, Navi Mumbai Among Top Indian Cities for Mobile Gaming: Opensignal

Opensignal, a mobile analytics company on Tuesday said that the users in Ahmedabad had the “best games experience” followed by Navi Mumbai and Vadodara. The company said that it analysed the mobile network experience in 48 cities across India to see how the cities compare on its Games Experience metric. Opensignal said that its Games Experience metric charts “how mobile phone users experience real-time multiplayer mobile gaming on an operator... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 20th, 2020 5:00 PM 8 COMMENTS

Indians Prefer Chinese Brand Alternatives, Samsung and Lava Emerge as Favourites: CMR

CyberMedia Research (CMR), a firm engaged in industry intelligence and marketing services on Tuesday said that nearly one in every two users in India are seeking an alternative to Chinese smartphone brands. The firm is said to have conducted a “nationwide” survey across Tier 1 and Tier II cities of India for its ‘CMR Insights On the Go Survey.’ CMR said that the magnitude of anti-China sentiment is comparatively higher... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 19th, 2020 5:50 PM 11 COMMENTS

OnePlus 8T OxygenOS Update to Enhance System, Camera Performance

OnePlus on Monday announced that it is pushing a new OxygenOS update to the recently launched OnePlus 8T devices. The company said that the update will enhance the system, camera and network performance of the OnePlus 8T device. The update is said to be incremental with only a “small percentage” of users set to receive the enhancements on Monday. The OnePlus 8T was introduced by the company on October 14,... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 19th, 2020 4:20 PM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky to Revise 36 More Regional Channels from Tuesday

Tata Sky, the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator in India announced that it would revise the electronic programming guide (EPG) numbers of over 30 channels on its platform from Tuesday. The DTH operator on its portal highlighted that the two day exercise would result in the revision of EPG numbers of 35 Malayalam regional channels such as Surya TV, Surya Movies and Asianet. Tata Sky since early September has revised EPG... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 19th, 2020 11:35 AM 0 COMMENTS

Paytm to Partner with Various Banks for Co-Branded Credit Cards

Paytm, the Indian digital payment and technology platform on Monday said that it will be “partnering with various card issuers to introduce co-branded cards” in the market. The company said that it is keen on transforming the credit card market by enabling ‘new to credit’ users to be part of the credit card user base. Paytm said that its ‘Next Generation Credit Cards’ are intended to “democratise the access to... Read More