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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 1st, 2020 12:51 PM 0 COMMENTS

New Bharat Fiber Plans Live on BSNL Portals, Valid Till December 29

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Thursday officially launched its new Bharat Fiber plans with all BSNL circle portals except Andaman and Nicobar reflecting the new plans. As reported by TelecomTalk late last week, BSNL has introduced four new Bharat Fiber plans dubbed as Fibre Basic, Fibre Value, Fibre Premium and Fibre Ultra on a promotional basis for a period of 90 days. The BSNL portals highlight that the four... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 30th, 2020 7:04 PM 1 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Users Can Watch Dream 11 IPL 2020 for Under Rs 25

Tata Sky, the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator in India now offers a simpler way for its users to subscribe to the select Start Sports channels that broadcasts the Dream 11 IPL 2020. The DTH operator has enabled a dedicated “cricket channels” section on the Tata Sky My Account web portal. The dedicated cricket channels section hosts the select Star Sports channels including Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 Hindi... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 30th, 2020 6:04 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Accounts Center to Integrate Login, Payment Info Across Instagram, Messenger

Facebook on Tuesday announced that it is “testing” Accounts Center on its ecosystem of apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Messenger enabling users to “control connected experiences” across the company apps. The social networking giant said that it wants to make it “easier” for users to switch between the apps to post the same content or entering credit card information. The company said that the Accounts Center and connected experiences... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 30th, 2020 3:50 PM 2 COMMENTS

BSNL Reintroduces Rs 777 Bharat Fiber Plan for One Day

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Wednesday reintroduced its Rs 777 Bharat Fiber plan in multiple circles across India including Arunachal Pradesh and Bihar. The Rs 777 Bharat Fiber plan dubbed as “500GB CUL” was initially introduced in late 2018 with the operator withdrawing the plan and reintroducing it in early 2019. Further, in early 2020, BSNL highlighted that the 500GB CUL would be valid till June, 2020. However, the... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 30th, 2020 12:19 PM 47 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Asks DoT to Soon Hold Spectrum Auctions

Reliance Jio, the largest telecom operator in India, has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to soon hold the next round of spectrum auctions. According to the Mint, Reliance Jio in a letter to the DoT, highlighted that the delay in spectrum auction will result in a huge loss to the government revenues. Crucially, the operator also said that the holding of the spectrum auctions at the earliest will result... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 29th, 2020 5:24 PM 12 COMMENTS

Hathway Believes Low End Broadband Users Might Switch to Wireless Service Providers

Hathway Cable and Datacom said that its users on average consume 188GB per month with the company on average offering its users 94 Mbps speed. The development was shared by the company in its annual report for the period ended March 31, 2020 that Hathway Cable and Datacom released in early September, 2020. According to the report, the company has 35,000 Km of overground optic fibre cable network along with... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 29th, 2020 1:34 PM 1 COMMENTS

Xiaomi Introduces Mi Watch Revolve, Mi Automatic Soap Dispenser in India

Xiaomi on Tuesday unveiled the Mi Watch Revolve, its first smartwatch for the Indian market featuring Firstbeat Motion Algorithm that aids users to track physical and mental well-being. The Mi Watch Revolve was unveiled at the Smarter Living 2021 virtual event alongside other Xiaomi products such as Mi Smart Band 5 and Mi Athleisure Shoes. The company said that the Mi Watch Revolve would be available in two color variants... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 29th, 2020 12:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

Average Smartphone Selling Price in APAC Region at $243, Up 11% YoY

Counterpoint Research, a global industry analysis firm on Friday said in a report that the global smartphone market wholesale average selling price increased 10% year-over-year (YoY) in the second quarter of 2020. The firm said that the average selling price increased despite the shipments declining 23% YoY in the same time period. Further, Counterpoint Research said that the smartphone industry revenues declined by 15% YoY during the second quarter of... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 28th, 2020 4:47 PM 8 COMMENTS

Telecom Operators Yet to See Pre COVID-19 Activity Levels

The Indian telecom operators including Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have not seen the pre COVID-19 activity levels on their network, Motilal Oswal said in a report on Thursday. The firm engaged in the financial services in a report reflected on the Telecom Subscription Data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for June, 2020. The data released by TRAI highlights that the telecom industry lost 3.2 million... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 28th, 2020 1:17 PM 2 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Introduces 200 Mbps Broadband Plan, Revises 300 Mbps Plan Price

Tata Sky Broadband, a subsidiary of Tata Sky Limited has introduced a new 200 Mbps unlimited plan at Rs 1050 per month. The operator with its presence in 14 cities across India revamped its broadband plans in the past week with the service provider also enabling its users to avail landline services. In late May, Tata Sky Broadband revamped its service plans with the operator also reducing its Fixed GB... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 28th, 2020 11:37 AM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Sky to Revise EPG Numbers of Over 20 Bengali Channels

Tata Sky, the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator in India announced that the Bengali regional channels on its platform would have electronic programming guide (EPG) number revisions beginning September 29, 2020. The operator said that the two day exercise ending on September 30, 2020 would affect over 20 Bengali regional channels including Colors Bangla, Zee Bangla and Star Jalsha. The operator since early September has been revising the EPG numbers of... Read More

Bala Yogesh September 25th, 2020 6:52 PM 13 COMMENTS

Realme UI 2.0 Set to Land on 20 Smartphones, Devices Listed

Realme on Thursday said that the Realme UI 2.0, the next version of Realme User Interface (UI) based on Android 11 will roll out to over 20 devices beginning September, 2020. The development was shared by the company in a forum post on Thursday. According to the company, the Realme 2.0 features “enhanced security and better productivity” with the update delivering “tons of customizations” to the users. Realme said that... Read More