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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 June 1st, 2020 12:06 PM 0 COMMENTS

New Plans of ACT Broadband Live in 8 Cities Across India, Prices Hiked by Rs 100

ACT Fibernet, India’s third largest broadband service provider on Monday unveiled its broadband plans with increased prices across eight cities. The company with a subscriber base of 1.54 million as of January 31, 2020, on Thursday issued an email notification over the price hike to its subscribers in selected cities across India. In its email notification, ACT Fibernet said that its broadband plans had constant prices despite “increased cost of... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 29th, 2020 8:12 PM 5 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Responds to Report of Google Eyeing a Stake in its Operations

Vodafone Idea on Friday said that there was “no proposal” that was being considered by its board as it issued a clarification on the report of Google eyeing an 5% stake in its company. The second largest telecom provider in India was responding to the clarification sought by the BSE on Friday over the reports of Google eyeing a stake in Vodafone. The shares of Vodafone Idea surged as much... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 29th, 2020 3:36 PM 0 COMMENTS

ACT Fibernet Hikes Broadband Prices Between Rs 21 to Rs 50 Across Selected Cities

Act Fibernet, the third largest broadband service provider in India has hiked broadband prices in the range of Rs 21 to Rs 50 across selected cities in the country. The company with a subscriber base of 1.54 million as of January 31, 2020 has issued a notification to its users on Thursday over the price hike. In Chennai, the Act Fibernet plans have been increased by Rs 21 while the... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 29th, 2020 1:05 PM 2 COMMENTS

BSNL Circle Specific Broadband Plans Valid Till August 2020 Listed

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has said that several circle specific broadband plans would be expiring in the upcoming months including two Rs 499 plans, Rs 525 plan, Rs 600 plan and Rs 777 plan. Crucially, the Rs 499 plans and the Rs 777 plan are listed to be expiring in June in several circles. The Rs 600 plan exclusive to Odisha circle is listed to expire in July. Further,... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 29th, 2020 11:14 AM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Outperformance to Continue: Religare

Religare Broking said in a research report that it expects the growth momentum of Bharti Airtel to continue primarily driven by the increase in ARPU and steady growth in its other business. According to the firm, the “huge surge in demand” that Airtel witnessed in the home broadband segment as highlighted by Airtel’s management would ensure the telecom giant witnessing the minimum impact of COVID-19. Additionally, the Business-to-Business segment of... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 29th, 2020 9:44 AM 1 COMMENTS

Facebook ‘Collab’ Could Rival TikTok

Facebook New Product Experimentation (NPE) division on Wednesday released a new product called ‘Collab’ that enables users to “create, watch, and mix and match original videos, starting with music.” The invite-only beta app is currently available on iOS and the NPE division said in a release that the app was “expedited” due to COVID-19 lockdown around the world. The core feature of the app revolves around the ability to collaborate... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 28th, 2020 6:32 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Broadband Providers Reveal Ways to Improve Upload Speeds

Cloudfare, the web infrastructure and the web security company on Tuesday announced its speed testing tool designed to provide “meaningful insights” into the user’s network performance. The company said that the insights include what Cloudflare measures when a user tests his speed and how the company calculates the scores for the network connection. The speed test tool from Cloudflare contains three components namely download, upload and latency test. While several... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 28th, 2020 2:46 PM 5 COMMENTS

Walmart Not Surprised with Facebook Investment into Reliance Jio

The entry of Facebook into the Indian retail market through an investment into Jio Platforms is “not surprising,” Brett Biggs, CFO of Walmart, said in the 36th Annual Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference on Wednesday. Biggs said that the Indian market is “competitive” and that the country with a population of 1.3 billion people is “going to attract a lot of investment.” In April, Reliance Industries said that the Facebook would... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 27th, 2020 6:33 PM 1 COMMENTS

OnePlus Joins Hands with Epic Games to Introduce 90 FPS Fortnite Experience on OnePlus 8 Series

OnePlus on Tuesday said that the company has entered into a partnership with Epic Games to enable Fortnite to run at 90 FPS on the OnePlus 8 series smartphones. The company said that 90 FPS is the highest frame rate available for Fortnite with the OnePlus 8 series being the first line of smartphones to run the game at that level. According to the company, the OnePlus 8 series enables... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 27th, 2020 11:19 AM 1 COMMENTS

Vodafone Rebrands Benefits of Rs 98 Data Add-on Pack as Double Data Offer

Vodafone on Wednesday rebranded the 100% data benefits on the Rs 98 data add-on pack as a Double Data offer with the operator expanding the benefits to its users in 20 circles. The telecom operator on Friday increased the data benefits on its Rs 98 data add-on pack by 100% which enabled the users to receive 12 GB of data for 28 days. However, the operator limited the availability of... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 27th, 2020 7:02 AM 0 COMMENTS

BSNL Offers SIM Cards for No Additional Charge to New Subscribers

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on Tuesday said that its new customers whose First Recharge Coupon (FRC) is more than Rs 100 would receive free SIM cards. The notification issued by BSNL Chennai circle on Tuesday highlighted that the free SIM is worth Rs 20 and that the offer would be available between May 26 to May 31. The operator has seven standard FRCs that are priced above Rs 100... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 26th, 2020 5:19 PM 6 COMMENTS

Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea to Delay Tariff Hikes

ICICI Securities on Sunday said that the telecom operators will not hike the telecom tariffs ahead of the floor price recommendations from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The firm said that TRAI might view tariff hikes as the industry’s ability to act without policy intervention, a move that ICICI Securities believes would work against telecom operators on floor price recommendation. The telecom operators in India including Bharti Airtel,... Read More