Bala Yogesh

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.

April 17th, 2020 6:22 PM 0 COMMENTS

Platform Services of Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV and Dish TV in the Times of Lockdown

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in November 2019 announced its recommendations on the platform services (PS) offered by Direct-to-home (DTH) operators which included capping of such services. In its recommendations, the authority suggested that the platform services be limited to 3% of the total channel carrying capacity of an operator and to a maximum of 15 service channels. While the industry opposed the recommendations from Trai, several months... Read More

April 17th, 2020 12:21 PM 0 COMMENTS

ACT Fibernet Taps into Online Learning With Yupp Master Add-on Pack

ACT Fibernet has now included the recently launched Yupp Master from YuppTV onto its add-on offers. Yupp Master, a digital education platform was launched by YuppTV on April 8 and is said to be backed by “specialized faculty members” with 10 to 25 years of experience. YuppTV said that Yupp Master is “one of the most affordable Platforms for IIT-JEE and NEET aspirants” for students in India and the Middle... Read More

April 16th, 2020 5:25 PM 2 COMMENTS

India’s Mean Download Speeds on Fixed Broadband and Mobile Recover from Lockdown Week

Ookla on Wednesday said that the mean download speeds in India “increased slightly” on both fixed broadband and mobile during the week of April 6 as compared to the prior week. The company engaged in the internet testing, data and analysis said that India recorded an average download speed of 36.17 Mbps on fixed broadband during the week of April 6. Ookla said that the recorded speeds during the week... Read More

April 16th, 2020 2:35 PM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel Resumes Sign-ups for Broadband Installations, Pushes Back Xstream Fibre Expansion to June 2

Bharti Airtel has been sending targeted ad banners to selected users for its 1 Gbps broadband connections on its Airtel Xstream Fiber connection. The banner ads from the company leads users to the Airtel Broadband page where users can select from a range of plans from Airtel and request installation. Gopal Vittal, CEO of Airtel in a mail to customers said that the company “will arrange for installation” as soon... Read More

April 16th, 2020 12:24 PM 0 COMMENTS

iPhone SE 2020 vs iPhone SE 2016: Every Difference Explained

Apple on Wednesday announced the new iPhone SE 2020 featuring the design of the iPhone 8 but with the A13 Bionic chip found on the iPhone 11 series. The company said that the new iPhone SE would be available to purchase at a starting price of Rs 42,500. Further, the company has phased out its iPhone 8 series lineup in India which would mean that the new iPhone SE is... Read More

April 15th, 2020 7:46 PM 5 COMMENTS

Chennai Setting Tone for India’s Broadband Landscape

The city of Chennai has been leading the broadband landscape in India as the data consumption in the city is close to the average of developed countries. Hathway, a pan India broadband provider, said in its investor presentation for the third quarter of previous financial year that the average data consumption per consumer in Chennai is 190GB per month. The company said that the average data consumption per user in... Read More

April 15th, 2020 6:58 PM 0 COMMENTS

OnePlus 8 vs OnePlus 7T: Every Difference Explained

OnePlus on Tuesday announced its OnePlus 8 series smartphones promising “the most powerful and beautiful flagship smartphone series” the company has ever created. Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus initially revealed on Twitter that the launch was pushed back three times before the company locked down the April 14 date due to COVID-19 lockdown situation. The OnePlus 8 series also becomes the company’s first full 5G lineup with the company initially... Read More

April 15th, 2020 11:18 AM 0 COMMENTS

Frequency of Voice Calls Increased to 50% in Certain Cases: Report

Telecom operators have witnessed an increase of 15% to 20% increase in voice calls in the initial days of the lockdown, ET Telecom reports. A senior telecom executive who spoke to the publication on the condition of anonymity said that the operators witnessed spike in the voice in the days leading to lockdown and days following the announcement. Further, the telecom executive said that the frequency of calls have come... Read More

April 14th, 2020 7:01 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Unveils Work From Home Connectivity Solutions, Plans Beginning at Rs 399

Bharti Airtel has set up a dedicated website offering corporate solutions for those businesses affected by COVID-19 lockdown. The telecom operator’s dedicated site includes special corporate plans for broadband access to plans that enable access to services like Zoom conferencing app and G Suite. Further, the company has plans for various security solutions including VPN and virtual desktop. With the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing the extension of the... Read More

April 14th, 2020 5:11 PM 1 COMMENTS

COAI Pushes for Reduction in License Fees While Industry Focused on Keeping Networks Up And Running

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Tuesday said that it has asked the government for a reduction in license fees (LF) and spectrum usage charges (SUC). COAI, the industry body representing operators like Vodafone Idea and Airtel, said that it has urged the government not to excise GST on license fees and SUC as they are not services. While COAI has put forward the requests to the government,... Read More

April 14th, 2020 3:07 PM 1 COMMENTS

DTH and Cable TV STBs Cannot Be Interoperable Due to Technical and Financial Constraints: Trai

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Saturday announced that all Set-Top Boxes (STB) in India must be interoperable. The authority said that the Direct-to-Home (DTH) providers as well as multi-system operators (MSO) would be given six months from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) notification to facilitate the service. Crucially, it was said that the interoperability would be permissible within the DTH segment and within cable segment... Read More

April 13th, 2020 6:29 PM 2 COMMENTS

Aerovoyce Revamps Prepaid Plans, Introduces Long Validity Plans

Aerovoyce, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) currently with its operations limited to Tamil Nadu has unveiled its revamped prepaid plans, OnlyTech reports. While the operator that utilises BSNL network made no official announcement over the revamped plans, the publication in its report said that the new plans went live on the operator site post April 7. Notably, the operator now offers plans that are valid for 180 days and... Read More

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