Nxtra, the data center arm of Airtel, is going to invest around Rs 2000 crore into building and opening a new hyperscale data center in Hyderabad. The new data center would reportedly have a capacity of 60MW of IT load for the first phase. Nxtra will use the latest technologies to ensure the security and cooling of the data centers. It would take around five to seven years for the... Read More
Reliance Jio is deploying 5G standalone (SA) networks throughout India. The smartphone ecosystem in India wasn't ready for 5G SA. But the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) had no other choice but to roll out OTA (over-the-air) updates for their 5G devices in India to support the 5G SA of Jio. Jio has hundreds of millions of customers in India, and thus the OEMs can't ignore such a large number of... Read More
Bharti Airtel has been vocal about the need for the industry tariffs to go up. Not just Airtel but also Vodafone Idea (Vi) has said that the current tariffs are unsustainable. Now, Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said that the average revenue per user (ARPU) per month should touch Rs 300. Mittal said that even the ARPU of Rs 300 per month would still be cheap as consumers... Read More
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, believes that 5G will benefit the industrial players the most. This is not a strange notion and something that many already know. 5G is too powerful to serve only the consumer's mobile data and communication needs. It is going to have the most significant positive effects on the enterprises that are in manufacturing, as 5G can potentially help them in automating the production... Read More
5G rollout is happening at a rapid pace in India. But with that, even the 5G phone shipments are growing fast. In 2023, over 75% of the new smartphones introduced in India are expected to be 5G capable. This means that nearly eight devices in every ten would be 5G enabled. According to Menka Kumari, analyst-industry intelligence group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR), the market has come a long way with... Read More
Vodafone Group UK is reportedly looking to sell its remaining stake of 21.05% in the Indus Towers so that it can use the proceeds to fund Vi (Vodafone Idea). Vi is in a desperate situation, and the only way out seems to be for the promoters to infuse additional capital into the company. Instead of adding fresh funds, the Vodafone Group wants to sell its entire stake in Indus Towers... Read More
Nokia recently launched the Nokia T21 tablet in the Indian market. The company said that the tablet is built to last and designed with a tough aluminium body. You can do a lot with this semi-affordable tablet that features a 2K display. Nokia said it would provide the T21 tablet with 2 OS upgrades and 3 years of monthly security updates. It is a tablet that you can use to... Read More
Vodafone Ghana's 70% stake will go to the Telecel Group now that the telecom regulator has given its permission to go ahead with the move. Vodafone International Holdings has received approval from the National Communications Authority (NCA) to transfer a 70% controlling stake in Vodafone Ghana to Telecel Group. It is worth noting that Vodafone paid $900 million to the government of Ghana for a 70% stake in the company.... Read More
MacBook Air with the M1 chip is still a very powerful laptop in 2023. Forget the benchmarks and forget the other new chips that have already come to the market. What's special about M1 is that it would enable an average user to do everything he/she wants to do on their laptop. MacBook Air M1 saw its price increase when Apple launched the new MacBook Air with an M2 chip.... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been one of the top/leading players in the fixed-line broadband market for years in India. The state-run telco is only second to Jio in the wireline segment. After serving the market for years with DSL connections, BSNL started offering fibre broadband services to customers in different regions of India under the brand Bharat Fibre. Now, one of the plans offered by the company, called... Read More
5G services are now reaching users pretty aggressively in different parts of India. Airtel and Jio are both employing different strategies to roll out 5G as fast as possible. While Jio has said that it would reach the entire India with 5G by the end of 2023, Airtel has said that it would do the same by March 2024. Now, state IT Secretary Abhishek Jain has said that 5G would... Read More
WhatsApp, a leading online texting platform used by several hundred million users across the globe, is working to bring a new way to block other people. Blocked users can't send text messages or see the profile picture of the person who has blocked them. The new way through which WhatsApp is reportedly working to enable users to block others is through notifications. Yes, you read that right. Very soon, you... Read More
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