Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), the top three private telecom operators in India, have had a very constrained journey because of the uneasy policy environment in the telecom sector. However, all that is changing now. The telcos are getting plenty of help from the government, and the policies are evolving to help the sector. Spectrum sharing has been a topic that has not been too focused on.... Read More
Bharti Airtel has an in-house over-the-top (OTT) content platform called Airtel Xstream. The company doesn’t invest in creating original content but facilitates a platform for multiple companies to offer their OTT content. Airtel Xstream will allow users to stream from several platforms through a single log-in. The company offers it for free to the users under Airtel Thanks benefits with several prepaid/postpaid/broadband plans. But customers who don’t have it can... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi), two listed private telecom operators in India have performed well on stock exchanges on Friday close. Both the telcos’ stocks were trading fairly lower compared to where they were a few months back. Bharti Airtel’s stock closed at Rs 671.20 which is 1.67% up from the previous close of Rs 660.20. Airtel’s stock had touched a daily high of Rs 675.70. An uptick of... Read More
Bharti Airtel offers consumers a bundled service called Airtel Black. The purpose of this service is to offer everything that a consumer can take from Airtel under a single package with a single bill. This brings convenience to the feet of the consumers as they don’t need to pay separate bills for different services such as broadband, mobile, and DTH (Direct-to-Home) service. Today, we are going to look at an... Read More
Back in July 2020, Nxtra, the data center business of Bharti Airtel announced that the Carlyle Group will take a 25% stake in the company. At the time, Nxtra was valued at USD $1.2 billion. Now, the stake sale is completed. Carlyle Group has picked up a 24.04% stake in Nxtra Data Limited for Rs 17,880 million. On Wednesday, Airtel said, “We wish to submit that upon conversion of 17.88... Read More
Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) will be very happy with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) after the SUC (Spectrum Usage Charges) order. The telecom department has removed the 3% floor rate on SUC and this would help the telcos in saving a lot of future outflows towards these statutory fees. The telecom operators had recently told DoT that while removing SUC from future spectrum acquired through auctions... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is known as the telco which offers the most affordable tariffs in India. There are many plans that users can take from BSNL, which are also offered by private players for the same price. However, you will notice that the plans from BSNL offer way more benefits than what users get with the same priced plans from the private telecom operators. Let’s take a look... Read More
Bharti Airtel has a series of prepaid plans you can choose from. The interesting thing about the plans from Airtel is that through their price, they try to convey that Airtel is the “premium” player in the market. In simple words, Airtel wants customers who are happy to pay more and boost its revenues. Airtel has three prepaid plans meant for users looking for very long-term options. The thing about... Read More
For a business, it is all about how well you can drive customer engagement. But it can be a costly affair to train a large number of humans manually and then keep them on payroll to sometimes solve a problem that can be done via automatic methods such as chatbots and more. As businesses scale digitally, consumers want solutions at their feet in no time through their smartphones/electronic gadgets. Thus,... Read More
Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), the three private telecom operators in India, have a big challenge in giving satisfactory services to all consumers. There’s a phrase that goes – “You can’t make everyone happy”, and with hundreds of millions of users, it becomes even more relevant for the telcos. The telecom operators are service providers, and all they look to do is provide services better than their... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) offers a Rs 299 prepaid plan just like the private telcos, including Jio, Airtel, and Vi do. However, the thing with private telcos is that they want to maintain their premium over BSNL, and thus the benefits that they offer with their Rs 299 plan are much fewer than what you get with the Rs 299 from BSNL. Post the tariff hikes in 2021, the... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in the country, offers some of the best postpaid plans to users. The telcos have been very vocal about hiking tariffs of mobile services. Until now, they had only hiked tariffs for prepaid plans, but now they are also increasing prices of postpaid plans, at least Bharti Airtel is. A couple of weeks back, Airtel had introduced a new postpaid plan and revised the... Read More
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