The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has finally released the monthly performance data of the telcos for the month of April 2022. It is interesting to see that all the private telcos have lost active subscribers during the month. What’s worth noting here is that even Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) lost active users. It is like none of the telcos in the Indian telecom industry added new active... Read More
Bharti Airtel owns one of the most successful Internet service providers (ISPs) in India, called Airtel Xstream Fiber. The company has become the first in India to launch FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) services in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This means that people living in the region can now finally get high-speed, reliable internet speeds from the Airtel Xstream Fiber. K Rajaraman, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), congratulated Airtel on the launch of... Read More
The Indian telecom industry has been in a constant state of survival since Jio has come to the market. The debt levels have been soaring because of liquidity issues that Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) have faced in the past. But since 2021, things have started becoming good for the telecom industry and signs of recovery are there. The improvements can be credited to the higher demand for digital services... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in the country announced that it is bringing the content of Xstream OTT (over-the-top) content platform in Metaverse for the users. The company has launched Xstream Multiplex in the Partynite Metaverse platform. This will be a 20-screen multiplex platform which will offer users access to content from several OTT companies available on the application. With this multiplex, users can get a taste of the... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in the country had a very good Q4 FY22. The telco’s average revenue per user (ARPU) grew to Rs 178 aided by the tariff hike. At the same time, ICICI Securities has said that Airtel’s AGR (adjusted gross revenue) market share has also grown very strongly in nine circles where it had shown a more than 100bps market share gain QoQ in Q4 FY22.... Read More
Bharti Airtel owned over-the-top (OTT) video platform, Airtel Xstream now has more than two million paid users. Airtel Xstream offers users access to content from several different OTT platforms. Users can stream content via Airtel Xstream on both mobile as well as large screens such as TV. Adarsh Nair, CEO of Airtel Digital told PTI that Airtel Xstream is the fastest growing OTT aggregator in India with two million paid... Read More
To comply with the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) rules on offering at least one prepaid plan with a complete month validity, the telcos brought in multiple plans around early 2022. Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vi (Vodafone Idea), and BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) all offer at least or more prepaid plans with one month of validity now. But right now, we will just be looking at prepaid plans... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in the country, offers prepaid plans which are quite similar to what Jio and Vi (Vodafone Idea) offer. Not to imply that Airtel is copying the prepaid plans of other telcos, but the telecom market in India is such that the telcos are offering very similar prepaid plans to the users. But the telcos have also found a way to distinguish their services from... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in the country has brought ‘Smart Missed Call Alerts’ for users. With this feature, users will be able to see the missed call alerts when their SIM is out of network coverage. It is not a unique feature and is something that Jio users already get. Airtel Smart Missed Call alerts will be visible for the users when they go to the Airtel Thanks... Read More
Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are going to need the government at their side when the discussion of private 5G networks comes around. The telcos have demonstrated many use cases around 5G. But the common theme amongst most of these use-cases was that they were built for enterprises. The consumer-focused use cases were rare, and it makes sense because consumers just need to browse the internet, stream... Read More
Bharti Airtel offers three prepaid plans with a year-long validity. If you are looking for a prepaid plan from Airtel at the most affordable price but with 365 days of validity, you can go for the Rs 1799 prepaid plan. Amongst the three year-long validity plans, this one is the most affordable one. Airtel users don’t get any plans with 1.5GB daily data and year-long validity which is a bummer.... Read More
The private telcos in India, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), have been working on 5G for a long-time now. But now, there’s something that threatens all the money spent by the telcos on the R&D (Research and Development) of new products and use-cases relevant to 5G. The government might be considering allocating spectrum to the enterprises in an administrative manner so that they can set up... Read More
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Mmwave and 5G on every band by Jio 5G atleast. Everywhere.
Yes, Airtel has expanded really fast and Airtel fiber service and 4G service is far better than Jio to be…
Vi harming itself by providing 179 recharge to keep validity. In this way it will not survive. I think investors…
Airtel really expanded fiber network across India much faster after Jio Fiber entry. In our Village Airtel brought service first…
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