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Chakri K June 30th, 2021 5:32 PM 21 COMMENTS

900 MHz Deployment by Airtel Will Improve Indoor Coverage in This State

Bharti Airtel, today said that it has upgraded its mobile network in Himachal Pradesh to deliver the best indoor network experience for its customers by deploying 9.6 MHz in 900 MHz spectrum band for high-speed data services. The high propagation and reach of 900 MHz spectrum enables wider network availability and improved data speeds along with better coverage inside homes and buildings in urban and rural areas. This upgrade complements... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 30th, 2021 11:21 AM 14 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Revising Postpaid Plans, Will Offer More Data

Bharti Airtel is soon going to revise its postpaid plans’ benefits and prices. The change won’t affect every plan, but only the select ones. Industry sources told TelecomTalk that Airtel will be increasing the price of its add-on postpaid SIM plan for inviting a family member and the benefits of one of its popular family postpaid plans. The plans in concern here are the Rs 249 and the Rs 999... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 30th, 2021 10:07 AM 2 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Gearing Up for 5G With Ciena

Bharti Airtel is working with Ciena to upgrade its networks to prepare for the arrival of 5G in India. The telco has recently deployed Ciena’s 600G and 800G photonic solutions in multiple metro cities of India, including Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Delhi. This will help the operator in increasing the overall fiber optic network capacity by up to 3 times. Thus, once 5G networks are commercially live, the increased capacity... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 29th, 2021 12:40 PM 8 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Upgrades Network Performance in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Bharti Airtel has been radically upgrading its 4G networks across the country. Now the telco has deployed additional spectrum in two states, namely Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. For the deployment, the telco has leveraged L900 technology which will help with boosting the indoor network coverage for the users. The telco has upgraded a total of 10,000 sites across the two states to enhance its 4G coverage and network performance. Bharti... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 28th, 2021 12:28 PM 29 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Upgrades Network Services in UP East

Bharti Airtel has just deployed additional spectrum in the Uttar Pradesh (East) circle. With this move, the telco’s network services in the region are expected to get a good boost. The second-largest telco in the country has deployed 28.2 MHz of additional spectrum in the circle. The additional spectrum has been deployed across several frequency bands. With the recent move, Airtel now has the largest spectrum bank in the circle.... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 27th, 2021 7:01 AM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel or Jio, Who Offers Better 1.5GB Daily Data Plan Under Rs 500

Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are the two top telecom operators of the country. They compete very aggressively with their plans, but at the end of the day, have a different approach to targeting customers. Jio wants to push its subscriber count up as fast as possible, while Airtel wants more of high average revenue per user (ARPU) customers. One of the most sought after plans by Indian customers is... Read More

Shloke Sarkar June 24th, 2021 6:34 PM 46 COMMENTS

Airtel Welcomes Budget Jio 4G Device

Reliance Jio, India's top telco on Thursday announced that it would be working on a low-cost 4G smartphone in a collaboration with famed smartphone UI maker Google, the ones responsible for Android. Jio has touted it to be the next biggest thing and aims for it to bridge the gap between people using smartphones and feature phones by providing them with a cheap medium of transferring to the latter. What... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 24th, 2021 11:03 AM 39 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Here to Stay, Mittal’s Comments Not a Threat: Opinion

Sunil Bharti Mittal has repeatedly said that it would be tragic if India’s telecom market is reduced to two private players. While Mittal has a lot of experience inside the telecom industry and his insights are valuable, his mention of India becoming a two private telecom operators nation is largely speculation and unrealistic at the moment. Mittal has indirectly taken a dig at the struggling Vodafone Idea (Vi) and said... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 23rd, 2021 12:18 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel Appoints Amrita Padda as Chief People Officer

Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, has appointed Amrita Padda as the Chief People Officer (CPO). As per a statement from the company, Padda will report directly to the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Operating Officer (CEO) of Bharti Airtel, Gopal Vittal. Amrita Padda will be responsible for handling Airtel’s People strategy as the company makes its shift towards digital services. Amrita Will Add Immense Value to the Company: Gopal... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 22nd, 2021 2:49 PM 32 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Now Offering More Data, Validity With Prepaid Plans

When Reliance Jio introduced new prepaid plans with no daily data consumption limits, it was very predictable that Bharti Airtel won’t sit quietly. A few days back, Airtel announced its Rs 456 prepaid plan for the users. This plan is a new offering from the company, which too doesn’t come with any daily data consumption limit. Now, Airtel has changed the benefits of its multiple prepaid plans. The telco has... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 22nd, 2021 7:02 AM 5 COMMENTS

Airtel Xstream Fiber Plans Better than BSNL’s Plans

Bharti Airtel and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) are two of the top companies in India when it comes to providing fiber broadband services in India. Both the companies have been a part of the Indian ecosystem for a long-time and thus understand the market and its expectations fairly well. Because of this, both Airtel and BSNL offer fiber broadband plans to the users which are almost priced the same.... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 21st, 2021 5:13 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Will Counter Jio’s Homegrown 5G With Tata’s Indigenous O-RAN Solutions in India

Bharti Airtel just announced that it is strategically partnering with Tata Group for implementing 5G network solutions in India. Tata Group has a ‘state-of-the-art’ Open-RAN based Radio and NSA/SA Core with an integrated indigenous telecom stack in its portfolio of 5G solutions. The 5G solutions of the Tata Group will be available for deployment from January 2022. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global IT firm, one of the successful units... Read More