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
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
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Sometimes I wish Airtel would have given more data.
You can get even more speeds if speeds are uncapped. Moto G85 getting 4CA on Vi, constant 3CA on Vi.…
thats nice moto phones have really good network even im getting about 50mbps these days
Bsnl hase give to customers normal modern and other company give him to 5 g moderm
