Indian telecom operators opted for tariff hikes of the prepaid plans back in November of 2021. Now the social media giant Facebook has revealed that the prepaid data hike by Indian telecom operators has adversely affected the overall growth of Facebook in India in the fourth quarter of 2021. The data has been revealed by the company itself as Meta CEO Dave Wehner said in a statement that company quarterly... Read More
Bharti Airtel offers multiple recharge plans with 28 days of validity. But not every plan comes with substantial data and is affordable too. There are select plans offered by the telco which come with a decent amount of data as well as a short validity of 28 days and are affordable. The plans that we are talking about are priced at Rs 265 and Rs 299. Let’s see what these... Read More
Airtel Xstream is an over-the-top (OTT) platform developed by Bharti Airtel and offered to the telco’s users with Airtel Thanks. To access the content inside the app, users need to purchase subscriptions either to standalone platforms such as SonyLIV, Lionsgate Play, and more, or the users can go for the Airtel Xstream Premium plan. For the unaware, the Airtel Xstream Premium plan is a bundled OTT service just like the... Read More
The telecom operators in the country offer both prepaid plans and postpaid plans for their users across the country. While the prepaid plans help keep your budget in check, the postpaid plan comes with added benefits and bundled subscriptions one cannot overlook. However, the telcos also offer affordable postpaid plans that offer a good amount of data at cheaper price tags. Moreover, telcos offer postpaid plans for both individual users... Read More
Bharti Airtel lowest recharge plan for 2022 comes for Rs 99. After the prepaid tariff hikes, the Rs 79 plan’s price was increased to Rs 99. With this plan, users get 200MB of data, Rs 99 worth of talktime, tariff calls at 1 paise per second, and SMS at Rs 1 for local texts and Rs 1.5 for STD texts. The Rs 99 plan comes with a total validity of... Read More
Telecom operators in India provide a variety of prepaid plans for their subscribers to choose from. Users get the option to either go for the cost-effective daily data plans that offer adequate data or to opt for high-end prepaid plans that offer more data every day. These high-end prepaid plans are optimum for users who are looking for more daily data in their prepaid plans. Mentioned below are the top... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telco in India, has acquired a 25% stake in Lavelle Networks, an SD-WAN based startup. Lavelle Networks is a Bengaluru based company, and the agreement between both companies are subject to regulatory approvals. Lavelle Networks specialises in Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions, and the home-grown company already serves a range of industry segments. Thousands of Indian enterprises have been connected by Lavelle Networks to the... Read More
Even though Google has invested much lesser in Bharti Airtel as compared to Reliance Jio, the former will be able to give a strong competition to Reliance Jio’s affordable 4G device namely ‘JioPhoneNext’, said ICICI Securities in a note. The purpose of Google’s investment in both Jio and Airtel is different. With Airtel, the partnership with the search engine giant will focus on these key areas: 1) making the 4G... Read More
On Friday, Google and Airtel said in a joint statement that the former is going to invest up to $1 billion in the latter. Against the first $700 million, Google will get an equity stake of 1.28% in the telco, subject to regulatory approvals. A quick thought must have popped into the minds of everyone aware about the Google and Jio deal that this partnership with Airtel might bring conflict... Read More
The three private telecom operators of India – Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel provide a ton of prepaid plans for their subscriber base. The most popular prepaid plan, however, remains the daily data packs offered by the telcos. The daily data packs have a wide range from high data expensive plans to low data-offering affordable plans. Mentioned below are the cheapest daily data packs offered by – Reliance... Read More
Tech-giant Google partners with Indian telecommunications behemoth Bharti Airtel for creating new and innovative business models that would help grow the Android ecosystem in India. The partnership is a part of Google’s initiative ‘Google for India Digitization Fund’ announced in 2020. Under the partnership, Google plans to invest $1 billion, which includes an investment of $700 million to acquire 1.28% ownership in Airtel (an equity investment) and up to $300... Read More
Bharti Airtel has multiple subsidiary companies in India operating different businesses. What’s great for the company is that its multiple subsidiaries are valued above $1 billion. Gopal Vittal, Chief Executive, Airtel, said, “As stand-alone businesses, Airtel Payments bank, Nxtra, Wynk, Airtel Ads and Airtel IQ would comfortably add five more Unicorns to India’s tally of 83.” Wynk Music is Airtel’s own music application available for both Android as well iOS... Read More
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What kind of logic is this? Band 28 is exclusively used for coverage and not for speeds. They have mmwave…
Band 28 is just for VoNR and coverage. There is no other usage. Inside home, 20-50Mbps on an average. ARPU…
This is not going to happen. Vi is empty network everywhere now. 33 crore to less than 20 crore within…
where are the plans?no details , whats new whats changed?
Vi should decrease the tariff somewhere near to Jio's. So it can grab users from Airtel and Jio.
