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Chakri K October 12th, 2018 4:24 PM 0 COMMENTS

Import Duty Hike on Telecommunication Products Will Add to Industry’s Financial Woes: COAI

The industry body, COAI, today urged that the hike in import duty on telecommunications products would rest in an overall increase in industry's import costs by about 10%, which will add to the already existing financial woes. However, COAI affirmed that telcos are fully aligned to the interest of the nation. The Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) estimates that the industry's imports bill for network equipment stood at about... Read More

Chakri K October 12th, 2018 12:08 PM 15 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Offering Rs 2,000 Cashback for Just Purchasing a New 4G Smartphone

Bharti Airtel has come up with yet another offer this festive season. After providing free Rs 51 Amazon Gift Card to its subscribers, Airtel is now offering Rs 2,000 cashback for literally doing nothing. Yes, you heard it right. This festive season, if you purchase a new 4G smartphone from anywhere and insert your Airtel 4G SIM card on the new smartphone, then you'll get Rs 2,000 cashback from Airtel.... Read More

Chakri K October 12th, 2018 11:00 AM 6 COMMENTS

Video Streaming Experience on 4G Network in India is Poor Says OpenSignal

In the last couple of years, 4G availability in India has seen a stupendous rise, thanks to continuous investments by telecom operators on expanding the infrastructure to compete with each other. However, a new report from OpenSignal claims that Indian users are facing issues while streaming videos online even on a high-speed 4G network. India's mobile operators have been successful in making 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) widely available across... Read More

Chakri K October 12th, 2018 9:33 AM 1 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Silently Revises Rs 179 Prepaid Plan With 39.2GB Data and Unlimited Voice Calling

Tata Docomo users across the country will soon be part of Bharti Airtel's network and most of them are already using services from the latter under ICR agreement. Once the Airtel merger completes, users will be able to recharge via Airtel's website itself, like how Telenor users are now recharging their mobile numbers. But right now, Docomo prepaid users have to recharge on Tata Docomo website itself and the telco... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 5:45 PM 3 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Offering a Total of 135GB Data for 90 Days With its Newly Launched Prepaid Plan

Vodafone Idea is wasting no time in unifying their tariff lineup as Idea Cellular has now rolled out three new prepaid plans offering up to 135GB of data. Notably, these new prepaid plans from Idea Cellular are introduced to match Vodafone's plans. To recall, Vodafone, last month launched three new plans of Rs 209, Rs 479 and Rs 529 offering 1.5GB daily data, and now, Idea has rolled out the... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 2:41 PM 5 COMMENTS

Telcos Propose Slight Changes to eKYC Verification: Check Out the New Procedure

It's already a known that Aadhaar body UIDAI asked telcos to come with a new eKYC method by October 15, following the Supreme Court order last month. The telecom operators along with COAI have reached out Department of Telecommunications (DoT) with a new eKYC verification method as an alternative to the Aadhaar-based verification. Under the latest Supreme Court order, private companies including telcos and banks are not allowed to use... Read More

Chakri K October 10th, 2018 8:48 PM 3 COMMENTS

Trai Seeks Data from Telcos to Analyse Call Set Up Time

One of the major issue faced by Indian telecom subscribers is the call set up time. Aiming to solve the issue, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today revealed that it would ask telcos for the call set up time data from October 1 to bring a solution to the issue. For the unaware, call set up time is the duration taken to connect a call after a user... Read More

Chakri K October 10th, 2018 7:17 PM 16 COMMENTS

8.4 Million Customers in Assam are Now Experiencing Airtel 4G Service

Bharti Airtel today stated the telco is offering 4G services across 15,863 towns and villages in Assam, allowing users to enjoy high-speed data. Airtel, which has over 8.4 million customers in Assam alone recently announced network expansion to further enhance the network. Furthermore, as part of its acquisition of Telenor India's operations, Airtel has added 6 MHz of spectrum in 1800 MHz band to its portfolio in Assam. This move... Read More

Arpit Sharma October 10th, 2018 6:04 PM 0 COMMENTS

MTNL to Release Tender for Equipment as Telco Ramps Up Plans of 4G Launch

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), the government led telco which is running operations in Delhi and Mumbai plans to roll out 4G services with the help of Rs 6,292 crore capital issuance from the government. For the rollout of 4th generation network services, the telco will also soon release a tender for searching a vendor partner. MTNL has planned that it would relay its 4G services in the 1800 Mhz... Read More

Chakri K October 10th, 2018 9:33 AM 1 COMMENTS

Vodafone Makes Postpaid Plans Affordable by 20% for Apple iPhone Users

Vodafone India is aiming to increase its postpaid user base by offering 20% discount to users who purchase the Apple iPhone XS and XS Max through its website. Same as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone is also selling the new iPhones on its website (in partnership with Servifiy). A customer will receive get a 20% rental discount on RED/RED4Business postpaid plans priced above Rs 499 for 12 billing cycles. Furthermore, the telco... Read More

Chakri K October 9th, 2018 8:23 PM 11 COMMENTS

JioTV Users Can Now Watch 37 Live TV Channels of ZEE

One of the established content players in India, ZEE Entertainment, today inked a deal with telecom operator Reliance Jio to make all its content portfolio available on Jio's applications. As part of this partnership, ZEE's 37 Live TV channels will be available for JioTV users and ZEE5's varied content including ZEE5 Originals, Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, Lifestyle Shows, Kids Shows and Plays, will be available through the JioCinema application.... Read More

Chakri K October 9th, 2018 6:17 PM 8 COMMENTS

BSNL Places Bets on Rs 299 Unlimited Postpaid Plan to Rack Up New Subscribers

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the state-owned telecom operator has launched a new Rs 299 plan to counter the competition being raised by the private carriers. The government led operator, however, has made this plan available only to the new users of BSNL. This means that only the subscribers who decide to get on the BSNL network will be eligible for this offer. As part of this offer, BSNL is shipping... Read More