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Tanay Singh Thakur April 5th, 2021 7:02 AM 0 COMMENTS

Excitel 200 Mbps Broadband Plan One of the Cheapest in India

Excitel has very rapidly become a major fiber broadband internet service provider (ISP) of India. The company started providing services at select locations initially and now has expanded across multiple cities of India. What sets Excitel truly apart from other broadband service providers is its cheap plans. Excitel offers some of the cheapest internet plans in the broadband market of India. For example, one could get the 300 Mbps plan... Read More

Sonali Rauthan April 4th, 2021 8:00 PM 0 COMMENTS

Broadband Expansion Plans of USA Entails $100 Billion Investment

The service cost for the broadband networks in the USA has skyrocketed compared to many other wealthy nations in and around the west. The fact that it doesn't reach the tens of millions of Americans makes it even worse. The companies that can provide services vastly do not face much competition and enjoy monopoly making the prices go even higher. A report by AP said the newly elected president of... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur April 4th, 2021 6:14 PM 23 COMMENTS

BSNL Bharat Fibre Discontinues Multiple Broadband Plans

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has its own arm of fiber internet services called ‘Bharat Fibre’. The broadband internet service provider (ISP) has discontinued several fiber plans starting today. BSNL started by offering four fiber plans on October 1, 2020. The four plans that launched initially were - Fibre Basic, Fibre Value, Fibre Premium, and Fibre Ultra. During the period, multiple new plans were added and several were removed from... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur April 4th, 2021 4:00 PM 13 COMMENTS

TRAI Aiming to Enhance Prepaid and Postpaid Plans for Customers: Report

There are a ton of prepaid and postpaid plans on offer from the telecom service providers (TSPs) in India. Multiple plans from either of the telcos fall in the same or nearby price range and offer similar benefits. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) might soon conduct a survey seeking the answers for a perfect tariff plan. What would be a perfect tariff plan anyway? One that fulfils the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur April 4th, 2021 1:00 PM 61 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Provides Industry Unique Offers, Yet Behind Jio and Airtel

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has been losing out on subscribers every month since October 2019. In March, Vi investors found temporary relief when the Trai report said the company added 1.7 million customers in January 2021. But Vi clarified that it had made ‘inadvertent errors’ while submitting the numbers to the regulator. From the correct numbers, it was found that instead of adding subscribers, Vi lost 2.3 million of them. What’s... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur April 4th, 2021 7:02 AM 5 COMMENTS

Airtel, Vodafone Idea, BSNL and Jio Will All Target Homegrown 5G

The last few years have changed the trend of the telecom market completely. If you notice, several countries, including India, are shifting towards homegrown technology because of security concerns. India’s only four operators, Airtel, Vodafone Idea (Vi), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and Reliance Jio, are also expected to integrate more homegrown technology into their upcoming 5G networks. Jio and Airtel are pretty vocal about the same. Jio has said... Read More

Sonali Rauthan April 3rd, 2021 9:00 PM 8 COMMENTS

Google might Launch their first-ever chip named “Whitechapel”: Details

Google Pixel 6 is expected to debut sometime in October this year. Last year, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company would be making significant investments in its hardware during the Q3 2020 earnings call. He further said that the company had planned a great roadmap up till 2021. Many started suspecting that the company might be working on its processor called "Whitechapel" from that point on. A report... Read More

Sonali Rauthan April 3rd, 2021 7:55 PM 0 COMMENTS

Safaricom Begins Trials to Launch 5G in East Africa

Safaricom is known as Kenya's biggest telco. It has recently announced that it will begin trials for the 5G internet and the technology used will be acquired from Huawei and Nokia. According to a report by 5gradar, it was announced on Friday that four cities were given priority for the trials namely Nairobi, Kisumu, Kissi and Kakamega. The trials however will eventually be expanded to 150 sites, including in 9... Read More

Karan Sharma April 3rd, 2021 6:14 PM 12 COMMENTS

DoT Gave Reliance Jio New MSC Code, Details

Reliance Jio is the largest telecom operator in India. The telco entered the Indian telecom industry back in 2016 and right after its launch disrupted the entire market. The company has increased the competition by offering internet services at affordable prices and also become the reason for packing bags for some of the competitors. In the latest development, the telco has received a fresh ACCESS-MSC code from the Department of... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur April 3rd, 2021 4:00 PM 9 COMMENTS

5G mmWave is 30x More Faster than Public Wi-Fi: Opensignal

Yes, it is not surprising that mmWave 5G is better than public Wi-Fi because we know that even 4G can beat public Wi-Fi. But here is where things get interesting when it comes to mmWave 5G and public Wi-Fi spots. Both require the same kind of availability to provide a good connection to the users. For operators to provide seamless mmWave 5G services, they will have to cover a whole... Read More

Karan Sharma April 3rd, 2021 1:38 PM 5 COMMENTS

Jio Can Boost Subscriber Addition With Low-Cost Smartphones

Jio is planning to launch new low-cost smartphones in India, which might help the telco regain subscriber momentum. According to JM Financial's note, the recent delay in tariff hike is not going to affect the long-term structural uptrend story in Jio's average revenue per user (ARPU). As per a PTI report, Jio’s aggressive strategy for affordable smartphones is going to boost its subscriber base in the country. Jio Affordable Smartphone... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur April 3rd, 2021 11:40 AM 4 COMMENTS

BSNL Faces Accusations from TEPC Yet Again: Report

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) journey has been one of a roller coaster ride in the last few years. The state-run telco is restricted by other government bodies whenever it tries to do something new or expand its business. The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC) and the Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association of India (TEMA) have called out BSNL’s Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI) project tender to be focused only... Read More