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Bala Yogesh October 22nd, 2020 2:27 PM 46 COMMENTS

India Among Lowest Ranked Countries for Mobile Internet Speeds: Ookla

India has dropped two places on the Speedtest Global Index for mobile in September while the country gained two places on the Index for the fixed broadband segment, Ookla highlighted on Tuesday. The company behind the Speedtest platform released its Speedtest Global Index for September with South Korea and Singapore topping the index for mobile and fixed broadband segments respectively. Ookla said that South Korea registered an average download speed... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 22nd, 2020 12:41 PM 0 COMMENTS

Zee5 Ties up with Meghbela Broadband, Select users to Receive Access for No Additional Cost

Zee5, a Over-the-Top (OTT) platform on Thursday announced that it has partnered with Meghbela Broadband in a bid to expand its distribution ecosystem. The company said that its platform has witnessed over three times growth in its user base as the users “are now looking at entertainment beyond the traditional Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Cable TV. Zee5 said that it has been “working very closely” with internet service providers across India... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 22nd, 2020 11:22 AM 6 COMMENTS

Truecaller Unveils Call Reason Feature on Users Demand

Truecaller, a mobile application that enables users to identify and block calls on Wednesday unveiled Call Reason feature. The company said that its latest addition to its platform, the Call Reason feature will let users know why someone is calling them with Truecaller highlighting its new addition as a “game-changer.” The Call Reason feature is said to be available only for Truecaller users on Android with the feature said to... Read More

Chakri K October 22nd, 2020 8:55 AM 106 COMMENTS

Carrier Aggregation in Indian Telecom Networks

Carrier Aggregation (CA), a feature of LTE Advanced enables telecom operators and devices to combine two or more Long Term Evolution (LTE) carriers into a single data channel. The CA enables telecom operators to enhance the capacity of the data rates and the entire network by capitalising on fragmented spectrum allocations. The operators can apply the LTE Advanced feature either on their LTE Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) variant or on... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 22nd, 2020 7:04 AM 1 COMMENTS

ACT Fibernet Enable Users to Subscribe to Five Streaming Apps

ACT Fibernet enables its users to get subscriptions of up to five over-the-top (OTT) content streaming platforms. Netflix has been a part of the internet service provider’s (ISP) plans for a long time now. But now apart from Netflix, there are four other OTT platforms subscriptions on offer. The other four platforms include Sony Liv, Aha, ZEE5 Premium, and Hungama. The good thing is that users purchasing broadband plans from... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 21st, 2020 9:20 PM 33 COMMENTS

JioPages Mobile Browser for Android Launched With 8 Regional Languages Support

Reliance Jio has just announced JioPages, a new web browser completely developed in India. The new browsing app is built on the powerful Chromium Blink engine which will ensure a faster experience for the user. It is completely conceptualised and designed within India. JioPages will offer users best-in-class webpage rendering, efficient media streaming, and an encrypted connection amongst other things. One thing that you should note is that JioPages is... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 21st, 2020 7:54 PM 1 COMMENTS

BSNL Enhances STV 135 Voucher, Users to Get Additional Minutes

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Chennai circle on Wednesday announced on its Twitter account that the special tariff voucher (STV) 135 will come with increased talktime for the users. Until now, for Rs 135, BSNL users got 300 minutes of talktime to any network including local and STD calls with this voucher. It came with a validity of 24 days. After the rationalisation, the benefits of this plan will change... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 21st, 2020 5:55 PM 17 COMMENTS

Are You Utilising Your Broadband Connection to its Full Potential

The internet has become the oxygen of communication, business, and entertainment for the world. Without the internet, even for a day, many would feel that the whole planet would come to a stop. Since the time COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, people have been relying on their broadband internet connections more than ever. They need it to study and do their work from home. But is it all that a... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 21st, 2020 3:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio STBs Set to Integrate Netflix App, Indian Users to Receive Free Access

Netflix, the American streaming company on Tuesday said that it will be providing “everyone” in India a complimentary access to its services “for a weekend.” The development was shared by Gregory Peters, chief operating officer and chief product officer at Netflix in its third quarter earnings call. Peters said that the company hopes to “create an event” and “get a bunch” of people to sign up for its services. Netflix... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 21st, 2020 1:29 PM 0 COMMENTS

ACT Fibernet Streamlines Broadband Plans, Second Revamp in One Month

ACT Fibernet, the third-largest wired broadband service provider in India has revamped its broadband plans in Delhi for the second time in one month. The operator on Tuesday updated its web portals with ACT Fibernet now listing only three plans to its users in the region. The third-largest wired broadband service provider in India had earlier listed six plans to its users in Delhi. In late September, the operator had... Read More

Bala Yogesh October 21st, 2020 11:58 AM 80 COMMENTS

Multiple Fibre Cuts Pull Down Vi Network in Southern Region, Services Restored

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest wireless operator in India restored its services in Kerala late Tuesday after “multiple fibre cuts” resulted in the disruption of its network in the region. According to multiple Vi users on Twitter, there was a network outage on Tuesday between 4 pm to 6 pm. Further, select Vi users have also highlighted that it was the “second time” that they faced the network outage in... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 21st, 2020 10:18 AM 1 COMMENTS

Realme 7 Pro Receives October 2020 Android Security Patch

Realme launched its Realme 7 Pro in early September in India. Now the smartphone manufacturer has rolled out the October 2020 Android security patch for the Realme 7 Pro users in India. It is an over-the-air (OTA) update which is said to bring a number of improvements to the device. There are camera optimisations included in the update along with a fix for issues relating to the fingerprint unlocking and... Read More