Competition for providing the best-prepaid plans at the lowest cost possible is at an all-time high between the Indian telecom operators. While most of the prepaid plans from Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Airtel fall on the more expensive end when compared with Jio; there are prepaid plans which come for the same cost and almost provide similar benefits. One such plan is the Rs 399 offering. Jio, Airtel, and Vi... Read More
The 4G spectrum auction will take place in March 2021 in India. It has been delayed a long time, but the formal process for the auction has been kicked off by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). DoT has started issuing notice inviting applications (NIA) to the operators. The NIA comprises of all the license conditions and rules regarding the auction. In the upcoming 4G spectrum sale, Jio will largely look... Read More
Prepaid plans come with varied validity periods. There are plans which come with a validity of as low as 2 days and as high as 365 days ( or 1-year). Reliance Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), the three major telecom operators of the country offer prepaid plans which carry a validity of 56 days. Today, we are focusing on such plans only. These plans come with unique data benefits... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi) started offering users double data offer with its prepaid plans a while back. Since then the telco has extended the offer to multiple prepaid plans and also removed it from some. At present, VI users can get this offer on three plans: Rs 299, Rs 449, and Rs 699. Today, we will be focusing on the Rs 699 plan specifically, and we are going to analyse if... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi) is offering extra data to its users with the Rs 1,499 prepaid plan. The telco is providing users with 50GB of additional data on top of the existing data the plan provides. However, it might be possible that this benefit is limited or restricted to specific Vi users. This is because, on verification of the offer, multiple users couldn’t spot it, but a TelecomTalk member could see... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Bharti Airtel might be relieved from paying penalties worth Rs 3,050 crore. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) might reject the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) recommendation for charging telcos with Rs 3,050 crore for not giving Reliance Jio points of interconnection when it started operating back in 2016. As per a report from the Financial Express, telcos might be saved from paying this penalty given... Read More
Telecom operators offer 4G data vouchers on top of unlimited voice and data plans to the users. These vouchers are for subscribers who exhaust their daily fair usage policy (FUP) data; they can still browse the internet at a high-speed. Airtel, Jio, Vodafone Idea (Vi), and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) all provide their users with multiple 4G data vouchers ranging up to more than Rs 1,000 in price. Today,... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) have finally submitted all the details of the segmented offers to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Yesterday, we reported that the telcos have asked for extra time from the regulator to comply with its order. But apparently, both the telcos have submitted the segmented offer details which are now being examined by Trai. For the unaware, the regulator asked Airtel and Vi... Read More
A couple of days back, an order was issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) asking them to submit all the details regarding the segmented offers provided to the users within a limited number of days. The last date for the telcos as per the Trai order was December 20, 2020. Today is December 24, 2020, and the telcos haven’t submitted... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi) provides its users with a ‘Double Data Offer’. No other operator in the Indian telecom space provides the users with such an offer. For the unaware, under the Double Data Offer, the daily data which the user is supposed to receive doubles in amount. For example, if the user purchases a plan with which he/she is supposed to get 1.5GB daily data and if the plan comes... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi) has just announced its partnership with Firework, deemed as the world’s largest short story publishing platform. It is a strategic partnership between both the companies aimed to deliver quick entertainment to the users in India. Vi is looking to entertain its users in 30 seconds with the help of short, quirky videos present in the platform of Firework. Firework is a story publishing platform based out of... Read More
ZEE5 is one of the biggest over-the-top (OTT) content platforms in India. Users in the country can get it free with select prepaid plans. Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Airtel are the only two telecom operators in India which offer a free ZEE5 subscription with their plan to the users. It is worth noting that Bharti Airtel offers the ZEE5 with only one of its prepaid plans. However, Vi offers it... Read More
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