September 26th, 2019 4:55 PM 9 COMMENTS

Vodafone All Rounder Packs Do Exactly What the Name Suggests: Check Details

Vodafone subscribers, you might have heard about data packs, talk time packs, and unlimited packs while you decided to recharge your Vodafone number. However, chances are less that you might have heard about something known as ‘All Rounder Packs’ and even if you have heard about them, the name is intriguing enough to incite curiosity about what these packs actually do. The simple answer lies in the name itself. The... Read More

September 26th, 2019 1:41 PM 14 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Says VoLTE Is the Reason for Its Lower Network Costs, Not Accounting Practices

When the issue of Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) came up, the Sunil Bharti Mittal led telecom operator, Bharti Airtel alleged that the network cost incurred by Reliance Jio is lower because of its different accounting practices. Now in a new update, as reported by ET Telecom, Reliance Jio has rejected the allegation saying that the network costs are lower for the telco because of the technology that it uses and not... Read More

September 23rd, 2019 3:42 PM 4 COMMENTS

Telcos Clash in Again as Trai Issues New Consultation Paper on Review of Interconnect Usage Charges

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has lately issued a new consultation paper on the review of Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC). The IUC is defined as the cost that a mobile operator pays to another operator for carrying through or terminating a call. For example, if you call from one mobile network to another mobile network, then the first operator will pay a charge to the second operator for... Read More

September 22nd, 2019 1:58 PM 2 COMMENTS

Daily Data Plans, Hotstar Membership and Other Different Things BSNL is Doing in Broadband Sector

BSNL is the leading wired broadband operator in the country with over 10 million subscribers under its belt. However, with the launch of JioFiber, the company may probably lose its market share slowly as the Mukesh Ambani-owned company is aiming for 15 million subscribers in the next one year. BSNL is providing some unique benefits with its broadband plans. For example, BSNL has some broadband plans with a daily data... Read More

September 20th, 2019 10:59 AM 2 COMMENTS

Vodafone Rs 399 RED Basic Postpaid Plan No Longer Offers Amazon Prime Membership

Vodafone India has made a change to its RED Basic postpaid plan of Rs 399 and it no longer ships with free Amazon Prime membership. Vodafone announced its partnership with Amazon India last year to offer Amazon Prime subscription worth Rs 999 at no extra cost to its postpaid customers on plans above Rs 399. However, with the company's ARPU falling on a constant basis, Vodafone was said to remove... Read More

September 19th, 2019 7:57 PM 12 COMMENTS

JioPostpaid Plus to Offer Data Sharing Functionality, But is it Too Late?

Reliance Jio will be introducing a new service for postpaid users in the coming days called JioPostpaid Plus. As the same itself suggests, JioPostpaid Plus will be a premium version of the JioPostpaid service that was introduced by Reliance Jio last year. However, JioPostpaid failed to impress the audience because it has only one plan under its portfolio priced at Rs 199 and the benefits were lukewarm compared to the... Read More

September 19th, 2019 1:34 PM 2 COMMENTS

Nextra Broadband Offering Speeds Up to 200 Mbps Under Rs 2,000 Monthly Rental

There was a time when finding broadband plans with unlimited data was a hard task for interested subscribers. If you were a heavy data consumer and you wanted a broadband plan for your internet needs, chances were that you’d have to get a data add-on pack from your internet service provider. However, that is no longer the case. The coming of Reliance JioFiber has upped the stakes in the broadband... Read More

September 19th, 2019 9:05 AM 14 COMMENTS

3GB Daily Data Prepaid Plans from Telcos Start at Rs 299: Jio Still Has the Pricing Edge

Telecom operators are bundling more data benefit with their prepaid plans to the customers. Very recently, we detailed the Rs 299 prepaid plans from the telcos, but for the users who're looking for a slightly better data plan, telcos have the 3GB daily data plans. Reliance Jio has the Rs 299 plan, which is providing 3GB daily data for a period of 28 days. On the other hand, Bharti Airtel... Read More

September 18th, 2019 3:57 PM 19 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio and BSNL are the Only Telcos to Add New Subscribers in July 2019: Trai Data

Reliance Jio added a whopping 8.5 million new subscribers in July 2019, according to the data released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Besides Reliance Jio, government-owned BSNL is the only telco to add new subscribers as other top telcos- Airtel and Vodafone Idea lost close to six million subscribers combinedly. The Trai data also reveals that Vodafone Idea Limited is still the leading telecom operator in the country... Read More

September 18th, 2019 12:27 PM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to Lose Out on Potential Revenue Because of IUC Scrapping

Going by the voice minutes, the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm, has soared ahead of other telcos Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, thus amassing the most share. As per a new ET Telecom report, the Reliance Jio now has a share of 36% voice minutes, as compared to Bharti Airtel which has 33.5% and Vodafone Idea which has 30.7% share. This re-ranking of the telecom operators means... Read More

September 17th, 2019 4:00 PM 2 COMMENTS

You Broadband Starts Providing Fixed-Line Voice Calling Service to Counter JioFiber

Vodafone-owned You Broadband has started providing fixed-line voice calling service to the customers in select cities. You Broadband has made this move to counter Reliance JioFiber whose broadband plans start at Rs 699 and they also come with landline voice calling service. You Broadband has its presence across 18 cities in the country, but the Internet Service Provider (ISP) has launched fixed-line voice services in only eight cities at the... Read More

September 13th, 2019 2:46 PM 0 COMMENTS

Siti Broadband Customers to Get ZEE5 Subscription as Value-Added Service

Siti Broadband has teamed up with OTT content platform ZEE5 today. As part of this partnership, Siti Broadband customers to get the premium content of ZEE5 as value-added service. Siti Broadband customers on 100 Mbps broadband plan will get one month of free ZEE5 premium subscription, whereas other broadband plan users will get the subscription at discounted rates. Right now, broadband players are aggressively partnering with OTT content providers to... Read More

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