Tata Sky is probably the go-to DTH operator for customers who're looking for a new DTH connection right now. However, other DTH operators like Airtel Digital TV, Dish TV, D2h and Sun Direct are trying their best to compete with Tata Sky in every aspect. Dish TV, which has been in the news this week over its merger with Bharti Airtel is one such operator which is competing with Tata... Read More
With the increasingly attractive offerings from broadband service providers in the country, there is a high chance you are already thinking of going for the best broadband service provider for your home or office connection. There are obviously some big names in the field like Airtel and ACT Fibernet, but if you are thinking of going for broadband plans which offer unlimited data, then there is another service provider that... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been making numerous consumer centric moves in the market lately to lure the subscribers. To do that, the operator has been launching new offers, content offerings, free subscriptions to services and what not. But, in a new move, BSNL has introduced a step that a lot of its subscribers might not like. The government led telecom operator has announced in a new move that... Read More
A lot of factors in the telecom industry have led to the rise of the OTT economy in India. While Reliance Jio has fuelled the massive data volume consumption in India, other content players like Netflix, Hotstar, ZEE5, Amazon Prime Video and others have arrived with an enormous library of video content to satiate the users’ needs of good movies and TV shows. As a result, people are consuming video... Read More
State-run telcos BSNL and MTNL are reeling under losses right now and there have been merger talks going on for a while now. However, government officials denied the merger of BSNL and MTNL in the past even though reports suggested that merger talks are going on internally. According to a new report, the government is planning to merge both the telcos under the upcoming revival package. For the unaware, the... Read More
The merger of two of the biggest companies in the telecom space led to the making of Vodafone Idea, but even now the company exits in its two verticals with the network of both of these companies being integrated in the background. One of the closest rivals of Vodafone Idea is Bharti Airtel, and the latter has been betting big on its new offers to lure in customers. Now in... Read More
For the first time in the past 17 months, India’s broadband subscriber growth has seen a slump. For two consecutive months, the growth in broadband subscribers was less than 1 crore. This news comes from the latest data shared by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). As per the data published by Trai, the broadband subscribers grew by 0.956 crore or 1.7% month-on-month (m-o-m) in May 2019 whereas this... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the state-led telecom operator, has done something which it has never previously done before on the consumer front. The telecom operator has been making some pretty bold moves coining them as consumer-centric decisions for the good of the company. However, for the first time, BSNL is bringing membership programme for its customers. It is worth noting that private telecom operators like Bharti Airtel already have a... Read More
Reliance Jio has dethroned Bharti Airtel to become the country's second-largest telecom service provider by subscriber base. Since its inception back in 2016, Reliance Jio amassed 331.6 million customers and that too in less than three years, something no other telecom operator has achieved in the past. Although Jio increased its subscriber base, the ARPU of the company has gone down from Rs 126 to Rs 122 in Q1 FY20.... Read More
The three telecom operators have been at war ever since the wave of consolidation has left three heads to the industry. While Reliance Jio has a totally different strategy, Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel are fighting a different war for average revenue per user (ARPU). While Bharti Airtel has made back to back moves in the prepaid and postpaid segment, the latter is also betting on Vodafone postpaid and prepaid... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm, which is now the second-largest telecom operator in India, today posted its results of Q1 FY20. During the quarter that ended on June 30, 2019, Reliance Jio has added a whopping 24.5 million subscribers during the single quarter and its overall user base now stands at 331.3 million. This is the only quarter since Jio's inception where the company added less than 25 million new subscribers. Even... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) which publishes various reports on the telecom industry has now compiled the subscription data for the sector. The Trai report on subscriber base has noted that the total telephone subscribers in the country currently stands at 1185.15 million. Out of these total telephone subscribers, Trai noted, 1161.86 are wireless subscribers, whereas the rest of 21.29 million subscribers are wireline subscribers. Trai has also... Read More
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What kind of logic is this? Band 28 is exclusively used for coverage and not for speeds. They have mmwave…
Band 28 is just for VoNR and coverage. There is no other usage. Inside home, 20-50Mbps on an average. ARPU…
This is not going to happen. Vi is empty network everywhere now. 33 crore to less than 20 crore within…
where are the plans?no details , whats new whats changed?
Vi should decrease the tariff somewhere near to Jio's. So it can grab users from Airtel and Jio.
