June 8th, 2019 8:18 PM 26 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Likely to Change the Indian DTH Industry Scene With the Launch of GigaTV and GigaFiber

Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator, Reliance Jio has been credited with much of what has happened in the last two years in the telecom industry. The telecom operator had brought the data tariff war to the Indian telecom turf and has competed with the likes of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and started a wave of consolidation too. On the back of all this, Reliance Jio has witnessed a lot of... Read More

June 7th, 2019 5:45 PM 0 COMMENTS

D2h Offering 30% Discount and One Month of Free Service to Subscribers: Here’s How to Avail

During the Indian Premier League (IPL), the telecom operators and DTH service providers leveraged the people’s excitement to launch exciting offers for the public. The DTH providers saw extreme viewership and fully made use of public enthusiasm. However, this year, IPL isn’t the only cricket season, and we still have the ICC World Cup to go. Now the World Cup has already started, and we’ve seen Reliance Jio and Bharti... Read More

June 6th, 2019 3:53 PM 5 COMMENTS

Vodafone RED Rs 999 and Other Postpaid Plans Now Offering Up to 5 Multiple Connections

Vodafone Idea has announced new add-ons on postpaid plans for Vodafone customers. Vodafone was previously offering RED postpaid plans for its subscribers, and they were in direct competition with Bharti Airtel. Now, recently, Bharti Airtel made a massive revamp to its postpaid plans offering by removing a lot of plans. What used to set apart the Bharti Airtel plans from the other telcos was the add-on connection feature, which allowed... Read More

June 5th, 2019 2:02 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Network Coverage Map Likely to Go Live in a Few Weeks

Trai hopes to go live, in a few weeks, with an all India coverage map on its site that will allow telecom subscribers to check the extent and strength of an operator's network coverage at a chosen location, a top official has said. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had, last year, launched the beta version of the map on a limited scale - covering only two circles including... Read More

June 5th, 2019 9:43 AM 10 COMMENTS

BSNL Follows Private Telcos by Removing Rs 10, Rs 20 Talk Time Plans

State-run telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited or BSNL is making new changes to its tariff portfolio in recent times. To recall, the telco has removed several popular prepaid STVs like Rs 333, Rs 444, which offered great value for money. With all the private telcos now looking to increase their ARPU, BSNL is likely aiming for the same as it's retaining only high-end plans. As part of this move,... Read More

June 4th, 2019 4:45 PM 0 COMMENTS

Recommended Base Price of 5G Airwaves in India Nearly 40% higher Than Other Markets: COAI

A day after the government announced its intention to hold spectrum auctions in the current year, industry body COAI said that the recommended base price of 5G radiowaves is nearly 30-40% higher than the rates in markets like South Korea and the US. "Majority of our operators have indicated that 5G spectrum is far too prohibitively expensive and that their balance sheets can't afford this," Cellular Operators' Association of India... Read More

May 30th, 2019 8:41 PM 3 COMMENTS

Telcos Say Minimum Speed Promise on Broadband Connections is Technically Infeasible

It seems that even though the consumers are paying a premium for their broadband service and shifting to higher speed fibre-based broadband plans to experience better services, it might still be hard for them to get any assurance about speed, says an ET Telecom report. The telecom operators are of the opinion that there can't be a minimum bar set for the broadband speeds. This means that no matter what... Read More

May 24th, 2019 2:21 PM 13 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Becomes Only Telco to Witness Subscriber Growth in March 2019 With an Addition of 9.5 Million: ICRA

ICRA, the Indian Credit Rating agency has issued its report today on the subscriber count of India. The report is on the same lines as of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) which revealed that wireless subscriber base in the country has fallen to 1,162 million in March 2019, thus declining by 21.9 million subscribers over the previous month. The active wireless subscriber base, however, has remained almost the same... Read More

May 23rd, 2019 7:16 PM 1 COMMENTS

BSNL Prepaid Vouchers and STVs Shipping Free Eros Now Video Content

The state led telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been debuting attractive plans for its prepaid subscribers. In the past few weeks, we have seen the telco do many revisions to its plans, launch new offers and more. However, there was one area where BSNL was lacking as compared to other telecom operators and that were the content offerings. To make up for that, BSNL has partnered up... Read More

May 22nd, 2019 5:39 PM 0 COMMENTS

Decline in Mobile Subscriber Base in March Not Worrisome: COAI

Industry body COAI said on Wednesday that not too much should be read into the drop in mobile subscriber numbers for March, as the reduced numbers are a result of the consolidation of multiple, unused SIMs and weeding out of low-usage connections by operators. The comments come a day after data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) showed that the country's total wireless subscribers fell to 1,161.8 million... Read More

May 22nd, 2019 1:16 PM 5 COMMENTS

Trai Data On Subscriber Base Notes 0.72% Increase in Wired Broadband Customers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has released its subscribers' report for the quarter ending in March 2019. The sector regulator has compiled the data for these months, and it also gives us insight into the telecom industry, and how many subscribers have been added to the respective telecom operators or networks. The data has been divided across many verticals like the addition of wireless or wired broadband subscribers.... Read More

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