May 7th, 2018 7:47 PM 9 COMMENTS

Trai to Finalise Recommendations on Next Spectrum Auction Soon

R S Sharma, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman today stated that they are in the middle of consulting various international agencies and experts on the next spectrum auction in India. Trai is hoping to finalise the recommendations on spectrum auction soon, Sharma said. Currently, the regulator is in the process of finalising the recommendations, and a meeting on the same was held last week. "There is a... Read More

May 3rd, 2018 1:42 PM 12 COMMENTS

Rs 349 Prepaid Plan of Vodafone Now Offering 84GB of Data for 28 Days

Vodafone India has now started offering the 3GB of data per day with the Rs 349 prepaid plan, which earlier provided 2.5GB data per day benefit. This revision comes right after the change made by Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular. Vodafone's Rs 349 prepaid plan, starting today, offers 3GB of 4G/3G data per day, unlimited voice calls with a daily & weekly cap and 100 SMS per day benefit for... Read More

May 2nd, 2018 4:48 PM 17 COMMENTS

Aircel Now Officially Allowing Users to Generate UPC Via its Website

Aircel users, who're yet to port out from the network has a good news as the telco is now officially allowing them to generate Unique Porting Code from its website. The telco, which filed for bankruptcy a while back has been plagued with UPC generation issues as a massive number of subscribers across the country tried to generate codes at the same time. Aircel before filing bankruptcy approached Trai to... Read More

May 1st, 2018 7:50 PM 10 COMMENTS

BSNL is Offering Unlimited Voice Calls for 90 Days at Rs 319

BSNL, one of the government-owned PSUs is currently on the verge of launching 4G services in the country. But the telco is not shy about providing best tariff plans in the industry. While the top telecom operators in the country are launching bundled tariff plans, BSNL has introduced two voice calling plans of Rs 319 and Rs 99. With these voice-only prepaid plans, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is offering unlimited... Read More

May 1st, 2018 3:20 PM 24 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Offering Free 10GB Data to Users on First VoLTE Call, Service Now Live for Public

Idea Cellular has now rolled out the Idea VoLTE services in six major circles. Idea VoLTE services are now open for public in Maharashtra & Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh. Idea Cellular 4G users across these circles will be able to use Idea VoLTE services starting from May 2, 2018. With this rollout, Idea joins the list of operators providing VoLTE... Read More

April 30th, 2018 5:41 PM 69 COMMENTS

Vodafone Brings Down the Value of Per GB to Rs 2.2 With This New Prepaid Plan

In a massive marketing plan, Vodafone India has rolled out two new prepaid plans to counter Jio’s ultra-affordable offerings. The all-new prepaid plans of Rs 569 and Rs 511 respectively offer as high as 3GB data per day for a validity period of 84 days. With these plans, Vodafone essentially brought down the value of per GB to Rs 2.25, which is a masterstroke from the telco as a telco... Read More

April 29th, 2018 4:34 PM 55 COMMENTS

BSNL in Talks with SoftBank to Make Satellite-Based Internet Possible in India

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Softbank are in talks with each other about leasing out broadband bandwidth from OneWeb's low earth orbit (LEO) communication satellites. This new development if takes place, is then going to revolutionise the telecom industry in India with low latency internet and voice services. To go ahead with the new plan, high ranked officials of BSNL made a presentation to SoftBank executives about the preparedness... Read More

April 28th, 2018 1:54 PM 0 COMMENTS

North-Eastern Regions to Get Broadband Services Via Satellite Connectivity

People in the North-eastern region of India have a reason to rejoice as the centre has finally approved a comprehensive strategy which was pending before, to implement BharatNet for the NER (North-eastern Regions). Under this strategy, the people of NER, specifically the six states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura will benefit a lot through the broadband connectivity via satellite. The strategy which has been approved by... Read More

April 28th, 2018 9:34 AM 8 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular’s New Rs 349 Prepaid Plan Offers 84GB Data for 28 Days

Following the footsteps of Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular has now introduced a new Rs 349 prepaid plan with a validity of 28 days and 3GB data per day on offer. Idea's new tariff plan is different from the Rs 357 prepaid plan which the telco used to offer earlier. The Rs 349 plan is offered in several circles alongside the Rs 357 plan, but the irony is the newly launched... Read More

April 27th, 2018 4:44 PM 17 COMMENTS

Trai Received 6.57 Million MNP Requests in February 2018

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recently released the Monthly Telecom Subscription Data for the month of February 2018. In the report, Trai stated that it received a total of 6.57 million MNP (Mobile Number Portability) requests. At the end of February 2018, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 344.59 million at the end of January 2018 to 351.16 million, since the implementation of MNP. In MNP Zone-I (Northern... Read More

April 24th, 2018 3:30 PM 27 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Added 4.4 Million New Subscribers in February 2018, While Aircel Lost 2.5 Million

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has released the monthly subscription data of February 2018. In the Telecom Subscription Data report released, Trai stated that Idea Cellular has added 4.4 million new subscribers during the month, followed by Bharti Airtel with 4.1 million new users and Vodafone managed to grab 3.2 million new subscribers. However, the chart is led by Reliance Jio with 8.7 million new subscribers added in... Read More

April 23rd, 2018 4:02 PM 19 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo’s Rs 499 Prepaid Plan Now Offering 126GB 3G Data for 90 Days

Tata Docomo, in order to retain the existing subscriber base is providing some excellent prepaid tariff plans ranging from Rs 82 to Rs 499 with unlimited daily data benefit, unlimited voice calls and unlimited SMS. The telco, which announced a merger with Bharti Airtel is providing an excellent Rs 499 prepaid tariff plan in the country, under which it's providing benefits of 126GB of 3G data, unlimited voice & SMS. But... Read More

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