Vodafone Idea users can now add up to 25 profiles on Vi mobile app. The telco seems to have rolled out a new update and the landing page on the app highlights the feature. This feature will be useful for a family with a lot of Vodafone Idea connections. Basically, this feature allows Vi users to log in using 25 different Vi numbers in a single account. The first mobile... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has revised the offering of its Rs 18 voucher recently. It is one of the most popular short-term vouchers offered by the state-run telco. The Rs 18 voucher is now said to be offering 1GB daily fair usage policy (FUP) data instead of the 1.8GB/day data it used to offer earlier. As per a report from KeralaTelecom, BSNL is also offering SMS benefits with the... Read More
Fossil Gen 5E is the latest smartwatch to launch in India with WearOS by Google. The Gen 5E, as the name itself suggests, it a stripped-down version of the Fossil Gen 5 that was launched last year. In fact, the Gen 5E was launched in Western markets in October 2020, and it took the company four months to bring the same smartwatch to India. Priced at Rs 18,490, the Fossil... Read More
Bharti Airtel has just launched ‘Airtel Safe Pay’ to protect its users' digital payments and transactions. The service has been launched under the telco’s online banking arm, ‘Airtel Payments Bank’. With the ‘Airtel Safe Pay’, users will be able to make net banking and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions through Airtel Payments Bank without any worry of losing their money to online frauds and thefts. Airtel says that this technology... Read More
Because of the pandemic and several lockdowns, the need for online connectivity grew multiple folds. During the time, people depended a lot on various online payment platforms to make transactions for almost everything they bought or exchanged. Both Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel benefitted a lot because of these online payment platforms. This is because users of the telco had no other option but to recharge from their homes using... Read More
BSNL introduced the Rs 1,499 annual prepaid plan a few months ago across several circles in the country. The Rs 1,499 prepaid offering from BSNL takes on the similarly priced prepaid plans from the private telecom operators. For example, both Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel are currently offering a Rs 1,499 with 365 days validity. So the BSNL’s Rs 1,499 plan is here to challenge the same. When BSNL launched... Read More
WhatsApp Pay was officially announced for India on November 2020. During the month, the payment service platform registered 20 million financial transactions passed through it. When it was initially announced, the platform was restricted only to be rolled out to 1 million users in the country. But later the maximum user limit was extended to 20 million users. However, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform hasn’t got a flying start... Read More
WhatsApp Pay is an in-chat system which will allow users to chat with other people and with that make payments as well. The National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) which regulates all the digital retail financial transactions in the country has finally allowed WhatsApp Pay to become a reality for the Indian users. Now WhatsApp can rollout out its payment feature for the Indian users, but there is a limit... Read More
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has made it very easy for people to transact money with each other. Be it for personal transactions or business transactions, it can be done instantly and without any extra cost. UPI is regulated and governed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI). The regulatory body has made an announcement for a change that will soon come to the UPI apps. The announcement has come... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio have been on the front end helping their customers survive the crisis. The telcos have been introducing new plans on the go to meet the requirements of their customers sitting in their homes. Everyone’s been affected due to the global spread of COVID-19 and there is no certainty for how long will this continue. Being in the lockdown means that people have to finish their... Read More
Reliance Jio is reportedly working with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to bring UPI Apps on JioPhones. Jio has been working on the NPCI infrastructure even before the Facebook deal was finalised. It is expected that working with NPCI will bring UPI apps for all the JioPhone users out there. Also, the move by Jio will encourage people for online payments and broaden the reach of Digital PaymentS in... Read More
WhatsApp will finally be able to roll out its digital payments platform WhatsApp Pay in India, after securing a key regulatory approval. The company has been trying to launch its payment feature for two years now. WhatsApp was granted a license to operate its UPI based payment service by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an RBI official told Business Standard. The NCPI’s approval comes days after clearance from India’s... Read More
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