If media reports are to be believed, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the state-run telecom company, has launched a new 3G data plan for all the BSNL prepaid users over the country. The new scheme is dubbed as ‘STV 498’, which by recharging gives unlimited 3G data with no data limit. However, according to the sources, this new plan will only be valid for 14 days from the day of... Read More
Despite the fact that 4G VoLTE (Voice over LTE) is fairly an old standard, it hasn’t become available to a common man (no pun intended) in India until recently. It does not mean that it wasn’t available wholly but was pretty much a flagship-affair earlier. However, things appear to have changed in the recent past. And most of the smartphones, if not every, that have released in the past three-month... Read More
Malaysia-based Axiata, the owner of 20% stake in Idea Cellular, is reportedly planning to sell its share in the country’s third largest telecom operator, following concerns over the telco’s “subdued” valuation. According to a report in ET, Axiata believes Idea Cellular’s valuation will remain subdued for at least the next three years due to the pricing onslaught stem from the entry of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Infocomm. Axiata has informally... Read More
Nearly three weeks ago, we reported that Reliance Communications had launched a new affordable plan to take on the Reliance Jio in some circles of India. And the voucher is priced at Rs. 151 (varies from each circle) and offers the same benefit of unlimited calling to any local or STD number up to 30 days and it even comes bundled with a certain amount of data. Recently, it is... Read More
Anil Ambani led Reliance Communications which is in the process of merger with Aircel and MTS has now slipped to 6th position in the Indian mobile market after losing out almost 20 million CDMA subscribers after closing down CDMA operations for use those airwaves to trade or share with Jio to build extensive 4G network across the country. According to latest TRAI data, the company has lost 8.40 million overall... Read More
Smartphone invasion in India continues to rise as consumers shift from feature phones to 4G-enabled devices. With the huge growth in the number of mobile internet users in India, the advertising companies have also overhauled their techniques to woo Indian consumers. To know more about the shift of advertising strategies for India and what brands need to know about digital advertising in India, we interviewed Neena Dasgupta, CEO and Director,... Read More
BSNL, the state telecom network has been aggressively introducing new plans after the introduction of Reliance Jio. As we already know, the Mukesh Ambani- led Reliance Jio offers free voice calls for all its users as it uses data to make calls. However, we have earlier reported that BSNL free calls will be live from January 2017 and they will be uber cheap as well. According to Anupam Shrivastava, Chairman... Read More
Bharti Airtel has recently launched its V-Fiber super fast broadband service in the country. Currently, it is only available in Chennai but Airtel has promised to roll out the service to 87 more cities in the near future. V-Fiber’ will transform the home broadband for Airtel customers with consistently super fast data speeds and enable HD video streaming, heavy file downloads, and uploads in a multi-device environment (over Wi-Fi). Here’s... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading carrier has added 2.33 million subscribers in the month of October, taking its overall base to 262.67 million in the country, this is the highest addition of subscribers among operators whose data was reported by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Tuesday. Interestingly the report does not contain the subscription data of Reliance Jio who is also a member of COAI and in all... Read More
In the backdrop of network upgrading, Airtel subscribers in Delhi may face some network issues in the next few days, announces Airtel. The service provider is notifying users via e-mail on the probable network disruption. “Our engineers will be working through the night to ensure your services continue to work in an uninterrupted manner even as we make this change. Yet there may be some teething issues you could face... Read More
Vodafone India the second largest operator with a subscriber base of over 200 Million users may launch what may be India's first LTE network on band 1 (2100 MHz) in Tamil Nadu circle before the end of this year. Vodafone has secured 10 MHz of liberalised spectrum in the 2100 MHz band in the October auction which ended over a month back. Vodafone already has one block of 5 MHz... Read More
Dual-technology player Tata Teleservices (TTSL) has informed stock exchanges that it has replaced its licenses Mumbai, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh from UAS licensing to new telecom permits, Unified Licence. A PTI report said that Tata Teleservices (TTSL) --the unlisted parent company of TTML, has also transformed its Andhra Pradesh operations to Unified Licence. In a filing to stock exchanges, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) said, “As per the guidelines announced by the... Read More
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Network slicing does what? Can you explain the speed based tariff? The way how plans works in foreign nations? 10mbps…
Remember initially when Jio started their service of unlimited, FUP was 4 GB per day. In 2017, Jio completely removed…
Tariff restructure? Can you elaborate? Like what kind of tarrif you wanted/were expecting?
they're too lazy to do that.
Bro, Let's enjoy VI's slow and natural death!
