ACT Fibernet has started gifting its subscribers free data on the occasion of Indian Premier League 2018. As part of its T20 Data Surprise, ACT is adding 250GB data for free to every customer's account so that they can watch the IPL 2018 matches without any interruption online. This is a good gesture from the Internet Service Provider, and it will certainly cheer up the ACT Fibernet subscribers. The Indian... Read More
Countering Reliance Jio and its Rs 251 prepaid IPL plan, state-run telecom operator BSNL has now come up with a Rs 248 prepaid STV plan offering a whopping 153GB, which converts to 3GB data per day for a period of 51 days. BSNL says that "This will be useful for our subscriber to stream live IPL matches at a very economical rate." The IPL 2018 is scheduled from April 7... Read More
The new Nokia 6 (2018), which was being one of the much-awaited phones of 2018 has finally launched in the country a couple of days ago and is finally available for purchase. To start the sales, Nokia has also put their own online shop - the Nokia Mobile Shop. The phone which was initially launched in China in the month of January as a successor to the first generation Nokia 6.... Read More
Tecno Mobiles, the child brand of Transsion Holdings brand today announced its partnership with the Kings XI Punjab Indian Premier League team where the players of the KXIP will sport Tecno branding on their jerseys. Alongside this announcement, the company also confirmed that it would be launching a slew of new products throughout the IPL 2018 season. The company, just yesterday stated that a new sub Rs 8,000 product will... Read More
The Department of Telecom (DoT) is likely to approve the merger between Idea Cellular and Vodafone India by the end of this month. An anonymous official said in his statement to ET “The final approval should come within this month.” When this approval is passed, the Idea and Vodafone merged entity will become the largest data carrier in the country in terms of market share and subscribers. As we're already... Read More
Though last year’s OnePlus 5 arrived in June, the Chinese smartphone maker is planning to introduce the OnePlus 6 sooner than later. A new teaser video released on the company’s Italian Facebook page reveals the smartphone will pack full-screen gestures. In a short video clip, gestures are hinted for the upcoming OnePlus 6 along with a post caption that reads “Speed up your experience with gestures.” However, the video doesn’t... Read More
BSNL has been enjoying a lot of success of late, thanks to the operator's affordable tariff plans and aggressive marketing in rural areas. A senior official of BSNL in Kolkata state said that the telco has added 1.2 million subscribers via the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service in the financial year 2017-18. That's a small number as private operators would be receiving a lot of MNP requests every month, according... Read More
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has now issued 13-digit numbers to telecom operators in the country for carrying out the test of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. These communications include car tracking devices, smart electric metres and so on. DoT allocated the 13-digit numbers to private firms such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, while it's already a known thing that state-run telco BSNL received these numbers from... Read More
Remember the Hotstar Sports Pack which was introduced a couple of days ago? Well, there's a good news if you're an Airtel subscriber as the Sports subscription pack worth Rs 299 will not be required to watch the live streaming on Airtel TV application. It's a known thing that Hotstar's new Sports-only pack costs Rs 299 for a year, and with the pack, users can watch all the sports, and... Read More
Between June 2016 and December 2017, average data rate has plunged by 90% to Rs 19 per GB while the average phone call tariff dropped by more than 60% to 19 paise per minute, as per Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha. "The tariff for mobile telephony services is under forbearance except for national roaming and rural fixed line services ... The average outgo for voice and data services in India have... Read More
Android Oreo (Go Edition) which is a lightweight version of the Android Oreo supports budget smartphones and helps entry-level smartphones run Android applications smoothly without the need for high-end hardware. Android Go was originally announced at the Google I/O 2017, but it was in October Google made some naming changes and brought it to India as Android Oreo (Go Edition). The coming of this new piece of software has aided... Read More
Catching up on the growing fintech and payments scene, Reliance Jio has also confirmed their plans to start ‘Jio Payments Bank’ last year. And the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Tuesday, officially announced that Jio Payments Bank had commenced operations starting April 3, 2018. The Reserve Bank of India in their official statement said: "The Reserve Bank has issued a licence to the bank under Section 22 (1) of... Read More
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