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
The Indian Premier League 2018 is just a few days away, and the country's leading online streaming portal Hotstar silently introduced a new sports-only yearly subscription pack of Rs 299 for all the cricket enthusiasts out there. The new Sports-only subscription plan is already live for users to purchase for Rs 299, which is about Rs 25 per month. Under this plan, Hotstar will be offering all the live IPL... Read More
Last month was an exciting one for top telecom operators in India as millions of Aircel customers have ported out from the ailing telco to other top networks. State-run telecom operator, BSNL has now confirmed that it added 1.1 million new customers in Tamil Nadu state alone in March 2018. The telco has posted a couple of images on Twitter, which confirmed these numbers. That said, most of these additions... Read More
Idea Cellular has been rolling out new prepaid plans every now and then, and the telco now rolled out a Rs 19 prepaid tariff plan for its prepaid subscribers. The Rs 19 prepaid plan from Idea offers benefits in-line with Airtel Rs 19 prepaid plan and better benefits than Jio's Rs 19 prepaid plan. The validity of this plan is two days, not one day like Reliance Jio's plan and... Read More
Intex, the homegrown smartphone brand today introduced two entry-level 4G VoLTE supported smartphones in the Indian market. The Intex Aqua Lions N1 and the Intex Lions T1 Lite smartphones are now official in the Indian market, and they come two unique offers. The first one is they are part of Total by Hike program and the second one is telecom operator Bharti Airtel is providing cashback of up to Rs... Read More
Aircel might be stepping onto another legal battle as Idea Cellular and Vodafone India gear up to take action against the telecom company which is already under the weight of bankruptcy. Airtel and Idea might be the first companies to take such a step in these regards, according to the people following the matter. The two major telcos are taking this drastic step to recover their dues from Aircel. According... Read More
The decline in revenue and levy collections from the Indian telecom industry in 2017 is the only temporary phenomenon caused largely by free voice tariff offers, Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications told today. “I believe that this is an interim phenomenon because suddenly voice has been made practically free at a time when the voice was driving the market, which is why ARPUs (average revenue per user) have fallen... Read More
Last month, Nokia announced its massive partnership with Google for bringing all of its smartphones under either Android One or Android Go program. The latter has created quite some buzz in the industry because it's aimed at entry-level smartphones. Android Go is the light version of Android and is sought to redefine the OS on low budget phones and is targeted to provide a smooth experience on these devices. The... Read More
While last year turned out to be the year of 18:9 displays, 2018 may very well be the year of the notch. Plenty of smartphones released at the MWC debuted with the screen notch, a feature popularised by Apple’s iPhone X. Having a notch is the only way manufacturers can get away with making all display phone without any bezels. However, there’s been a lot of controversy over “the notch”... Read More
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I have not used more than 150 GB a month till now. Mostly it is between 80 to 140 GB.
Or maybe they need to market themselves better
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