Nxtra Data Limited (Nxtra by Airtel), the data center subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, has reported increased use of renewable energy in its operations, rising to 220,541 MWh, a 41 percent increase compared to the previous year. Despite a 25 percent increase in power consumption, the company achieved a 4 percent reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions compared to FY21, Nxtra by Airtel said while unveiling its second edition of... Read More
Airtel Payments Bank, in partnership with Noise and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), has unveiled a NCMC (National Common Mobility Card) - enabled smartwatch featuring an embedded RuPay chip. The announcement was made at the Global Fintech Fest 2024. Airtel Payments Bank has also showcased the prototypes of this smartwatch at the Global Fintech Fest 2024, the official release said. Also Read: Airtel Payments Bank Launches Smart Watch... Read More
Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea, and Bharti Airtel have replied to the consultation paper of TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) titled, "Review of Telecom Consumers Protection Regulations (TCPR), 2012." The major agenda of this consultation paper is to understand whether the market needs SMS and voice only validity packs. At the moment, if you want a voice only or a SMS only pack or a combination of both, you can't... Read More
Indus Towers, a joint venture company, is set to become a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel following the conclusion of its buyback exercise. Indus Towers is conducting a buyback of up to 56,774,193 equity shares, representing approximately 2.107 percent of its total paid-up share capital. As a result, Airtel, which currently holds a 48.95 percent shareholding in Indus Towers, will see its shareholding increase to around 50.005 percent upon the completion... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, has announced a collaboration with tech giant Apple. Under this partnership, Airtel will offer Apple Music and Apple TV+ to customers with its broadband and postpaid plans. Apple TV+ is an OTT (over-the-top) content platform for which the standalone subscription fee is Rs 99 per month. First time users can get a 7 days free trial. Apple Music costs the same on a per... Read More
Tripura has faced disruptions due to unprecedented heavy rainfall and flooding between August 19 and August 23, which caused significant damage to telecom infrastructure and widespread service interruptions. In response, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), along with telecom service providers (TSPs) including BSNL, Reliance Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), has restored over 94 percent of the telecom network in the affected areas, the Ministry of Communications said in a... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India's second largest telecom operator, has announced free data and calling for customers in Northeast. This is in light of the excessive rainfall that has taken place in regions including Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, and Meghalaya. Airtel has decided to extend its support to its customers living in these areas. Thus, Airtel has announced free benefits for prepaid customers. Along with that, there is something for the postpaid users... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, has received a major relief. The telco's GST demand has been reduced to Rs 194 crore from Rs 604 crore. The amount was reduced by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Apellate Authority after the telco challenged the original amount. The GST department was seeking Rs 604 crore from Airtel under the reverse charge mechanism on the license fee and spectrum usage charges on... Read More
Airtel Payments Bank has introducued a new feature called Face Match. It is meant to make the account more secure for the user. Face Match uses sophesticated machine learning algorithms for calculating a threat score for each savings bank account user. This will depend on several factors such as user behaviour, transaction location and patter, device, and more. Also Read: Airtel Payments Bank launches BizKhata for Small Businesses and Merchants The... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recently published the performance data of telcos for June 2024. According to the data, the trend of Airtel and Jio adding users while BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) and Vodafone Idea (Vi) losing customers continued. Let's take a look at the figures. Reliance Jio added 1.91 million wireless users while Airtel added 1.25 million active users. State-owned BSNL lost 0.75 million and Vodafone... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, two of the leading telecom operators in India, recently announced that they will only offer 5G with plans that come with 2GB daily data or more. This means that 5G plans became expensive. Now, recently Jio introduced a new prepaid plan with 2GB of daily data. Thus, it is important that you know about the cheapest 5G plans from Airtel and Jio that are available... Read More
Bharti Airtel saw its homes business growing in Q1 FY25 driven by accelerated adoption of Wi-Fi services which offer both fiber and AirFiber services. The company added 3,50,000 customers during the quarter in its home broadband business and continued to expand FWA (Fixed-Wireless Access) services throughout India. The FWA services are now available in 1300 cities. "We now have a single pricing across fixed wireless access and fiber," Airtel's CEO,... Read More
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In Karnataka Vi is not good. Many places internet stuck at 2G only, 4G also so slow you can't open…
I'm no economics expert but i feel this will help Vi increase there ARPU and give competition back to Jio…
hell yeah lets say poeple get a Vi sim with unlimited data so even if they are using 4G its…
hey unknown person thanks for the screenshots
but bhai ami age o VI 4g night unlimited pack ami about 250gb usage korechi and it was just fine…
