The growing cases of deadly Corona Virus seem to be increasing troubles for multiple nations across the world. Countries like the USA and Italy seem to be in crisis mode already, and some effect of it has already touched the borders of India as fears of the virus spread grow. This is likely to affect the telecom business as well. Especially for all the vendors that supply telecom equipment to... Read More
Telecom operators have been facing a lot of trouble because of default in payment of AGR dues. However, Bharti Airtel is clearing off the burden. The telco giant has paid Rs 8,004 crore to DoT as their statutory dues in their second tranche. With the current payment, Bharti Airtel has paid a total amount of Rs 18,004 towards their AGR dues. As per their self-assessment, Bharti Airtel has deposited Rs... Read More
Reliance Jio is currently offering four data vouchers to its prepaid subscribers across the country. As the name of the plans itself suggests, they act as data top-ups, meaning a user will get extra data on top of the existing prepaid plan. These Jio 4G Data Vouchers come in really handy to the users who exhaust their daily data limit on a regular basis. Right now, Reliance Jio has Rs... Read More
Well, the inevitable has happened at last. State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has added more subscribers than any other telecom operator in India in December 2019. After the prepaid tariff hike in December 2019, everyone expected that BSNL would lead the subscriber addition chart, which is true if the subscription data released by Trai is anything to go by. During the month of December, BSNL added 4.2 lakh new... Read More
Last week, Reliance Jio made a major move and reduced the validity of its yearly plan to 336 days. Jio's newly launched Rs 2,121 prepaid plan is now being marketed as the one with 12 months validity, and why not, because telecom operators always stated that a month for prepaid users would be 28 days and not like postpaid users. It can also be noticed that Reliance Jio has reduced... Read More
Alongside revising the long-term prepaid plans for prepaid users, Reliance Jio also launched two 'Shorter Validity' plans of Rs 49 and Rs 69 for JioPhone users. The two plans come bundled with off-net minutes, basic data benefit and 14 days validity. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco continues to offer other JioPhone plans like Rs 75, Rs 99, Rs 153 and long-term recharges like Rs 297 and Rs 594. The monthly base... Read More
In a bid to outcome Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel has now introduced a new offer to broadband users in Chennai city who are looking to join the ISP. New Airtel broadband users will get 500GB data every day on top of the regular plan's data benefit. After the revision at the end of 2019, Airtel Xstream Fibre is offering just four broadband plans in majority of the cities. The four... Read More
Reliance Jio has finally removed the New Year 2020 offer which it introduced earlier this year on its only yearly plan of Rs 2,199. As part of the offer, Jio offered the Rs 2,199 annual plan at just Rs 2,020 for a limited period. In the latest development, Reliance Jio seems to have removed the yearly plan of Rs 2,020 (original price Rs 2,199) entirely and introduced a new long-term... Read More
The three private telecom operators- Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on publishing user-specific tariff plans. For the unaware, both Airtel and Vodafone Idea offer a lot of user-specific plans to keep them not leaving the network. All the three telcos expressed that the publication of offers which are available only for few users or the offers which were withdrawn... Read More
We are into the second month of 2020 and there is no update on when the 5G spectrum auction will happen. However, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is constantly pushing telecom operators to conduct 5G field trials in the country. A new ET Telecom report now says that the DoT will meet telcos and telecom gear makers on February 20 to discuss the roadmap for conducting 5G field trials in... Read More
We are yet to see the impact of the latest tariff hike from telcos on their financial and operational performance, however, we should deny the fact that the overall plan count has come down drastically. Daily data plans are still popular amongst the prepaid subscribers despite the tariff hike. Telecom operators right now are shipping a maximum of 3GB daily data with their prepaid recharges and there are some 1GB... Read More
Reliance JioFiber has regained the lost spot in Netflix ISP Speed Index as the Internet Service Provider (ISP) topped the chart with an average speed of 3.63 Mbps. Right after the commercial launch last year, speeds on JioFiber network dipped because of sub-par customer support. Netflix measures the streaming speed on every ISP and this report is for the month of January 2020. Earlier, Mumbai-based 7 Star Digital was leading... Read More
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I am actually waiting for Nothing Phone 3 now.
I don't recommend either of three. Realme GT 7 Pro, iQOO 13, One Plus 13.
I don't think so.
Yes, Jio did bring revolution, but now everyone hates Jio to the core. South India doesn't have Jio at all.…
Jio will loose customers going forward if speeds situation doesn't improve. Speeds are abysmally low for SA technology. Usage hasn't…
