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Comcast announced that it is further expanding its smart, fast, and reliable fiber-rich network to more than 2,600 residents and businesses in the town of Plainfield, adding to its investment in Connecticut. Comcast announced in May 2022 that it would expand to nearly 2,500 people and businesses in Jewett City. Since then, it has started providing its full suite of services to its newest clients, including Xfinity residential broadband speeds up to 1....

Corning, which is the biggest name across the world for making the popular Gorilla Glass protection for handsets. The company has said that India is going to be the next destination for ICT manufacturing. As per the Corning Senior VP and General Manager of Mobile Consumer Electronics, John Bayne, India is going to see the movement of supply chains slowly away from China and onto its soil. Speaking about the company’s plans he said that Corning likes to be close to its consumers and so the movement of supply chains would mean that Corning would also be making investments in the country with time....

D2h Add-On Packs Launched: What Do They Offer? The D2h Add-On packs are Hindi Khel, Hindi Cricket, English Cricket, English Premium Sports, Mega Sports, Kids and Infotainment, Mega English, Mega Kids Add-On, Best of Marathi, Mega Marathi, Mega Gujarathi, Mega Oriya, Best of Oriya, Best of Bengali, Mega Bengali, Value Tamil, Best of Tamil, Mega Tamil, Value Telugu, Mega Telugu, Value Kannada, Best of Kannada, Mega Kannada, Best of Malayalam and Mega Malayalam....

Dish TV Increased Long Term Plan Benefits Firstly, Dish TV was the one to roll out attractive long term offer for the festive season. The DTH operator put the information out on its website that subscribers getting 10-month connection would enjoy 2 extra months of service. While the subscribers getting a 6 months connection would enjoy an extra month of service. This means that subscribers would only have to pay for 10 months to enjoy 12 months service, whereas they would have to pay for 6 months in advance to get 7 months of service....

D2H Intelligent Assistant is available on its official portal and chat platforms like Whatsapp and Facebook. It would soon be available on D2H customer app and additionally have progressive enhancements through which customers would be able to upgrade their set-top boxes or buy new smart products, request for relocation, get transaction history and change registered telephone number and language. Catering to the evolving needs of the customers for better, faster and more accurate resolutions of service queries and issues, ‘D2H Intelligent Assistant’ (DIA) comes with an array of exciting features, DIA seeks to make it easier, faster and simpler for D2H customers to resolve their queries and issues....

Tata Sky Binge and D2h Magic Stick: Basic Differences Tata Sky Binge and D2h Magic Stick: Pricing Now comes the difference between the pricing of these two products. There is the question of upfront payment, and whether or not the subscribers will have to buy anything separately to access the respective service, to which we would say yes for one of the products. The subscribers will have to purchase the Magic Stick by paying Rs 399, which is an introductory price for now....

Dish TV-owned D2h has brought a combo offer of D2h HD RF Set-Top Box and d2h Magic Stick. The offer is now listed on the official website of D2h with accurate pricing. D2h has been known for offering some of the most affordable deals and subscribers to its subscribers. For the unaware, D2h launched its Magic Stick last year at a price of Rs 399 and the DTH operator has been selling the D2h HD RF STB for years now....

Daiwa, the homegrown consumer brand of India has launched two new sizes of the TV screens with in-built Alexa - ’32-inch and 39-inch’. The Smart TVs run on Android 8 platform powered by a quad-core processor. The Smart TVs come with a minimalistic designed remote that looks very elegant and has a button for activating voice command feature. Users can interact with the in-built Alexa assistant and ask it to execute multiple commands....

The mobile subscriber base of Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel shrunk by nearly 14.5 million and 15.1 million, respectively, as of March over the previous month, while Reliance Jio added 9.4 million users during the period. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) Director General, Rajan Mathews attributed the fall to a combination of factors such as subscribers with multiple SIMs making a decision to move onto one mobile number. Mathews further said that with the rollout of ‘minimum recharge plans’ by operators, many of the low-usage customers might have decided not to continue with multiple connections....

Dialog Axiata PLC, in collaboration with the UGC or University Grants Commission on Monday established ‘5G Innovation Centres’ located at the Engineering Faculties of certain leading universities in order to create as well as incubate interest-driven learning, combined with innovation and entrepreneurship for the upcoming future leaders These Innovation Centres are made to empower students with the goal to make them interdisciplinary, computational, and entrepreneurial which will be achieved by giving students a first-hand experience in relation to 5G connectivity and many of the technology’s cutting-edge use cases....

Dual Mode 5G vs Dual SIM 5G Now that you look closely at the two phrases, you can probably make out the difference between Dual SIM 5G and Dual Mode 5G. So, with the former, the users can pretty much understand that Dual SIM 5G refers to the usage of two 5G SIMs simultaneously at the same time. It can be used for a device which would support 5G network on both the slots....

Dish SMRT Stick Details It is worth noting that Dish TV had launched the Dish SMRT Stick first for the subscribers and it is the cheaper offering among the two. The Dish SMRT Stick is a relatively straightforward offering for the subscribers of Dish TV and will allow them to stream content from the OTT applications. The Dish SMRT Stick works with the Dish NXT HD Set-Top Box, and the subscribers will have to make sure that they are using the Dish NXT HD Set-Top Box only for the SMRT Stick to work....

Dish TV-Bharti Airtel Merger May Not Happen Anytime Soon As the report highlights, Dish TV is not looking to sell a single share below Rs 45, which is way higher than what Airtel-Warburg-Singtel offered to the operator. For the unaware, Airtel-Warburg-Singtel offered Rs 35 share price to Dish TV for acquiring 57.52% promoter stake. At the proposed share price by Airtel, Dish TV will receive Rs 3,707 crore which is well below the Rs 4,766 crore they’re looking for....

Dish TV Announces Auto Pay Later Service With the conditions prevailing in the Jammu and Kashmir region, the subscribers are likely to face issues in reaching out to their nearest retail outlets or in accessing the internet. Due to this, it is also possible that they won’t be able to continue their recharges for DTH services and are likely to be cut off from the happenings. Now owing to the “Auto Pay Later” feature of Dish TV and D2h, the customers of these two DTH service providers will be able to access services on their TV for four days beyond recharge date so that there is no disruption and they may keep themselves up to date with the happenings of the country and the world....

DoT Addresses Government Regarding Chinese Gear Makers Ban The provision of clause 10(d) of Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) can now “be invoked in relation to certain telecom items against any foreign government that is deemed unfair to Indian telecom suppliers”, as per a DoT letter addressed to central, state governments and PSUs dated February 19. The telecom equipment listed in this letter includes optical fibre, 2G/3G/4G/LTE modems, routers, Wi-Fi-based broadband wireless access system and GPON equipment....

It is common to have multiple SIM cards for people in today’s age. Almost every smartphone comes with dual-SIM slots, and having multiple such smartphones allows users to carry several numbers for different purposes. However, there’s a certain limit to how many SIM cards a person can have under his/her name. According to an order from the Central Government, people who carry more than nine SIM cards will be flagged for re-verification of all numbers, and all of their SIM cards except up to nine will be discontinued....

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is working with the ministry of defence, department of space, and ministry of home affairs to come up with a new law that will determine how the allotment of the spectrum will be done for several government and defence purposes. There’s an inherent need for clarity around spectrum allotment in the minds of the policymakers because the Supreme Court had asked the spectrum to be auctioned....

Q1. What’s the USP of EdgeQ? Tell Us About Your Business Model? EdgeQ’s vision is to reconstitute 5G in a manner that is intuitive, simple, and consumable for our customers. We want to remove the friction that stands in the way of 5G adoption and consumption. To fulfil this vision, we offer 5G in a model that is fully programmable, configurable, and cloud-driven for the next trillion of “users.” Our approach is to replace traditional monolithic, closed, rip-and-replace cellular deployment with an agile, software-defined, cloud-managed model....

Changing Prepaid Plans In recent times, we have seen the trend of telecom operators focusing more on the upper rungs of the plans. This means that all three operators are pushing for more premium plans for the customers. This said absence of focus from the lower prepaid plans means that the subscribers now find it more and more difficult to find a plan of their liking, which meets their needs. This is a departure from the previous practices of telcos of driving prices to the ground with immense offers, free data, and multitudes of offerings....

Excitel, a fast-growing internet service provider (ISP) in India, is now offering its 300 Mbps plan for Rs 167 per month only. This is a limited-time onboarding offer from the company. This means that the offer will not be available for older customers. The Rs 167 per month offer will also be given to the new users only once. Then, users will have to continue with the existing tariffs offered by the company....