If you haven’t figured it out yet, we are talking about the Micromax In 2b. It might not be the best smartphone in the under Rs 10000 category, but it can be a proud purchase for a user as it is manufactured and sold by an Indian company. Micromax In 2b came to the Indian market in mid-2021, which means it is not a very old device. It is selling at the same price today for which it launched last year....
The Indian government has launched the beta online portal that lists all the trusted companies and its gears for the telecom operators of India. The beta portal was scheduled to go live on April 15, 2021. The National Cybersecurity Coordinator (NCSC) was designated as the body that will launch the platform. According to a Livemint report, the beta portal is currently accessible to only select operators. Since it is in the beta phase, the government and the developer team will be checking how it is performing and remove any errors or problems from the portal before its official launch, slated for June 15, 2021....
Gopal Vittal, the CEO of one of the leading telecom operators in India, Bharti Airtel, has warned customers about the increasing cases of cyber fraud. He has cited a recent instance wherein a fraudster posed as an executive from the company and tricked a user under the guise of updating KYC (Know Your Customer). Eventually, the user’s bank details were revealed and a large amount was transferred from the victim’s bank account....
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, is offering two first recharge coupons (FRC) or first recharge plans to customers. FRCs are plans that you subscribe to when you purchase a new SIM card from the telco. The two FRCs that we are talking about are available when you try to get the SIM card home delivered to you. Airtel doesn’t offer any differentiated benefits with the FRCs to new customers to lure them in....
Bharti Airtel stands at second place in the telecom services market in India. Even though Reliance Jio is ahead of Airtel in terms of subscriber base, Airtel is ahead of Jio in providing higher bandwidth. Bharti Airtel offers quite expensive plans compared to Jio, but then it has its reasons. The telco wants to acquire high-value customers and keep on retaining them by providing high-quality services. Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel, Gopal Vittal said that the company is focused on acquiring high-value customers especially in the micro-markets of the country....
Bharti Airtel Talk Time Plans Lack Service Validity Benefit At the end of 2019, we have seen Vodafone coming up with talk time plans with service validity benefit. However, that’s not the case with Bharti Airtel as the telco is not providing service validity benefit with its talk time plans. For the unaware, service validity is a key for Airtel and Vodafone Idea prepaid users right now as it allows the users to make use of existing talk time balance in their account....
Bharti Airtel is likely now enjoying its time in the ruthless Indian telecom market. The same can’t be said for its rival, Vodafone Idea (Vi), which has been struggling to make ends meet. Bharti Airtel is in a golden position given the developments. The telco’s deal with Google was approved on June 30 by the CCI (Competition Commission of India). This means that Google now owns 1.28% of Bharti Airtel, against which it paid $700 million....
Airtel’s Impressive Numbers Apart from the highlighted numbers, coming to the crucial ones when it comes to the telecom business of Airtel, the Sunil Bharti Mittal led company revealed that 4G customers were up by 46.1 Mn YoY to reach 184.4 Mn, 57% of the overall customer base. Also, the Mobile ARPU was pegged at Rs 146 vs Rs 138 in Q1’21 on a comparable basis. This highlights that for Bharti Airtel, the ARPU has gone up by Rs 8 in a single quarter....
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, is offering the cheapest SMS bundled prepaid plan to the users. After the tariff hikes, SMS bundled prepaid plans became very expensive. So much so that Reliance Jio had written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) complaining about the same. Post that, TRAI ordered that operators will allow free port out SMS to 1900 whether or not the plan comes with SMS benefits....
Reliance Jio Rs 149 Prepaid Plan Benefits So, firstly we will take a look at the Rs 149 prepaid plan by Reliance Jio. Now it is worth noting that the Rs 149 prepaid plan is revised one from the telecom operator and it has recently been changed from its previous benefits to offer revised benefits. Now in the current situation, the Reliance Jio Rs 149 prepaid plan offers 1.5GB data per day to the subscribers as is the case with base plans of Reliance Jio providing daily data....
Bharti Airtel Broadband Smart Bytes Plans While Bharti Airtel is shipping attractive broadband plans for its customers, it is also shipping broadband add-on calls for its broadband subscribers which are being called as Smart Bytes add-on plans. Bharti Airtel’s broadband plans offer high-speed data with speeds that go as high as 100 Mbps or 300 Mbps. Now even though there is the offering of bonus data, it is quite possible that you might have already exhausted it by now....
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator, has seen its stock or share price touch a lifetime high on Friday morning. This is good news for the investors of the company since the telco’s stock has been performing very strongly for the last few weeks. At the time of writing, Airtel’s stock price is Rs 749, which is 3.05% in the green. The telco’s stock touched a high of Rs 752....
Demand for broadband internet in India has grown in the last few months. The broadband technology has developed very rapidly, and now people can access up to 1 Gbps internet speed sitting in their homes and offices. Much recently, the Broadband Forum of India (BIF) said in response to a consultation paper released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) that the definition of broadband internet in India needs to be updated....
Black Shark 2 Pro Launching on July 30: What You Need to Know After the launch of its second-generation gaming smartphone - Black Shark 2 - in India, Xiaomi-backed company Black Shark will launch its gaming phone - Black Shark 2 Pro in China on July 30, media reports said on Friday. Black Shark 2 Pro is expected to be powered by the newly announced Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC while the rest of the specifications of the device are yet to be revealed....
There are various ways through which people can set up an Internet connection. The most common means by which users get Internet access at a fixed subscription cost are broadband line and leased line. Talking in simple terms, both technologies offer Internet access to users, but both have major differences. Leased line in easy terms is a dedicated connection which the users get between their premises and local exchange. As of broadband line, users do get a connection between their premises and location exchange, but they don’t get a dedicated connection....
Broadband plans are the demand of the hour because of the second round of lockdowns and increasing work from home culture throughout India. A fixed fiber broadband internet connection has multiple advantages. It can provide users with a high-bandwidth and low-latency network to do multiple things such as take online classes, stream entertaining content in 4K, and download games, movies, and more. Today we bring you a broadband buying guide for entry-level work from home plans that offer high-speed data so that you can do almost everything with a single internet connection....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), once referred to as the king of wireline broadband services in India, is very soon going to slip to the third rank in the space (behind Airtel and Jio). While Jio has already claimed the number one rank, Airtel is now very close to surpassing BSNL’s wireline subscriber market share percentage. This is largely because of the driving demand for fiber internet services in India which BSNL can’t fulfil in the same manner as the private internet service providers (ISPs)....
Along with 4G, BSNL is confirmed to launch 5G NSA this Independence Day of India, i.e., on August 15, 2022. The state-run telecom operator will deploy 5G NSA (non-standalone) with 4G, said Rajkumar Upadhyay, Executive, C-DoT (Centre for Development of Telematics), at the Convergence India event. According to a PTI report, Upadhyay further said that the consortium has developed the technology at a cost of USD $30 million, which is a fraction of the billions of dollars that the global telecom companies have incurred to develop it....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-run telecom operator, yet to launch 4G networks, is already gunning for launching 5G services. The company had recently sought reservation of 70 MHz of spectrum in the mid-band (3300-3670 MHz) spectrum for 5G services from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). BSNL can benefit immensely from a speedy 4G and then 5G rollout. But for that to happen, a lot of things need to move in a timely manner....
BSNL Plan Vouchers For Long-Term BSNL offers two plan vouchers for the long term. Both the plans come with a validity of 365 days (1 year) and provide users with multiple benefits. The special thing about both the vouchers is that they are cheap in terms of the benefits they provide to the users. The two plans that we are talking about come for Rs 1,999 and Rs 2,399. Jio, Airtel, and Vi also offer users long-term plans for the same amount....
