Everyone in the Indian telecom industry is waiting for the 5G spectrum auctions to take place. The auctions have been delayed enough, but it looks like they will be delayed even further. The Indian Navy, which holds 100 MHz of the 5G spectrum does not want to vacate it anytime soon. This comes via a Business Standard report which mentions that the Indian Navy doesn’t want to vacate its 100 MHz of airwaves in the 3....
The most awaited event for the telecom industry of India is the 5G spectrum auctions. The government said that it had fixed the last quarter of the early year as the time period when the spectrum auctions will take place. Looking at this, it is absolutely clear that the 5G spectrum auctions might happen in January, February, or March of 2022. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Telecom Minister, recently said that the 5G spectrum auctions in India will most probably take place in February of 2022....
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Internet service providers (ISPs) frequently include OTT subscriptions in their broadband plans because the bulk of their users now want to watch entertainment content online. ISPs provide OTT add-ons with a variety of options due to the platforms’ explosive growth in popularity in India. On the other side, customers are also looking for high-speed plans that can handle everything from streaming to online work to gaming to studying. A few 150 Mbps broadband plans from various ISPs, including BSNL, Jio, and others, that include OTT subscriptions are listed below....
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The Supreme Court has ordered the telcos like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone to file their audited balance sheets of the past 10 years after telcos refused to provide additional bank guarantees and security against AGR-related payments. The Court said that the next hearing will take place in the third week of July. The Court has also directed these telcos to come up with payment proposals and asked the Department of Telecommunications to consider them....
Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in over 14 countries of Africa, has reported its profit after tax to be $178 million for the quarter ending June 2022. This is a 25.3% jump from $142 million in profit during the same quarter last year. For investors, the basic earning per share (EPS) grew from 3.3 cents last year same quarter to 4....
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi), two of the top telecom operators in the country offer some very compelling prepaid plans to their customers. Both the telcos have prepaid plans with over-the-top (OTT) benefits in their arsenal. If you like streaming content online through OTT applications, there are some prepaid plans of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea that you should pay close attention to. Bharti Airtel Prepaid Plans for Streamers All of the above-mentioned plans offer users unlimited voice calling and 100 SMS/day....
Many areas of India which come in the Green and Orange zones are relaxed from the strict lockdown rules. Thus small stores are opening up again. This is why telcos have decided that they are not going to extend the validity of their tariff plans anymore since people can step-out now and recharge any of the prepaid plans from a local store. Rajan Mathews, Director General of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), said to ET Telecom that the needs of both the rural and urban areas are been addressed after the activation of common service centres....
Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV and Sun Direct Make 4 Pay TV Channels Free Tata Sky always stands first on the list when it comes to implementing new changes on the platform. And it will be soon followed by Airtel Digital TV. However, this time around, it was Sun Direct which first converted the four pay TV channels to Free to Air, followed by the other DTH operators. Sadly, Dish TV and D2h are yet to implement the changes, but it might happen by the end of this week....
How to Add a New Channel on Airtel Digital TV via SMS Users of Airtel Digital TV can send SMS via their registered mobile number, or they should have the customer ID for adding channels via SMS. Firstly, let’s talk about adding a new channel through the registered mobile number. To add any new channel, Airtel Digital TV users will have to send Add to 54325. For example, if the channel number is 105, then the SMS format would be Add 105 and send it to 54325....
Upgrade to Airtel Digital TV HD Set-Top Box The first upgrade that an Airtel Digital TV would consider is the upgrade to an HD Set-Top Box in case they are currently on an SD setup. Although it would be hard-pressed to find someone who does not use an HD Set-Top Box these days, there could be some users who would like to experience the five-time better picture quality that the HD STB offers along with Dolby Digital Sound....
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio always give each other strong competition whenever they do something. Be it in the broadband, mobile or enterprise space, Airtel and Jio don’t leave an opportunity to get an edge over each other with their services. While Jio has the largest wireless subscriber market share in the mobile connectivity business, Airtel has the highest average revenue per user (ARPU) figure. Currently, if you are looking for a prepaid plan that bundles OTT (over-the-top) benefits with long-term validity, then Airtel has the best offer you can get in the market....
Bharti Airtel, a leading telecom operator in India, has reached 48 cities in India with its 5G networks. The latest city to enter the portfolio of Airtel’s 5G cities is Puri in the state of Odisha. This means that now four cities of Odisha have 5G - Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, and Rourkela. Airtel customers in all these four cities would be able to consume 5G services at no additional cost....
Broadband Forum India (BIF) recently responded to the consultation papers floated by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for updating the definition of minimum internet speed from 512 Kbps to 2 Mbps for a broadband connection. But Bharti Airtel believes that there is no need for updating the definition as of yet. The telecom operator has said that 512 Kbps internet speed is fair for an internet connection to be recognised as wired broadband....
If you want to keep your Bharti Airtel SIM as the secondary connection and ensure that it is active all the time, you can go with the ‘Smart Recharge’ plan offered by the company. Bharti Airtel’s base prepaid plan of Rs 99 has been termed as a ‘Smart Recharge’ by the company. With this plan, users can keep their Airtel SIM active and also consume telecom services. Let’s check out the benefits offered with this plan and how it can be a good option to keep the SIM active....
Bharti Airtel has announced multiple new prepaid and postpaid plans (not regular ones) that international travellers will be able to leverage to call, text and browse the internet when they are travelling outside India. International travel has seen a massive surge as the scare of the pandemic subsided, and due to events such as FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, ICC T20 World Cup, concerts and more, consumers are travelling in higher numbers....
Bharti Airtel Delivered “Robust Performance Across Segments” Axis Securities in a report on Thursday said that Airtel was “aided by strong 4G momentum” as the operator’s 4G user base increased by over 50 lakhs on a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) basis. The Axis Bank subsidiary highlighted that the Airtel 4G user base at 18.4 crores translating to 57% of its overall user base. Similarly, Motilal Oswal, an Indian diversified financial services firm in a report on Wednesday highlighted that Airtel recorded “steady earnings despite lockdown....
Airtel Xstream Offers Quality Content for Education and Entertainment for Kids Airtel Xstream is one of the most popular digital content platforms of parents when it comes to Kids education and entertainment. The platforms offer a wide variety of shows, short films, movie, cartoons, documentaries, Nursery Rhymes and many more. Since the lockdown period has been announced by the government of India to combat COVID-19, all educational institutions have been shut down until April 14, 2020, which has bounded school goers to stay at homes....
Amantya Technologies, a global SI (system integration) and product engineering player, recently announced that it had successfully demonstrated a 5G VoNR (Voice over New Radio) call from its state-of-the-art lab in Gurgaon, India. Amantya has added to its rich portfolio of 5G network solutions portfolio with this successful demonstration. The company already has IP accelerators, including Astra 5G, avant-garde 5G solutions, 5G network-in-a-box, an end-to-end enterprise 5G solution, and a standalone (SA) core....
