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Tata Sky 500 Mbps Plan The unlimited 500 Mbps plan from Tata Sky comes at a monthly cost of Rs 2,300. A month is counted as a total of 30 calendar days. Users can get this plan for the long term as well as the company offers the 500 Mbps plan for different validity periods. For a period of three months, users can get the plan for Rs 6,900, for a validity period of six months the plan costs Rs 12,900 on which users actually save Rs 900 and lastly for a period of one year the plan costs Rs 24,600 saving Rs 3000 for the users....

Tata Sky Subscribers Have Access to Most Number of HD Channels Tata Sky has been one of the premium DTH operators alongside Airtel Digital TV in India. Both the companies always try their best to deliver premium services to the users and it can be seen in various aspects like the total number of Set-Top Boxes on offer, warranty service and various channel packs on offer. As for the HD channels we are speaking, Tata Sky has a total of 91 of them on offer at the moment....

Tata Sky Again Revises SD and HD Set-Top Box Prices Tata Sky always competes with Airtel Digital TV when it comes to Set-Top Box prices. It has now increased the prices of both Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) Set-Top Boxes. For the unaware, Tata Sky was offering both SD and HD STBs at Rs 1,399. After the latest revision, it has increased the cost of same STBs by Rs 100 taking the new price to Rs 1,499....

Tata Sky Broadband, a subsidiary of Tata Sky Limited has introduced a new 200 Mbps unlimited plan at Rs 1050 per month. The operator with its presence in 14 cities across India revamped its broadband plans in the past week with the service provider also enabling its users to avail landline services. In late May, Tata Sky Broadband revamped its service plans with the operator also reducing its Fixed GB plan offerings to four tiers in the majority of the cities where it offered its services....

Tata Sky Multi-TV Policy and Non-Compliance with New Tariff Regime A Tata Sky representative has said that all the connections starting June 15 will be billed independently and not according to the multi-TV policy. The Tata Sky representative said, “If you do not change your packs of secondary boxes, then post June, your prices of each box will be same as that of primary box price. So to have the prices of all the boxes in your budget we recommend you to change the pack of each box and control your budget....

Tecno Pova 3 was recently launched. Looking at the specifications and the price of the smartphone, it is hard to ignore the fact that it could give very strong competition to the likes of Xiaomi, Oppo, Realme, and other brands in the same price range. Tecno Pova 3 is meant for people who are looking for getting the most of out a very affordable device. Let’s just take a look at what its specifications are to get an idea about how the smartphone is such a good deal....

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea to Take the Most Hit Out of the total spectrum usage charges that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will ask from the telecom operators, 85% will be demanded from Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel. As per the estimates calculated by DoT, the Sunil Bharti Mittal led telco will pay somewhere around Rs 22,940 crore which would include interest and penalties. Whereas, the dues for Vodafone Idea have been pegged to be around Rs 11,000 crore....

Zee5 Set to Soon Receive Performance Enhancements In its earnings release, Zee Entertainment Enterprises said that its operating revenue hit Rs 1965.8 crores in its fourth quarter of the 2021 financial year, translating to 0.8% year-over-year (YoY) increase. The company said that the Zee5 platform for the month of March recorded 7.26 crore global monthly active users (MAU) while its daily active users (DAU) were at 61 lakhs. Goenka said that the Zee5 annual pricing was reduced to Rs 499 in the fourth quarter “in line with what is happening in the market....

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has given the telecom operators yet another good news. Much recently, the government had announced the relief package for the sector. Now, according to a PTI report, the DoT is reducing the performance and financial bank guarantees (BGs) for the telecom operators by over 80%. According to the earlier mandated rule, the telecom operators had to provide up to Rs 220 crores as a performance bank guarantee for each service of the telecom sector....

The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme introduced by the government for several sectors is a good thing for the Indian economy in the long run. The telecom sector’s PLI scheme is also live since April 1, 2021, and multiple companies such as Nokia, HFCL, and other big vendors want to be a part of it. The scheme is worth Rs 12,195 crores and will provide big companies with incentives of between 4% to 6% and small companies with incentives of up to 7% if they hit the target....

TelecomTalk conducted a short survey/poll on its official Twitter handle around tariff hikes that Jio, Airtel, and Vi (Vodafone Idea) implemented. A total of 396 votes came in this short survey. After the closing of the poll, over 33.3% or one-third of the voters said that they were okay with the tariff hikes from the private telcos. But the remaining 66.7% of voters said that they weren’t okay with the tariff hikes....

In a bid to take on Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Telegram is rolling out a slew of new features. The first major feature gained by Telegram is auto delete messages which was added to WhatsApp as disappearing messages feature a couple of months ago. Telegram used to offer this feature on Secret Chats, but it is now enhanced with timer functionality. Telegram also added the ‘Broadcast Groups’ feature where participants can connect with a live voice chat....

Messaging systems undergo significant changes on a regular basis as cloud-based services work to improve the applications’ usability by supplying a variety of capabilities. Apps like WhatsApp are consequently becoming more feature-rich, with some even allowing users to make payments over the programme. Telegram has also developed highly profitable features that set it apart from its rivals in an effort to stay neck-and-neck with them. As a strong WhatsApp substitute, Telegram has been immensely popular in recent years....

Netflix has confirmed Season 4 of The Umbrella Academy. The OTT (over-the-top) streaming giant has also said that it would be the last and final season. The Umbrella Academy’s Season 3 felt like it would be the last as everyone lost their powers and the world returned to normal. But apparently, there’s still more to the show that the creators want the audience to see. Thus, via an Instagram post, Netflix has announced that S4, which will also be the last season for The Umbrella Academy, is coming....

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has introduced a few changes to the way fixed-line networks and national long distance (NLD) networks work. The new rules are aimed at making interconnectivity easier between two fixed-line networks or between fixed-line networks and national long-distance networks. According to an industry observer, these new rules from Trai will bring convenience and clarity for fixed-line operators. Along with this, it will also focus on the areas such as the closure of interconnect points in case of service discontinuation in a short distance charging area....

India’s telecom regulator has come up with a list of registered telemarketers and their SMS codes used for sending unsolicited commercial communication (UCC). The move is aimed at helping customers to raise complaints or grievances against telemarketers who spam them using the short message service (SMS) service. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had last week issued a direction regarding the implementation of the telecom commercial communications customer preference regulations (TCCCPR), 2018....

Trai Makes Another Amendment to QoS Regulations Trai has stated, “However, in view of the other suggestions of the stakeholders that they are open to share their API with TRAI and also willing to modify their APP and website as per guidelines issued by TRAI, the Authority is not mandating DPOs to share their APIs with the third party at this stage.” As a result of this, Trai has made a second amendment to the quality of service and consumer protection regulations thus pushing a mandate to the DPOs that they ought to make the channel selection process easier and more convenient for the subscribers....

Trai to Make Recommendations on 4G Airwaves As per the ET Telecom report, Trai chairman RS Sharma said, “We have received reference a couple of days back on 4G spectrum allocation to BSNL and MTNL. We will issue a consultation paper and hold open house discussion on it soon.” Up till now, the industry regulator had not received any formal regulation from the department regarding the allocation of 4G spectrum to these two state-owned telcos....

The Chinese business is now providing the most recent version of its custom skin to two more handsets after seeding the stable Realme UI 4.0 update with Android 13 to the more expensive Realme 9 Pro+ earlier this month. The most recent Android 13-based devices to receive the firmware are the Realme 9 Pro and Realme 9i 5G. The update is currently being distributed to 15% of all users of both smartphones, and a wider deployment will start by the end of December....

Verizon and T-Mobile are two of the biggest telecom operators in the USA. Both the companies have quite similar prepaid offerings where Verizon’s services come across as slightly more premium than T-Mobile’s because of the price of the plans. The ‘Start Unlimited’ plan from Verizon and the Essentials plan from T-Mobile are quite similar, and their pricing varies marginally. The speciality of both the plans is that both of them offer 5G access to the customers....