Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) isn’t the best option for you right now if you are looking to get a primary SIM and expect strong coverage if you are travelling. But BSNL offers pretty great plans if you are someone who is looking to keep a second SIM active at a very low or nominal cost. Especially people who earn wages or salary in several parts during a month and don’t have a substantial sum of cash to recharge with a big-priced plan right away....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the state-run telecom operator in India, has asked the government for more spectrum to roll out 5G. The government has already reserved 5G spectrum for the telco; however, it wants more frequencies for the 5G rollout. Devusinh Chauhan, Minister of State for Telecom, said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha that BSNL is seeking more 5G airwaves than what has been already reserved for it....

The frenzy of offers that Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is offering on its broadband plans and new broadband customers has lost count. The telecom operator is growing in leaps and bounds on the broadband front, as proven by the 11 lakh customer addition made by BSNL on the wired broadband front. In a new promotional scheme by BSNL, the new broadband customers or the existing broadband customers who make their bill payments from the online portal of BSNL will be eligible for getting a Google Nest Mini Device....

BSNL Deployed More than 5,000 4G Towers Last Year In its release, the government led telco noted that it has installed 54,000 towers in the 2018-19 period which is more than what BSNL had deployed in the past three years combined. The telecom operator also noted that it has also deployed 4G towers, and in the same period it was able to install 5,340 4G towers in the country till April 2019....

BSNL FTTH 500GB Plan The 500GB plan by BSNL is the first plan in the long series of Bharat Fibre FTTH plans. This plan offers 500GB data for an entire month at 50 Mbps speed, and then the speed is throttled down to 2 Mbps post the FUP-exhaustion. The monthly rental of this plan is Rs 777. There is also the annual payment option on this plan for Rs 7,770....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has introduced new international roaming special tariff vouchers (STVs) starting at Rs 895. The state-run telecom operator announced the same via its Chennai Twitter handle. There are three new STVs, and all of them are for users travelling to Bhutan. All three vouchers are in effect starting today, i.e., March 23, 2021, meaning Indians travelling to Bhutan can recharge with these plans. Let’s take a look at the three new international roaming STVs that BSNL has launched for users travelling to Bhutan....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has unveiled a new 100 Mbps plan dubbed as Fibro 425GB per Month CS359 CUL plan on a promotional basis. The state run operator has unveiled the Fibro 425GB per Month CS359 CUL plan in the Madhya Pradesh circle. BSNL has highlighted that the Bharat Fiber users in the Madhya Pradesh circle can subscribe to the Fibro 425GB per Month CS359 CUL plan till October 5, 2020....

BSNL STV 247 Launched: Benefits and Validity As mentioned above, the Rs 247 plan offers similar benefits as Rs 186/Rs 187 plans from BSNL, however, it has two days more validity and the voice calls will also be applicable in MTNL roaming areas of Mumbai and Delhi. For the unaware, BSNL last year started providing unlimited calling benefit even to MTNL subscribers and the STV 247 is also a part of it now....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has a broadband plan for users who don’t have fiber access in their area. The company still operates its older DSL broadband service and offers plans starting at Rs 399. JioFiber also offers a Rs 399 fiber broadband plan. But, if you don’t have JioFiber’s fiber internet services in your area, you can always go for the DSL broadband plan from BSNL, which costs Rs 399 too....

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) is a loss-making telecom operator surviving on the back of relief packages. Had it been a private telecom operator, it would have shut down by now. The government is pushing BSNL to deliver network services in rural parts of the nation. There were reports that BSNL would be providing 4G services in rural India where high-speed broadband services are not available. But that seems like a big promise when the technology has not even rolled out....

BSNL TV: Eligible STVs, Content and Available Circles Detailed Aforementioned, BSNL TV will be available only to the company’s prepaid customers for now and the reason behind the omission of postpaid subscribers is not known at the moment. Another thing worth noting is the app lacks Live TV service, which is underwhelming. So the app will just work as a Video-on-Demand service. Moving onto other details, BSNL is bundling the BSNL TV subscription with six prepaid STVs and they are STV 97, STV 365, STV 399, STV 997, STV 998 and STV 1999....

Cable TV Connections Stand at 11.7 Crore As per the data shared by the Information and Broadcasting minister, Prakash Javadekar, who shared the data while answering questions in the Lok Sabha, the ministry has revealed that there are 11.7 crore cable TV subscribers in the country right now. This data is available from the seeding data available for the multi-system operators (MSOs) and local cable operators (LCOs). During the questions, the minister also added that further data would be available once the digitation of the cable TV subscribers is complete in India....

The spread of COVID-19 has disrupted the business of Cable TV operators. Since the government announced the lockdown period to combat the deadly virus, production of new content from pay channels suffered. To ensure that cable operators don’t face financial distress, Maharashtra Cable Operators Foundation (MCOF) have urged the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) members who operate pay channels to provide a discount on pay tariffs for a period of four months starting from April 20 to August 20....

Other States Might Follow the Move And Indian Television report says it is expected that other states might direct the same orders. Since the beginning of the lockdown period, the total TV consumption of Indians has been increased by nearly 8% in the first week of COVID-19 outbreak. Not only this, the usage of smartphones and other electronic devices have also been raised by almost 6.2% to 25 hours a week....

Connect Broadband, a regional internet service provider has excellent entry-level broadband plans. The two most affordable plans offered by the company cost Rs 499 and Rs 599 per month. The plans offered by Connect Broadband come with unlimited data, where a limit of 3.3TB of data is mentioned in the terms and conditions of the company. The GST is applicable extra on the prices quoted by the company on its website....

The new portfolio would be available in retail and multi-brand stores across the country from April 1. “By an estimate, $1.1 billion would be the size of the Indian gaming industry by 2020. Community engagement, augmenting gaming as a profession and latest technological innovation is how we are defining the gaming landscape in India,” Anand Subramanya, Director, Product Marketing, CSB Dell India, told reporters here. The Alienware Area-51m is also the world’s first gaming laptop that supports upgradeable NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics, 64GB of memory and 2....

Dish TV Active Services This Festive Season First of all, Dish TV subscribers can get the ‘Bhakti Active’ service for just Rs 1.3 per day right now. This Active service offers subscribers devotional content 24 hours 7 days a week. The devotional programs include Aarti, Bhajan and more. There are also special programs on Hindu festivals showcased by the Bhakti Active service. One of the highlights of this Active Service is that it is completely ad-free....

Dish TV on Monday said that the disclosures filed by Yes Bank with the stock exchanges over the 24.19% acquisition in Dish TV contained “incorrect facts.” The second largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator in India in a filing with the stock exchanges said that it has not defaulted on any payment obligation to Yes Bank. Crucially, the DTH operator said that “no shares have been pledged by the Promoters of Dish TV or any other entity for the loans availed by Dish TV from Yes Bank....

Dish TV finds its mention when we count the top ranks of the DTH players in the country. However, Dish TV is also sadly bearers of one of the most brutal financial beating due to the pandemic. It is one among the lot which has suffered due to the reduced disposable income of the people. With jobs being lost, the migration of people from one part of the country to another, and the economy taking a massive dip, people have resorted to holding their cash stacks closer to heart, and supposedly this has hit the finances of Dish TV dipping its fourth-quarter results....

Most people today have moved on from the conventional TV watching experience of just consuming satellite content. There are now Android TV Boxes and Android TV sticks, and other kinds of products to help you stream over-the-top (OTT) content on the go on your TVs. No one wants to watch their favourite series or movies on small screens (smartphones and tablets); thus, DishSMRT Kit can help you stream your favourite OTT content on your TVs without the need of an Android Set-Top Box (STB)....