BSNL has extended the free 4G SIM card offer in its leading circle Kerala till March 31. Besides the free 4G SIM card offer extension, BSNL also issued a new press release stating it is enabling free call forwarding facility in Chennai and Tamil Nadu telecom circles. In Kerala, BSNL is providing 4G services in majority of the cities, so for those who are looking to upgrade, there’s no better time....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has just launched a new first recharge coupon (FRC) of Rs 249. It is a new voucher which is available for users for a limited period only. The BSNL FRC 249 offers users 2GB daily data along with unlimited voice calling and 100 SMS/day. Its validity is 60 days which is a substantial period given the benefits and the plan’s price. The plan is giving 1GB extra every day, which is included in the benefit of 2GB daily data....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has given Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) a contract worth Rs 550 crore for setting up 6000 4G sites across India. The state-run telco is initially targeting areas of the country which are going to be highly profitable and where the infrastructure is ready. BSNL has plans of installing over 1.12 lakh new 4G sites across India to roll out fast-network connectivity services. BSNL is Finally on the Way to Roll Out 4G This is a positive development for the BSNL fans and supporters and also the consumers in the country who will soon get another option apart from the private telcos to choose from....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has confirmed that the 4G launch has been pushed ahead to the second half of 2023. This is a strange development given the fact that BSNL had already completed the proof of concept (PoC) trial with TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), and a commercial deal between the two companies was only left. Ashwini Vaishnaw, union telecom minister, had said that BSNL would launch 4G in early 2023....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the state-run telecom operator, has not generated profits for a very long time now. The government of India has pushed the telco to roll out homegrown 4G, and that has been one of the key reasons why BSNL hasn’t launched 4G in India yet. Devusinh Chauhan, minister of state for communications, said that BSNL is at a loss because of the high employee cost over the years, lack of 4G and high debt....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the state-run telecom operator, has rationalised all of its prepaid plans. The prepaid plans offered by the telco would deliver uniform speed once the FUP (fair-usage-policy) data limit has been reached. What this simply means is once you have consumed the high-speed data that your prepaid plan promised you, the speed for your data would be reduced to a uniform level. If you are a BSNL user, then you know that different plans offer different benefits....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) offers users a long-term prepaid plan with which users get lump-sum data along with plenty of other benefits. The thing with BSNL’s prepaid plans right now is that you don’t really know what to expect out of them. While they may offer great benefits, there are no PAN-India 4G networks available. Not every user might go for the yearly plan if they have kept the BSNL’s SIM as a secondary one in their device....

State-run telecom operator BSNL brings new offers for Independence Day and Republic Day every year. And it continues this year for Republic Day 2021. BSNL Republic Day 2021 Offers include extra validity on two long-term prepaid recharges of Rs 2,399 and Rs 1,999. The government-owned company also launched a new STV 398 with 30 days validity. On top of that, the telco has made a major revision by removing the FUP limit on voice calls....

Revision of BSNL Rs 186 Prepaid Voucher Firstly, we will take the prepaid voucher for Rs 186, which is one of the more popular one owing to the benefits it offers. The validity of this plan is 28 days, and in this period, this prepaid voucher used to bundle unlimited local, STD and roaming calls to everywhere excluding Mumbai and Delhi. Also, the plan used to offer unlimited data with an after-FUP speed of 40 Kbps after 1 GB per day....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is set to outsource its network maintenance and customer services to keep up with the current “market trends and business requirements.” The development was shared by the BSNL general manager in a letter to the chief general managers across the BSNL Territorial circles on August 27, 2020. According to the letter, the outsourcing model has turned into a “necessity for business growth.” It has been said that a new unit has been proposed under the BSNL marketing department to “look into the exclusive work of Partnership Management....

BSNL has launched a new service for its customers wherein they would be able to enjoy VPN services with very easily affordable monthly costs. As per the advert of BSNL, this service is mainly for corporates and companies who find the need for Virtual Private Networks. The thing to note here is that the VPN service of BSNL will only be applicable on the 3G networks exclusively which is something BSNL has highlighted....

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has shared its hard stance on the private 5G networks in India. The industry body, which represents the private telcos in the country, said that there’s no “justification” for offering spectrum directly to the enterprises for private 5G. COAI said that licensed access service providers are fully capable of delivering all the customised solutions, including M2M / Industrial 4.0 services, in the most economical and competitive manner....

Connect Broadband is gaining traction among users in India. It offers good plans at the basic and entry-level price points. Most ISPs do not offer plans bundled with offers in the affordable price segments but Connect Broadband has changed the scenario with a slew of offerings. The ISP provides multiple plans ranging from 40 Mbps to 100 Mbps speed offering attractive benefits including unlimited data, bundled entertainment services and much more....

India should focus on covering the 2G and 4G users to 5G at the earliest, said Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). Speaking at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) 2021, Ambani said that keeping millions of Indians at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid confined to 2G is depriving them of the digital revolution. According to the Indian business tycoon, the rollout of 5G networks should be the topmost priority of India....

D2h Direct to Mobile App Features and Other Details In simple words, the D2h Direct to Mobile app comes in a 9.2MB package and is the Live TV app for D2h subscribers. D2h is one of the DTH providers which offers a separate app for Live TV. Using this app, D2h customers can watch 100+ Live TV channels and 5,000+ video-on-demand content. The Direct to Mobile app also offers Data Saving Mode which will help you view as much content as possible in limited data....

Daiwa, India’s one of the fastest-growing brands in the TV segment has just launched two HD Ready Smart TVs powered by Cloud TV. The Smart TVs have model numbers D32SM9 and D40HDR9L and feature 80cm or 32-inch and 98cm or 39-inch display respectively. The HD Ready Smart TVs come with their own user-friendly UI – ‘The BIGWALL’ and provide a bundle of TV apps, global content, and more resulting in an overall enhanced experience for the users....

Dish TV, one of the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators in India introduced an extended warranty scheme for the D2h subscribers for Rs 99. The extended warranty scheme covers the Set-Top Boxes (STBs) with the amount said to be exclusive of GST (Goods and Services Tax). Under the scheme, the subscribers need to pay the aforementioned fee and they will get an extended warranty of one year on their STBs. To register for the extended warranty, the subscriber can visit the website of the DTH operator, find the offer page and enter their registered Customer ID and pay the amount....

Vodafone Double Data Offer Applied on Three Plans The company under its double data offer provided users with 1.5GB of additional high speed data on three plans including Rs 249 plan, Rs 399 plan and Rs 599 plan. While the plans had a base 1.5GB of high speed data, the company offered 1.5GB of additional data which meant a cumulative 3GB of high speed data per day. It has to be noted that Vodafone users in other circles can still avail the offer including users in Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka circles....

Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators have slightly been sidelined by the popular over-the-top (OTT) platforms. Most of the broadcasters have their own OTT apps too with a freemium business model where a lot of content that people have to pay for to watch on TVs is free. For the last few months, the subscriber churn rate for the DTH operators has been high and stagnant. There are very limited DTH operators in the country and all of them have a different strategy for acquiring and retaining customers....

SC Unlikely to Extend Help to Telecom Companies Vodafone Idea has been searching for relief from various avenues. The telecom operator first sought relief from the government but has already exhausted that opportunity. The telco also filed a review petition on the decision of the Supreme Court to challenge the order of the apex court, but it is unlikely that the telco will get some relief from there too. This means that there is quite a high probability that Vodafone Idea might miss out on paying its dues which are comprised of Spectrum Usage Charged (SUC), license fees, interests, penalties and the interests on those penalties....