The popular smartphone manufacturer Vivo has launched its Vivo Y01 budget smartphone in India. The company had originally introduced the device in Africa recently and the handset was first rumoured back in January this year revealing information about its design and specs. This entry-level smartphone has been launched by the company in India without any prior announcement and comes with a MediaTek chipset with a price mark being below Rs 10,000....

Vodafone, a major telecom player and EdgeQ, a leader in 5G wireless infrastructure, have shaken hands to develop the next-gen, software programmable 5G ORAN platforms. The companies are leveraging ORAN (Open-RAN) to deliver the world’s first open programmable, fully in-line L1 acceleration card capable of supporting multi-carrier, massive MIMO. What’s interesting about this platform is that it converges the entire physical 4G/5G layer onto a single card for addressing the 5G macro cell deployments....

All Rounder Packs Explained Firstly, it is worth noting that All Rounder Packs are an affordable offering which do not go beyond Rs 300 per recharge. This means that the recharges are more suitable for people who would like to extend their validity by a certain number of days, without spending a lot and in the process also getting some reasonable data and calling benefits. There are the All Rounder Packs that the Vodafone subscribers can find in the portfolio for recharging their accounts....

Vodafone Launches Rs 129, Rs 199 and Rs 269 Open Market Plans Vodafone is always known for launching new plans in its leadership circles and it continues even after the new tariff revision. Just when everyone thought that there are just a few tariff plans available for prepaid subscribers after the revision, Vodafone has come up with four new plans, including three open market plans. The Rs 129 prepaid recharge from Vodafone offers 2GB data, unlimited voice calling to any network without any FUP limit and 300 SMSes for 14 days....

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in the country, has just announced its financial results for the last quarter of FY22 as well as the complete financial year. From the data, it can be seen that the telco’s average revenue per user (ARPU) jumped to Rs 124 from Rs 115, up by 7.5% QoQ. In addition to this, the telco’s average daily revenue also grew 7.7% QoQ (the highest for a quarter since the merger)....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has recently announced that it has started the process of 3G spectrum migration to 4G in all sites of Delhi and NCR. This would allow the telecom operator to enhance GIGAnet 4G capacity in the capital of the country. For doing so, Vi has deployed 5 MHz of 2100 MHz spectrum band in the city. This would ensure that Vi users living in the Delhi and NCR region are enabled to browse the internet at very high download and upload speeds....

There is no doubt that Vodafone Idea’s prepaid offerings are better than what any other telco offers. The company has introduced some very exciting and amazing offers for its users at regular intervals, which have helped it add new subscribers in the month of February 2021. Most of the prepaid users who look for a medium-term plan opt for the 84 days offering because of the value for money proposition offered by the telcos....

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in the country has decided to defer Rs 8837 crore worth of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues for four years. The option to do this was given to the telco by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Vodafone Idea will now pay the said amount in six equal instalments post the moratorium period starting from March 31, 2026. The company said that the old communication from DoT dated October 14, 2021, provided deferment of AGR-related dues as determined by the Supreme Court (SC) in the AGR case, by a period of four years....

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Unsure About Payment of Dues There is a term being thrown around by the telecom operators, and the companies are terming it as a matter of “going concern” meaning that the company has the ability to meet its financial obligations for the next 12 months. On this matter, the Sunil Bharti Mittal led telecom operator has said that it might not be able to raise additional funds to pay for the dues that have come up as the result of the new Supreme Court order on the matter of AGR....

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in the country, is offering users 1GB of daily data for free for 7 days. The offer might be available for few customers only depending on the region they live in or the kind of pack they have. One of our members living in the Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh circle received this offer. The offer was provided to the member today, i.e., June 17, 2021, and will stay in place until June 23, 2021....

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom company in India, is making moves with 5G. The telco has been working with several technology partners/vendors to develop new use cases of 5G relevant to the Indian market. Now, Vi has made an announcement regarding the launch of its 5G services. The telco has been texting to its customers in Delhi about the ’nearby’ launch of services. The exact message from Vi read, “Good News!...

Vodafone Idea Finished 86% Network Integration In an official statement, Vodafone Idea remarked, “Integration is progressing well and is expected to complete by Q1FY21. In the remaining five circles, integration continues to move at a rapid pace based on a cluster-by-cluster approach, with subscribers of both brands benefitting from the integrated network, which has significantly greater coverage and capacity.” In January 2020, Vodafone Idea informed that it had finished network integration in Uttar Pradesh (E), Gujarat and Delhi taking the total of states to be integrated in the network to 17....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) offers some of the best and most unique prepaid plans to the users. Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are usually ahead of Vodafone Idea in terms of providing cheaper plans with more benefits. Still, one place where Vi wins from both the telcos is in offering cheaper data. It has a prepaid plan which offers 1GB of data for Rs 2.08 only. This plan comes with over-the-top (OTT) benefits and more....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) had reportedly prepaid Rs 2700 crore to the State Bank of India (SBI) in order to gain the trust of the lenders back. The telco wants to raise more funds for the 5G rollout and 4G expansion, and winning the trust of the lenders was important to do so. Vi’s stock jumped on Monday in a significant manner. At the time of writing, the telco’s stock is trading for Rs 9....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) is extending the VoWi-Fi service to new states. The third-largest telco has now extended the service for its users living in Rajasthan. VoWi-Fi is a very convenient medium for users to make crystal clear voice calls if they are in an area where the mobile network connectivity is weak. With the addition of the Rajasthan circle, VoWi-Fi will now be available in a total of 6 circles in India which also includes Gujarat, Maharashtra & Goa, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Delhi....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has launched India’s first cell broadcast-based public warning system with the Andhra Pradesh government and Celltick. The company will be taking the help of Celltick, one of the largest cell-broadcast based products provider and a global leader of Public Warning Systems. Celltick announced that Vodafone Idea (Vi) has become the first telecom operator in the state of Andhra Pradesh to support the CAP-compliant Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS)....

Vodafone RED Postpaid plans and Benefits Vodafone RED Postpaid Plans With ISD and Other Benefits It is worth noting that Vodafone has also introduced a new fancy mobile number booking service for its subscribers where you will be able to choose your vanity numbers. The telco has also been providing doorstep delivery of new prepaid SIM on the first-time recharge of Rs 249.

WhatsApp is arguably the biggest texting platform in the world. With multiple billion downloads, the Facebook-owned application has become an integral part of many people’s lives. Whether it is taking to a sick relative, wishing happy birthdays, or communicating for officer work, WhatsApp allows people to do everything. Many people leverage the application daily to communicate with most of the people they know. This makes WhatsApp one of the most integral applications on any smartphone....

WhatsApp, one of the most popular communication tools, has more than a billion users. You can connect with people using the many useful features that WhatsApp has to offer. Additionally, some apps provide functions that WhatsApp does not yet support. Consequently, the top 5 Android apps for enhancing WhatsApp are listed below. WhatsAuto Reply Many people manage and market their businesses via WhatsApp. WhatsAuto Reply is a well-liked stand-in that can reply to new texts with a preset text that will let customers know you’ll be back soon if you don’t have time to respond right away....

WhatsApp is not working for several million users across the globe. The outage has caused the messages to be left undelivered. The company has already started restoring the texting services. At 2:21 PM IST, WhatsApp messages started getting delivered. The exact time of the outage is unclear. What was the reason behind the said outage is also unclear at the moment. But it is regarded as one of the biggest WhatsApp outages....