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Bharti Airtel Records Mobile Revenue Growth Despite No Hike in Tariff In its earnings release on Monday, Airtel highlighted that its mobile services revenue in India were up 19.1% YoY on a comparable basis driven by “strong” user additions. The second-largest wireless operator in India highlighted that its wireless user base in India is now around 35 crores with 4G user base now at 17.93 crores. Airtel said that its 4G user base was up by 1....

Airtel Rs 65 Smart Recharge Plan for Prepaid Users: What it Offers Now? As noted, the Rs 65 prepaid recharge from Airtel now comes with double talk time benefit in some circles and they are: Assam, Bihar and Jharkhand, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, North East, Orissa, Rajasthan, UP East, UP West and Uttarakhand and West Bengal. In circles like Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Kolkata, Delhi NCR, Chennai, Mumbai and others, the plan still comes with old benefits....

Airdopes 175 TWS Specifications and Price The newly launched Airdopes 175 TWS arrives with a 10mm audio driver setup that ensures a balanced and immersive sound quality for the users. The earbuds have an in-ear design along with a stem as well. For the sound part, the earbuds feature a quad mic setup that helps enable a clear audio calling experience. The Airdopes 175 come with support for Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are the four active telecom service providers in India who are directly selling services to consumers. All of these telcos have been after gaining new users to increase their subscriber market share for the last few years. But for now, the telcos seem to focus more on their average revenue per user (ARPU) figure than the number of customers they are adding....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has not been able to launch 4G services throughout India because of the restrictions that it had to face last year. The state-run telco had to scrap its 4G tender since objections were raised against the telco getting its core network equipment from foreign vendors. BSNL was then asked to purchase equipment from Indian vendors. Now, the Ministry of Communications (MoC), which was earlier in support of the telco, has turned down its request of sourcing core network equipment from foreign vendors such as Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is the most affordable option for prepaid mobile customers in India right now. This is because the state-run telco is the only operator who didn’t implement prepaid tariff hikes, unlike its private rivals, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi). There’s a prepaid plan that BSNL offers to customers that none of the private operators does. This is a plan that every telco should offer in the country, not at the same price as BSNL’s, but a plan like this would do wonders....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) recently launched a new prepaid plan and withdrew two old ones. The state-run telco also announced a full-talk time offer with the Rs 60 top-up plan. The announcement was made on the official Twitter handle of BSNL Chennai. With effect to April 3, 2021, BSNL users will be able to subscribe to a new prepaid plan called PV197. However, the telco has removed two of its plans at the same time - STV-1098 and STV-998....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is in the process of rolling out 4G using homegrown technology. At a time like this, there are, of course, international vendors who are ready to deliver the things that BSNL needs. While the Chinese operators are not going to be part of 5G and upcoming 4G projects in India, there are other European vendors with which the Indian companies are partnering. Nokia, a prominent Finnish telecom gear vendor, is one such company which has partnered with the private telcos in India to help them with their 5G journey....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) recently commissioned additional 10 Gbps International Bandwidth for internet connectivity at Agartala through Cox Bazar, Bangladesh. The development took place on April 21, 2022. With this, users in Agartala will face less network congestion, and the latency of the network connection will also reduce. This will help people living in Meghalaya and other North-Eastern states of the country to experience better internet. It is worth noting that back on November 26, 2021, BSNL had commissioned one 10 Gbps International Bandwidth in Agartala....

BSNL’s workforce is now reduced to nearly 50% with around 85,000 employees left following the voluntary retirement. The Central government had earlier asked BSNL to cut back their 1.63 lakh manpower to reduce the financial crisis. The telecom giant now expects its annual salary expenses will go down from 2,272 crores to 500 crores. What Will the BSNL VRS Scheme Offers to Employees? The VRS 2019 scheme, now closed, was one-time retirement package for the BSNL employees over the 50 years of age....

BSNL STV 998: Whopping 420GB Data on Offer BSNL is usually not known for launching prepaid plans in Kerala, especially when compared to other circles. However, the company is treating its Kerala customer equal to other circles. For example, it launched three attractive prepaid plans recently- Rs 997, Rs 365 and Rs 97 recently, and now, it has come up with the data-only prepaid plan of Rs 998. Aforesaid, BSNL is not providing voice calling and SMS benefits with this prepaid plan since it’s a data-only prepaid plan....

The Indian telecom sector is dominated by three private players – Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea. However, the state-owned telco BSNL also provides prepaid plans that offer benefits just as the other operators. As a matter of fact, BSNL provides both short-term and long-term prepaid plans for its users that offer a hefty amount of data. However, in this article, we are going to take a look at the prepaid plans offered by BSNL for its users who are looking for long-term plans with substantial data benefits....

BSNL Rs 1,699 Yearly Plan Revised: Check New Benefits Private telecom operators brought a price hike in December 2019 as part of which they increased the tariffs by up to 40%. However, BSNL did not increase the tariff prices because it lacks 3G services and it also makes no sense to hike the prepaid plan prices. The price hike from BSNL was always on the cards and it is finally here....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has completed its 4G trials in collaboration with the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT). The telco was also working on building 5G NSA networks along with 4G, said a C-DoT official. According to a PTI report, the parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology, Chaired by Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor said BSNL should be allocated 5G spectrum at par with the private telcos of the country....

New Price for BSNL SIM Replacement To recall, last year, BSNL had hiked the SIM replacement cost from Rs 10 to Rs 100. This was a 10x hike which was not appreciated by the subscribers of BSNL. However, now BSNL has issued a notification informing that it is bringing down the SIM replacement cost for its subscribers down by 50% meaning that now to get a BSNL SIM replaced, the subscribers would only have to shell out Rs 50....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is targeting to launch its 4G services in multiple parts of the country this year. The state-run telco has selected Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as its technology partner for the same. Both the companies are working together to deploy India’s first homegrown 4G network. This will also mark the entry of TCS into the telecom equipment manufacturing business. Sushil Kumar Mishra, Director (Consumer Mobility), BSNL, said the telco would make use of monopoles initially rather than the smart towers for delivering 4G network services in India....

Audio chat room platform Clubhouse became popular across the globe for its privacy features and exclusiveness to iOS users. Only invited users are able to enter the chatroom, and the users without any invite can’t even sign up to participate on any private or public chat group. So far, the application is exclusive for iOS users only. However, it was highly speculated that the company is working on an Android version as well....

CUTS International has managed to bag a grant under the second round of the Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership (AICCTP) programme coordinated by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for its project - ‘Ethical 6G - Identifying Elements of an Ethical Framework for 6G and Creating Opportunities for India and Australia’. For this, CUTS has partnered with the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIITB) and the Australian Risk Policy Institute (ARPI)....

Tata Sky and D2h In The Same Price Range After the reduction in price, the cost of HD Set-Top Boxes of Tata Sky and D2h have become similar. But the thing with Tata Sky is that it is selling both its HD and SD STBs in the same price of Rs 1,499. As of today, Airtel Digital TV is providing the cheapest HD and SD Set-Top Boxes. If you go with Airtel Digital TV, the cost of SD Set-Top Box will be Rs 1,100, and for the HD Set-Top Box it will be Rs 1,300....

Sports Channels Starting at Rs 17 per Month With Two Month Lock-in D2h has put out a poster giving out information about its latest offering for the cricket fans. Since almost all TV viewers watch IPL without exception, D2h is offering the option for subscribing to major sports channels for two months so that viewers will be able to enjoy these channels without any hindrance or long term commitment. All the channels listed by D2h for this offer are available at the rate of Rs 19 per month except for Star Sports 1 Tamil which is available for Rs 17 per month....