Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are largely known for offering the same kind of prepaid plans to the users. Usually, it is Bharti Airtel who leads the way with launching a certain kind of plan which then Vodafone Idea (Vi) follows by launching a pretty similar one. But there are two plans under Rs 300 which the companies offer, and they both come with ditto same benefits for the same price as well....
India has three private telecom operators currently. All of them are working aggressively to increase their subscriber market share, and it has led to cheap data for the consumers. But that scenario is slowly drifting away. The game will soon change to who offers the best services rather than who offers them at the most affordable prices. Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio’s prepaid plans are the best for most people in India currently....
Bharti Airtel offers a range of services in India, including Direct-to-Home (DTH), broadband, and mobile network services. The company has established itself as a consistent and quality service provider regardless of the type of service it is providing. Its DTH arm, namely Airtel Digital TV, has been right at the top when it comes to providing satellite TV services. Airtel Digital TV has evolved very fast and has also been offering an Android DTH Box for a long-time now....
On Friday, Bharti Airtel announced that the telecom operator has upgraded its 4G network in Mumbai with the deployment of LTE 900 technology. This will significantly improve the network experience for all the smartphone users in the country. The telecom operator further reveals that with the rollout of 4G in the superior 900 Mhz spectrum band Airtel becomes Maharashtra’s ‘fastest’ mobile network. Airtel also reveals that the users will get additional high-speed data capacity....
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, has launched 5G in Pune airport. With this launch, Airtel has reached 11 cities with its 5G networks. Airtel 5G Plus has been announced for Pune Lohegaon Airport, making it the first airport in Maharashtra to enjoy the ultrafast 5G services from Bharti Airtel. This 5G service will be available for customers who are flying in and out of the airport. Airtel customers can enjoy blazing speeds on their mobile phones while they are at the arrival and departure terminals, boarding gates, lounges, immigration counters, migration, baggage claim belts, security areas, parking areas, etc....
Bharti Airtel has been in the Indian Telecom market for a long time now. The telco has seen the worst and the best of being in a competitive market such as India. It has survived every scenario and come out thriving because of the strategic approach it has towards everything it does. Today, one of the biggest aims for Bharti Airtel is increasing its average revenue per user (ARPU). Now that doesn’t happen in a day....
Bharti Airtel, one of the leading private telecommunications companies in India, has taken a big step towards expanding broadband coverage in India. Juniper Networks has just announced that it will be partnering with Bharti Airtel to help the telco in reaching more areas of India with broadband services. Bharti Airtel has built a strong FTTH presence in India with its sub-brand Airtel Xstream Fiber. The telco has already reached over 430 towns in the country....
Minimum Recharges Eat into Subscriber Base Last year, the telecom operator introduced minimum prepaid tariff recharges after it ultimately rolled up the talk time recharges clean from its portfolio. These minimum talk time recharges ensured that the customers of the telco were paying on a monthly basis to keep their services running. This move also had an adverse effect on the telco’s subscriber base as customers started switching sides and Airtel’s subscriber base shrunk by 48 million....
The Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) - India’s premier skill development institution for telecom, and Broadband India Forum (BIF) - the leading Policy think-tank for digital communications in the country, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) towards meeting and developing the manpower training requirements of BIF members, in accordance with the latest technologies and skilling standards. The MoU, which has been signed for a duration of 3 years, is aimed at facilitating the development of efficient and adequately skilled manpower resources amongst BIF’s member organisations, especially for next-generation technologies, including 5G, WI-FI (PM WANI), Internet of Things (IoT), Small Cells, Digital In-Building solutions and other emerging technologies....
Broadband internet is arguably the best source of connectivity if you are working from home as it is reliable and offers high speeds all the time. After the prepaid tariff hikes that the telecom operators have recently implemented, Indians might see the price of broadband plans going up as well. According to a PTI report, Tapabrata Mukherjee, co-founder, Meghbala Broadband, said just like telecom internet services, the average revenue per user (ARPU) needs to go up for broadband as well....
In the last few months, the demand for the 100 Mbps Broadband plan has been escalating. Internet service providers such as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Reliance Jio, Airtel and Excitel have come up with plans offering 100 Mbps which may not vary too much in terms of their benefits but are not completely identical either. Today we have a list of four broadband plans which are being offered by these companies and the benefits that the users will reap out of it....
One of the top telecom companies in India, BSNL offers a number of services to its millions of customers, including a wide range of internet plans and packages that can be customised to suit any demand or budget. It is one of the oldest and most reputable Indian telecom service company. A promotional fibre broadband plan is provided by BSNL. This plan is being offered for a short period, ending December 15, 2022....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is expected to roll out 4G networks across India by the end of 2022 if things remain good and timely. The state-run telco has faced many roadblocks whenever it tried to roll out 4G networks. In fact, BSNL had to scrap its initial 4G tender because of the interference from some institutions/bodies arguing that the telco is not prioritising Indian vendors for the network rollout....
BSNL Said Have Violated Public Procurement Policy The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) addressed the centre in the interdepartmental note and marked that the state-owned telecom operator BSNL has violated the terms of Public Procurement Policy of 2017, reports ET Telecom. The policy of Make in India was never put on the table by the telecom operator. The letter was also sent the Chairman of BSNL stating that if there is a default by the telco in follow up of government policies, corrective actions should be taken by the telco and the government order must be executed....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been under a lot of pressure financially because of losing subscribers and low revenues. The telco’s 4G tenders have been time and again interfered with and delayed. After a long time, a little development related to the 4G tender of the company has emerged. According to an ET Telecom report, Indian vendors, for whom BSNL has reserved 57,000 4G sites nationally, submitted Expression of Interest (EoI) for participating in the telco’s 4G tender....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the state-run telecom operator in India has announced two new monthly recharge plans for the customers. BSNL said that it will avail two new prepaid plans for the users on July 1, 2022. These two new plans will cost Rs 228 and Rs 239. Both the plans will be offered to the customers with a monthly validity. BSNL said that the recharge date for both plans will be the same every month....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is the leading wired broadband service provider in India. The Internet Service Provider (ISP) which provides Fibre-to-the-Home and DSL services right now has over seven million subscribers. As we have seen in recent months, BSNL is losing existing customers in the wired broadband segment almost every month. To stop losing customers, BSNL came up with aggressively priced broadband plans in October 2020, and the same plans are being extended recently for another 90 days....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is offering its ‘Cinemaplus’ (Yupp TV Scope) over-the-top (OTT) service without any additional cost to the users. But this offer is exclusive for the FTTH and DSL broadband customers of the telco. The state-run telecom operator will extend the free OTT service offer to both the existing as well as new customers. The free OTT service scheme is now available in all circles across India....
The Central Executive Committee (CEC) of BSNL Employees Union (BSNLEU) on Friday asked the BSNL unions and associations to “create compulsions on the government” for removing “road-blocks” in launch of BSNL 4G service. According to the BSNLEU, its CEC held a two day online meeting on September 10 and September 11, 2020, passing resolutions on multiple issues including the “denial of 4G technology” to BSNL. The CEC is said to have expressed its “deep anguish over the unbearable delay being caused” in the launch of BSNL 4G service....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), one of India’s largest internet service providers (ISPs), has removed its most affordable plan from the offering. We are talking about the Rs 329 plan that used to come with 20 Mbps speed and 1TB of data. However, the speed dropped to 2 Mbps once the data was entirely consumed. But now, this plan is not available in any circle of India. In July 2022, BSNL only offered this plan in six circles of India - Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana, Uttarakhand, and Lakshadweep UT....
