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The Indian telecom operators might have to pay lesser adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues going forward. One of the biggest pain points of the telecom industry of India is the high amount of levies on any and everything they want to do. The telecom industry is currently working on a micro-definition of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) to solve higher levy issues, reports Livemint. S.P. Kochhar, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), said the work on a micro-definition of AGR is going on....

Transsion Holdings brand Infinix officially entered the Smart TV market in India. The company has announced two Smart TVs under its Infinix X1 series; The two TVs are Infinix 32X1 and Infinix 43X1. As the name of the TVs itself suggests, the Infinix 32X1 has a 32-inch screen whereas the 43X1 model rocks a 43-inch display. They are powered by Android TV, has a 64-bit MediaTek processor, 1GB of RAM and the displays also offer HDR10 support....

Infinix Note 12i is the latest device to be launched by Infinix for the Indian market. The device is an entry-level smartphone meant for the masses to be able to consume 4G services. The Infinix Note 12i has a big display and a triple-camera setup at the rear. It is a dual SIM 4G VoLTE device with a 3.5mm audio jack for wired earphone lovers and a USB Type-C 2....

Apple had an array of iOS releases recently. The tech giant first released iOS 15.2 and iPad OS 15.2 last Monday, featuring a few bug fixes, enhancements and new features such as Apple Music Voice Plan, App Privacy report, Apple Music using Siri and Hide My Email in the mail app for iCloud users. Within a few days, Apple also released iOS 15.3. Now reports suggest that Apple is gearing up for the iOS 16 release....

Want to join the Apple community but don’t want to shell out a lot of cash? If your spending limit is less than Rs 50,000, you should look into the iPhone 12’s bargain on Croma. This is so that the iPhone 12 64GB can be purchased for less than Rs 50,000. Included in the package are bank offers from HDFC. Just one month remains until the release of the iPhone 14, so retailers are scrambling to provide discounts on the older models....

Apple’s iPhone 13 series probably had the last ‘mini’ device users are going to see for a long-time. There’s no confirmation about the absence of the iPhone 14 mini, but there are a lot of rumours and hints from credible sources that say this time Apple’s going with all the big-sized iPhones. However, if in 2022 you are looking for a powerful and compact smartphone, the iPhone 13 mini could be a good bet for you....

If you are an Android smartphone user, you are likely not worried about finding a charger if you left yours at home because almost everyone has a Type-C charger today. But the same is not the case with iPhone users. iPhones come with a Lightning port which is very much different from a Type-C port. In the world of tech, to make things easier for consumers as well as manufacturers, standardisation is pushed for....

Vivo has been attempting to improve the charging speed of its phones for quite some time now. According to reports, the iQOO 10 Pro will have insane 200W wired and a 65W wireless fast charging support. Let’s learn more about this latest development. iQOO 10 Pro Battery Technology and Details Revealed We already know that Vivo has been working tirelessly to improve the battery technology of its smartphones which includes both charging and battery life....

iQOO Z3 5G is one of the most value offering smartphones in the country today. iQOO has launched the device with a Qualcomm chipset and a very impressive display. The smartphone comes with a triple-camera setup at the rear and has a decent-sized battery as well. But the best part of the device is that it has been priced very good. For the unaware, the device had already launched in the China market but now has made its way to India....

The competition among the telecom operators in India is pretty high and they keep coming up with offers and benefits to attract more users. The demand for Over-The-Top (OTT) platforms has risen significantly in the past few years and it is quite common for the telcos to bundle up subscriptions to a few OTT platforms with the plans offered by them. All the three private telcos – Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea or Vi provide several prepaid plans that come with access to various OTT platforms....

Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, and Reliance Jio all offer 2.5GB daily data prepaid plans. The only thing worth noting here is that Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel offer their 2.5GB daily data prepaid plans with a very short validity of 28 days, while Reliance Jio offers its same plan for 365 days. So if you are looking for this sort of plan with short-term validity, go for Vodafone Idea or Airtel, and if you are looking for something like for long-term, Jio is the way to go....

In a new development, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made it compulsory for the telcos in India – Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL to feature at least one tariff plan which provides the validity period of 30 days. TRAI announced on Thursday, bringing a change to the telecommunications order of 1999, that every telecom operator is required to offer at least one plan voucher, one special tariff voucher and one combo voucher with 30 days validity....

Residents of border regions including Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Arunachal Pradesh can now get telecom services. The associated limits for the licence have been changed by the central government to simplify the rule. By enabling Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) to provide access close to the international border, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) took a crucial decision. Information on the border region’s telecommunications services in more detail The Department’s announcement will make it easier for telecom companies to provide services in areas where they are currently sparse....

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) had made their prepaid plans with SMS benefits quite expensive. Users had to pay a substantial amount of money to buy a prepaid plan with SMS benefits just to be able to port out. But the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has changed that now. Telecom operators can no longer stop users from porting out with low-end prepaid plans. While the users still can’t send SMS with the low-end prepaid plans, they can now send port out SMS at least....

Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel will further benefit from the rise in data usage that the 5G launch in India would bring. 5G launch is not far away as Jio had declared that it would bring 5G services to four Indian cities by October and the same stance is of Airtel. Both telcos have a majority of the market share in terms of revenues and subscribers. Vodafone Idea’s 5G expansion plans would be very much dependent on its ability to raise funds from external investors, which looks hard until the time government claims its equity in the company....

Indian telecom operators, including Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea (Vi), Bharti Airtel and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), have received a new order from DoT (Department of Telecommunications). According to the new order, all the above-mentioned telcos would have to stop the SMS facility on a new SIM (subscriber identification module) for 24 hours or one day from its issue. But this is only when the case is of SIM swapping or SIM replacement....

Reliance Jio is India’s number one telecom operator. Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), announced the 5G launch timeline from Jio at the company’s 45th Annual General Meet (AGM). Ambani said that Jio’s 5G would reach every town in India by December 2023, which is mostly 15 months away from here. In addition, Ambani said that Jio’s 5G launch would come in four cities in India by this Diwali; the four cities are - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata....

Jio and Vi are selling some of the best recharge packages available. While Diwali is gone, users can still recharge with these plans. Let’s look at the greatest offers and discounts available to Jio and Vi consumers in India. Vi Diwali Offer Details As part of their Diwali promotion, Vi (Vodafone-Idea) has introduced three recharge options. If you use the concerned Vi, you may get more data for free through the Vi Diwali Offer until October 31....

Much recently, the Indian government had announced that the telcos could start their 5G trials using the airwaves in the 700 MHz spectrum band. Now, the two leading operators of the country, namely Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, are at opposite ends when it comes to the 5G standards that India should adopt. According to a Business Standard report, Airtel believes that the homegrown 5G standards known as ‘5Gi’ will be very costly and push India out of the global ecosystem....

Reliance Jio can never do what Bharti Airtel can do with Airtel Black. Airtel Black is one of the most unique bundled digital services in the country. Even Vodafone Idea can’t follow Airtel’s steps in creating services such as Airtel Black. Jio might be the number one telecom operator in the country, but it doesn’t have any Direct-to-Home (DTH) arm to compete with Airtel’s DTH brand. The fact is, to create a service such as Airtel Black, which has all the following — fiber broadband, postpaid mobile, and DTH services, Jio must own a DTH business....