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Tata Play Fiber and Excitel are two internet service providers (ISPs) that offer broadband plans at a reasonable price for the quality of services they offer. While Excitel provides three broadband plans at an amazing price tag, Tata Play has multiple plans under its portfolio as well. Even though the market is dominated by prominent players like Jio and Airtel, if you are looking to switch to a new service provider Tata Play and Excitel might be the way to go....

Tata Play Fiber, the fiber broadband arm of Tata Play (earlier Tata Sky), offers services across India. It has become one of the most prominent internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. Likewise, there’s You Broadband, the internet company owned by India’s third-largest telecom operator - Vodafone Idea (Vi). But there’s one thing about these companies, neither of them compares to the likes of Airtel Xstream Fiber and JioFiber. This is not just because of the quality of services they offer, but majorly because of the benefits they provide to the users for the same amount of money....

Tata Sky continues to add new channels to its platform. On September 17, the DTH operator has added two new free-to-air (FTA) channels- Enterr10 and Kashish News. Existing Tata Sky customers will be able to watch both the channels for free as they are part of the FTA pack. The Enterr10 channel number is available for viewing at LCN 182, whereas Kashish News can be viewed from LCN 1125. Since Tata Sky is India’s leading DTH operator, it continually adds and removes new channels....

Tata Sky Optimisation Feature Explained The Tata Sky users will find the optimisation feature under the Manage Packs section as a small button when they go on to finalise their channel packs or individual channel selection. To check what really the optimisation feature does to your channel selection, you will have to either visit the My Tata Sky app or log in to the official website. Here on, then you will be asked to log in with your Tata Sky details after you are done with that, you will have to open to Manage Packs section on the website or the apps....

Tata Sky Binge+ Set-Top Box Launched: Features Overview Right now, we don’t have the complete hardware spec-sheet of the Tata Sky Binge+. The DTH operator will likely make an announcement later today, but the Set-Top Box is already up for purchase at Rs 5,999 on the company’s official website. As noted, Tata Sky did not reveal the complete spec-sheet of Tata Sky Binge+ Set-Top Box. However, we do have some details....

India’s number one Direct to Home (DTH) operator Tata Sky keeps on introducing new benefits and offers for its customers to stay ahead in the game. Even though Tata Sky is comparatively a lot more expensive than its competitors in the market, it has managed to stay ahead of the curve with its excellent services. Now, the DTH operator is back with another offer. The offer is solely for people who have an account in Bank of Baroda....

Tata Sky Policy for Multi-TV Connections It is worth noting that there is a big divide between how Tata Sky has decided to price its subscription for multiple connections versus how D2h has agreed to do it. While D2h will levy a flat fee of Rs 50 as NCF for other subscriptions over the parent connection, Tata Sky will base its pricing of the secondary TV connection based on the monthly rental paid by the subscribers for the original TV connection....

Tata Sky Broadband Plans With Unlimited Data The most interesting portfolio of broadband plans from Tata Sky is in Ahmedabad circle where a lot of plans come with unlimited data. The starting plan in this range is the Rs 590 plan offering unlimited data at 16 Mbps speed with free router and data rollover. There are also plans with unlimited data available at Rs 700 offering 25 Mbps, Rs 800 offering 50 Mbps, Rs 1,100 offering 75 Mbps and Rs 1,300 offering 100 Mbps....

Tata Sky has been the number one DTH operator of the country for quite a long time now. There are multiple reasons behind this. The DTH operator continues to provide excellent DTH service at nominal rates backed by outstanding customer support. There is also a mobile app of the DTH operator which has made it easier for the customers to view their active plan or get the channels or plans of their choice....

On Wednesday, BT Group announced that its Digital unit has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to modernise the legacy IT estate. TCS would be working with BT Group to ramp down over 70% of its Digital’s legacy technology estate. This is a part of BT’s modernisation and simplification programme. The deal would help BT in increasing savings over the coming years. According to the company, the deal would simplify and restructure its Digital’s existing supplier relationships, which would help in annual savings of £65 million by the end of FY25....

Tecno Pova 3 Specifications The Tecno Pova 3 will have a 6.9-inch full-HD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate, according to rumours. The device will be powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio G88 SoC, which can be paired with Mali-G52 GPU and up to 6GB of RAM. Not only that, by utilising the device’s unused storage, the memory can be increased to 11GB. It also has 128GB of inbuilt storage and a gaming-friendly Z-axis linear motor....

It seems that Tecno could soon launch a new smartphone in the Indian market, as is evident via the release of new teasers from the company. The latest of these teasers confirms the existence of a massive 7,000 mAh battery in the upcoming device. Whilst the teacher does not mention that the device could be the Tecno Pova 2, the image that is attached to the tweet does confirm the existence of the upcoming Pova 2....

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has already met with the Indian telecom companies with respect to addressing the falling Quality of Services (QoS). Call drops have significantly increased, specially in areas where transition from 4G to 5G is taking place. The telcos said that reasons such as illegal signal boosters and more have hindered with their service quality. Further, the telcos have said that this is just a short-term issue and as the software for the devices optimizes to connect with 5G networks, the issue should subside on its own....

COAI Opposed to High Pricing of Spectrum A statement regarding this has also come from the Director-General of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Rajan Matthews who has remarked that 5G would be pushed by five years and that is the perspective of the operators. As per the COAI head, in the rollout of 5G, firstly there was a pricing issue, and now a quantum issue has surfaced which is going to result in a delay of the implementation of the 5G services....

The Madras High Court has observed that maintaining network connectivity while the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is very important. Since people can’t step out of their homes to learn, work, or run their businesses very easily, it has become very important that online connectivity is maintained at all times. The Madras High Court made the observation while looking at the petitions filed by ATC Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited, a private telecom company based out of Chennai, South India....

Qualcomm is the leading mobile chipset manufacturer, owing to its Snapdragon series of chips that are featured on most, if not all major smartphones from the top brands, especially in the flagship segment, which is catered to via the company’s 800 series of chips. The Snapdragon 888 was this year’s latest and greatest chipset, but, like always, its successor is here and it’s even better than what the 888 had to offer....

On Monday, Apple finally released an official extension meant for the Windows and Mac versions of Chrome, with a long-awaited feature that lets users use their passwords stored in their iCloud Keychain. This comes at a time when the use of both Windows and Mac-based devices is at an all-time high when most tasks have moved online. It is a welcome addition to someone who uses the Chrome browser but takes the help of Apple’s iCloud keychain as a dedicated password manager as it makes the process of moving to and fro from Macs and Windows computers hassle-free....

Directly Sharing Status to Facebook or Instagram While WhatsApp Status in itself was a massive change for the users of the app and reminded them of Instagram Stories, there was still the issue of users having to share the picture multiple times, first for their inner circle on WhatsApp and then on Instagram or Facebook again for the rest of their friends. However, WhatsApp saw this gap and rolled out a feature which allowed the WhatsApp users to directly share their status from the app only to their Instagram story or Facebook story....

New Consultation Paper on International Termination Charges To recall, as per the Trai notification on the matter, the last amendment in the case of IUC rules was made last year in 2018 and “this amendment brought down the termination charge for international incoming call to wireline and wireless networks to Rs.0.30 per minute w.e.f. 01.02.2018.” Since the amendment of these regulations, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been keeping a close check on the trends and patterns of International Long Distance (ILD) voice traffic in the country....

Trai to Help Telecom Industry With Regulatory Measures The worst thing that has happened with these older telecom operators right now is the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) issue, on which the apex court in India passed a verdict following a decade and a half legal row. After this verdict, telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are the worst hit ones. Vodafone Idea has dues worth Rs 53,000 crore which it has to pay to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and similarly, Bharti Airtel has to pay dues worth Rs 35,500 crore to the DoT on the same lines....