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Supporting earlier rumours of Vodafone Idea’s tariff hike, a new report by ET Telecom now says the struggling telco might raise the tariff prices by 15-20%. The tariff hike will likely happen by the end of 2020 or early 2021, two persons aware of the matter said to the publication. While announcing the quarter results that ended on September 30, 2020, Vi officials said they would not hesitate in raising the tariff prices ahead of Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio....

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in India, is trying to educate Indians and help them prepare for competitive exams through the Vi Mobile app. In a recent announcement, Vi said that its customers could prepare for the Railways Group D exams through the Vi app. Be it exams on the national or the state level, Vi’s Jobs & Education platform on the Vi mobile app can help you navigate through all of them....

Vodafone Idea Might Just Repay Its Dues This new move from Vodafone Idea comes after the telecom companies have been awarded a two-year payment moratorium by the Supreme Court for an amount of Rs 42,000 crore. Vodafone Idea has total dues worth Rs 53,000 crore to pay to the DoT and these include the penalties as well and the interest on these penalties. The deadline for the payment of the AGR dues has been set at January 23....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has become the hot gossip for the market since the time the company came out with its performance results for FY21. One of the biggest issues that the results reflected was negative cash flow. Vi hasn’t been successful in garnering the interest of institutional investors and hasn’t even been making money. This has put the telco in a very tight situation. But, according to a HindustanTimes report, Vi will be able to close money-raising deals in the next two to 3 months....

Fingerprint Lock There are a lot of security features when it comes to protecting your phone, ranging from fingerprint, face-unlock, a password and more. However, when it comes to WhatsApp alone, the company was not providing a way to the Android users to individually protect their WhatsApp chat and privacy in case someone were to get hands on their phone. However, a while back, a feature was introduced on WhatsApp iOS which allowed the users to lock their WhatsApp application with fingerprint and biometric, thus restricting users from breaking into someone else’s WhatsApp....

In order to better serve its enormous user base, WhatsApp, one of the most widely used instant messaging programmes, offers a number of additional capabilities in addition to calling and messaging. These functions include group calling, community features, and sharing of status. Similar to Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp has a status update option. When we check someone’s story, we frequently want to remain hidden even though the feature does let us know who is monitoring our daily status updates....

The Supreme Court (SC) of India has questioned WhatsApp and Facebook on introducing new stringent privacy policy for the Indian users. The apex court has asked the social media giants about why Indian users haven’t been provided with the same leniency on accepting new privacy policies as the European users. According to a report from the Livemint, the SC has said that it will have to intervene in the matter to protect the privacy rights of the Indian citizens — more details on the story ahead....

Reportedly, WhatsApp is working on a new feature, which lets users control and manage the size of their chat backups. It is touted to be one of the biggest problems faced by users and the solution was inflexible. Eventually, many users of the instant messaging platform had to forego their precious memories as they had to delete messages, photos and much more. Notably, this is the second feature related to backup that is likely under development by the instant messaging app....

Bharti Airtel’s Attempts at Increased ARPU One of the recent moves that Bharti Airtel has adopted to bring a positive change in its ARPU is through the removal of low paying postpaid plans like Rs 399. Now the Airtel postpaid subscribers have limited choices starting from Rs 499, thus leading to a better ARPU for the company. The introduction of minimum recharge plans is also a move on similar lines, as it requires the customer to pay the company repetitively on regular intervals....

DTH Connection Working and Advantages Now you must be pretty aware that there are quite a few types of subscription options available in the country in case you want to watch TV. Before the digitisation rule came into place, there also used to be the analogue cable method, but now that has been converted to DAS cable subscription which depends on digital relay of signals instead of an analogue relay....

An effective way to enhance the coverage of your Wi-Fi at home or office is to use Wi-Fi extenders. Although they are not the complete solution for your Wi-Fi challenges, they can be helpful to beef up the range to a great extent. With that note, let’s see how Wi-Fi extenders work and see the benefits and drawbacks of the device. How Wi-Fi Extenders Work A Wi-Fi extender connects to your existing Wi-Fi network, duplicates and re-broadcast it....

Captain Hugo Lloris, Alphonse Areola, Steve Mandanda, Benjamin Pavard, Jules Kounde, Raphael Varane, Theo Hernandez, Lucas Hernandez, Benoit Badiashile, Ferland Mendy, Dayot Upamecano, Ibrahima Konate, William Saliba, Eduardo Camavinga, Youssouf Fofana, Matteo Guendouzi, Aurelien Tchouameni, Adrien Rabiot, Jordan Veretout, Ousmane Dembele, Olivier Giroud, Antoine Griezmann, Karim Benzema, Kylian Mbappe, Christopher Nkunku, Kingsley Coman, complete the 26 man squad. ‘The Curse of Champions’ Since the 2002 World Cup, the term, ‘The Champions Curse’ originated....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Sunday unveiled a “Work from Home” plan to aid users working and studying from home across India. The unveiling of the plan is on the heels of the companies in India largely sticking to the “Work from Home” model despite the eased restrictions across several states in India. The Indian government in late March announced a total lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the government eased restrictions on the lockdown in early May and India headed into the “Unlock 1....

The Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi had recently launched its Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge 5G smartphone in India. Now you can get your hands on this device just for Rs 10,000. As shocking as it might be, the Flipkart Big Savings Day sale has already started offering some of the greatest discounts on a number of smartphones, Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge 5G being one of them. It’s not just discounts that are available, you can also get amazing exchange offers as well as bank offers along with some freebies on the purchase of Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge 5G....

Xiaomi will soon be bringing in its Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge and the price of the device has been revealed ahead of its India launch. It is to be noted that the launch of Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge will mark the launch of the first smartphone with 120W fast-charge technology in India and will be the fastest charging smartphone in the country. Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge is also expected to be a rebranded version of the Redmi Note 11 Pro+ which was launched earlier this year in China....

Xiaomi, one of the most popular smartphone sellers in India, came out with the Redmi Note 10 series back in March 2021. The company had launched multiple smartphones in the series, including Redmi Note 10, Redmi Note 10 Pro, and the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max. It is well known that Xiaomi and other Chinese smartphone brands keep on altering the price of their smartphones at regular intervals. Now, according to a report from Gizmochina, Xiaomi has increased the price of the Redmi Note 10 Pro....

Xiaomi has hiked the price of the Redmi Note 10 for the fifth time now. The company’s aim to offer affordable smartphones has taken a hit because of the supply chain snags around the world. Manufacturing companies are barely getting their components, including the chipsets or SoCs’ in the same flow like they used to. The Redmi Note 10 has received a fifth price hike right now, and it is the second price hike in this month alone....

Mi Band 4i To Come With Some Cut Down Specifications The next question that comes in the mind of Xiaomi fans is about the specifications of the Mi Band 4i. Since it is speculated that the Mi Band 4i will come with some toned down specifications, it will likely lose out on some of the features which the Mi Band 4 offers. To recall, some of the highlights of the Mi Band 4 include a colour AMOLED display instead of a black and white one, a larger battery and lots of fitness tracking feature which are even capable of detecting in which style you are swimming....

Xiaomi is extensively growing in the wearable segment. The company was teasing the launch of the Mi Band 5 for two weeks now, and finally, it has been launched in the Chinese market today. The Xiaomi Mi Band 5 is said to be the direct successor of the Mi Band 4 (Mi Smart Band 4) in India. The new wearable device by Xiaomi rocks some of the best features and it has been smartly priced by the company....

Redmi Note 7 Pro MIUI 10.2.8.0 Changelog Detailed After the MIUI 10.2.8.0 update, users will be able to see sharpness improvements in both 48MP and 12MP camera modes of the rear camera. Xiaomi also fixed the portrait mode underexposure issue alongside adding improvements to low-light images and indoor auto white balance shots. The Redmi Note 7 Pro is already the best camera phone to buy under Rs 20,000, and with Xiaomi constantly rolling out software updates to the phone, it will only get better going forward....