The government-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)’s Special Tariff Voucher (STV)s priced under Rs 250 come as a relief to customers during a time of hike in prepaid tariffs, among other service providers. BSNL’s plan of Rs 94 offers an attractive validity of 75 days, with 3GB of data, 100 free domestic minutes to any network and national roaming in Mumbai and Delhi. It also offers free BSNL ringtones for 60 days....
BSNL STAR Membership Details The government-led telco has launched the BSNL Star membership or the Star plan for Rs 498. In this plan, the subscribers of BSNL will enjoy unlimited local, STD and roaming calls with 30GB data and 1000 SMSes for 30 days. The total validity of this plan will be 365 days. Hence, the validity of the freebies of the plan will be limited to 30 days, whereas the entire plan will be of 365 days....
Bharat InstaPay by BSNL: What Exactly Is It? Aforesaid, BSNL’s IT platform has been integrated with SBI’s banking platform. A Digital Identification will be given to each of BSNL channel partner for carrying out digital payments, said the company CMD, Shri P.K. Purwar. Furthermore, he added that this move would help BSNL’s channel partners to do digital transactions, any time of the day without any need to visit BSNL offices for any paperwork....
How to Get Nest Mini and Nest Hub for Rs 99 and Rs 199 per Month? The BSNL DSL or Bharat Fibre customers can subscribe to the bundle only through the company’s online portal by paying the annual subscription in advance. Currently only BSNL customers in Chennai circle are eligible for this discount. BSNL-Google Nest Mini Offer Detailed BSNL broadband users subscribed to annual payment option of broadband plans with fixed monthly charges of Rs 799 and above are eligible for Google Nest Mini smart speaker....
The state-run telecom operator BSNL offers plans much cheaper to private telecom service providers. The benefits and validity of BSNL prepaid plans are often higher than their private counterparts. One such speciality is BSNL validity extension recharge plans. These are suitable for people who do not use BSNL as their primary number but would like to keep their BSNL number active. Although their primary offering is validity extension, they may also come with a host of benefits like unlimited voice calls, data, etc....
BSNL TV is Currently Available Only to Prepaid Subscribers BSNL hasn’t declared any reason behind not providing this service to postpaid customers. It’s now only available for prepaid customers. BSNL TV offers content in various regional languages such as Punjabi, Haryanvi, Hindi, Odiya, Bhojpuri, Bengali, etc. Unfortunately, there is no English content available right now. Moreover, the BSNL TV app doesn’t provide a Live TV service which is something users expect from an OTT app these days....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been working at a guns-blazing speed to intensify its presence all across the country. The public telecom operator has already been doubling down on its broadband connections and has had a meteoric month on the back of 1.1 lakh new connections. However, the telecom operator is also serious about its new prepaid subscribers. First, the news of free 4G SIM in the Kerala circle, and now it is also giving incentives to the retailers to work hard to drive new SIM cards and First Recharge Coupon (FRCs) sale....
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has gone after Google again for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the country. A probe has been ordered against Google to ensure that the search-engine giant is not creating an unfair competition environment. As per PTI, CCI said that it is important that there is a fair share of revenues amongst all the stakeholders in the news media industry. The competition regulator wants to ensure that the digital gatekeeper firms are not abusing their dominant position to harm the competitive process....
More Players Providing More Choices for Consumers According to data from the Telecom Regulatory of India (Trai) released in January, Tamil Nadu including Chennai is among the top five service areas of the country in terms of broadband subscriptions. Maharashtra with 52.47 million broadband consumers leads the chart, Tamil Nadu including Chennai with 44.38 million consumers is currently the fourth most serviced area in the country in terms of broadband subscribers....
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) might soon ask the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on behalf of the telcos to push the sector regulator for bringing down the reserve price of the frequencies in the 700 MHz spectrum band. According to an ET Telecom report, all the private operators are likely to write to the telecom department for asking the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to lower the reserve price of the 700 MHz band....
WhatsApp’s Communities feature is finally accessible to users. A larger parent group or community can now contain numerous WhatsApp groups that were previously separate due to the new capability. You can utilise Communities in the following ways, and here is everything you need to know about how it will function. WhatsApp Communities Feature WhatsApp Communities enable administrators to group the several groups they oversee under a single, larger parent group or community....
Multi-TV Policy of D2h and Dish TV Moving on to the best multi-TV DTH operator in the sector right away, Dish TV and D2h are the DTH operators that offer possibly the most convincing multi-TV policy. We say this because, unlike all the other operators, Dish TV and D2h subscribers who want to use multiple TVs will only have to pay a flat NCF of Rs 50 per secondary connection....
D2h One Month Free Platinum HD Combo Offer It is worth noting that the HD RF Set-top box is available on the D2h website for Rs 1,799 and under this offer the set-top box will retail for the same price except it will be combined with a lot of freebies. The first add-on with the set-top box under this offer will be the RF remote. Apart from this, the new subscribers who get the HD RF set-top box for Rs 1,799 will get to enjoy the platinum HD combo channel pack for free....
Germany’s leading telecom operator Deutsche Telekom has revealed that it currently offers its 5G services based on the high 3.6 GHz frequency to around 50 cities across the country. Deutsche Telekom has already deployed 1,800 antennas in these 50 cities. Deutsche Telekom uses two frequencies for its 5G services that include 3.6 GHz and 2.1 GHz frequency spectrum. By the end of March 2021, Deutsche Telekom was reported to provide access to their 5G networks to more than 66 million people across 5000 cities and towns in Germany....
Planning to leave Twitter but don’t want to lose your tweets? Well, this news is just for you. You can archive and download your account data on the micro-blogging platform. According to a Twitter help page, you can download information such as your profile information, Tweets, Direct Messages, Moments, media (images, videos, and GIFs you’ve attached to Tweets, Direct Messages, or Moments), a list of your followers, a list of accounts that you are following, your address book, Lists that you’ve created, are a member of, or follow, interest and demographic information about you, and information about ads that you’ve seen or engaged with on Twitter....
The government of India has launched DigiYatra in three airports of the country - Delhi, Bengaluru, and Varanasi. The launch took place on December 1, 2022. Now, passengers travelling domestically would be able to leverage this technology for checking in for their flights. DigiYatra will also be brought to other airports in the coming months. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Civil Aviation minister of India, inaugurated DigiYatra at the Delhi airport. The minister said that all the data of the passenger would be stored safely in an encrypted format....
Dish TV keeps on rolling out new offers for its customers. Just a few days back, the DTH operator announced the Onam 2020 offer which started from August 22 and ended on September 2, 2020. Later Dish TV confirmed that the offer will be available until September 30. But that’s not the only offer that the customers of Dish TV can benefit from at the moment. The DTH operator has announced another offer called ‘Dish TV Mega Entertainment Sale’....
Today, the telecom department amended the unified license agreement that will let 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) as per the automatic route. Notably, this was a part of the telecom relief package and it has come right when Vodafone Idea aka Vi is looking forward to fundraising via global investors. As per the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)’s notification that was issued today, FDI up to 100% under the automatic route, which is subject to observance of both security and licensing conditions by the licensee and investors has been notified by DoT on a timely basis....
Raids carried out by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in South Mumbai over the last couple of days has led to the removal of 68 illegal mobile signal boosters. With this development, the DoT has ordered/asked the e-commerce websites to remove the listings of mobile signal boosters with immediate effect. The DoT said it conducted multiple raids on the back of receiving poor network coverage complaints from the users in South Mumbai....
A top panel of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will decide whether the recommendations provided by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) are good enough or not. According to an ET Telecom report, the Digital Communications Commission (DCC) is going to take a call on the pricing recommendations provided by the TRAI in the next three to four weeks. A standing committee of the telecom department will start analysing TRAI’s recommendations within a week....
