A few months back, Bharti Airtel introduced India with a new bundled service called ‘Airtel Black’. In simple words, Airtel Black is a service model where Airtel combines multiple services that it provides, including Direct-to-Home (DTH), broadband, and postpaid mobile, into a single plan for the users. This saves users a lot of time into buying multiple services and also allows them to pay for everything under a single bill....
Bharti Airtel wants to keep users interested in its services. That is why the telco has silently added two new prepaid plans for the users. If you are an Airtel customer, these are two prepaid plans that you must look at once. These plans offer decent value to the consumers. While they are still not as affordable as what you could get from Jio, but then, Airtel takes pride in calling itself the premium player and keeps tariffs higher than its top competitor in the market....
Airtel Digital TV Silently Hikes NCF for Multi TV Users As mentioned above, Airtel Digital TV used to charge a reduced NCF of Rs 80 (taxes extra) for every Multi TV connection before the latest revision. And now, the DTH operator will be charging Rs 100 (taxes extra) for 100 SD channels for all Multi TV connections. “Network Capacity Fee of Rs 100 (taxes extra) for 100 SD channels, for all multiple TV connections getting activated under the same account in a home....
Airtel Home Service Plan Detailed Airtel currently offers three plans under its Airtel Home including the Rs 899 plan, Rs 1399 plan and the Rs 1899 plan. The “DTH + Postpaid” is the base plan and as the name suggests, it combines two of the Airtel’s popular service offerings. The base plan offers DTH services with 140 SD and HD channels valued at Rs 413 and combines with the Rs 499 postpaid plan and its Rs 199 add-on....
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has increased its stake in Bharti Infratel by around 5%, the telco confirmed via a stock exchange filing. Nettle Infrastructure Investments Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, raised its stake in Bharti Infratel by 4.94% for an aggregate of Rs 2,882.32 crore. This news is reported by ET Telecom. In the stock exchange filing, Bharti Airtel confirmed that Providence (a US private equity firm) sold its 3....
Bharti Airtel Launches Airtel IQ, a Could Communication Service Airtel IQ is a cloud-based omnichannel communications platform which will make the interaction between brands and customers seamless. Airtel IQ is secure, robust, intuitive, and cost-efficient. There was no external help taken by Airtel to develop this cloud-based platform. It was all done by the Airtel’s in-house engineering team. This cloud-based service will help business such as JustDial, Swiggy, Havells, Urban Company, Rapido, and Dr....
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the market leader in the wireline segment, is continuously losing market share to private telecom operators. Much recently, data came to the surface that Jio had overtaken BSNL in the fixed-broadband business. It won’t be long before Airtel does the same. Both Jio and Airtel have a strong presence in the fiber broadband market with their fixed-line service brands - JioFiber and Airtel Xstream Fiber....
Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm Technologies today announced their collaboration for accelerating 5G in India. Recently, Airtel became India’s first telco to demonstrate 5G over a commercial network in the city of Hyderabad. Airtel will utilize the Qualcomm 5G RAN Platforms to roll-out virtualized and Open RAN-based 5G networks. Airtel, as a board member of the O-RAN Alliance, is committed to driving the success of O-RAN and is working with Qualcomm Technologies to explore and implement the O-RAN approach for India....
Bharti Airtel seems to be rethinking the plan to separate its digital and infrastructure businesses from telecom. The company is in this speculation to change plans of rejigging the business as the government redefined the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues to exclude the revenues from non-telecom businesses. As per a report by ET Telecom citing a person familiar with the plans of the Sunil Mittal-led carrier, the government has taken the next step and defined that AGR will eliminate all the revenue from non-telecom revenue....
Airtel TV Content Now Easily Accessible on Laptop and Other Web Devices We think that this new move by Airtel has been made to take on the likes of JioCinema and other competing OTT apps. It is worth noting that just like Airtel subscribers get access to Airtel TV’s wide range of movies, TV shows and documentaries, similarly, Reliance Jio also has a JioCinema app in its portfolio where subscribers can access this content for free....
Who doesn’t like and enjoy music? Telcos in India bundle music offerings along with data packs, thanks to the evolving streaming technologies and wireless networks. We recently discussed Bharti Airtel’s Wynk Music Premium Plans in our analysis. Reliance Jio also has a separate Music offering platform called JioSaavn, and the telco offers pro plans to its users. In this analysis, let’s see how Airtel and Jio compete in the music segment offerings....
Stable internet connectivity is of prime importance when we are looking for seamless work experience. Broadband fiber connection is a very good solution for that need. But even it has its limits. It can’t provide the same level of connectivity and speed of the internet when you are away from the router which you get when you are close to it. But to solve that, you can purchase mesh nodes....
On July 16 at 12 pm, the Amazfit GTS 4 Mini smartwatch is scheduled to go official in India. On Wednesday, it was released on the world market. The recently launched wristwatch features an always-on display and a 1.65-inch AMOLED screen. The Amazfit GTS 4 Mini, according to the manufacturer, includes more than 120 sports modes in addition to monitoring tools for your health and fitness, such as heart rate and SpO2....
Amazfit is one of the better-known smartwatch brands in India now. The company has brought some of the most affordable and powerful smartwatches to the Indian market. In a conversation with TelecomTalk, CP Khandelwal, CEO and Director of PR Innovations shared that Amazfit has been able to gain a 30% market share in India. Mr Khandelwal shared more about how PR Innovations helped Amazfit grow from scratch in India....
Xiaomi Mi A3 Android 10 Update Arriving Next Month Because the Xiaomi Mi A3 is an Android One smartphone, users expect it to be first on the list to pick up the latest Android iteration update. Xiaomi’s Redmi K20 Pro received Android 10-based MIUI 11 update back in October/November 2019 itself, so it’s underwhelming from Xiaomi to delay the same update for Mi A3. Android One smartphones like Nokia 8....
Every country has been working with developers to build their own COVID-19 contact tracing application. But the issue with most of these apps will be the technical glitches. One thing is for certain, time is of the essence when we are talking about the COVID-19 spread. There is no time to keep developing the app for the future when all the damage will be done now. That is why most of the countries are going with the Apple-Google APIs (application program interface) so that they don’t have to face technical glitches....
Demand for video games increased multiple folds in the last year due to pandemic. The second-half of 2020 saw new generation gaming consoles coming to the market, such as PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and more. Now, according to an IANS report, even Qualcomm, a semi-conductor manufacturing giant, is working on its own gaming console that might launch in the near future. The console is said to be powered by Android and similar to that of Nintendo Switch....
Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone in March 2022. The Cupertino tech giant is reportedly working on a new iPhone, namely iPhone SE 2022 or iPhone SE 3 and will launch it in the first quarter of 2022. Leaks about the specifications and design of the iPhone SE 2022 are already out and suggest that the device would again look very much like the iPhone SE 2020 or the iPhone SE 2....
The Cupertino tech giant Apple released the macOS Monterey recently. Since then, several Apple users who have installed the update complained that it bricked their computers. However, there was no clarity regarding what caused the issue to date, claimed Rene Ritchie. Now, a report by 9to5Mac states that he has received the statement from Apple citing that the issue was due to the firmware of the T2 security chip....
