Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in India, is currently looking for a candidate to fill out the “VP & Head — Digital Product Owner”, position in the company. In an internal email, Vi had said that it will be re-aligning the digital organisation with three verticals, including Consumer Digital Marketing, Consumer Digital Products and Partnerships, and Digital Delivery. Here are the job details and requirements posted by Vi....
Vivo, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, is soon expected to launch a new affordable 5G smartphone. Reportedly, this device will be placed under the Y series portfolio. The smartphone in concern is the Vivo Y30 5G. The smartphone’s launch is expected soon because of its listing on NBTC (National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission) in Thailand. There’s already a Vivo Y30 smartphone available in the market, but it is the standard edition and was launched back in December 2020....
The newest smartphone in Vivo’s reasonably priced Y-series has been quietly unveiled in Indonesia: the Y35 4G. The new smartphone has a flat frame design and a waterdrop-style notch display. The phone has a 5000mAh battery, 50MP triple-rear camera array, Snapdragon 680 SoC, and many other features. Let’s take a deeper look at the Vivo Y35 4G’s price, features, and technical specifications. Vivo Y35 4G Specifications The 6.58-inch IPS LCD screen on the Vivo Y35 4G has a Full HD+ resolution....
As per Vodafone Germany, 60 million individuals nationwide have access to its 5G network currently. The telco stated in a release that it has currently installed 41,000 5G base stations around the country. There were more than 50 new 5G Standalone (SA) base stations operational just in October, bringing the total number of 5G SA units nationwide to 2,750. 5G Standalone Network Is Currently Available to Nearly 20 Million People in Germany With the help of Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, OPPO, and Vodafone Germany, the 5G Standalone (SA) network was introduced last year....
Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Ericsson have partnered up to showcase or demonstrate the power of 5G to bring healthcare access to remote parts of the country. With 5G, the healthcare sector is going to benefit a lot, as well as patients from across the country, will be able to access healthcare services on the go. For the trial, Vodafone Idea used the 3.5 GHz mid-band spectrum and the 26 GHz mmWave spectrum allotted by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in Pune city....
Vodafone Idea (Vi), India’s third-largest telecom operator, has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for releasing up to Rs 15,000 crore (approximately $2 billion) in bank guarantees (BGs) kept against the payment of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. Since the AGR dues have been deferred for the next four years, the need of maintaining bank guarantees right now is unnecessary, believes Vodafone Idea. According to an ET Telecom report, Vi has also asked the government to freeze October 24, 2019, as the date for freezing AGR dues....
Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in the country, added new wireless subscribers in select circles of the country in February 2022. These circles included Mumbai, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and UP East circle. In Mumbai, Vi added the highest number of wireless subscribers between December 2021 to February 2022. The total number of users added by Vi in the Mumbai circle for the above mentioned period is 2,58,722....
Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL), the third-largest telecom operator in the country, has just announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) on the occasion of ‘World Telecommunication and Information Society Day’ (WTISD). C-DoT is the premier research and development (R&D) centre of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Both the organisations will leverage each other’s expertise in their respective domains for deploying and developing IoT/M2M solutions in the country....
Vodafone Idea (Vi) is investing and focusing on its broadband business which is a good sign for the company’s future. Investors worried about never getting their money back from the business can also relax since the company just showed a positive by adding net subscribers in February 2021. Note that the fixed broadband market is still in its early days in the country. India is a big market with millions of potential customers for Internet Service Providers (ISPs)....
Vodafone Idea Limited’s (VIL) future, until yesterday, was mixed in dark clouds. Things weren’t clear, and the company had failed to secure any new investors. However, with the announcement of the relief package, one thing’s fixed, Vodafone Idea (Vi) is not going to go out of the market, even in the long-term, at least that’s what the evidence suggests. The company’s visibility as a “going concern” has increased with the measures announced by the government....
Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in India, is reportedly looking to raise up to Rs 16,000 crore from the State Bank of India (SBI). This will be a Rs 16,000 crore loan, but the talks between both companies are at a very nascent stage as of now. SBI has asked Vodafone Idea for clarification on when the government will convert its dues into equity in the company, along with some other business plans....
As per the data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Vodafone Idea provided the best average upload speed to the users in September 2021. The third-largest telecom operator has been consistent with providing excellent download and upload speeds to the users. The primary reason behind this could be the lower network load that it enjoys because of the lesser number of customers as compared to Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel....
Vodafone Idea is planning to do something different from its competitors. The third-largest telecom operator in the country believes more in a partnership model when it comes to offering more products/services to the existing customer base. Because the telco has more than 200 million customers, even businesses don’t mind partnering up with Vi. The company’s CEO, Ravinder Takkar, said (as per Business Standard) that Vi is looking to take its core competence and existing customers and tie-up with the top two-to-three players in each category and do deep integration with them to offer their customers something different than their competitors....
Vodafone Idea (Vi) has removed its most premium mobile plans from its website as well as the mobile app. The telco has removed all the REDX plans. On independent verification by TelecomTalk, users who are currently recharged with the REDX plans can continue to use them. But even the existing REDX plan users can’t see the same plans on the mobile app anymore to recharge with. A customer care executive from the company said that Vi is still offering the REDX plans at its physical stores....
ICICI Securities on Sunday said in a report that Vodafone Idea requires more than a 40% tariff hike in the next three years to meet its cash flow needs. The firm said that Vodafone Idea requires a cash flow of Rs 320 billion to service the deferred spectrum equated monthly instalment (EMI) payment, AGR dues, capital expenditure (Capex) and interest on bank borrowings. ICICI Securities said that Vodafone Idea requires its average revenue per user (ARPU) to increase to Rs 79 “to remain a going concern” translating to a 70% increase in APRU....
Vodafone Idea on Friday said that there was “no proposal” that was being considered by its board as it issued a clarification on the report of Google eyeing an 5% stake in its company. The second largest telecom provider in India was responding to the clarification sought by the BSE on Friday over the reports of Google eyeing a stake in Vodafone. The shares of Vodafone Idea surged as much as 35% on Friday before closing the trade at 12% above its closing price on Thursday....
Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, and Reliance Jio all offer postpaid plans to their consumers. There’s no doubt that Vodafone Idea (Vi) is the king when it comes to offering the most heavily loaded postpaid plans to consumers. The Rs 699 postpaid plan from Vi is just unmatchable by Airtel and Jio. Vodafone Idea offers truly unlimited data with this pack. There’s no need to worry about getting higher bills because of excess data usage if you are using the Rs 699 postpaid plan from the telco....
Vu Premium 4K Android TV Features To stay up to date with the latest technology and to provide the best for its customers, Vu has introduced Android 8.0 Oreo to its Premium Android 4K TVs. The four different variants in Vu’s lineup include 43-inch, 50-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch and they support 4K HDR 10 technology and 4K Upscaling. More features on Vu’s new TV line-up includes Dolby Vision, Dolby Audio, and complete access to the Google ecosystem, including Play Store, Google Games, Google Movies and certified apps like YouTube, Hotstar, SonyLIV, Eros Now, ZEE5, and Hungama....
After a big drama against the new privacy policy introduced by WhatsApp, it looks like Indian users will lose more of their privacy. The Indian government has recently mandated social media apps to find out the ‘originator’ of wrongful messages that lead to crimes such as rape and danger to the country’s security and sovereignty. For doing so, social media applications will have to drop the ‘end-to-end encryption’ of messages from their platforms....
One of the most frequently requested WhatsApp features may have been the ability to transfer your entire chat history from an iPhone to an Android device or vice versa. So stop requesting since it has finally come to pass. This feature was only available in beta until recently; it is now open to the public. Your settings, media, one-on-one and group chat histories, profile picture, and account information will all be transferred....
