Bharti Airtel on Monday announced the launch of Airtel Xstream which will offer Live TV, video, music, news, and sports across an OTT smart stick and more
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Airtel deploys LTE 900 technology to boost 4G in Delhi-NCR
Given the high propagation and reach of the 900 Mhz spectrum, it would result in wider availability of 4G network across Delhi NCR.
Airtel picks Ericsson for VoLTE expansion in India
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Wednesday announced it has selected Swedish telecommunications manufacturer Ericsson to expand its pan-India voice over LTE (VoLTE) services to offer HD-quality calling over 4G smartphones and smart watches. Airtel will deploy the Ericsson Cloud VoLTE solution to deliver VoLTE services onto a customer data centre.[Read More…]
Airtel tops in download speed during December-January: Report
New Delhi: Airtel ranked top among the telecom operators in the country in terms of 4G download speed with an average speed of 8.6 megabits per second (Mbps) during the December 2018-January 2019 period, according to a report. According to the report by Tutela, a mobile data and analytics company,[Read More…]
Airtel’s Wynk Music most entertaining app of 2018 on Google Play
New Delhi, Airtels music streaming app Wynk Music has been rated as the “Most Entertaining app of 2018” on Google Play Store, the company announced on Monday. Launched in 2014 as an over-the-top (OTT) application, Wynk Music has emerged as India’s leading music app with one of the highest numbers[Read More…]
All you need to know about Telecom Czar Sunil Bharti Mittal
Sunil Mittal is an Indian Billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist and the Founder & Chairman of Bharti Enterprises. The businessman has his business expanded in telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, agriculture, and food besides other ventures, but above all. Sunil Bharti Mittal he is known for his world famous telecom[Read More…]
Telecom pricing, ARPU have hit rock bottom, can only go up: Airtel’s Gopal Vittal
Gurugram: With the fierce ongoing battle in the telecom sector, which is making telecom companies’ balance sheet bleed, Gopal Vittal, MD and CEO (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel feels that pricing level and ARPU have reached rock bottom and now can only move up. I think we have hit[Read More…]
Jio tops 4G download speed chart in January
New Delhi: Reliance Jio has topped the average 4G data download speed chart for the month of January 2018, data revealed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) showed. In 2017, the operator topped the list for the whole year. In January 2018, Jio topped the list with 21.3 Mbps[Read More…]
Airtel Payments Bank CEO steps down in wake of Aadhaar e-KYC misuse
New Delhi: Shashi Arora, CEO and Managing Director of Airtel Payments Bank, has stepped down, the company announced on Friday – nearly a week after the Unique Identification Authority of India, (UIDAI) suspended its Aadhaar linked e-KYC services because of alleged misuse. “Shashi Arora has been associated with Airtel in senior[Read More…]
Jio effect: Telecom companies lower their call and data rates
Amid aggressive competition in the telecom industry triggered by Reliance Jio’s attractive offers on unlimited calling and data usage, other companies are also offering exclusive pack to their customers. Recently, Vodafone India has announced a special tariff pack to its select student customers, offering discounted tariffs and goodies including a[Read More…]
Airtel offers 28GB 4G data, free calls at Rs 345
Aiming to counter Reliance Jio’s prime plans, now Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom operator, has come up with a new revamped plan to offer 1 GB 4G data per day along with free local and STD calls. Airtel’s Rs 345 plan offers 1GB of 4G data per day along[Read More…]
Nokia, Airtel to collaborate to work on 5G
Jio tariff is unsustainable says Airtel Chairman
TRAI seeks views on promotional offers, predatory pricing
Telecom regulator TRAI will review the rules of tariff assessment with regard to promotional offers and predatory pricing, issues that have triggered a public spat between Reliance Jio and incumbent operators. These contentious issues would be debated as part of a consultation paper on ‘Regulatory Principles of Tariff Assessment’ issued[Read More…]
TRAI to levy a penalty of ₹3,000 crore from Airtel, Idea and Vodafone
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has finally stepped into the war over ‘interconnectivity’ and has proposed penalties on Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular for denying interconnection to Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Infocomm. Along with suggesting a ₹50-crore penalty per circle on the three incumbent players, which[Read More…]
All you need to know about India’s biggest spectrum auction
Telecom companies are all prepared to battle it out on Saturday as the biggest ever spectrum auction for over 2,354.55 mega Hertz (MHz) of airwaves in seven bands -700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1,800 MHz, 2,100 MHz, 2,300 MHz and 2,500 MHz – worth ₹5.63 lakh starts on Saturday[Read More…]
Jammu and Kashmir government orders shutdown of internet services
Following the tense law and order situation in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered shutdown of internet services of all telecom networks and also mobile communications as a precautionary measure. The state government took a review of the of the prevailing law and order situation in the[Read More…]
How Reliance Jio choke-slammed its telecom competitors
Mukesh Ambani’s announcement of Reliance Jio services turned out to be a nightmare for other telecom operators. Soon after Ambani’s announcement of Jio, shares of Bharti Airtel and Idea sunk by 9% and 11% respectively and together they lost Rs 15,600 crore. Shares of other telecom companies also fell on the Bombay[Read More…]