YouTube Premium is now available for two months of free trial for Indians if they buy the new Poco M4 Pro right now. YouTube and Poco have partnered to bring this offer to Indian customers. Once the first two months of YouTube Premium are over, customers will have to pay for the subscription from the third month onwards. The advantage of using YouTube Premium is that you don’t have to go through the painful ads again you can also play music or any video in the background from the YouTube application....

Ever since the pandemic has hit the world, the demand for internet connectivity has gone up manifold. On the other hand, the number of new local businesses or new start-ups has been rising constantly in the country. Most of these businesses require workspaces in order to hash out the work process. Since most of the world has gone online, these businesses also need seamless connectivity across multiple devices in order to ease out the workflow....

Telecom gear maker Ericsson has released a report which states that 4G LTE subscriptions and 5G will extensively grow in India. As per the report, 5G will equate around 18% of entire mobile subscriptions in India by 2025. Also, 4G LTE subscriptions will drastically increase from 550 million users in 2019 to 820 million in 2025. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) will be around 7 % as reported by ET Telecom....

Telecom operators have rolled out different prepaid plans that comes with intriguing benefits and multiple validity periods. While most of the users prefer monthly prepaid recharges, some users prefer annual prepaid plans to reduce the hassle. A major chunk of users also opts for prepaid plans that comes with 84 days and 56 days validity. In this article, we will mention the best-prepaid plans of Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea that are packed with 56 days validity period....

A Committee of Secretaries (CoS) including the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs, and Department of Space discussed spectrum allocation to various user departments/ministries in the context of spectrum needs of emerging technologies such as 5G and IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications) and recommended the spectrum allocation in relevant key bands. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had already sent a reference to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on September 9, 2021, seeking recommendations on the auction of spectrum in frequency bands identified for IMT and 5G....

Technological innovations that will be brought in by 5G will redefine the future of telecom in India and create a plethora of opportunities across various industries including healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, education and entertainment, claims a CII-Deloitte report. The private networks are believed to witness huge demand from enterprises soon, which will be led by the necessity for security and high-speed connectivity within the operating environment. While 5G networks will bring in technological innovations that will redefine the future of telecom, the amalgamation of these services with upcoming industries as well as tech enablers such as 5G, IoT and private networks will reorient the industry into a server enabler from a service provider, highlighted the key takeaways of the report....

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, believes that 5G will benefit the industrial players the most. This is not a strange notion and something that many already know. 5G is too powerful to serve only the consumer’s mobile data and communication needs. It is going to have the most significant positive effects on the enterprises that are in manufacturing, as 5G can potentially help them in automating the production process....

5G would soon become a common phenomenon in India. The telcos, including Airtel and Jio, are doing their best to ensure that consumers get 5G services in every part of the country in the next 1.5 years. However, as the telcos expand 5G, they would require more spectrum and a wider telecom infrastructure to support the network technology. Mid-band spectrum is what most of the telcos around the world prefer to deploy for 5G....

The development of 5G networks is extensively pushed around the globe. However, amidst the development of 5G, some of the tech entities have also started 6G trials to bring a complete wave of reformation in the tech industry. Among the big names, the South Korean multinational company Samsung claimed that it had achieved 50 times faster and efficient speed in 6G as compared to 5G. The information was revealed by Wonil Roh, who is the Senior Vice President, Head of Product Strategy, Network Business at Samsung Electronics at Samsung’s presentation on new 5G transmission equipment....

ACT Stream TV 4K Can Now Be Availed in Monthly Rental Basis If you want to completely purchase the ACT Stream TV 4K, you can do that by paying Rs 4,499 (including taxes). Notably, the Rs 4,499 is the launch price of the box, so it is a good thing that ACT did not increase the price. Sadly, it seems like the ACT Stream TV 4K is still available for only ACT Fibernet customers....

The Tamil Nadu government on Friday launched a total of 224 public Wi-Fi hotspots in Chennai. All the Wi-Fi hotspots are powered by ACT Fibernet, a leading internet service provider (ISP) in the country. The Wi-Fi hotspots were launched in the presence of Shri Udhayanidhi Stalin, Member of the Tamil Nadu State Legislative Assembly and Youth Secretary, DMK and Mr Sandeep Gupta, Chief Operation Officer, Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd, along with the other dignitaries and officials....

After revising the broadband plans in Chennai with unlimited data benefit, ACT Fibernet has now made the same changes to its plans in Hyderabad city. The Bengaluru-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) now has two broadband plans in Hyderabad with unlimited data, but as everyone might be aware of by now, there’s indeed a FUP limit of 3.3TB on unlimited data broadband plans. ACT Fibernet’s broadband plans in Hyderabad start at Rs 500 and they go all the way up to Rs 5,999 offering 1 Gbps speeds....

How to Get ACT Stream TV 4K Device if You’re an ACT Fibernet User? To recall, the ACT Stream TV 4K was priced at Rs 4,499, but as a special launch offer, the Internet Service Provider (ISP) is offering the device at a refundable deposit of Rs 1,500 on select plans across four cities. ACT Fibernet broadband customers will also get one month of free ZEE5 Premium subscription worth Rs 99 for free and two months of HOOQ subscription....

The Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators are clearly struggling to keep active and paying users in their subscriber base. For consecutive quarters now, the number of active subscribers in the DTH sector has dipped. From 68.89 million users at the end of September 2021, the number of active paying subscribers for the DTH industry reduced to 68.52 million at the end of December 2021. If this feels like a small negative change that can be neglected, understand that this has been happening for a long-time now....

Aircel Spectrum Valid Till 2026 ET Telecom reports that the resolution plan might face hurdles in the form of the Department of Telecommunications who had filed claims worth Rs 10,000 crore. Deloitte, the resolution professional in the case is said to have approved Rs 2000 crore of the DoT’s claims. UVARCL, the chosen buyer previously for Reliance Communications, is likely to bank on Aircel’s spectrum’s assets as part of the resolution plan....

The last few years have changed the trend of the telecom market completely. If you notice, several countries, including India, are shifting towards homegrown technology because of security concerns. India’s only four operators, Airtel, Vodafone Idea (Vi), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and Reliance Jio, are also expected to integrate more homegrown technology into their upcoming 5G networks. Jio and Airtel are pretty vocal about the same. Jio has said that it will only look for homegrown 5G solutions....

Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea will have to substantially increase their average revenue per users (ARPUs) to achieve long-term sustainability at a time when the sector is going through a rough financial phase in the wake of AGR-related payment issue. ICRA said that these telcos need to increase their ARPU annually by 13-30% to be able to meet the AGR related payouts along with the existing debt repayments as well as the spectrum instalments which will start from FY2023....

Vodafone and Idea merged last August, but the brands continue to operate independently in some circles. Recently, the merged entity Vodafone Idea said that the radio network integration has been completed in eight telecom circles within five months. “If that (Vodafone Idea operations) were to change, we’d expect to see better general availability for all customers as the two brands’ coverage areas are complementary,” the report noted. In terms of speed, Airtel turned out to be the fastest mobile operator in India during the period under review, regardless of whether a customer was on LTE or not, said the Ookla report....

Airtel Digital TV Offering Free Installation on New Connections Airtel Digital TV is following the footsteps of Dish TV which is currently the second-largest DTH operator in India. After slashing the prices of its Set-Top Boxes, Airtel Digital TV has come up with two new benefits for the new users. Airtel Digital TV new users can enjoy a channel pack at no extra cost for the first 30 days. If a customer opts for a new Airtel Digital TV connection via the official website (https://www....