Airtel, Vodafone Idea Comes With Rs 219, Rs 399 and Rs 449 Prepaid Plans For the first time in over three years, Reliance Jio seems to be in sight of bother, thanks to the aggressive approach from Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. After hitting hard at the Mukesh Ambani-owned telco by removing the FUP limit on off-net calling, both the telcos introduced three new prepaid plans of Rs 219, Rs 399 and Rs 449....

The chairman of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Bharti Mittal, stated on Tuesday at the Global Technology Summit hosted by Carnegie India that the telecom sector is a very capital-intensive industry that costs billions of dollars to set up the infrastructure and that, as a result, a better tax system is needed to have a strong, sustainable, infrastructure provider in the nation. The Telcos’ Tax Burden Should Be Reduced According to a HinduBusinessline report, in his remarks at the conference, Mittal suggested that the government must focus its attention on the telecom industry, which is still subject to high taxes....

Bharti Airtel is slowing reducing the dependency on Chinese telecom gear makers and replacing them with other alternatives available in the market. As reported by ET Telecom, Bharti Airtel is planning to replace Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei with Swedish Telecom gear maker Ericsson for its 4G expansion and modernisation plan in the Rest of Tamil Nadu circle. Since the government has barred Chinese telecom gear makers from supplying equipment to state-owned telcos BSNL and MTNL, private telcos are slowly inclining towards different suppliers....

Airtel Minimum Recharge or Smart Recharge Plans Detailed Unlike Vodafone which is flooding the market with a lot of minimum recharge plans, Bharti Airtel has just three of them. The plans in question are Rs 45, Rs 49 and Rs 79. Starting with the Rs 45 Smart Recharge pack, it is the most basic one with no talk time or data benefit. Instead, the Rs 45 recharge offers a user 28 days of service validity and all the voice calls will be charged at 2....

One of the leading telecom operators in the country Airtel has appealed to the government to keep a check on the high fees when it comes to the allotment of the 5G spectrum. The company put forward the case that it will be far more beneficial if the next-generation telecommunication network witnesses a faster rollout than to collect revenues at the upfront cost. The Chairman of the Bharti Airtel, Sunil Mittal talked about the importance of the 5G network for the future of the industry....

Bharti Airtel has been one operator which has partnered with other companies, especially in the snacks and beverage sector, to offer complimentary data to the users purchasing the product of the other company. Now Bharti Airtel has done the same thing again and will soon offer users 2GB of free data without any additional cost. But for being eligible to receive this bonus data, users will have to purchase the select product the telco has partnered with and then use the code provided to claim the benefit....

Boat Airdopes 500 ANC Features The newly launched Boat Airdopes 500 ANC has been equipped with an 8mm driver setup with Boat’s signature audio experience. The earbuds are in-ear style earbuds without a stem design. The hearable offers Bluetooth 5.2 for wireless connectivity and they also come with support for hybrid active noise cancellation up to 35dB. The hybrid active noise cancellation is capable of cancelling out a much broader range of frequencies....

Boat has just launched a new wireless earphone in its Rockerz 255 series - Boat Rockers 255 Pro+. It is a budget Bluetooth earphone which comes with IPX7 sweat and water resistance certification. The Boat Rockerz 255 Pro+ is touted as one of the best from Boat as it offers great sound experience and a premium feel to the user for a significantly less price. It is a neckband earphone thus it can be worn on runs, gyms, and casual walks....

Popular Indian wearable brand Boat on Wednesday officially announced its latest smartwatch, the Boat Watch Xtend in India. The company had been teasing the product since June and, the USP of the product is the support for Alexa voice assistant. Statistically, this marks the fifth smartwatch to have been launched by Boat, after having launched four varying models in the past couple of years. In terms of what the Boat Watch Xtend has to offer, it comes with the aforementioned Alexa voice assistant built-in, which can allow for the setting of reminders, alarms as well as answering any queries that the user might have....

The consumption of data from home connections has increased manifold in recent times. Whether users use it for streaming, work-from-home or even small businesses, the reliability of seamless Wi-Fi connectivity across multiple devices has increased significantly. Although Internet Service Providers (ISPs) of the country provide a huge variety of broadband plans from low-speed affordable plans to high-end plans offering up to 1 Gbps of speed, most of the time users want an adequate internet speed at a relatively affordable price....

OTT platforms have been on a constant rise ever since the pandemic arrived as many users opted for streaming services as a mode of leisure. Broadband service providers took the opportunity and have been providing plans that offer access to various OTT or Over-The-Top platforms. One of the key players in the OTT industry is Disney+ Hotstar which offers a ton of content for users from every age group. The Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across India offer broadband plans that come bundled with the Disney+ Hotstar platform....

The wait for 5G services for BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) customers won’t be that long. BSNL will start offering 5G services in India as early as August 15th of next year, according to Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who made the announcement at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2022 in New Delhi. According to a report by ET Telcom, the 5G services offered by BSNL will be based on domestically created technology and will compete with Jio and Airtel’s 5G....

BSNL Rs 999 and Rs 1,499 Broadband Plans: Benefits Detailed Priced at Rs 999, the BSNL Broadband plan offers 200 Mbps speeds up to 3.3TB every month. After the FUP limit, BSNL users can browse unlimited data at 2 Mbps speeds. The Rs 1,499 Bharat Fiber plan comes with 300 Mbps speeds up to the same 3.3TB FUP limit. The broadband plans also offer unlimited voice calling benefit. The key differentiator is the Disney+ Hotstar Premium subscription that’s bundled at no extra cost....

The employee association of the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has demanded that the management has to withdraw the proposal for organisational restructuring. According to the Forum of BSNL Executives Associations, the proposed structure will prove detrimental to the career progression of the executives. The associations termed the new structuring ‘a serious obstacle to fulfilling the actual requirement of running the organisation smoothly and efficiently.’ In the proposed restructuring, the number of posts is allegedly reduced, which will affect the employees waiting for the next promotional cycle....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Employees Union (EU) on Tuesday announced its intentions to organize “black flag” demonstrations during the lunch hour on July 16. The BSNLEU said that the demonstration is being held against the cancellation of BSNL 4G tender along with “the road blocks being created in the rolling out of BSNL’s 4G services.” Additionally, the main recognized union in BSNL has also listed other demands including the timely payment of salaries....

BSNL SIM Card for No Additional Charge Scheme Extended Till January 31 However, the operator on Wednesday said that the SIM card for no additional charge scheme has now been extended till January 31, 2021. Under the scheme, the operator is said to offer SIM card worth Rs 20 to all new users whose First Recharge (FRC) is more than Rs 100. It has to be noted that the operator in the recent months has maintained a consistent user base as compared to its rival operators....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Wednesday announced that the fixed monthly charges of its broadband plans will be revised from August 1, 2020. While several BSNL broadband users across India received a notification about the price hike in the last one week, BSNL Kerala circle has now issued an official notification about the revised prices. The broadband price hike is on the heels of the operator revising its fixed monthly charges of its landline services....

Reliance Jio and BSNL both offer a 90 days 4G prepaid plan to their customers. While BSNL has been offering its 90 days plan for a long-time now, Jio’s entry in the segment is fairly new. Reliance Jio has started offering new plans with 15, 30, 60, 90, and 365 days validities. The interesting thing is, BSNL’s 90 days 4G plan is significantly cheaper than that of Jio’s. Reliance Jio’s 90 days plan comes for Rs 597, while BSNL’s 90 days plan comes for Rs 499....

BSNL Assets Highly Undervalued “It is astonishing to note that in the name of monetisation of lands, for the purpose of making BSNL a debt-free company, BSNL’s land are being transferred to the SPV at a “throwaway price,” BSNL Employees Union said in a letter to the telecom secretary. The union said that the market value of the 63 land parcels identified for transfer to SPV is very high. However, these are being transferred at a “dirt-cheap price” in the name of book value....

Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom operator, is all set to launch 5G network services. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Reliance Industries Limited, had announced that Jio’s 5G networks would arrive in four cities by this Diwali - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. These four cities will just be the start, but then, by December 2023, Jio promises to cover most of India with its 5G SA (standalone) networks....