Roundup of all the Telecom providers and Operators
Verizon today announced that it has signed an agreement with Apollo Funds to sell Verizon Media that comprises iconic brands such as Yahoo and AOL, as well as leading ad tech and media platform businesses for $5 billion. Verizon will retain a 10% stake in the company, which will be known as Yahoo at the close of the transaction and will continue to be led by CEO Guru Gowrappan. Continue reading “Verizon to sell Yahoo and AOL to Apollo Funds for $5 billion”
Bharti Airtel has announced a new corporate structure to tap into the digital opportunity in the country. The new structure envisages Airtel Digital Limited folding into the listed entity, Bharti Airtel. Continue reading “Airtel announces new corporate structure to focus on digital business”
Vi has launched of their Integrated IoT solutions for enterprises in India, which is a 5G-ready end-to-end IoT solution offering that comprises connectivity, hardware, network, application, analytics, security and support. The launch comes right on the heels of Airtel announcing their 5G capable “Airtel IoT” end-to-end platform.
Continue reading “Vi launches end-to-end 5G-ready Integrated IoT Solutions in India”
Airtel has launched ‘Airtel IoT’, an end-to-end platform with the capability to connect and manage billions of devices and applications in a highly secure and seamless fashion for enterprises. Airtel said that its robust 5G Ready network comes with the option to deploy NB-IoT, 4G or 2G connectivity using Airtel e-SIM technology. Continue reading “Airtel IoT 5G ready end-to-end platform for enterprise customers launched”
Reliance Jio is reportedly planning to enter the laptop market segment, as they are currently developing a product called the JioBook. The laptop was spotted to be running a custom version of Android OS, called JioOS, and is powered by a Qualcomm SoC inside.
Continue reading “Reliance Jio said to launch JioBook laptop with Android-based JioOS”
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has announced the winners in the 2021 spectrum auction in various circles that ended after 2 days. At the end of the auction government got bids worth Rs. 77,814.80 core with Rs. 77,146 raised on the first day after four rounds and Rs 668.20 crore raised in the two rounds on the second day. This substantially exceeded pre-bid estimates of Rs. 45,000 crore. Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone Idea, and Reliance Jio took part in the auction. Continue reading “Telecom Spectrum Auction 2021: Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea win spectrum as auction raises Rs. 77814 crore for Govt”
Reliance Jio has launched new ‘2G-MUKT BHARAT’ offer that offers 12 months of service for existing JioPhone users at Rs. 749. For new JioPhone users, the phone along with the 1-year plan costs Rs. 1499 and the 2-year plan costs Rs. 1999. All the plans include unlimited voice calls and 2GB of data every month. The company says that currently, for a feature phone and 2-year service, a user on other network spends about Rs 5,000. Continue reading “JioPhone 2021 offer: 1 year plan for JioPhone users at Rs. 749”
Bharti Airtel recently demonstrated and orchestrate live 5G service over a commercial network in Hyderabad city. Today Airtel has announced that it has partnered with Qualcomm for accelerating 5G in India. Through Airtel’s network vendors and device partners, Airtel will utilize the Qualcomm 5G RAN Platforms to roll out virtualized and Open RAN-based 5G networks. Continue reading “Airtel and Qualcomm partner for 5G services in India”
Vi (Vodafone Idea Limited) has announced Unlimited high-speed Night-time Data for its prepaid customers from 12:00 am to 6:00 am on all Vi Unlimited Recharges of Rs. 249 and above. However, the company announced that the benefit is only applicable for recharges done on or after 16th Feb 2021 Continue reading “Vi announces Unlimited high-speed Night Data for prepaid customers”
Airtel today announced that it has become the country’s first telcom performance to successfully demonstrate and orchestrate live 5G service over a commercial network in Hyderabad city. Airtel said that this has been carried out over its existing liberalised spectrum in the 1800MHz band through the NSA (Non Stand Alone) network technology using Ericsson 4G (DSS) radio infrastructure on OPPO Reno5 Pro and OPPO Find X2 Pro smartphones. Continue reading “Airtel says its network is 5G ready; successfully demonstrates live 5G services in Hyderabad”
Amazon Prime Video has launched Prime Video Mobile Edition, a new single-user, mobile-only plan at an introductory price of Rs. 89 per month first time in India. The plan provides SD quality streaming through the Prime Video app on Android or iOS, which the company says is created especially for a mobile-first country like India. This competes with Netflix that launched its mobile plan for India at ₹199 per month back in 2019. Continue reading “Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition launched in India at Rs. 89 per month”
Vodafone Idea today announced that it has successfully refarmed 3G spectrum to 4G across 11 cities in Gujarat, thereby substantially enhancing GIGAnet 4G capacity in these cities. This development coming on the heels of the deployment of 5 MHz of 2100 MHz spectrum band in the circle, allowing Vi customers in Gujarat to enjoy higher download and upload speeds apart from better indoor coverage. Continue reading “Vi successfully migrates 3G spectrum to 4G across 11 cities in Gujarat”
Vodafone Idea today announced that it is working on refarming 3G spectrum to 4G across all sites in Delhi & NCR. This development includes the deployment of 5 MHz of 2100 MHz spectrum band, meaning that Vi customers in Delhi will get to enjoy higher download and upload speeds apart from better indoor coverage. The company re-farmed the 3G spectrum to 4G across all sites in Mumbai a few days back. Continue reading “Vi commences migration of 3G spectrum to 4G in Delhi NCR”
Reliance Jio just announced that it will once again make off-net domestic voice calls free, starting 1st January 2021. This is as per directions of the Hon’ble Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”), Bill and Keep regime is being implemented in the country from 1st January 2021, thereby ending interconnect usage charges (IUC) for all domestic voice calls. Continue reading “Reliance Jio to make off-net domestic voice calls free starting January 1”
Jio, one of India’s leading telecom companies has partnered with MediaTek to launch the 70-days long ‘Gaming Masters’ e-sports tournament in India. The tournament, which will be open to all players in India, will be played on the mobile battle royale game called Free Fire, and has a total prize pool of Rs. 12.5 lakhs.
