The Supreme Court on Friday had postponed the hearing of the AGR dues case of telcos to today. One thing that has become clear from all the past hearings is that there is no way that Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Limited’s (VIL) request of reassessment of AGR dues is going to be entertained by the apex court. SC will only decide on the period at which the dues needs to be cleared by the telcos....
Last week, The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) announced its verdict in the Aircel vs the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) case. The verdict had a direct effect on the resolution plans of Aircel and Reliance Communication Ltd. (RCom) The resolution plan of UV Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. (UVARCL) for Aircel was approved in June 2020. However, according to an IANS report, experts believe that NCLAT’s decision has rendered the plans useless, thus pushing the company towards liquidation....
AirFiber Networks, an upcoming internet service provider (ISP) of India, is going to utilise the Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) solution from Nokia to provide services. It is worth noting that AirFiber Networks is a broadband company that currently services in Bangalore and Tamil Nadu, keeping its focus on South India. Leveraging the GPON solution from Nokia, AirFiber Networks will be able to offer high-speed broadband plans to its users in Bangalore and under-penetrated areas of Tamil Nadu....
Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel both now provide users in India with smartphone offers. But they are not enough. Both the private telecom operators are trying to gain a larger market share and also trying to maximise revenues. Reliance Jio’s aim is to turn India into a ‘2G Mukt’ country. But in order to do that, there should be an ultra-affordable 4G smartphone available. The JioPhone offers are good, but they are not what everyone wants....
Bharti Airtel is the first to announce the launch of 5G in India on October 01 at the IMC 2022 event. Since then, the telco has been gradually launching 5G in places of significance per the company’s strategy. So far, Airtel’s NSA 5G is available in 12 cities. Now, coming to the context, Chennai is in the first cluster of 5G cities announced by Bharti Airtel. 5G in Chennai Airtel announced 5G in Chennai in the first list of the announcement, whereas Jio didn’t, which made Chennai users unhappy....
Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services across Africa, announced that its Nigerian Subsidiary had purchased 4G and 5G spectrum from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for a gross consideration of $ 316.7 million, payable in location currency. Airtel Africa is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel. 4G and 5G Spectrum Purchased Airtel African subsidiary, Airtel Nigeria, purchased the spectrum in the bands 2600 MHz and 3500 MHz for both 4G and 5G, respectively....
Accenture has announced that it has collaborated with the leading premier telecommunications solutions provider, Bharti Airtel. As a part of this collaboration, it will bring the potential of 5G networks in improving industrial productivity. At the 5G lab of Airtel in Network Experience Centre in Manesar, Gurgaon, Accenture will showcase its solutions and the various use cases of a robotic arm for precision manufacturing, artificial intelligence, worker safety using industrial IoT, video analytics, extended reality, and machine learning....
Airtel Xstream Fibre Unlimited Data Options Bharti Airtel Xstream Fibre subscribers have the option of increasing the data limit of their plans by paying a little more money over their monthly rental. It is worth noting that this is a unique feature which Airtel is offering for its subscribers. The amount that the subscribers will have to pay for extra data is Rs 299 over the monthly rental. For example, in the case of the Basic plan under Airtel Xstream Fibre, the total data which the subscribers usually enjoy is 150GB, with up to 100 Mbps speed and unlimited local and STD calls....
Airtel Digital TV All Channels Pack: Expected Total Channel Count As mentioned above, Airtel Digital TV is currently offering a total of 563 channels to its subscribers. Right now, FTA channels on the platform are 258 whereas the a-la-carte channel count is 305. However, customers will not get all the 563 channels to watch as part of the All Channels pack. Instead, Airtel Digital TV will not provide some SD channels whose HD channels will be bundled....
You may enjoy a fantastic TV viewing experience with a flawless DTH connection from Airtel DTH. Even though the company always does its hardest to guarantee your TV connection is ideal, the services occasionally suffer. Now, the company occasionally does have some control over such circumstances, but not always. However, you can be sure that the company will always be on hand to repair or resolve DTH connections for its clients....
Bharti Airtel has a way more affordable prepaid plan option for consumers in India when one-month validity is concerned. The telcos offer different kinds of validities. There are plans with 14 days, 28 days, 24 days, 30 days, and 31 days validity. However, there are also plans offered by the Indian telcos which come with 1 month’s validity. Note that the one-month validity plan is different from 30 days or 31 days plan....
Bharti Airtel Best Selling Circle Specific Postpaid Plans Currently on the Airtel official website, if you navigate to the Best Selling Circle Specific Plans section, you will see two plans. The interesting thing to note is that these two plans remain exclusive to the circles mentioned with them in which they are available. Apart from these circles, these unique postpaid plans from Airtel won’t be available on the website for subscription nor will subscribers outside of the circles be able to subscribe to them....
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, has launched its content delivery service in partnership with Qwilt. For the unaware, Qwilt is a unique Edge Cloud Platform and Open Caching software that allows internet service providers (ISPs) to offer a better streaming experience to their users. Airtel would be able to deliver a better OTT (over-the-top) content experience to its several hundred million customers in the country. Airtel has launched Airtel Cloud’s Edge CDN, based on Qwilt’s technology and has become the largest service provider to date to deploy Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud Solution....
The offering entails personal accident cover, protection against third-party liabilities and inspection-free renewal through a fast, paperless process. “Customers can also avail towing services at no extra cost on claim intimation, in the event the insured vehicle breaks down,” the statement added. Customers without an Airtel Payments Bank account can also avail this policy, it said adding that renewal of two-wheeler insurance can be done at Airtel Payments Bank banking point....
Bharti Airtel’s e-finance service, Airtel Payments Bank, will now allow users to keep a maximum of Rs 2,00,000 in their accounts which has increased from the earlier maximum limit of Rs 1,00,000. Users will be able to save more with the increased balance allowance. Further, Airtel Payments Bank has become the first payments bank in India to avail such a high limit of day-end balance to the users. All the deposits are secured under the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)....
Bharti Airtel, a leading telecom operator in India, is powering the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) venue with its 5G Plus networks. Earlier today, Airtel announced that it had launched 5G Plus services in 3 cities of Rajasthan - Jaipur, Udaipur and Kota. Airtel also said it is powering the JLF venue with its 5G networks, where thousands of attendees would be present. JLF is a five-day event where top names from the literature world will be present....
Airtel Wi-Fi Zone Availability The Airtel Wi-Fi Zones will be available in public spaces like airports, parks, colleges, hospitals and more. As per the information provided by Airtel, currently, there are more than 500 Wi-Fi Zones in cities like Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi, Bengaluru and more. For connecting to these hotspots, the Bharti Airtel prepaid customers will need to have the Airtel Thanks application on their phones. Also, it is worth noting that the prepaid subscribers of Bharti Airtel are getting 20GB data credited to their account to be used in these Wi-Fi Zones....
To elevate the ARPU earnings in the micro and macro terms, Bharti Airtel has hoisted the floor prices of various prepaid and postpaid plans. Since the telco giant is facing AGR dues pressure and expansion projects default, the hike in floor price is bound to increase the average revenue per user (ARPU) of the telco. The information was revealed by India Ratings and Research Private Limited. Bharti Airtel has comfortably increased the floor prices because of no competition....
Airtel Xstream Box Upgrade Plans As mentioned above, Bharti Airtel is offering three upgrade plans to the users. The first plan comes for Rs 3049, followed by the Rs 2999 and Rs 2949 plans. With the Rs 3049 plan, users will get an Xstream Box from the company along with a free subscription to two OTT platforms, including ZEE5 Premium and Disney+ Hotstar, for one year. The company has limited these offers or plans of Xstream Box upgrade to select cities including - Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Panchkula, Chandigarh, and Mohali....
Airtel Xstream Fiber has become one of the most popular broadband services in the country. In a much recent update to its offerings, Airtel changed all the Xstream Fiber plans to come with unlimited data instead of a fixed amount for the month. But as we all know, Airtel Xstream Fiber unlimited data plans come with 3.3TB of data per month. Post-that, the browsing speed is reduced for the user....
