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Loan recovery agents calling you for no reason? Blame it on the mobile SIM you just bought
The rise of recycled mobile numbers poses challenges for new users, leading to unwanted calls and difficulties in linking numbers to bank accounts. Telecom firms release over 10 million recycled numbers monthly due to limited resources. Lack of coordination between departments results in new users facing inconvenience in updating KYC details with various authorities.
ACT looks for OTT bundles to take on telcos on home broadband
ACT Fibernet plans to expand in tier-1 and tier-2 cities, competing with telco giants. It offers OTT bundled plans and has gained market share in South India. The company invests in network infrastructure, online gaming, and AI technology for traffic management.
Reliance Jio Q3 Results: Affordable phone, wireless broadband and more users bring an end to four quarters of sluggish growth
Reliance Jio Q3 Results: Reliance Industries' telecom venture, Jio, recently released its financial results for the third quarter of December 2023. The company reported a noteworthy 12.3% year-on-year increase in net profit, amounting to Rs 5,208 crore. This surge marks a significant turnaround after four consecutive quarters of slower growth. Jio credited this achievement to the rising number of subscribers and the popularity of its affordable 4G phone.
Rajasthan scheme helps boost Vodafone Idea's 4G user base in Q2
A top Rajasthan government official confirmed that Vi provided majority of the mobile connections under the state's Indira Gandhi Smartphone Yojana (IGSY) initiative, with the remaining coming from state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL).
Streamlining of RoW charges, license fee waiver needed for expanding broadband: Airtel
On the other hand, Airtel sees a growing opportunity in the broadband space due to the rising affluence levels and evolving consumer behaviour, which is set to open up 70 million households for broadband connectivity
Britain's BT Group to lay off up to 55,000 by 2030 after fibre roll-out ends
BT would use AI to deliver better customer service, driven by customer needs, he said, as well as capturing other business opportunities. "We're not going to be in a situation where people feel like they're dealing with a robot," he said. ""We've got multichannel, we're online, we have got 450 stores, that's not planning on changing."
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120 villages in tribal Kinnaur, Lahaul &Spiti districts to get 4G connectivity: BSNL officials
To provide high-speed digital connectivity on fibre in tribal areas, the Himachal circle of the BSNL is executing a Rs 50 crore state-funded project allotted under Special Assistance to States for CAPEX (capital expenditure) Scheme during the year 2022-23, they added.
Every village to be connected with 4G by 2024: says minister of state for telecom
The project cost of Rs 26,316 crore includes capex (capital expenditure) and 5-year opex (operational expenditure). Besides covering villages to under 4G saturation project, the government has been running a drive to connect unconnected villages through private firms as well as state-owned telecom firm BSNL by providing financial support under USOF schemes.
More than half of mobile connections in India to be 5G by 2028, says Ericsson report
The report estimates that there will be five billion 5G subscriptions globally, accounting for 55 percent of all subscriptions by the end of 2028.
DoT pitches for 10-yr break in licence fee for broadband companies
The proposal is aimed at promoting the proliferation of broadband services across India, especially rural and remote areas. The exemption of licence fee will allow service providers to invest more in fibre, leading to wider coverage via wireline services, the people said.
Airtel broadband back after suffering major outage in India
According to website outage monitoring platform DownDetector.com, the outage which affected millions of users across the country started around 10.30 p.m. on Friday night and was resolved around 1 a.m. on Saturday.
Govt cancels Rs 19,000-cr tender for connecting villages in 16 states with broadband
The project was approved in June last year to roll out an optical fibre network under BharatNet in 16 states in a public-private partnership model with a total expense of Rs 29,430 crore.
Ad spends in India set to zoom past ₹1 lakh crore mark in 2022
The report also suggests that India will be the fastest growing market among the top 10 markets globally. It is ranked at number 9 globally in terms of size and fifth in incremental ad spending for 2022.
Mukesh Ambani’s Jio plans satellite broadband rivaling Mittal's OneWeb, Musk's SpaceX
Satellite broadband was the only big missing link in Reliance’s massive telecom infrastructure including a deep optic fiber footprint across India, which enabled it to become the country’s largest mobile operator within a few years of its disruptive entry in 2016.
Jio Platforms, SES forms JV to deliver satellite-based broadband services; RIL down 3%
The joint venture will use multi-orbit space networks that is a combination of geostationary (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellations capable of delivering multi-gigabit links and capacity to enterprises, mobile backhaul and retail customers across the length and breadth of India and neighbouring regions.
Jio forays into satellite broadband market, forms 51:49 satellite JV with Luxembourg’s SES
The latest JPL-SES joint venture formation comes on the heels of Reliance Jio Infocomm’s newly formed satellite unit, Jio Satellite Communications Ltd (JSCL), applying to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for a global mobile personal communications by satellite services (GMPCS) licence, becoming the second telecom company after Bharti Airtel to throw its hat in the nascent Indian satcom ring.
OneWeb, Hughes sign 6-year pact to provide satellite broadband services in India
OneWeb's most recent satellite launch on 27 December 2021 brought its total in-orbit satellites to 394, over 60 per cent of the planned 648 LEO satellite fleet.
Jio tells Trai auction of spectrum for broadband-from-space services gaining traction globally
The Mukesh Ambani-led telco has decried the administrative allocation system, calling it “a relic of a competition-free past,” totally at odds in today’s fiercely competitive telecom sector where “spectrum allocation via auction is the preferred choice”.
Jio vs Airtel, satcom firms on auctioning satellite broadband spectrum
Global satellite services providers and telco, Airtel, in their submissions to the telecom regulator, though, have strongly backed allocation of satellite gateway spectrum through “the administrative route” in line with global practices, warning that any move to auction it would cause segmentation of airwaves and drive down the efficiency of satellite broadband services drastically to lower levels.
Trai seeks DoT clarity around mmWave before recommending base price
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has sought this information to have a clear idea on the quantum of mmWave band spectrum that will be available for 5G services before recommending base prices of such airwaves, two people aware of the matter said.
India head of SpaceX’s Starlink eyes pacts with others in space
In his first exclusive interaction with media, Bhargava told ET that his immediate mandate, following an hour-long meeting with Musk, is to engage with CEOs of India's top telcos, banks, hospitals, academic institutions and NGOs to ink potential collaboration pacts to boost rural broadband connectivity.
Trai recommendations to push wired broadband may have little impact
Trai has recommended a minimum 5-year licence fee exemption for service providers to boost proliferation of wired broadband networks but wants them to ensure a net 15% rise in their broadband user base annually to qualify for such waiver. Wired broadband service providers pay 8% of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) as licence fees to the government.
Trai ups min wired broadband speeds to 2 Mbps; suggests license fee exemption to expand connectivity
In a 298-page-recommendation unveiled Tuesday to promote broadband connectivity, Trai also suggested a pilot Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) programme to fuel usage among rural users. It also pushed for making available all spectrum bands used for mobile telecommunications globally to Indian telcos and suggested that the telecom department publish an annual calendar for making airwaves available to service providers.
Tata Sky broadband signs on-demand enterprise deal with WeWork
This deal serves as a positive reinforcement back to growth for workspace providers post-COVID-19 and demonstrates the steadily rising demand of flexible workspaces amongst enterprises
BSNL, MTNL turn EBITDA positive in first half of FY21: Telecom Department
The Department of Telecom (DoT) also said that the process for spectrum allocation for 4G services to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on pan-India basis, including Delhi and Mumbai, has been initiated and funds have been provisioned in FY2020-21.
5G connection to reach 3.5 billion globally, 350 million in India by 2026: Report
Global 4G population coverage will be over 80% at the end of 2020 and is forecast to reach about 95% in 2026. 4G networks are also evolving to deliver increased network capacity and faster data speeds.
25 years on, India tops 75 crore Internet connections; 50% of these came in last 4 years
India had breached the 50-crore mark in September 2018, and from there the country has, on average, added more than 86 lakh new connections each month.
Govt aims to provide 5,00,000 fibre-to-home (broadband) connections by Sept
The Ministry of Electronics and IT's rural network of 4,00,000 Common Service Centres has rolled out the facility after the Department of Telecommunications entrusted it to take the ambitious BharatNet fibre optic network to every last mile in the country.
Always connected: Indians consume over 11GB data daily, spend 70 mins a day on OTT platforms
4G constitutes 96 per cent of the total data traffic consumed across the country.
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