Bharti Airtel to Get ORAN Support He also added that among many of its partnerships, the one with Tata Group is a substantial one. He said that the Bharti Airtel - Tata Group partnership which is strategic in nature, is one of the critical under the Make In India push. To implement 5G network solutions for India, Bharti Airtel has partnered up with Tata Group, whose locally developed solutions for the 5G network will start getting deployed from January 2022 onwards....

Next-Gen Store Staff are Called ‘Airtel Friends’ First of all, this is the first Next-Gen Airtel Store to launch in Kolkata and the telco today unveiled three such stores in the city. Airtel plans to roll out ten Next-Gen stores across Kolkata and other major cities across West Bengal over the coming months. Furthermore, Airtel has also introduced a new behaviour model for in-store staff to reflect the company’s ‘Serve-to-solve’ philosophy....

Bharti Airtel ARPU Rise, Tariff Hike, and Future Plans a Big Factor Bharti Airtel is a good company for long-term investors since the rise in its stock price came even when there’s no tariff hike and no relief provided for the sector. The telco even has adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues to pay to the government. The company’s stock should see a major upward trend in the coming months, with tariff hikes kicking in, average revenue per user (ARPU) going upwards, and 5G services coming into the fold....

Bharti Airtel is recognised as a better quality network service provider when compared to Reliance Jio. Airtel aims to provide a faster and healthier data experience to its users, while Jio can’t do that because of its congested networks. Thus, it is no surprise that average data consumption by an Airtel user is more than that of a Jio user. According to a brokerage firm CLSA, the average data usage by 4G subscribers of Bharti Airtel is 16....

One of the leading service providers in the country Airtel has a bunch of broadband plans under its portfolio with the cheapest pack being a 40 Mbps plan. This plan from Airtel comes at a price tag of Rs 499 and offers stable, seamless connectivity. However, if you are looking for alternatives, there are a number of other internet service providers (ISPs) that actually have similarly priced plans. Let’s take a look at all the broadband packs that are similar to Airtel’s Rs 499 Plan....

Channel Capacity Becomes Question in Limit for Platform Services The broadcasters have sent out to the comments to the telecom regulator upon the consultation paper ‘Platform Services Offered by DTH Operators’. As part of this submission, the popular broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks India also wrote to Trai saying that there should be a limit to how many platform services a particular DTH operator can offer. Sony also added that the cap be set at 1% to 2% of the entire capacity, which is offered by the DTH operators....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Bharti Airtel are established telecom brands across India. Both the companies offer 4G data plans to their users. While BSNL doesn’t have PAN India 4G networks, the vouchers/plans that it offers will work under 4G networks as well. It is worth noting that the telco has live 4G networks in some parts of the country and thus its 4G data plans make sense for many who are connected to BSNL’s 4G networks....

Whenever Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) launches 4G services pan-India, it will completely change the competition structure of the Indian telecom. The state-run telco is surviving through its revival package and fixed-line broadband connections at the moment. Millions of users are still utilising 2G and 3G networks of the telco. Thus the telco might not shut down its older-general networks, but it is in immediate need of launching 4G services....

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has just released the monthly performance report of the telcos for February 2022. From the report, it can be seen that BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) has added new active wireless subscribers in February. While the overall subscriber base of BSNL has dipped, the telco has added new active subscribers during the month. The same is the case with Reliance Jio. Only Bharti Airtel’s overall wireless subscriber base grew in February 2022....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Telangana Circle on Monday launched Wi-Fi Hotspot service at a gated community in Hyderabad. The operator started its Wi-Fi services in 2015 by launching a Wi-Fi Hotspot service in Varanasi and has since commissioned around 49,517 Hotspots across India. BSNL in the Telangana circle has commissioned over 1388 Hotspots including 382 Hotspots at over 170 Hotspot locations in Hyderabad. The operator highlights that each Hotspots offer speeds of 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps....

BSNL Cashback Scheme for Landline Calls The 6 paise cashback scheme on landline calls enabled users to earn 6 paise on calls of five minutes and above duration. The maximum cashback under the scheme was Rs 50 per month. Initially, BSNL launched the pan-India scheme in October 2019 with the operator refining the scheme in November that enabled more users to seamlessly earn their rewards. The operator said that it wants more of its customers to “experience the quality of voice call which happens on wireline and also get incentivized for same....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will be upgrading the 2G mobile sites to 4G in Naxal hit areas. The overall cost of the project will be Rs 2,426 crore, confirmed Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday. According to a PTI report, the cabinet has approved for BSNL to take care of the 2G mobile sites to 4G in the Naxal hit areas across ten different states. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Rs 2,426 crore worth of project has been approved by the cabinet to upgrade 2,542 2G mobile sites to 4G, said Thakur....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has the best 2GB daily data voucher in the game right now. Users of the telco who are already on 4G VoLTE services can enjoy this voucher even more than the users who are under the coverage of the 3G network. This data voucher that we are talking about doesn’t come with any voice calling or SMS benefits. It is a data voucher meant to be added to an active base pack for boosting the daily data consumption of the user....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has hiked the price of the Rs 1498 data voucher. It is a direct hike which BSNL said will be applicable from July 1, 2022. The same voucher will now cost users Rs 1515. The benefits will be the same – 2GB of daily data with speed reduced to 40 Kbps after. The validity of this plan is 365 days. While it is not a big jump, it is worth noting that BSNL has been reducing the benefits of its multiple prepaid plans....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been trying to launch 4G for the last few years. In 2022, the state-run telco made orders for a total of 12,000 sites to be upgraded to 4G. The first issue of the purchase order was for 6000 sites on March 31, 2022. The second order was for another 6000 sites on July 25, 2022. Then in Oct 2022, BSNL floated a tender for the requirement of 1 lakh 4G sites....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is gearing up to launch 4G networks soon in India. The state-run telco has already placed an order of Rs 550 crores with TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) to procure 40W radios for 6000 sites. BSNL will also be looking to launch 5G NSA networks in due time. But until then, the state-run telco will earn from the 5G rollout of the private telcos. BSNL to Lease Mobile Towers to Private Telcos for 5G Rollout With 5G, the private telecom operators would want to add more tower sites and capacity....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is one telecom company that is often in the news headlines for the wrong reasons. The Public telecom company has registered a decline in its subscriber base quarter on quarter and month on month. There are multiple reasons for this phenomenon. Firstly, is the most obvious reason for the absence of a 4G network, which is the prominent reason why subscribers have been seen leaving the BSNL network....

The Indian telecom sector is dominated by the three private players – Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea. However, the state-owned telco BSNL also provides prepaid plans that offer benefits just as the other operators. In fact, BSNL offers significantly more data with its short as well as long-term validity plans. In this article, we are going to take a look at the long-term prepaid plans offered by BSNL that provide a hefty amount of data....

The Indian telecom sector is dominated by the three private players – Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea. However, the state-owned telco BSNL also provides prepaid plans that offer benefits just as the other operators. The plans from BSNL not only offer equivalent benefits but also in some cases costs less than the same prepaid plans offered by the other telcos. Mentioned are some of the daily data prepaid plans offered by BSNL that costs less than the plans offered by Jio, Airtel and Vi....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) right now has the least mobile subscribers in the country. It makes perfect sense because BSNL doesn’t offer 4G network services like the private operators. But, the state-run telecom operator has been working with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to roll out 4G via homegrown technology. After that, BSNL would also target a homegrown 5G network rollout. According to a BusinessStandard report, Ashwini Vaishnaw, telecom minister, has asked BSNL to reach the 20 crores or 200 million subscribers mark with homegrown 4G and 5G....