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By Divya Dixit, SVP - Marketing & Revenue, ALTBalaji Another quiet weekend with my daughter led us to spend quality time watching her favourite series. What was different this time was the house-help’s interest in the show as well. It was intriguing, to say the least, as she spoke of the OTT shows that she has seen so far. It got me thinking about how OTT platforms can better strategise content creation to cover a PAN India Audience....

Telcos to Witness Sharp Rise in ARPU The analysts, however, have also said that this tariff hike will effect the data growth as well, which has been rising on the back of the fact that India has the cheapest data rates of all countries in the world. After this tariff hike, almost a billion subscribers in India would be required to pay more than 40% for the same plans. Amidst this, it is also crucial to note that Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea, all have increased prices for their prepaid subscribers which make up for the 90% of their Toal subscriber base....

Tata Play Fiber, earlier known as Tata Sky Broadband, is offering users the Rs 1150 plan at no cost for one month. With this plan, users will get a high-speed internet connection with 200 Mbps download and upload speed. This is the new ‘Try and Buy’ scheme that the company is offering, just like JioFiber. Here, Tata Play Fiber is giving users the option to first test the service quality of the company and then make a commitment by purchasing the connection....

Tata Sky Binge+ is an Android Set-Top Box (STB) offered by Tata Sky. Tata Sky, the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator, is offering its Android STB, namely ‘Tata Sky Binge+’, for a very special price on its website. People who are purchasing the Binge+ STB online directly through the company’s website can avail of a Rs 200 instant discount. The current price of the STB is Rs 2,499, but with the Rs 200 discount voucher, its price will be reduced to Rs 2299....

Tecno Spark 7 has made its debut on Friday, April 10, 2021. Tecno is a mobile company owned by Transsion Holdings which manufactures mobiles in China. The Tecno Spark 7 is positioned as a budget-friendly smartphone that stands in the top 5 smartphone companies in the 5K-10K market segment in India. It has a big battery with a dual-camera setup at the rear to deliver a strong performance to the users....

Tecno Spark 9T Specifications Another budget device from Infinix called the Infnix Smart 6 Plus is expected to launch in the Indian market soon as it has been listed on the official platform of Flipkart.

The Bhubaneswar commiserate police after having been alarmed by the seizure of around 16,000 illegally activated SIM cars beforehand by a criminal gang on Tuesday, wrote to the telecom operators to strengthen their subscriber verification systems to avoid such kinds of happenings which make it hard to trace these criminals. In relation to this, seven people, including two employees of a private telecom company were arrested on Thursday for allegedly selling these pre-activated SIM cards to cyber-criminals located in different states....

Ashwini Vaishnaw, the telecom minister, requested telecom operators to install 10,000 sites per week rather than the carriers’ present 2500 sites per week in order to expand 5G coverage across the nation. He continued by saying that no SACFA clearance or Standing Advisory Committee on Frequency Allocation clearance will be required for mounting 5G antennae on street furniture in order to facilitate 5G rollouts. The wireless licence reforms will be improved after the draft telecom bill is completed, the minister noted....

To compete fiercely with other internet service providers (ISPs), Airtel offers several broadband internet plans. When it comes to the broadband market, the corporation has one of the highest coverage areas. Additionally, it provides a wide range of advantages to its users, including unlimited data, free voice calls, and more. The provider offers a number of internet options, with prices ranging from Rs 499 to Rs 3,999. Airtel Rs 999 Broadband Plan Read More - Airtel Offering 2GB of Free Data to Users...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was asked by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to recommend prices for the 5G spectrum bands as well as fresh pricing for 4G spectrum bands. But the sector regulator can’t recommend a base price for the mmWave 5G spectrum right away. To do that, TRAI needs to know the quantum of the mmWave 5G band spectrum that will be available in the auction....

Matter Still in Bombay HC Over Trai Regulations The bench has also said that the broadcasters an ask for a stay on the order while the next hearing happens on February 12. Also, the bench will be taking a final decision on the matter in the next hearing only. In the meantime, the bench in Bombay HC has said that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has set a deadline for the new rules and their implementation is to happen on March 1, and the broadcasters and DPOs should adhere to these deadlines....

Data Demand Grew By More than Ten Times in Three Years The Trai remarked about this, “The volume of total wireless data usage increased from 828 million GB during the year 2014 to 46,404 million GB during the year 2018-19. The wireless data usage in the year 2019 is expected to surpass the previous year usage by a significant margin as reflected by usage of 54,917 million GB until September 2019....

Trai NTO 2.0: Why Cable TV Operators are Ignoring It There are a large number of Cable TV operators in the country. When Trai announced the amendments to its National Tariff Order on January 1, 2020, it took everyone by surprise, especially the Cable TV operators as they believe the new rules will dent their revenue badly. Trai came up with changes like offering 200 FTA channels in the base NCF slab of Rs 130 (excluding taxes), 40% NCF charges as the primary connection for every Multi TV connection and no channel priced over Rs 12 can be included in a bouquet....

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will soon conduct a survey on tariffs for wireline and wireless subscribers in India. The survey will be conducted both in online as well as offline mode during September 2022. TRAI has chosen the M/s Academy of Management Studies (AMS), a survey agency based out of New Delhi, to carry out the consumer survey. This survey will take place in the month of September 2022....

Vodafone Plc is the another owner of the financially weak telco, Vodafone Idea, apart from Aditya Birla Group. While the latter owns a 27.66% stake in the company, the UK-based group owns 45% in the company. As per the latest reports on the matter, Vodafone Plc has said that it would offer its stake to the lenders who are willing or to the public telecom company, BSNL, for free if they take over the company....

The Telugu film industry, also known as Tollywood, has been producing a wide variety of movies that have been gaining popularity not just in the region but also among the audiences worldwide. Some Telugu movies have seen direct Telugu releases in the past and will do so in the future. The same big and small-budget movies that were released on OTT last year will do so again in 2023. Here are some of the newest projects and the dates they will be available on different OTTs....

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in the country, has rolled out an AI/ML-based ad-tech platform for capitalising on the multi-billion dollar advertising industry in India. The digital revolution in the country driven by cheap data has led to significant growth and innovation in the ad-tech industry. This has increased the volume of investments in the industry. Vi’s ad-tech platform will be called “Vi Ads”. It is focused on giving marketers a programmatic media buying platform that is cutting edge and ROI focused....

Vodafone Idea is facing a lot of problems because of no communication from the Indian government about the interest dues conversion into equity. Because the government is not saying anything, the telco has been finding it difficult to go ahead with fundraising. Even the approval that the telco got for issuing OCD (optionally convertible debentures) to the American Tower Company (ATC) is no more valid as the government is not moving ahead with the conversion of debt to equity....

The RedmiBook in China starts retailing at around Rs 35,000 for the variant which comes with the Ryzen CPU. Of course, there is the Intel processor option as well which includes the variants we mentioned above. Even in those variants, the buyers will get the option of 8th generation or 10th generation of CPU. The RedmiBook comes in two sizes which includes a 13-inch variant or the 14-inch variant. https://www....

The United Kingdom (UK) has received its first 5G-connected hospital. It has been possible because of a partnership between Virgin Media O2 and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Virgin Media O2 has switched on the 5G network at the hospital and it is a part of Maudsley Digital Lab’s series of digital health and innovation trials funded by NHS Digital. It is a private 5G network which will provide dedicated connectivity for mission-critical digital health use cases for both the patients as well as the clinicians....