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Vodafone Idea, which was heavily rumoured to hike tariff prices in recent months, has now reportedly postponed the plan. A new ET Telecom report says the financially struggling telecom operator has pushed back its plan of raising tariff prices to Q1 FY22. Vi might now hike the prices of prepaid and postpaid plans by the end of the April-June quarter. Initially, Vi was planning to increase tariff prices by the end of this quarter (Q4 FY21), but the launch of new JioPhone offers by Reliance Jio means the telco is left with no other option other than the postponement of tariff hike....

Vodafone Idea Stock Opens Low On Wednesday Vodafone Idea stock opened low on Wednesday than its previous closing. The stock had closed at Rs 7.40 on Tuesday and opened at Rs 7.15 on Wednesday. As of now, the telco’s share is running 14% lower at Rs 6.35 than its previous closing and had dipped to Rs 6 as well. The telco requires cash in the short-term desperately to ensure its survival....

Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) stock has jumped more than 40% in the last few days. If you are an investor and thinking why a debt-laden company is getting this aggressively positive response from the market, it is because of multiple factors. It all started with the relief measures for the telecom sector that the government announced a few months back. The moratorium on payments and redefining the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues helped the telco’s survival chance substantially....

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in the country, has been a pain for investors over the last five years, dropping by 83% in value/price. ICICI Securities has kept the company’s stock under review and said that it could only give a final rating on the stock once clarity emerges on the fundraising and the growth path ahead. But, at the same time, ICICI Securities has listed out the key triggers for the stock....

Earlier today, Reliance Jio made the much-awaited change to its prepaid and postpaid plans. The telco has removed the six paise per minute charges to outgoing calls made by its users to other networks. This means Jio has removed the FUP limit on non-Jio calls on the unlimited combo plans. As everyone might be aware of by now, Reliance Jio is the only telco that charged for non-Jio calls, whereas Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel always offered unlimited voice calls without any FUP limit....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has been compared to the likes of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel and is regarded as a telco that’s a little beneath the two. However, there’s one thing that no one can deny and that is Vodafone Idea’s postpaid game is much better than Airtel and Jio’s. Neither Airtel nor Jio provides their users with what Vodafone Idea does with its two premium plans - truly unlimited data....

Multiple reports saying the promoters of Vodafone Idea (Vi) will infuse capital soon into the company have surfaced online. However, Vodafone Group Plc, one of the promoters of the company, isn’t going to infuse any more of its money into Vodafone Idea. This is a little surprising since if Vi wants outside capital, the promoters must show confidence first and give their money to the telco. No official word from the Aditya Birla Group (ABG), another promoter of the company has come yet....

Vodafone has revised its Rs 98 add-on data voucher recently. The telco is now offering 12GB data to anyone who purchased the voucher. Earlier, the Rs 98 add-on data voucher from Vodafone came with only 6GB data benefit and was valid for 28 days. But the telco has increased the data benefits by 100% and now you will get the 12GB data for 28 days. It is important to note that with this voucher, there are no other benefits for calling or SMS....

Watcho by Dish TV Competes With Tata Sky, JioTV and Airtel Xstream Dish TV has registered Watcho app as ‘Watcho: Original Spotlight Exclusive Shows & Films’ in Google Play Store. As the name of the service itself suggests, it offers Watcho Originals, Watcho Plays, original and dubbed movies, popular web series and Live TV service is present as well. Watcho app is currently providing 108 Live TV channels to the users....

The Facebook-owned platform WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through Google Play Beta Program. The new update has been rolled out for Android users and labelled as WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.21.8.7. In the new update, WhatsApp has rolled “Disappearing message” for groups. Read the article to the end for complete information regarding the new update. WhatsApp Group Members Can Enable Disappearing Messages in Group Chats In case you are not aware, disappearing messages is a feature that automatically deletes all the messages in a chat....

WhatsApp is bringing a new payments feature for Android users. Note that the feature is currently available in the beta version of the application, and it will take some time for it to arrive in the stable version. The new ‘Payments Shortcut’ that WhatsApp is adding is aimed to make paying a contact an even seamless process for the users. As per a WABetaInfo report, WhatsApp will now show a new ‘payments’ icon in between the camera and attachments icons on the chat window....

At the start of this year, WhatsApp brought an updated privacy policy and received huge criticism from Indian users. In the latest privacy policy, the online instant messaging platform claims that the user’s details will be shared with the parent company Facebook. This news created a huge buzz on the internet, and Indian users got very angry about the new policies. As a result, the majority of users started switching to Signal and Telegram....

WhatsApp Takes On Zoom and Google Meet WhatsApp rolled out group voice/video calling feature at the end of 2018, but the company disappointed a lot of users by just providing up to four participants support. During the lockdown period in India and several other countries, a lot of citizens are working from home due to which the usage of apps like Zoom and Google Meet saw a major spike. Now, WhatsApp is looking to take on its rival platforms as it is already rolling out up to eight participants support in a group video or voice call....

One feature that WhatsApp missed was the provision to listen to the voice messages in the background. Now WhatsApp appears to be on the verge of introducing it, which would allow users to listen to voice chats or recordings in the background, rather than being limited to the chat window. So far, users can only listen to WhatsApp voice chats if they keep the associated chat window open. The voice conversation will be reset to the beginning when you do the same....

The Xiaomi 12 Pro and Xiaomi 12 will be running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1, the flagship SoC from the chipset maker. This has been confirmed by Xiaomi China itself. Everyone’s excited to see the power that Snapdragon 8 Gen1 brings to the table for the flagship smartphones. In a recently leaked Geekbench score test, Xiaomi 12 Pro has achieved phenomenal results. In fact, the scores achieved by the Xiaomi 12 Pro are the highest by any smartphone that has been tested with the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 so far....

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi had launched its Xiaomi 12 series in China back in December 2021. Now the brand is gearing up for the launch of its flagship series globally. Apparently, Xiaomi is constantly expanding its portfolio as the Mi 12 announcement date was leaked earlier and now the company has officially confirmed the launch date for its Xiaomi 12 series. Let’s take a look at the details. Xiaomi took on its Twitter handle to officially announce the launch date for the Xiaomi 12 series....

Xiaomi, a Chinese consumer electronics company, has announced the launch date for the Redmi 11 Prime. Redmi 11 Prime will go official in India in a matter of a few days. It is expected to be a budget smartphone from the company. Xiaomi has said that it will launch the Redmi 11 Prime in India on September 6, 2022. From the image shared by Xiaomi, it can be seen that the smartphone would come with a teardrop notch at the front....

Xiaomi has launched two new smartphones in India. These two devices are the Redmi 11 Prime 5G and the Redmi 11 Prime 4G. Both are meant for budget consumers and have almost the same specifications. The major difference in the devices is the chipset. The Redmi 11 Prime 5G is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 700 SoC, while the Redmi 11 Prime 4G comes with the MediaTek Helio G99 SoC....

Xiaomi Will Have a Different Pricing Model for Mi 10 in India Manu Kumar Jain said that the company would have a ‘different pricing model’ for the flagship Mi 10 in India. He says the pricing model will be different because of three reasons- direct import, higher GST and depreciating rupee. Now, it is confirmed that the Mi 10 will be imported from China itself and it will not be manufactured in the country....

Xiaomi as a company has had a monumental rise in India, entering the market at a time when the likes of Lava, Micromax and Karbonn were the talk of the town. The company planned to do things differently and, it did just that, Rather than provide mediocre specifications with more emphasis on advertising, the company chose to let its products speak for themselves, as is evident by the inherent success that it now boasts of....