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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has directed its chief general managers (CGM) across its territorial and non-territorial circles to “draw a clear road map for non engagement of contract labours immediately.” According to a letter dated September 1, 2020, BSNL CGMs were also told that there was “no justification for housekeeping labourers and other contractual stuff such as security.” The operator earlier in May 2020 and September 2019 had asked its CGMs to “take immediate steps” to limit the expenditure on contract works and cut down the engagement of labours through contractors....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) runs its fiber broadband services through BSNL Bharat Fibre. If you are interested in getting the services of BSNL Bharat Fibre or are an existing customer who wants to subscribe to a value plan, then read this carefully. Today, BSNL Bharat Fibre is going to discontinue three of its broadband plans. The special thing about these plans is that all of them came for a limited time only under a special occasion....

BSNL Under Accumulated Losses of Rs 90,000 Crore Puran Chandra, senior general manager at BSNL’s corporate budget and banking division, in a letter to the joint secretary in the telecom ministry (who also sits on the board of BSNL) said, “The gap between monthly revenues and bare expenses to continue operations as a going concern has reached to a level where continuing with the BSNL operations would be nearly impossible without immediate infusion of adequate equity....

BSNL Unveils International Prepaid Roaming Facility in Five Countries The state-run operator highlighted that it has enabled the prepaid roaming facility with Hi3G in Sweden, Bouyges Telecom in France, TriNet in Thailand, MTN in Afghanistan and Vodafone in Iceland. In Sweden, BSNL said that its prepaid users will be charged Rs 62.86 per minute for all local and national calls while users will be charged Rs 44 for all calls to India....

Cable TV Set to Lead, DTH to Gain Momentum Deepa Dhingra, telecom analyst at GlobalData told TelecomTalk that the cable TV will continue to be the leading pay TV platform in India “at least until 2024” even as DTH witnesses some momentum. “Cable TV will remain the leading pay TV platform, by subscriptions at least until 2024 although its share in the total pay TV accounts is expected to drop steadily,” Dhingra said in an email response....

Connect Broadband, which is one of the reliable broadband service providers in the country, is gaining traction among users. The internet service provider offers multiple plans between 40 Mbps and 100 Mbps speed that bundle attractive benefits such as unlimited data, OTT subscriptions, and more. Here, we have listed the broadband plans offered by Connect Broadband that have an internet speed of 60 Mbps. Connect Broadband 60 Mbps Broadband Plans The Connect Broadband offers three different broadband plans with 60 Mbps data speed....

DD Free Dish, a free-to-air (FTA) satellite television service provider, has added a new high-definition (HD) channel for users across the country. The channel that we are talking about is ‘DD India HD’. It is a news channel that brings the latest updates to the users. The good thing is that it is an FTA channel. This means that DD Free Dish users will get free HD channel service. The DD India HD channel has been added to the MPEG-Slot 2....

“Here, the arbitrariness is writ large on the face of it,” the bench added. It said the proceedings initiated by the government might go on in accordance with law and the company would participate in it. With the directions, the bench listed the matter for further hearing on July 27. The interim order came on Tata Sky’s plea challenging the seizure of its STBs for not displaying the MRP. The company, in its petition, has also challenged the constitutional validity of a rule, which makes it mandatory to display the MRP on STBs....

One of the charges that every DTH subscriber has to pay is Network Capacity Fee (NCF). It has to be paid for every DTH connection that you purchase. So in case you have two DTH connection, then you have to pay NCF for each of them. When the second connection is from the same DTH provider, it is called Multi TV connection. Earlier, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said that it depends on the DTH company to decide whether they are going to provide any discounts on NCF charges for the Multi TV connection or not....

Dish TV’s total expenses were also down 8.01% to Rs 1,483.13 crore, compared with Rs 1,612.36 crore a year ago. Its subscription revenue was down 2.1% to Rs 1,412.6 crore, against Rs 1,443 crore in the December 2017 quarter. The firm added 1.42 lakh subscribers and closed the quarter with a net subscriber base of 24.6 million. On the outlook, Dish TV India Group CEO Anil Dua said: “We are optimistic about exiting FY19 with high single-digit growth in Ebitda considering back-to-back cricketing action during the fourth quarter and further realisation of synergies....

Just yesterday we reported about the ‘Mega Entertainment Sale’ of Dish TV. It will allow users to purchase Active channels for just Rs 4. There are over 20 Active channels people can choose from and all of them are under the offer. Today is the last day of getting the benefit of this offer though. It started from August 28 and will end today on Aug 31. Now, we have discovered the free coupons that Dish TV users are eligible to receive upon their next Set-Top Box purchase....

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) might be considering skipping availing the airwaves in the 28 GHz band in the upcoming spectrum auctions for 5G. If this is true, it would be a big setback for the telecom operators who have invested heavily in their networks to make them 5G ready. 28 GHz band spectrum would be crucial airwaves for when the telcos decide to launch mmWave (millimetre wavelength) 5G services....

The 5G spectrum auction was expected to take place in the last quarter of CY2021. But now, the government might push it to the first quarter in 2022. The delay in the auction’s timeline is because of the ongoing pandemic in the country. The government is currently busy ensuring that the networks and telecom services are completely stable. According to an ET Telecom report, a senior government official said that India is very likely to postpone the 5G auctions that is supposed to happen at the end of the year to early next year....

DoT Should Work with Trai: Telecom Operators DoT has stated that in order to find the reasons for poor network quality, call data of various users are being stored in the system. With the collected data, DoT will create in-house platforms which will further rectify the exact reason for poor network quality. It is expected that poor network quality can be because of insufficient mobile towers, network congestion and many more....

EA and Marvel have announced a long-term collaboration on at least three new action-adventure games for consoles and PC. Each game is a separate story set in the Marvel Universe, and the first in the pipeline is the third-person action-adventure Iron Man game currently in development at Motive Studios. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is far more successful than any other movie franchise in the world, but Marvel is the least successful in gaming....

The Indian fashion accessory brand Fastrack has launched its smartwatch in India – Fastrack Reflex Vox smartwatch on Friday. The newly launched wearable comes with exciting features such as a built-in Alexa, 1.69-inch HD screen, health and fitness trackers and more. The device already has a landing page on the company’s website and users can even register to get notified as soon as it becomes available for purchase. Mentioned below are the known price and feature details of the latest Fastrack Reflex Vox smartwatch....

There are different types of fibre optic cables that are available in the market. In case you are not aware, fibre optic cables are network cables with strands of glass fibre inside a casing. The cables are used for providing high-speed data and telecommunications services. Since there are different types of fibre cables, it gets difficult to pick the best one from the lot. One of the best features of all the fibre optic cables is a better and streamlined internet connection as compared to traditional copper wire cables....

Samsung India on Tuesday introduced the Galaxy S20 Fan Edition (FE) in India with “exciting” offers for the users pre-booking the device. The Galaxy S20 FE had its global unveil in late September with the device featuring a 6.5-inch full high definition (FHD) Infiniti-O display. The Galaxy S20 FE display supports 120Hz refresh rate and 240Hz touch report rate with the device also sporting a “pro-grade” triple rear camera system....

Gmail now has a number of design updates from Google, including the Material You style that was shown earlier this year. More individuals with both personal and business Gmail accounts are now receiving it. Users who have enabled Chat will have access to the new integrated Gmail view. Users of the newly designed email interface may now switch between all four Google services — Mail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet — in a single column, thanks to a sidebar....

Google Meet Grows 25 Times Since January In late March, the company in a blog post said that the platform has been witnessing an daily growth rate of over 60 percent and that its daily usage has been more than 25 times than what it was in January. App Annie, mobile data and analytics company said that the video conferencing apps including Hangouts Meet have seen an increased demand due to work from home policies and government lockdowns....