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Vodafone Idea (Vi) might not get any fresh loans from the banks. The struggling telco is looking for a fresh loan of about Rs 7000 crore to clear most of the dues of Indus Towers. But even the lenders now first want to wait and see if the promoters are pitching in any fresh capital into the company. This is what the Indian government is waiting for as well. It looks like that until promoters infuse a significant amount of capital into the company, its boat is not going to move forward....

Vodafone Idea might get capital from its second-largest promoter, the Aditya Birla Group (ABG). The chairman of the group, Kumar Mangalam Birla, might infuse some of his own capital soon in the company. At the same time, the Vodafone Group Plc is not expected to infuse anything. But according to an ET Telecom report, the Vodafone Group might sell a part of its stake in the Indus Towers and then use the proceeds to help out Vodafone Idea....

Vodafone Idea (Vi) is looking at the future and strengthening its Business-to-Business (B2B) arm called Vi Business. Formerly known as Vodafone Idea Business Services, Vi Business focuses on delivering and fulfilling the needs of enterprise customers. Vodafone Idea is currently looking to hire people for the ‘Segment & Content Marketing’ role, which will be a full-time job categorised as entry-level in nature. In a LinkedIn post, the company has mentioned the job would require people to drive content-based differentiation and segment based engagement programs to influence customer buying behaviours across industries and segments....

Vodafone Idea runs a broadband subsidiary called You Broadband. The company offers its services in multiple cities of the country. If you are someone looking for a new broadband connection or planning to switch to another Internet Service Provider (ISP), You Broadband has some plans in its portfolio that are certainly worth consideration. The plans that we are going to be looking at come with 100 Mbps, 150 Mbps, and 200 Mbps speeds....

Vodafone USSD and Shortcodes for Value Added Services Right now, Vodafone has a wide-range of USSD and Shortcodes which will allow the prepaid customers check their available talk time & data balance, manage DND, check for recharge offers and even there’s a USSD code which will enable users to check their own mobile number. Note: Vodafone has discontinued a lot of USSD and Shortcodes in recent times and made the entire list very minimal....

Vodafone UK and Ericsson will be upgrading their mobile sites with the help of drones equipped with Lidar technology. For the unaware, Lidar stands for Light Detection and Ranging. The Lidar technology will be fitted on the drones along with a high-definition camera which will fly above the location and deliver a complete 3D digital twin model of the site. This will allow the network design teams and engineers to study and analyse the site virtually....

Govt Officials Express Displeasure Over Statements of Vodafone CEO Vodafone CEO, Nick Read wrote a letter to Prime Minister Modi, the telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and some other senior government officials. In his letter, Read noted, “The coverage in India has been distorted, and I apologise for the impression that the coverage conveys. It doesn’t accurately represent my comments.” Adding on to this, Read also highlighted that the company still has desires to continue operations in India and it also appreciates the committee of secretaries that have been set up to look into potential remedies and their considerable effort....

Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) stock has risen more than 100% comfortably over the last six months. The stock, once trading at Rs 4.55 a few months back, is trading at Rs 15.50 at the time of writing. Many in the market were expecting the telco to pack its business after continuous poor performance both in adding new customers and network coverage in India. But then, in September, an unprecedented thing happened....

One WhatsApp number may now be used on two mobile devices, according to a new feature being rolled out by WhatsApp. The current Linked devices functionality, which debuted earlier this year, has been expanded with this. But at the moment, the platforms’ beta testers are the only ones who can get the most recent upgrade. It has not yet been added to WhatsApp’s stable version, but the company may make it public in the upcoming months....

WhatsApp to Roll Out Dark Mode in WhatsApp Web According to the reports of WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has been working on Dark Mode feature for a long time, and they are planning to roll out the feature in both mobile and desktop platform globally. The blog also stated that Dark Mode Feature would show significant changes in emojis, stickers and much more. Once the Dark Mode gets rolled out, all the significant changes will be functional, and users will be able to enjoy the Dark Mode Feature....

Whatsapp updates arrive frequently. Given that Facebook has roughly 2 billion users and is the most popular chat app globally, it makes sense. This is why the chat company, which is owned by Meta, is continually updating and improving the program. Recently, the business unveiled a number of significant and eagerly anticipated additions to the app, including the option to silently leave group chats and conceal one’s online presence from others....

WhatsApp, one of the biggest texting applications in the world, might soon bring a clever new feature for the users. This feature would allow users to hide ‘last seen’, ‘About’, and ‘profile picture’ from contacts. You might be wondering that how is this a new feature since users can do all of it right now as well. But the thing is, they can’t do it with select users. WhatsApp allows users to hide profile pictures with contacts that are not saved on your device, but it doesn’t allow you to hide profile pictures with contacts saved on your device....

WhatsApp desktop and web versions are allegedly getting new photo editing tools, which was a feature available only in the mobile app so far. In addition to this, the WhatsApp beta version 2.21.16.10 for Android likely brings new emojis for users. These emojis were announced in April and made their way to the iOS iteration of the app recently. Photo Editing Tools For WhatsApp Web, Desktop As per the WhatsApp update tracker WABetaInfo, the new photo editing tools rolled out for WhatsApp Web and Desktop versions are called Drawing Tools....

Facebook-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp has been rolling out many new features for its users of late. The new features include the group icon editor, the ability to migrate chats from Android devices to iPhones and vice versa and more. Now, it looks like WhatsApp will remove a feature that was rolled out last year. Well, the talk is about the WhatsApp Messenger Rooms feature. This feature was initially launched in May 2020 and it lets users quickly create a group with up to 50 members on Facebook Messenger....

WhatsApp Group Privacy Settings: How to Make Most of Them After updating to the version numbers mentioned above, WhatsApp users will get to see new group privacy features under Account>Privacy>Groups. WhatsApp for iOS and Android Beta users can now select who can add them to the groups in three ways: Everyone, My Contacts and My Contacts Except. Selecting the ‘Everyone’ option will allow everyone to add you to any group; Selecting ‘My Contacts’ will only allow only the numbers saved in your phone book to add you to a group....

Social media messaging platform WhatsApp is known to bring changes and updates and new features for its uses and even expand into new platforms. A recent report reveals that there might be good news for the WhatsApp users on iPad as they may finally get a native app on their devices. It was confirmed by the head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, during an interview that the messaging app is finally looking to launch a native app for the iPad....

Xiaomi 12 is under the radar, and smartphone enthusiasts have been absorbing the latest development regarding the launch and leaked specifications of the smartphone. The latest leaks rolled out by Digital Chat Station has revealed insights into the optics that the flagship smartphone market might feature. It was already speculated that the smartphone would feature a triple rear camera setup. Now the latest leaks indicate that the Xiaomi 12 will use a 50MP camera setup at the back....

Mi Air Purifier 2C Details To recall, Xiaomi has already launched two Air Purifiers in India and the first in this series was the Mi Air Purifier 2 which was launched back in 2016. Reiterating the series, Xiaomi then launched the Mi Air Purifier 2S in 2018. This time around, in today’s event, Xiaomi has launched the Mi Air Purifier 2C in India. As for the features of the Mi Air Purifier 2C, Xiaomi has detailed that this device comes with Dual Filtration technology, True HEPA filter which would help it in filtering 99....

Mi Neckband Bluetooth Earphones Details The Chinese manufacturer has also announced that the first sale for the Mi Neckband Bluetooth Earphones will go for sale on July 23 and they debut with a price tag of Rs 1,599. The earphones will be available through Flipkart and Mi.com. Like we mentioned above, the earphones come with Micro-Arc collar design. Xiaomi has also asserted that the earphones are made out of skin-friendly rubber material that is anti-slip and it is also conveniently flexible....

Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro: Specifications and Features Like several other smartphones releasing these days, the Redmi K20 Pro also sports a glass back, but the gradient design on the handset is unique when compared to others. The phone weighs 191 grams because of the glass back. Also, there’s a pop-up selfie camera for those who’re wondering, so the screen-to-body ratio will be high on this device. On the display front, the Redmi K20 Pro rocks a 6....