The D-Day is finally here! India is getting its first ever 5G spectrum auction today. Airwaves in 10 different frequency bands will be available for the operators to bid for. Adani Group is also here for the spectrum bidding, and while many expected the Adani Group to raise the bidding war, it is not going to happen. The Adani Group submitted an EMD (Earnest Money Deposit) of Rs 100 crore only....

The 5G spectrum auction was announced by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) last week. The auction date has been set for July 26 and it will be an e-auction. But there are a lot of things that are still unclear for the telecom operators. The telcos have sought clarification from the Department of Telecommunication on several matters including the private 5G. According to an ET Telecom report, during the pre-bid auctions, the telcos asked the DoT on which browser will the final e-auction take place?...

5G in India has been a long-lost dream which is finally taking shape in the present period. Back on Tuesday, the Department of Telecom (DoT) in India approved the renowned telecom operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea (Vi) and MTNL to conduct 5G trials. However, none of the entities will be using the technologies of Chinese vendors. As the government has barred Chinese companies from supplying telecom equipment and technology for the 5G trials, top US lawmakers have applauded the decision of not allowing Chinese telecom companies to conduct 5G trials in the country....

5G is rolling out in many parts of the world. The telcos globally are partnering up with vendors to roll out 5G as fast as possible. While some countries already have it, many more will see the arrival of 5G in the coming years. One area where 5G will make a big difference is connected vehicles. According to a new study from Juniper Research, the number of connected vehicles will grow from 192 million in 2023 to 367 million in 2027....

ACT Fibernet Plan Upgrade Details ACT Fibernet has also announced that these changes will be live starting July 15. Under the new revision, one of the most popular plans of ACT Fibernet, ACT Blast Promo has been upgraded from 100 Mbps to 150 Mbps speed with 1000 GB FUP limit. The ACT Storm plan has been upgraded from 125 Mbps speed to 175 Mbps speed with 1250 GB FUP limit....

Medium-term prepaid plans are always in high demand. This is because they are not too expensive, come with a plethora of benefits, and have the perfect validity for the user to get the flexibility of subscribing to a new prepaid plan in case they don’t like their current one. Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) all provide their users with medium-term prepaid plans. Today, we will list all the best medium-term prepaid plans from these telcos to help you choose your next plan, keep reading ahead to find out more about this....

Bharti Airtel, today said that it has acquired a strategic stake in Edtech startup Lattu Media Pvt Ltd as part of the Airtel Startup Accelerator Program. Mumbai based Lattu Kids specializes in digital learning tools for children. Its highly popular Lattu Kids app focuses on improving English vocabulary, English reading and Maths skills for children under the age of 10 years through entertaining, fun learning animated videos and games. The investment will enable Airtel to add Edtech to its premium digital content portfolio and give distribution scale to quality learning material from Lattu Kids....

The demand for data has been increasing consistently and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the country have been coming up with exciting offers and plans to attract a wider user base. Especially since the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for home internet usage and broadband connections has been sky-rocketing. So, it becomes important for the ISPs to come up with data plans that are affordable as well as provide adequate internet speed....

Airtel Digital TV Basepacks Differ in Every State Airtel Digital TV is providing Basepacks in almost all the states including Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, NESA, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Majority of the Basepacks from Airtel Digital TV are available in long-term recharge option and most of them are also common across all the states....

Airtel Business, the enterprise-focused arm of Bharti Airtel, offers a service called ‘Secure Internet’. From the name itself, it is evident that it is a service aimed at making the internet experience of customers and clients a very safe one. The service is meant for enterprises and organisations as it is only offered to customers looking to purchase internet leased lines or UTM/firewall services. Secure Internet service is not offered by Airtel to customers going for DSL or normal fiber broadband connections....

Ericsson had just shared that it got 5G contracts from Bharti Airtel for deployment in 12 different circles. Now, Airtel has announced that apart from Ericsson, the telco will also be working with Nokia and Samsung for its 5G deployment, bound to start in August 2022. Airtel will be working with Samsung for the first time in India, while it has already been working with Nokia and Ericsson for a long-time....

Airtel Work from Home Postpaid Data Add-on Starts at Rs 100 Bharti Airtel is currently offering two add-on packs for its postpaid users with the base add-on starting at Rs 100 for 15 GB of data. Additionally, the company also offers an Rs 200 add-on pack that offers 35 GB of data. It has to be noted that the postpaid add-ons from Airtel were initially unveiled in January. However, the company has now been promoting its 15GB add-on pack under the “work from home with ease” tag....

ACT Fibernet Banking on Data Speed and FUP Limit If interested subscribers look at the plans being offered by ACT Fibernet they can be sure that above the range of Rs 1,000 ACT Fibernet is offering some of the most compelling broadband plans when it comes to FUP limit and data speeds. ACT Fibernet also has plans ranging right on from Rs 685, and they go as high as Rs 5,999 for the GIGA plan which offers 1 Gbps speed....

Airtel Xstream Box at Rs 2,249: Should You Purchase It? Bharti Airtel upped the ante in 2017 by launching a linear Set-Top Box that allows users to watch both Satellite TV and OTT content. The Airtel Internet TV was recently succeeded by the Airtel Xstream Box which features upgraded specs and runs the latest Android TV platform out of the box. An advantage of having the Airtel Xstream Box is you can seamlessly switch between DTH content and OTT apps....

To the non-technical user, an AMOLED panel might seem to be the better choice, despite that not being the actual case. This is due to the fact that they rely on data based on adverts and word of mouth, wherein AMOLEDs are shown as panels providing rich colour and deep blacks. Whilst that is not completely wrong, there is more to a display panel and, one must not believe what they read or hear without testing them out themselves....

Yearly Daily Data Prepaid Plans from Telcos Listed Starting with Jio’s long-term daily data offering, it comes with 1.5GB data per day totalling at 504GB, Jio to Jio unlimited voice calling, non-Jio FUP minutes of 12000 and 100 SMSes per day. These benefits are valid for 336 days from the date of recharge and the plan also offers after FUP speeds of 64 Kbps alongside a complimentary subscription to all the Jio apps like JioCinema, JioTV and so on....

Back in 2015, Apple had introduced an iOS 9 update after which the users of the company accused it of slowing down the iPhone 4s smartphones with full knowledge of it. A class-action lawsuit was filed against the company and six years down the line, Apple has finally agreed to settle by deciding to pay $ 15 to each iPhone 4s user. The lawsuit was originally filed in December 2015 by a group of iPhone 4s users in New York and New Jersey....

Tim Cook, the CEO of iPhone manufacturer Apple, claimed on Friday that the company’s revenue in India nearly doubled in the second quarter of 2016. According to analysts, the brand remained relatively impervious to India’s macroeconomic difficulties, capturing 3% by volume and 16% by value market share in the April–June quarter. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, noted in his opening remarks the record-breaking revenue for the June quarter in both established and developing markets, with a double-digit increase in Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam, as well as a nearly doubling of revenue in India....

Apple’s Spring event was one full of fanfare and attention that every brand would envy. The Cupertino based tech giant introduced a new purple hue for the iPhone 12 and 12 Mini, the new iPad Pro and the company’s latest accessory, the AirTags. In the middle of all this, however, we saw a product that is one of high stature in the coveted Apple ecosystem - the iMac, which received a well-deserved upgrade....

Apple unveiled the iPhone 12 series last month. For the first time, Apple launched four smartphones in a single series- the iPhone 12 mini, the iPhone 12, the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The iPhone 12 is an interesting smartphone when compared to last year’s iPhone 11. It is mainly due to the features that has in common with the iPhone 12 Pro. Last year’s iPhone 11 differs a lot when compared to the iPhone 11 Pro, but there are just three differences this year between the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro....