Bharti Airtel’s B2B arm, Airtel Business, has won the cellular IoT (Internet-of-Things) mandate with the TP Odisha Distribution Limited (TPWODL), a joint venture between Tata Power and the government of Odisha. Under the mandate, Airtel said that it would be powering over 200,000 Smart Meters with IoT solutions. Out of the 200,000 Smart Meters, 70,000 will be delivered in the first phase. Airtel will leverage its proprietary IoT platform called ‘Airtel IoT Hub’, which would help the utility track and monitor the smart meters with advanced analytics....

DTH operator, Airtel Digital TV, currently stands on the third place in terms of subscriber base. The DTH arm of Bharti Airtel has been adding new subscribers every month, and it is reporting around one lakh new users every quarter. Airtel Digital TV is amongst the first DTH operators to implement the recent changes coming directly from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). The Trai has changed the landscape of the DTH market with the National Tariff Order (NTO) 1....

Airtel Digital TV has more than 15 million customers. It has been successful in becoming one of the major DTH operators in the country. Now it may happen that sometimes you go on a break from subscribing to any of the channel packs. That would count as a ‘pause’ for you. Then when you resume subscribing with the DTH operator, you will have to pay a fee known as ‘resumption charges’....

Bharti Airtel users across the country reported they weren’t able to access the network of the company for the internet. The Downdetector data also suggests that around 11 AM on Friday, a lot of people were making complaints about Bharti Airtel’s network going down. However, in a recent tweet, Bharti Airtel has clarified that there was a brief disruption in the internet services on Friday, but everything is normal now....

The number of broadband internet service providers (ISPs) has surged in the last few years. There are many regional operators who have come into the scene offering a tough competition to the PAN-India operators such as Jio, Airtel and BSNL. Today, we are going to look at one such regional broadband service provider, ‘Connect’ and compare its Rs 500 plan with Airtel’s Rs 500 fiber broadband plan. Airtel provides its fiber broadband services under Airtel Xstream Fiber....

Benefits of Airtel-Nokia Merger The partnership of Airtel and Nokia will open the vast opportunity of Industry 4.0 revolution with private LTE for all the enterprises in India. Not only this, the merger will deliver an extensive private wireless portfolio which will come with high security, mission-critical reliability and broad coverage to cater the growing demand for a network which will support a high volume of data with low latency range along with the vast array of telecom portfolio of Bharti Airtel....

Reliance Jio had said that it would launch 5G in four cities of the nation by this Diwali - Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai. Airtel, which didn’t say anything at the time, has now raced ahead of Jio to launch 5G in 8 cities of the nation. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, while addressing the audience at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2022, said that Airtel would launch 5G in eight cities of the country....

Airtel Wi-Fi Calling: What Are the Advantages For the unaware, Airtel Wi-Fi Calling or a traditional VoWi-Fi network allows the users to make and receive calls and texts (SMS 7 MMS) over a Wi-Fi network. The official website of Airtel Wi-Fi Calling says the service will only be available via Airtel Broadband. This essentially means the supported handset users on Airtel Xstream Fibre network will be able to use Airtel Wi-Fi Calling service....

Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are two of the top telecom operators in the nation. While Jio is a prominent player in the prepaid space, it is not the same case in the postpaid segment. Airtel and Vodafone Idea lead in the postpaid area, while Jio lags severely. The reason is definitely not the plans offered by the telcos. This is because the benefits offered by Jio’s postpaid plans are pretty decent....

The recent tariff hikes by the telcos in the country have changed the complete price list of the prepaid plans offered by them. All the private telcos in India raised the prices of their prepaid plans by around 20% and users need some time in knowing and adjusting to this. Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea offer prepaid plans at quite identical tariffs, however, the offers provided by them are unique....

Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India reported its ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) figure to be Rs 178 in Q4 FY22. The company’s management has reiterated that the short-term goal is to reach Rs 200 ARPU level and in the long run, the company is eyeing for Rs 300 ARPU level. Since the ARPU currently stands at Rs 178, reaching Rs 200 doesn’t seem too far-fetched for Airtel....

Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, launched the Airtel Xsafe for the Indian market just a few days before the IMC (India Mobile Congress) 2022. The telco decided to showcase the product and the app behind its new launch. For the unaware, there are three cameras. Out of these three, two are indoor cameras - Sticky Cam and 360-degree cam, and then one is the outdoor camera - Active Defence Cam....

Bharti Airtel offers users an ‘Airtel Xstream’ subscription included in the Airtel Thanks benefits with most of its plan. Airtel Xstream is an over-the-top (OTT) platform owned by Bharti Airtel that offers users the ability to watch TV shows and movies on the go. Now, the company is offering an ‘Airtel Xstream Mobile Pack’ to the users. This pack will offer users 15GB of data along with 30 days of access to any one of the channels that are available with the Xstream Mobile Pack....

What’s interesting is that Fire TV Cube will allow you to further control several other things at your home. If you have other smart devices connected with Alexa, you can dim the lights, check the weather, and do much more with the Fire TV Cube. To take the viewing experience further, users can now watch OTT content at up to 4K Ultra HD in 60 fps. The streaming device supports video formats such as Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and also comes with Dolby Atmos support for an enhanced sound experience....

The Reason Behind the Growth Talking about the reasons behind this shift to premium smartphones, Sardana said that customers of approximately 50-60 million smartphones in the price band of Rs 5,000-10,000 bought in the past 3-4 years now want a better experience. He said that the customers now want more from their smartphones such as OTT content streaming, games and more which makes them go for a better performing device and hence the growth in the sales of premium devices over Rs 20,000....

The complete production will take place in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Chennai is becoming a popular hub for international manufacturers to produce their products. Foxconn is already building its presence in the state by assembling iPhones and creating jobs for the local people.

Google has finally begun delivering software updates for its Pixel smartphones in India after announcing the release of Android 13 for its Pixel devices on August 15. Along with some visual tweaks, the updates include a tonne of new features and performance enhancements. Only the Pixel 6a and Pixel 4a are now available in the nation from Google. The most recent Pixel 6a has a dual-back camera system with a Tensor SoC....

Apple iPhone SE 2020: Specifications and Features As the name of the smartphone itself suggests, the iPhone SE 2020 is a direct successor to the iPhone SE that was launched nearly three years ago. The phone sports a 4.7-inch Retina HD display with 1334x750-pixel resolution and 326 PPI. It’s an IPS LCD True Tone display with 625 nits of peak brightness levels. And yes, there are think bezels on the top and bottom of the front, but again, Apple wanted to launch a compact smartphone with high-end hardware in 2020....

In 2021, the global premium smartphone market sales grew 24% YoY to reach its highest level ever. Premium smartphones contributed 27% out of the total global smartphone sales. Amongst all the brands, Apple had the biggest market share in global premium smartphone sales. According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Service, Apple reached a 60% sales share mark in the global premium smartphone sales segment for the first time since 2017....

“We have started manufacturing there which is very important to be able to serve the market in a reasonable way. And we’re growing that capability there,” said the Apple CEO. Giving an impetus to its India manufacturing plans, Apple has started the assembling of iPhone 7 at its supplier Wistron’s facility in Bengaluru. Taiwanese industrial major Wistron already assembles iPhone 6S in the country. Cook also emphasised on the company’s plans to open its branded stores in India....