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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Chennai circle on Thursday introduced a new Rs 147 voucher with multiple benefits including 10GB data on the occasion of 74th Independence day. The operator is also offering additional validity on multiple vouchers including the Rs 1999 plan. Further, BSNL also announced that various vouchers including the Patanjali plans are being withdrawn from the market. The operator said that the introduction of new plans and additional benefits would be effective from August 1, 2020, while the removal of plans and services are in effect from July 31, 2020....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) keeps on introducing new plans with varied benefits. It has launched yet another prepaid plan for Rs 197, which carries a validity of 197 days. The state-run telco has made this offer unique in a way that the freebies or benefits that come with the plan are only active for the first 18 days, but the number will be active in service for up to 180 days....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is providing users with an offer of extra validity on three prepaid plans until March 31, 2022. This means that if you want to benefit from this offer, you only have three days left. The plans that we are talking about come for Rs 797, Rs 2,399, and Rs 2,999. With all these three plans, users are going to get additional days of service validity if they recharge within the offer period....

BSNL introduced the Rs 1,499 annual prepaid plan a few months ago across several circles in the country. The Rs 1,499 prepaid offering from BSNL takes on the similarly priced prepaid plans from the private telecom operators. For example, both Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel are currently offering a Rs 1,499 with 365 days validity. So the BSNL’s Rs 1,499 plan is here to challenge the same. When BSNL launched the plan in August this year, it offered benefits for 395 days as part of a promotional offer....

Door Darshan Channels will be available for STBs All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) have marked that even if the STBs are not renewed in April month, subscribers will still enjoy all the free channels of Door Darshan. Even though Door Darshan comes under FTA, but the channels are offering all the old classics shows along with current news to keep the subscribers updated about the threat of COVID-19. This news is first published by Indian Television....

Cable TV Operators Get Together on NCF Discount The new breakthrough comes in the form of a big Network Capacity Fee discount, which the cable TV operators are offering on their subscriptions. For the unaware, the NCF is the amount which the cable TV and DTH subscribers pay for the slots of TV channels. As per the new Trai tariff regime, the NCF charges mandate that the DTH and cable TV operators have to provide at least 100 SD channels for the NCF of Rs 130 and this is the rate on which the most operators have been offering their services....

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in India have been providing plans ranging across multiple price tags as per the suitability of the customer. The demand for broadband connectivity has significantly gone up ever since the pandemic hit and people were forced to use the internet for working and learning online. Even though ISPs have high-end plans offering up to 1 Gbps of internet speed, there is a certain section of the user base that either does not need or cannot afford such expensive plans....

Just a couple of days back, China got its fourth telecom operator China Broadnet. The new company has now switched on 5G networks. China Broadnet was earlier known as China Radio and Television, and the company had already received the 5G license in June 2019 before being formally inaugurated in 2020. China Broadnet’s strategy with the 5G mobile offering is different from what the top three operators are doing. Instead of focusing too hard on the mobile services business with 5G, China Broadnet will leverage the power of the 5G network for interactive broadcast and TV services....

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has expressed its happiness on the recent amendments introduced in license conditions which will now allow the telcos to actively share infrastructure with each other. This will allow the telecom operators to save high costs and also roll out services much faster. For the unaware, COAI is an industry body that represents telcos, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea. COAI said that these amendments were long-awaited, and since they are here, they will benefit the industry a lot....

Digital Chat Station, a digital blogger, shared a screenshot of a new ColorOS 13 x Android 13 interface today. A lot of enhancements are included in the new UI. ColorOS 13 permits the creation of enormous nine-square-grid folders, according to the screenshots, and you may access the programme with a single click. Furthermore, ColorOS 13 supports more widgets that may be pinned to the home screen. Oppo held a developer conference in China a few weeks ago to reveal details about the impending ColorOS 13 based on Android 13....

D2h Announces Long-Term Recharge Options for Deactive Subscribers Dish TV India (along with D2h) used to be the leading DTH operator in India till Q1 2019. However, Tata Sky with its impressive customer support and a wide range of channel packs dethroned Dish TV from the top spot in Q2 2019. Tata Skys is now the top-most DTH operator in India right now with a subscriber base of just over 25 million....

D2h Magic Stick and Android TV Set-Top Box Next in line of the newly launched products is the D2h Magic (voice-enabled) dongle kit which is priced at Rs 1,199 and is available to select D2h subscribers. Using this kit, the subscribers will be able to access popular OTT apps or Alexa skills through their existing Set-Top Boxes. Both Come Equipped With Alexa Skills During the launch, Mr Anil Dua, Executive Director & Group CEO, Dish TV India Limited, said, “Our D2h brand has had a 10-year long history of bringing innovation to this country....

Daiwa has become the first Indian brand to come out with Smart TV that is powered by the webOS TV. Much recently, the company held a virtual event wherein it launched a 4K UHD Smart TV that is the first of the new lineup of TVs that the company will be launching in the future. The name of the Smart TV is D50U1WOS. It is a 50-inch 4K UHD Smart TV powered by webOS TV, with ThinQ AI voice assistance and Magic Remote....

TV Homes Continue to Grow Despite Increased Bills Under New Tariff Mandate 2019 will be marked as a disruptive one in the Indian broadcasting industry. The Trai tariff regime irked a lot of users switch their DTH or Cable TV connection with OTT app subscription and a high-speed broadband connection. More than 50% of the subscribers complained of increased TV bills under the new tariff mandate, but for some, it actually reduced the overall bill....

India’ second largest DTH operator, Dish TV India, today announced the addition of six new HD channels to its Dish TV & D2h platforms. Dish TV has added five channels from ZEE Entertainment and they are the regional channels. With the addition of new six HD channels, Dish TV is aiming to provide unparalleled entertainment to the customers in the Southern region. Just a couple of days ago, Dish TV announced new offers for its customers in Kerala on the occasion of Onam 2020, and now, it has brought six new HD channels to its subscribers in South India....

A few days back we reported that Tata Sky has shifted the production of Set-Top Boxes to India supporting the government’s vision of ‘Make in India’. Following the footsteps of Tata Sky, Dish TV, one of the biggest DTH operators of the country has done the same. So now, Set-Top Boxes of Dish TV will be completely manufactured in India as well. But there is a difference between Tata Sky and Dish TV....

Telecom operators are keenly monitoring the developments in the space, following the dispute between the US and China’s Huawei that is among the world’s largest telecom equipment makers. The US has alleged that Chinese equipment could pose security risks involving eavesdropping on global internet traffic. However, not all nations are convinced and Germany has said it is not ready to block Huawei from its 5G network. India’s largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea had recently said it would comply with the decision of the Indian government on the issue of the use of communications equipment from Chinese vendors, such as Huawei....

With the announcement that Sweden has ended an investigation into alleged Ericsson bribery in China, it appears as though some of the pressure on Ericsson related to recent claims of bribery may be diminishing. As per the Reuters news service, the Swedish Prosecution Authority announced this week that it had ended an inquiry into alleged extortion transactions made in China by employees of Ericsson since there was no proof that a crime had been committed....

Eros Now, a over-the-top (OTT) platform focused on South Asian entertainment announced a partnership with Dish TV on Tuesday. The partnership enables Dish TV and d2h users to access Eros Now content through their Android Set-Top Box (STB). Eros Now is said to have over 12,000 titles including movies, original shows and Quickie, a short-format content. Dish TV, one of the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators in India offers Android STB through its own Dish TV brand and through d2H....

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook on Thursday said in the second quarter earnings call that Facebook is “really excited about the opportunity” in India. The company on Thursday reported its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, with Facebook recording an 11% year-over-year (YoY) growth in its revenue. The social networking giant said that its daily active users (DAUs) increased 12% YoY to 1.79 billion on average for June 2020....