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Street furniture is really important for the 5G network rollout in India, believes Lt. General, Dr SP Kochhar, DG, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). 5G networks would involve frequencies in high-spectrum bands such as 3.3 GHz - 3.6 GHz. With high frequencies, the reach of network signals can be disturbed through basic objects, people, trees, and more. Thus, to ensure that 5G networks are available with proper coverage with high-capacity, one way to go about it is setting up mobile towers at a distance of every hundred metres or something near that range....

The Supreme Court of India on Monday reserved its order on the petitions filed by the telecom players in India seeking additional time for the payment of the statutory dues. The apex court in October, 2019, said that the statutory dues need to be calculated by adding the non-telecom revenues in Adjusted Gross Revenues (AGR). The judgement in October ended a 14 year battle between the operators and the government of India....

DTH operator Tata Sky today announced its partnership with Accedo to develop the user interface for Tata Sky Binge+ Smart Set-Top Box. As you might be aware of, the Android TV-based Binge+ provides content from Linear Television and a host of OTT apps. Accedo has leveraged its Google-certified Android TV launcher solution alongside its Accedo One platform on the Tata Sky Binge+ STB. This will bring the content from Linear TV and OTT apps together....

Tata Sky Binge Explained Uniqueness of Tata Sky Binge Service Why You Should Consider Getting Tata Sky Binge

Tata Sky Set-Top Box Prices Revised Again: Check Details Tata Sky has been tweaking the prices of its Set-Top Boxes for a while now. After the new tariff regime, almost every DTH operator in the industry slashed prices of their STBs to lure the subscribers as they were facing increased monthly TV subscription bills. A few months ago, on the occasion of Diwali 2019, Tata Sky reduced the prices of its two popular STBs- High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) by up to Rs 300....

Covid-19 has had major implications all around the world, wreaking havoc even to this day. With the pandemic came the need to stay at home to stay safe and, it seems that constant lockdowns and quarantines within homes have had some positive effects. The previous year saw people adapting to technology like never before, going from doing tasks physically to suddenly moving online, from business owners to students to the old, everyone had to use technology for the most basic things....

In India, the Tecno Spark 9T made its launch. Last month, it had its debut in Nigeria. However, the Indian version has a few different features. The most recent model, which debuted earlier this month, is the second Spark 9 series phone to be sold in the nation. Let’s examine the smartphone’s cost and specifications. Tecno Spark 9T specifications The Tecno Spark 9T has a 6.6-inch display with a waterdrop notch and an FHD+ resolution....

Design and Display When it comes to design, the Tecno Spark Go features a plastic back. The thing to note about the Tecno Spark Go is that unlike most of the devices in the market right now, this phone comes with a removable battery. So, you will find that the back panel can come right off so that you can place the 3,000mAh battery inside, the SIM cards and an optional microSD card....

Telcos Might Increase Tariffs by 20 or 25 % Airtel needs to pay an amount of Rs 35,500 crores as they have successfully raised funds in the past. Suman Chowdhury also noted that “In order to pay such large AGR dues telcos might increase their tariffs by 20 or 25 % in the near medium term to clear off a massive liability”. All the telecom companies have already deployed the first round of tariff hike in the month of December....

The outbreak of Coronavirus has disrupted various sectors of the economy. Nearly, every sector like Travel and Tourism, Automobile, Aviation Industry and many more have been facing constant financial burden due to the spread of COVID-19. As the government has imposed a lockdown period, normal operations of the sector have been hampered, which have disturbed the operating incomes. Telecom industry is one of the major sectors, which is facing a significant impact due to the outbreak of Covid-19....

No Relief Package for the Telecom Sector Yet It is worth noting that the government hadn’t provided the telcos with any relief package during last year when the economy slowed down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the telcos had to make even larger investments in their networks to be able to bear the workload that they were facing because almost everyone working from their home was relying on mobile networks at some point or the other....

Sometimes your current broadband plan does not fulfil the need for which you set-up a broadband connection. The reasons can be delayed customer service, slow network speed or swindle promises from the Internet Service Provider (ISP). Another major reason which might push you to change your broadband plan is the connection type. You might be looking to switch your cable internet connection into Fibre optic network technology. There are several factors which every user must know before switching broadband plan....

Alliance Broadband, one of the fastest-growing internet service providers (ISPs) in India, is now offering a 40 Mbps broadband plan to consumers with OTT (over-the-top) benefits. It is very rare to see that a company would bundle OTT benefits for users with such a low-speed broadband plan. JioFiber also does this with the postpaid fiber broadband plans; however, the key differentiation here would be the price of the broadband plan from Alliance (as it is more affordable)....

Clear Definition of Multi TV and Long Term Channel Packs Firstly, one of the major things that Trai has done as part of these amendments is to address the areas which it totally skipped in the introduction of the NTO. Although the NTO went into intricate detail to explain how the channels will be priced, and how the subscribers and the DTH operators will be billed, it skipped over two of the areas which were Multi TV homes and long-term channel packs....

Unique Display The display is undoubtedly the most flashy highlight of the Samsung Galaxy S10. It was last year when Samsung had dropped hints about the Infinity-O display, and now the Samsung Galaxy S10 series sports the same. Inside the piercing on the screen, the phone packs the single and dual cameras. The Samsung Galaxy S10 boasts of a 6.1-inch Quad HD+ 19:9 curved Dynamic AMOLED display, whereas the Galaxy S10+ has a screen size of 6....

On Wednesday, the telecom regulator TRAI floated a consultation paper in order to discuss the tariff-related issues for cell broadcast and SMS alerts that are disseminated via the Common Altering Protocol (CAP) platform at times of both disasters and non-disasters. TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) explained that there are specific occasions when the government might like to send alerts to the public free of cost to warn of a potential disaster....

What Actually are Triple Play Plans? The Triple Play plans, as the name suggests, come bundled with three services. It is easy to get misguided with the name of Triple Play and to understand a totally different meaning for Triple Play while considering this definition. However, simply put, the Triple Play means that a particular broadband offering comes with a total of three bundled services which includes DTH, landline and a wired broadband offering....

Truecaller, one of the largest caller identification applications in the world, has just rolled out a slew of new features for its users with a new update. Now users will get features such as urgent messages, revamped smart SMS, sharing of smart cards, and the ability to edit sent chat messages and set default views. According to an IANS report, the company calls these features a time-saver for today’s generation....

The Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) which is the council for skilling in telecom in a new development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Kaushalya- Skill University. The latter is a Government of Gujarat led skill university to develop a roadmap for skilled manpower around futuristic technologies. The MoU will majorly focus on working together to create industry-led skill centres promoting skilled manpower in the telecom sector including a special focus on drone technology and other emergent technologies....

The bug seems to have been affecting Indian users as well. “Everything OK with @Twitter? It keeps deleting RTs & likes. Observed huge fluctuation in retweets,” Xiaomi India Managing Director and Global Vice President Manu Jain tweeted on Tuesday. The bug made users wonder if accounts were being suspended in mass or if Twitter was deleting them, TechCrunch reported. Twitter has a global user-base of nearly 236 million active monthly users and it is not clear how many users actually did get affected by the problem....