BSNL has made a couple of changes to its long-term prepaid plans of Rs 1,999 (PV 1,999) and Rs 2,399 (PV 2,399). While the PV 1,999 is getting an extra validity of 21 days, the PV 2,399 is getting a massive validity reduction. BSNL is increasing the validity of PV 1,999 on the occasion of 72nd Republic Day and Pongal festival. The PV 1,999 usually offers 365 days of validity, but the company is adding another 21 days validity taking the overall validity to 386 days....

The government-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has several prepaid plans with attractive benefits, call minutes and validity. One such that targets subscribers looking for a longer tenure of validity and free calls than data speed is its Rs 399 prepaid plan. The plan offers a validity of up to 80 days. In terms of benefits, the plan provides unlimited calls, 100 SMS per day, and unlimited data at a reduced speed of 80Kbps after 1GB daily data limit....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to soon start offering truly unlimited voice calling benefit with its prepaid and postpaid plans. The telco is now limiting the voice calls at 250 minutes per day across all the offerings. To recall, BSNL introduced the voice calling FUP limit in August 2019. Despite private telecom operators constantly offering unlimited voice calling benefit, BSNL limited the voice calls to both the prepaid and postpaid subscribers....

The Indian government is looking to monetise assets under the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP). Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) mobile towers are also a part of the NMP. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has plans to launch a bid for BSNL towers within the financial year 2022-23. DoT is no longer looking at including the Bharatnet project under the NMP. The government will replace Bharatnet with alternate assets. According to a PTI report, the attempts of the government to monetise the assets under Bharatnet failed to get an appropriate response....

If you want a 90 days prepaid plan, BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) has got two options for you with which you can get unlimited voice calling, data, and SMS benefits. The important thing to note here is that the private telcos offer their plans for a higher tariff with 84 days validity. So BSNL’s your best bet in India if you are looking for a prepaid plan with 90 days validity....

Asus ROG Phone 3 Receives Software Updates with Multiple Bug Fixes According to the changelog available on Asus web portal, the Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) support on the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) network has now been enabled on the ROG Phone 3. The firmware update for the ROG Phone 3 is also said to include an optimization for the system vibration. Further, it was said that the bug that prevented the ROG Phone 3 to wake up to “OK Google” command has been fixed....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) wants the government to allot it spectrum worth Rs 61,000 crore in several frequency bands. The state-run telco is seeking airwaves in the 700 MHz band and mid-band for both 4G and 5G. BSNL is yet to launch 4G or 5G in the country. As per a PTI report, The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had decided to reserve 10 MHz of paired spectrum (means the same quantity for uplink and downlink) in the 600 MHz band; 40 MHz in the 3600-3670 MHz band, and 400 MHz in 24 GHz band....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will have to pay a percentage of its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) towards the spectrum usage charges (SUC) to the government for providing satellite-based services. As per a PTI report, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked the state-run telco to pay 1% SUC for offering services based on satellite communications. At present, the state-run telco offers satellite-based communication services to several shipping companies, government organisations, and more, all of which are authorised by the Home Ministry....

State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited offers its own Internet Telephony service called ‘BSNL Wings.’ As part of Wings service, BSNL customers can make free voice calls over the internet to any network within India. Besides audio calling, BSNL Wings also allows the users to make video calls and instant messaging. The Wings service from BSNL comes in handy in the areas where mobile network coverage is not good, but there’s a decent Wi-Fi connection....

The Security Operations Center (SOC) was established to leverage BT’s global security expertise and leading cyber technologies in order to defend the public and private sector against various types of cyberattacks, which the organisation claims are continuously growing. The SOC is based in BT’s signature Riverside Tower building in Belfast (as many firms involved in the sector seem to have concluded). In order to provide Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and SOC managed services, the Department of Finance awarded a £6....

On Wednesday, the Union Cabinet approved the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) scheme to provision 4G-based mobile services in villages that are uncovered in aspirational districts in five states, including Odisha, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh. This new project seeks to offer mobile services in as many as 7,287 uncovered villages of 44 aspirational districts in the states mentioned above. It is estimated that this project will cost Rs 6,466 crore and include the operational expenses for a period of five years....

Average Voice and Data Consumption On the Rise It is worth noting that as compared to the past year, both data and voice calls have risen dramatically owing to the industry situations. While last year, the average data usage per customer was only 2.5GB, now it has come up to 9.5GB, whereas voice calls have also come up to 820 minutes from the previous average of 400 minutes. Owing to the VoLTE network which uses the internet to route voice calls, more and more voice calls are being routed as data only....

Korean love films, also known as “K-dramas,” are a popular genre in South Korea that often feature themes of romance, family, and friendship. These films have gained a large international following, thanks to the availability of OTT streaming platforms like Netflix. K-dramas often have a unique blend of humor, drama, and romance that makes them appealing to a wide audience. One of the most popular movie genres for a long time is romance....

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has urged the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for providing continuous support for telecom services during the pandemic. The industry body has asked the DoT to write to chief secretaries or administrators of states and union territories for allowing free movement of telecom staff for continuous telecom connectivity. Allow Appropriate Personnel Free Movement During Pandemic, Urges COAI COAI has requested DoT’s support for ensuring that telecom service providers, internet service providers, infrastructure providers (IPs), their partners (OEMs), and their vehicles to move around for sites, fibre and DTH restoration, call centre operations, tower operations, and other Telecom/internet related infrastructure operations....

In order to create the first 5G experience centre in North America, Cognizant, a provider of IT services, is extending its partnership with Qualcomm, the developer of chips, to open the centre in Atlanta. The facility will concentrate on use cases in manufacturing and supply chain management. In a joint statement, the businesses said that for the manufacturing sector, 5G-connected cameras with video analytics utilising multi-access edge computing (MEC) can increase anomaly identification, resulting to timely response and fewer downtimes....

Nokia recently released its 8th edition of the Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBiT) 2021 detailing the mobile broadband performance in the country. The report highlights that data traffic grew by 36% YoY in 2020 primarily owing to the 4G data consumption and the addition of millions of new 4G subscribers across the country. In the last five years, data traffic in India grew by 60 times which is amongst the highest worldwide....

Dish TV and Airtel Digital TV Merger Talks Stalled Again At the end of September 2019, Dish TV is the second largest DTH operator in India sitting marginally behind Tata Sky. Dish TV had a market share of 31.23%, whereas the same for Tata Sky was 31.61%. Dish TV could retain its lost spot in the December quarter, but the merger with Airtel Digital TV will cement its position at the top spot....

Dish TV India, one of the largest Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators in India on Sunday said that it will “continue to invest in evolving technologies to fulfill customer needs.” The development was shared by Jawahar Lal Goel, managing director of Dish TV India in the company’s annual report released on Sunday for the period ended March 31, 2020. Goel said in a message to shareholders that Dish TV India will “continue to adopt and deploy the latest technology to meet the needs of subscribers in the most efficient manner....

Smartphone cameras have improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years, going from offering a single primary sensor or a dual-camera setup featuring a telephoto sensor to offering at least a quad rear camera setup with multiple uses such as a telephoto sensor, a macro sensor and a wide-angle sensor. That being said, one trend that has become increasingly common is that of higher megapixel counts, going from a 12MP or a 16MP sensor to 48MP, 64MP, 108MP sensors that become headlining features of certain devices....

The two main factors cited by the National Cancer Institute of the United States are the fact that cell phones generate radiation in the form of radiofrequency radiation, or radio waves, as well as the fact that they are now widely utilised. It will pose a major concern even if there is a minor uptick in the incidence of cancer as a result of cell phones. Additional Details Regarding 5G Cell Phone Radiation People commonly believe that the brain and central nervous system, as well as the tumours related to them, are the two areas of concern....