Apple is said to launch the new 27-inch iMac Pro with the M1 chip in June of this year. Many are expecting the Cupertino tech giant to hold an event in March 2022 wherein it might launch new Macs and the iPhone SE 2022 along with other products. The first Apple event of the year is highly anticipated to take place on March 8. Now, according to a tip from Ross Young, a famous leakster, Apple might hold an event in June to launch the iMac Pro with the M1 chip and mini-LED display....

Communication Via Online Tools and Apps One of the things that the internet has done for people is bring them close to each other. Communication has become seamless because of the internet and all of it happens in real-time. You can text people using different platforms/tools/apps such as Google Chat, WhatsApp, Gmail, Facebook, and more. Not only that, but using the broadband connection, you can also video call people. Fibre broadband connections come with very high upload and download speed thus your video calls would take place without any lags or disturbances provided the person you are calling has a strong internet connection as well....

Bharti Airtel, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and Reliance Jio have become the top broadband service providers in India. The operators have shown their grit and determination in providing the best fiber broadband services in India by adding millions of new subscribers in the COVID-19 pandemic era. JioFiber, Airtel Xstream Fiber, and BSNL Bharat Fibre are the respective broadband arms of Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and BSNL. Let’s take a look at some of the noteworthy broadband plans from these operators....

Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, is offering customers over four prepaid plans with a validity of 30 days. The telecom operator has added multiple offers with monthly or 30 days validities because of the directive from the sector regulator. Today, we will be looking at the four prepaid plans from Bharti Airtel, which come with a validity of 30 days. The plans we are talking about cost Rs 296, Rs 199, Rs 109, and Rs 181....

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) released the Telecom Subscription Data report for September 2020. For the second straight month, Bharti Airtel has outperformed Reliance Jio by adding 3.77 million new users compared to 1.46 million new users added by the latter. The report also highlighted that Airtel ended the month with 326.61 million subscribers under its belt, whereas Jio tops the chart with 404.13 million users. Vodafone Idea continues to lose the subscribers and as per the latest report, the telco had lost 4....

Telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea might tender their spectrum and tangible assets and tax refunds as security to the Supreme Court. As Supreme Court earlier directed all the telcos to file an affidavit till June 18 regarding payment of AGR dues, telecom operators are considering that spectrum and tangible assets will be viable as securities. As reported by ET Telecom, telecom operators have sufficient assets which will be enough to provide for security against deferred payment of AGR dues over 20 years....

Bharti Airtel is probably the most preferred telecom operator when it comes to International Roaming (IR) services. The telco has international roaming plans at a starting price of Rs 496 for prepaid customers. A lot of customers complain about unexpected charges on their mobile number when they travel to another country, and both prepaid and postpaid customers of telecom operators face this issue. To tackle this problem, Bharti Airtel introduced six ‘Customer Protection Policies....

Connect via Airtel Thanks App or Through SSID The new Airtel WiFi Zone will be available in public places like Airports, Colleges, Hospitals, Corporate Parks, Retail shops and more. However, it is worth noting that currently Airtel is allowing its prepaid subscribers to connect their phones in the Wi-Fi Zone and the service is presently unavailable for postpaid subscribers. In case you’re in an Airtel WiFi Zone, you can easily use the My Airtel app to connect to the Wi-Fi by tapping on the “My Wi-Fi” tile in your Airtel Thanks application....

Bharti Airtel Rs 97 Prepaid Plan Details Unlike the most popular plans which are combo offerings for Bharti Airtel subscribers for a month or more than that, this new plan is a prepaid plan of its own kind. In the Rs 97 prepaid plan subscribers get access to 2GB data for the entire validity period of 14 days. The plan also bundles unlimited calls and 100 SMS per day as well....

Airtel Disney+ Hotstar VIP Offer Detailed The offer is extended to select Airtel customers only, says the company. Airtel customers can check their eligibility for the Disney+ Hotstar VIP offer in the ‘Thanks’ page of Airtel Thanks app. The telco also mentioned that a customer could only avail the offer once against each of the eligible postpaid and broadband plans independently. For the unknown, the Disney+ Hotstar VIP membership costs Rs 399 and is valid for one year....

Airtel Digital TV, a leading DTH service provider and the direct-to-home arm of Bharti Airtel, has stopped imports of the HD Set-Top Boxes (STBs) from other Asian countries completely. The company has started the local manufacturing of the devices at a facility in Noida in partnership with Skyworth Electronics. Well, Airtel Digital TV has plans to bring about a complete transition to the Made-in-India STBs that includes the high-end Airtel Xstream 4K Android TV Box by this year’s end....

Bharti Infratel’s move to extend the deadline for the merger with Indus Towers by over two months till August 31 will now impact Vodafone Idea’s capability to raise funds to clear a part of AGR-related dues. Currently, Vodafone Idea has just paid 13% of the total outstanding AGR dues. Bharti Infratel, in a regulatory filing, had said that its Board of Directors reviewed the status of the scheme of arrangement between Indus Towers and Bharti Infratel and extended the long stop-gap date of the proposed merger to 31 August 2020....

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recently released - “The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators” report for July - September 2021. In the report, the regulator also shared the performance data of the DTH and Cable TV sector. According to the data shared by TRAI, Bharti Telemedia and Sun Direct saw an increase in the Direct-to-Home (DTH) market share. Bharti Telemedia and Sun Direct had 26.11% and 17.91% DTH market share at the end of September 2021 as compared to 25....

While there are only four telecom operators in India, there are several more internet service providers (ISPs), and the number just keeps on growing as days pass by. Because of the pandemic, all of the ISPs got a boost since the demand for fixed-line fiber internet connection grew. Private operators such as Excitel and other lesser-known companies expanded their services in new parts of the country to gain a bigger market share in line with the growing demand for the service....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has been criticised heavily by the Indian taxpayers for getting a relief package from their money when it hasn’t even launched 4G while the private telcos are shifting to 5G. The stance of the Indian government is pretty clear here. The centre wants homegrown technology to be involved in the rollout of BSNL’s 4G. The capex spending needs of BSNL’s 4G have also been looked after in the relief package....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will get Rs 62,000 crore worth of 5G spectrum from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). This would be in addition to the Rs 1.64 lakh crore relief package announced by the government earlier this year. The government plans to allocate airwaves in the 700 MHz and 3.3 GHz to BSNL. BSNL would become the second-telecom operator in India after Reliance Jio to offer 5G services via the 700 MHz band....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Bharat Fibre is one of the largest broadband businesses in India. The state-run telco gives the private operators a run for their money when it comes to broadband since BSNL is present in more areas of the country than its competitors. BSNL recently made a ton of announcements related to its fiber broadband services. The state-run company regularised (made permanent) multiple popular fiber broadband plans....

On Sunday, we talked about BSNL prepaid plans that offer minimum to zero data but offer extremely affordable plans for voice-based users. Today we are going on the opposite side and checking out BSNL data plans which come with no daily FUP limit. It is well known that the most popular plans in the market right now, regardless of the telecom operator, are the daily data limit plans. These plans come with daily data limits which expire at the end of the day....

BSNL Rs 499 Bharat Fibre Broadband Plan: Benefits Detailed BSNL is known for launching various promotional plans and the Rs 499 Bharat Fibre plan is one of them. Benefits of this limited period broadband plan include 20 Mbps speeds, 100GB monthly FUP limit and 2 Mbps after FUP speeds. Users can browse unlimited data at 2 Mbps speeds after exhausting 100GB FUP limit. The plan also offers unlimited voice calling benefit to the subscribers....

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has various 300 Mbps broadband plans on offer for customers. However, two of the most expensive 300 Mbps plans from BSNL Bharat Fibre can be called super plans. This is because of the amount of data they bundle for the customers. BSNL’s 300 Mbps plans are quite similar to each other, but they differ in one area - the kind of data they bundle for the customers....