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Net subscriber addition by Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio increased the overall telecom user base to over 116.69 crore in March 2022, telecom regulator TRAI said in its monthly report on Thursday. Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio led new customer additions in both mobile telephony as well as fixed line services segment in March."The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,166.05 million at the end of February 2022 to 1,166.93 million at the end of March 2022," TRAI's subscriber report for March said.The…

India's largest telecom operator Reliance Jio on Friday posted an about 24 per cent jump in standalone net profit at Rs 4,173 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2022, amid better realisation per user aided by tariff hike, better subscriber mix and FTTH services ramp-up.The standalone revenue from operations increased by about 20.4 per cent year-on-year to Rs 20,901 crore.Mobile SIM consolidation after the tariff hike in the last December led to a net reduction of 10.9 million in customer base in 4Q FY22.For Jio…

Mistakes happen. Especially when it comes to the replication of vast sequences of DNA inside our cells. It's a good thing too. If not for the errors in our genes we refer to as mutations, natural selection would be a no-go, and life would be dead in the water.  As crucial as mutations are to everything from disease to biodiversity, we know shockingly little about the physics of the process.Findings from the University of Surrey in the UK have revived speculations that a primary trigger behind the chemical sleight-of-hand…

How life on Earth first arose is one of the most profound mysteries of science, and evidence is mounting that the key building blocks may have been delivered to our home planet from space. A new study makes that scenario seem even more likely, as scientists have now identified in meteorites the last two DNA nucleobases that hadn’t yet been found in extraterrestrial samples.DNA and RNA are made up of five organic molecules called nucleobases – adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine and uracil. That’s the ACGT letter code used…

Maruti Suzuki Alto. (Photo: Maruti Suzuki)Maruti Suzuki Alto and Maruti Suzuki S-Presso will no longer come in the single airbag variant in IndiaMaruti Suzuki has decided to stop the manufacturing of base variants of entry-level cars, S-Presso and Alto. The reason for the discontinuation has to do with the mandatory airbags policy which is to be implemented in October by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The base variants of the S-Presso and Alto – STD and LXI – have been discontinued since they offered single…

ACT Fibernet on Tuesday launched its 1Gbps optical fibre-powered broadband plan in New Delhi. Called ACT Giga, the new broadband plan is claimed to deliver up to 1Gbps speed along with ‘unlimited' data allocation at a monthly rental of Rs. 1,999. It is marketed to deliver constant download and upload speeds to customers. Alongside the much-awaited 1Gbps offering, ACT Fibernet has introduced a new, entry-level broadband plan called ACT Welcome that brings 50Mbps speed. Both new plans will go live for existing and new…

Telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 1,191.05 million at November end with Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel expanding their user base, according to TRAI data. Reliance Jio has also toppled BSNL as top fixed line broadband subscriber and now leads the segment with 4.34 million customers which had been dominated by the state-run telecom since its inception about 20 years ago.Total wireless customer base in the country was 1,167.5 million at end-November, according to a monthly subscriber report published…

Debt-ridden telecom operator Vodafone Idea on Friday reported widening of its consolidated loss to Rs. 7,230.9 crore for the third quarter ended December 2021.The company had posted a loss Rs. 4,532.1 crore in the same period a year ago.Consolidated revenue from operations declined by 10.8 per cent to Rs. 9,717.3 crore from Rs. 10,894.1 crore in the year-ago period."We are pleased to announce second consecutive quarter of revenue growth driven by several tariff interventions taken in the last few months. While the overall…

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