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Last Updated: February 27, 2024, 15:13 ISTKolkata: Airtel To Offer Uninterrupted Service To Commuters In India’s First Underwater Metro. (Representational Image)(Photo: Zee News)The first underwater metro in India, connecting Howrah and Kolkata via a tunnel beneath the Hooghly River, is scheduled to begin operations in June 2024.Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, announced a pioneering initiative to provide metro commuters with uninterrupted connectivity by deploying high-capacity…

Airtel has announced new plans for its prepaid and postpaid users to let them stay connected when travelling on a flight. The bundle will offer high-speed data, limited minutes of free calling, and a limited number of free SMS services, the telecom service provider stated. For those, who do not want to recharge separately, the service is also bundled with specific international roaming plans. Notably, Reliance Jio also offers similar packs for people travelling internationally on long flights.The in-flight roaming plans…

Image Source : FILE This new Airtel Prepaid plan gives you a free Disney+ Hotstar subscription and unlimited 5G data If you are someone who prefers to watch Disney+ Hotstar avidly, then this article is for you, as Airtel has come up with a new plan under Rs 900 for those who love to binge-watch. The telecom player has silently launched a new prepaid plan worth Rs 869…

Airtel has quietly launched a new prepaid plan that includes a free Disney+ Hotstar subscription offer. This comes a few days after it introduced a prepaid Netflix bundle plan. Like the Netflix plan, this new Hotstar bundle also offers unlimited 5G data alongside a few other perks and benefits. Notably, Airtel is one of the two telecom operators to offer 5G connectivity in India. The other network provider with 5G connectivity support in the country is Jio, which also offers Disney+ Hotstar and Netflix prepaid bundles.The…

India will have 130 million 5G users by the end of this year,…

As many as 31 million smartphone users in India are expected to upgrade to 5G phones between now and December, a report by Ericsson said on Tuesday underlining the accelerated pace at which the world's second largest telecom market is adopting the ultra high-speed services. Ericsson estimates the current base of 5G handset users in India to be between 80 and 100 million.5G services were launched in India in October last year by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the past months have seen a rapid rollout of these services…

It’s a battle royale for 6 GHz spectrum band, which offers 5G-like internet speeds upto 10 Gbps. On one side are global tech biggies such as Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco, Qualcomm, Intel and Netflix. On the other – telcos, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. The tech giants want the 6 GHz band delicensed to boost affordable broadband connectivity across rural India via WiFi. But telcos call it a bad idea, and instead want the 6GHz band auctioned and used for 5G services now, and 6G in future. The…

Google parent Alphabet has already tried and failed to bring internet access to rural and remote areas by using high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere.But now, the company is delivering internet service to remote areas by using beams of light. The project known as Taara is part of Alphabet's innovation lab called X, also nicknamed the "Moonshot Factory." It was initiated in 2016 after attempts at using stratospheric balloons to deliver internet ran into problems due to high costs, company executives said. This time…

India's billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani's flagship OTT platform JioCinema has rolled out a Premium subscription service, moving away from offering all content for free in the app.JioCinema will be charging Rs 999 for a year for the Premium subscription that will let users stream content from studios like HBO and Warner Bros. ET Online had reported in April that Reliance-owned JioCinema may likely start charging you for its content after the end of the Indian Premier League, even as the official digital streaming…

A law enforcement agency under the Ministry of Finance has served show cause notices to insurance companies, including new-age insurers such as Go Digit and Policybazaar, alleging a wrongful claim of input tax credit under Goods and Services Tax (GST) services. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5. Also in this letter:■ ETtech Deals Digest■ Return to office from May, Amazon CEO tells employees■ Infographic Insight: Netflix and global internet consumptionLaw enforcement agency sends notices to Go Digit, Policybazaar,…