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Amid rising instances of service quality issues and consumer complaints, TRAI has asked telecom operators to report call drop and outage data at the state level also and take immediate steps to “demonstrate visible improvement” in quality of service and connectivity experience for consumers across the country. On the issue of pesky promotional calls and … Read more
Call quality and network coverage still remain a major issue for most subscribers, as per a survey conducted by LocalCirles. As much as 69% of respondents said they face call connection and drop issues every day.Just 26% reported having good voice coverage across all three telco majors, Airtel, Jio, and Vi. On the other hand, … Read more
The Department of Telecommunications has asked sector regulator TRAI to make quality of service norms stricter in order to curb call drops and improve call quality, an official source said on Tuesday. The move comes after the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) collected feedback from the public through an IVRS call around call drop, quality of calls … Read more
Vodafone Idea (Vi) has rolled out a new entry-level recharge plan for its prepaid users. The telecom operator has introduced a recharge plan of Rs 99 which is available across the country.Vi Rs 99 prepaid planUnder the Rs 99 prepaid plan, Vodafone Idea is offering 200MB of data and talk time of Rs 99. The … Read more
Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel cumulatively gained nearly 25 lakh mobile subscribers in November even as troubled Vodafone Idea lost nearly 18.3 lakh customers, according to data by sector regulator TRAI. India’s largest telco Reliance Jio cemented its lead in the market adding 14.26 lakh net subscribers in November, whereas Airtel added 10.56 lakh users. … Read more
Cropin, an agtech company known for creating the first industry cloud for agriculture, has announced that its farm digitization software, Cropin Grow, is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. The AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that allows customers to easily find, purchase, and deploy third-party software and services to build solutions … Read more
Software giant Microsoft has made its third investment in OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT and image AI tool DALLE. The company earlier made investments in the year 2019 and 2021. The new investment will make Microsoft OpenAI‘s exclusive cloud service provider. The company did not reveal the amount of investment, however, … Read more
With a view to ramping up its retail footprint at the sub district level, Vodafone-Idea (Vi) is launching 75 new format ‘Vi Shops’ across multiple towns in Bihar and Jharkhand. Smaller towns like Arrah, Barauni, Bettiah, Buxar, Chausa, Deoriya, Hajipur, Katihar, Masauri, Motihari, Sitamarhi, amongst others in Bihar now get access to quick, efficient, face-to-face … Read more
Industry body COAI has contended that implementation of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) should not be made mandatory but kept optional for telecom operators, as the association shared technical, privacy and cost related concerns with regulator TRAI to argue its point. The submissions came as part of a consultation process initiated by Telecom Regulatory Authority of … Read more
The telecom department on Wednesday met operators to discuss rising instances of call drops and service quality related issues, as it deliberated on policy measures that can be considered for improving call quality. The meeting, which comes amid the rollout of massive 5G networks in the country, was chaired by Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman and … Read more