Amazon Prime Video has announced its first mobile-only plan in the world, starting with India at Rs 89 for Prime Video content

Amazon has launched an amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition subscription plan in India for mobile users only. India has become the first country in the world to offer customers a mobile-only Prime Video plan.

Data is the new oil. There is no better time to revisit this phrase than the last week of 2020 ? a year where the success of everything eventually came down to speed and quality of your internet connection.

There will be no license fee for providing broadband internet through these public Wi-Fi access network interface, says Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Bharti Airtel is in a sweet spot again, thanks to tariff hikes last year, digital gameplan and relentless focus on winning quality customers

Indian telcos depend a lot on wireless revenue, but this distorted revenue pie can be corrected, thanks to the circumstances created due to COVID-19 and popularity of fixed broadband

Current share places India far ahead of all the developing economies as 47 individuals were estimated to be using the internet per 100 inhabitants, at the end of 2019, in this region

HP's new range of connected laptops have the Intel XMM modem that brings the cellular connectivity to them.

Last year, telcos across the board hiked mobile tariffs for prepaid subscribers by 20-50 per cent in an attempt to increase their low APRUs (average revenue per user)

Experts have said that the existing telecom infrastructure of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance JIO is not equipped to handle a sudden rise in data consumption across the country

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

Budget 2020 expectations: The launch of 5G-enabled technologies is expected to be transformative in the telco and other industries by unlocking various disruptive new technologies

The launch of 5G-enabled technologies is expected to be transformative in the telco and other industries by unlocking various disruptive new technologies. Global investment in the 5G industrial chain over 2020-2035 is likely to reach US$ 3.5 trillion

For a telco, which has been dictating the tariff structure in the wireless segment, the pricing of Jio's fixed broadband services is unlikely to cause trouble to incumbents such as Bharti Airtel and BSNL

On most relevant parameters, Airtel is doing better in Africa than India. Take subscriber growth, for example. In the past one year until June, the African operations have added 8.5 million subs as compared to a loss of 24.2 million (or 7 per cent subs) in India in the past one year to June

The regulator argues that the new poverty line for rural areas is nearly Rs 32 and for urban areas Rs 47. But to access data, the minimum tariff plan costs Rs 49, which includes free voice, SMS and 1GB data every 28 days

Over the past year, Jio expanded its presence in the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) business through acquisitions of large MSOs (multiple system operators) - Den Networks and Hathway Cable and Datacom

Why the government will find it difficult to revive BSNL even with its huge bailout package

India is not yet ready for a full-fledged 5G rollout, but going slow in a fast-evolving technology space may have its benefits