Vi Kickstarts Competition with 5G Data and New Tariffs

After 808 days of Jio & Airtel's 5G launch (1st October 2022), Vi, the joint telecom venture of Vodafone UK and Aditya Birla Group, has launched 5G services in India in selected pockets of selected cities across 17 key circles on 17th December of 2024. This launch of 5G services by Vi marked the third operator of the country enters 5G space. Though this launch is just to maintain MRO guidelines, a full-scale launch to all users is part of the roadmap of Vi. 

Fast Charging - Know Your Tech

I can remember those days when Simoco, an India-grown company brought some large note like phones during those symbian days against loud, large chinese resistive touchscreen phones . The package comes with an extra battery and a charger to charge it outside the phone. Gone those days, Li-Ion or Li-Polymer batteries have been evolved a lot now. The battery technology has improved a lot - from wireless charging to fast charging technology make our digital lives easier.

Fast charging has became a USP for smartphone makers, just like how powerful battery included or camera capabilities or bigger screen or latest chipset. The companies simply promotes how fast the smartphones get charged in minutes or simply says xx Watt charging capacity. 

Tejas Will Supply Backhaul Equipment to Vi to Increase Network Capacity

Though Tata Group left the mainstream telecom market, it seems the company prefers to stay behind the curtain as Tata-backed companies continue to grab telecom contracts in the country. 

Tata-backed TCS & Tejas Networks are integral part of state owned BSNL's 4G rollout, and future's 5G roll out, infact BSNL's 5G ready 4G core is completely developed indigenously. Now Tejas grabbed a three-year contract from country's third largest telco - Vi to supply backhaul equipment for upgraded 4G network & upcoming 5G network. Back in 2021 Airtel also deployed equipment from Tejas to increase optical capacities in major metro areas.

​Purulia Travel - Ajodhya Circuit

On the way to Ajodhya Hills

​​পিন্দারে পলাশের বন, পালাবো পালাবো মন   

পুরুলিয়াতে বেড়ানো মানে আপনাকে তিনটি ভাগে ভাগ করে ঘুরতে হবে। 

১. পুরুলিয়া শহরকে ঘিরে ভ্রমণ 

২. অযোধ্যা ট্রাভেল সার্কিট এবং 

৩. রঘুনাথপুর-গড়পঞ্চকোট-বড়ন্তী সার্কিট। 

অনেকে বীরভূমের মুকুটমণিপুর বেড়াতে এসেও পুরুলিয়া ঘুরে যান কারণ পুরুলিয়ার ঠিক দক্ষিণ-পশ্চিম সীমাতেই আছে মুকুটমণিপুর ড্যাম। 

Smaller Passive Infrastructure Providers Reshaping Indian Telecom

Despite the tower companies of India are going through several merger and acquisition, there are some new companies entered in the market - Suyog Telematics Ltd., Signotox Towers Pvt. Ltd., Pratap Technocrats, SAR Televentures etc.

These companies are looking into new verticals of tower industries for generating revenues from telecom service providers. Innovative solutions from these companies can be cost-effective and energy-efficient. 

Report by Avendus predicts that in next 5 years capital expenditure in the digital infra space might go up to $35-50 billion. They also noted four major trends to drive this expenditure are: in-building solutions (IBS), outdoor small cells (ODSC), data centres (DCs), and fibre networks.

Revival of BSNL, deployment of 4G and 5G tech in their network and Vi's plans to expand 4G and enter into 5G space are also good news for these newcomers despite the presence of big companies like Altius (2.75L towers) and Indus Towers (2.5L towers) and mid-level players like GTL Infrastructure with 26,000 towers and Ascend Telecom with around 18,600 towers.

Vistara-Air India Merger: Let's Look into the Journey from Tata Airlines to Air India

October 8, 2021 was a great day for Tata Group, as home grown Airline returned to their origin - homecoming for Air India! Acquisition of Air India, Air India Express, and 50% of AISATS by Tata Group was India's first major privatization of a public sector company.

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29-07-1904 to 29-11-1993) was the pioneer of Indian aviation. He was also India’s first commercial pilot license-holder. In 1932 JRD Tata founded Tata Air Services for transporting mails. On the maiden flight he flew with cargo from Bombay to Karachi on a de Havilland Puss Moth. 

Soon it grew quickly to enter into passenger service. 

In 1938 it was rebranded as Tata Airlines and started international flights. First international destination was Colombo, Srilanka. 

Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation by Jio Can Improve Smartphone Battery Life upto 40%

Earlier in a post, I shared the fact that IEEE reported that 5G-NR is more energy efficient than LTE, and 5G-NSA might use higher levels of energy to power 5G networks with 4G infrastructure, as two different forms of cellular technology massively increases power consumption in a network. Now Jio Platforms, the largest telecom operator in India, during its Q2 FY25 earnings call, has claimed that their Standalone 5G network can reduce power consumption on end-devices and this may help the smartphones' battery performance by 20-40%.