Ooty - Coonoor (Tamilnadu) - Days in Western Ghats

Ooty, a hill station in the Nilgiris District of Tamilnadu is very popular for travellers. It is officially known as Udagamandalam, and also known as Oostacamund. 

With Ooty one can easily visit to Coonoor, kind of sister city of Ooty. Coonoor is more natural, and more beautiful.  ✈ 

Airtel Xtream to Add Lionsgate Contents Very Soon

Bharti Airtel is leaving no stone untouched to win the telecom game. While the telecommunications in India has seen expansion from simple call to video on the go, 2G to 4G, the new value added services is the content. 

The trend of offering good content to the subscribers was formed by Reliance Jio, they already have a seperate company for that - Jio Platforms Ltd, spun off from the main company. Jefferies research reports that the company, Jio Platforms which takes care of digital services (a suite of Jio apps and strategic investments) may have an estimated valuation of $65 billion-$70 billion. And Jio Platform is the second highest valued digital platform in the world after Amazon when considering EV/EBITDA (enterprise value by earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation). Going by this finance Jio Platform is ahead of Alphabet, Apple or Alibaba. 

Ola Gets Massive Response from Drivers in London, Uber's License to be Scrapped

Indian cab aggregator Ola is going Europe, as it is to launch services in London. Ola has been running operations in Australia and Newzealand since 2018. 

It should be noted that Ola is operating in UK since 2018 across South Wales (Cardiff, Newport and Vale of Glamorgan), South West (Bath, Bristol, Exeter, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire), Merseyside (Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and The Wirral), West Midlands (Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Coventry and Warwick) and Reading. 

Mobile Tariff Hike - My Thoughts !

When Vodafone Idea announced their plan to hike tariff, I expect an increase of Rs 10-25 in most of plans, on 28 day validity plans. So on 84 day plan that would be Rs 30-75 increase. 

But as it shows, the increase is Rs 150 on 84-day validity plans (i.e. 3 months pack). That's nearly 40% increase. Also they proved themselves that they are hypocrites, as both incumbents separate onnet and offnet calling, just like Jio did that on the ground of IUC. 
Update: Both incumbents removed offnet call capping from their plans. 
Update 2: Jio continues to offer free Jio2Jio calling and adds some minutes for offnet calling, while Airtel and Vodafone offer unlimited calling to any network with their unlimited packs.

As they declared new revised plans on 3rd December, Jio too announced a tariff hike scheduled on 6th December. 

Jio will be the maximum Gainer !!

Jio told that they will be cheapest service provider, they could not hike tariff. With decision taken by incumbents, Jio now can blame the incumbents for market's motion of tariff hike. 

Jio is pretty much non-liable for payment due compared to incumbents, who have to shell out Rs 1 lakh crore for AGR adjusted payment due to GoI. So as the wave of tariff hike is going on, their ARPU will go up, and all will improve Jio's finance, way
better than Airtel and VIL.

Jio will declare their plans later, so they will have a look into others, and may offer cheaper tariff than incumbents with extra benefits like more data. That might kill dual SIM market, as with multiple SIM the spending will be much higher (Rs 130 to 190 on avg), and may be users shift to Jio. More customers, more revenue - Jio may have the best balance sheet among telcos in coming days. 

As operators divide onnet and offnet calls, TRAI must withdraw 6p/min IUC and make it zero with immediate effect.  

Update: If you have WiFi at home and office, grab Jio's 329 plan (84 days validity, 3000 offnet calls, 100 text/day, 6GB data). With Rs 50 coupon you can get it at Rs 279. [per day cost Rs 3.32]