Airtel Creates Fiber Subsidiary, Jio Giga Fiber Looking for Major Disruption in the Market

The next phase of Indian telecom war lands as Jio is not abating its plan of disruption with the announcement of Giga Fiber - the fiber to home broadband connectivity on 15th of August, 2018. Immediate effect went on Den Networks, Hathway Cable and Datacom - whose shares went down by upto 18% post announcement of Jio's Giga Fiber. Another big fiber player in the country, ACT Broadband has revised their broadband plans with more data on most of the plans. Delhi-NCR based pure play fiber player, Spectra is all set to do the same. 

As Jio goes direct to home with fiber, it will make toughest competition against existing fiber/cable based broadband operators as well as DTH service providers. With the power of fiber at last mile, Jio will offer broadband, TV and other infotainment packages at a great competitive package to hurt the other players. A similar quad play package - a trend has already been practiced by Verizon in US and Vodafone in different countries. 

ACT Broadband to Connect Google Homes to Internet

Google has just entered into smart home products market of India with their Google Home and Home Mini Speakers (AI driven), which are competing against Amazon's Echo speakers.

Both products priced at Rs 9999 and Rs 4999, are available on Flipkart exclusively and will be available in offline stores in coming days.

ACT Fibernet to Power Google Home Users with High-Speed Fiber Broadband Connectivity

ACT Fibernet is Google’s Fiber broadband partner for Google Home launch

Bengaluru, 10 April, 2018: ACT Fibernet, India’s largest fiber-focused wired broadband ISP (Internet Service Provider) today announced its partnership with Google to support its newly launched Google Home smart speakers with high-speed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity.  As part of this, ACT Fibernet will work in conjunction with Google to leverage the adoption of next-gen technology and will offer a bundle of special plans for its customers.