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Hey Folks, we recently hosted Sukhpreet Singh, Corporate Head - Marketing for Dish TV. Listen to our full conversation to get an insight into what the company believes is the future of the DTH industry and more! #DishTV #OTT #DTH #Podcast

We recently hosted Sylwia Kechiche, Principle Analyst, Enterprise, Ookla, on the TelecomTalkShow. Sylwia talked to us about many things, including the spectrum for satcom companies, the cost of satellite broadband connections and more. #Ookla #Satcom #Broadband #Podcast

We recently hosted Sudhir Kunder, Country Director, DE-CIX, the world's largest internet exchange company. Sudhir gave a lot of insights into 5G and what it would entail for the nation. Further, Sudhir talked about how cloud gaming and other use cases around 5G would come to life. List to the full conversation here or on one of the podcast platforms below. #DECIX #Internet #5G #Podcast

Airtel Black is a great service for customers. It is definitely something that Jio can offer as well but hasn't yet. We talk about that in this conversation. Take a look. #Airtel #5G #Jio #Telecom

We recently hosted Sachin Railhan, founder of Fitshot, a fresh consumer electronics brand. The company started selling smartwatches in August 2022 and has plans to sell 'Made in India' smartwatches in the coming years.

In this episode of the TelecomTalkShow, we talk about whether broadband or 5G is better for consumers. Listen to the conversation and let us know your thoughts in the comments. #5G #Broadband

In this episode of the TelecomTalkShow, we talk about the need for Wi-Fi calling services from Vodafone Idea. Right now, Vodafone Idea is only offering Wi-Fi calling services in select regions of the country. It is far behind the other operators in this regard, and that is something that needs to be corrected. #vodafoneidea #wificalling #vi

In this episode of the TelecomTalkShow, we talk about the differences between the 5G of Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. The telcos have deployed different technologies for 5G.  #RelianceJio #BhartiAirtel #5G #5GSA #5GNSA

We recently talked with Vishal Rally, Senior Vice President & Head of Product, Marketing and Commercial at Tata Teleservices Ltd. Rally walked us through what the company is planning to do next and how it can help out small and medium-sized businesses who are just looking to start their digital journey. #SMB #Cloud #TataTeleservices

Indian telecom operators have already launched 5G in multiple cities. Airtel and Jio, the two telcos which have indeed launched 5G, might just be marketing the higher-speed technology to gain subscribers in the short term.

Tanay, Tarun, and Srikapardhi have a conversation about what's going on with Vodafone Idea and what exactly the telco needs to do in order to survive the condition it is in. 

We had a sit down with Shekar Ayyer, Chairman and CEO at Arrcus, a next-gen network infrastructure company helping telecom operators and other clients with its powerful software to offer better services. The conversation spanned around several topics right from Arrcus coming to the Indian market, cloud gaming with 5G, India's telecom infrastructure and more. Hear it completely on YouTube or here. 

The world and businesses are shifting towards cloud pretty fast as more things become digital in nature. We had a chat with Samit Banerjee, Division President, Cloud Operations Services, Amdocs. Before adopting cloud, there are a lot of things that businesses must keep in their mind. Listen to the full conversation to enhance your knowledge about cloud adoption and how Amdocs is helping customers do it.

We had a conversation with Vivek Raina, CEO and Co-Founder of Excitel, a fast-growing ISP in India, about several things, including how market trends have changed post the pandemic, whether 5G will be a competition for fibre broadband and more. Check it all out in the conversation and share it with your friends. 

Nishant Bansal, Senior Research Manager at IDC, had a pretty candid chat with us. We talked about how fast consumers in India would start purchasing 5G services and what the 5G smartphone penetration looks like right now. Hear the conversation completely to get all the details. 

The Director General of COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India), SP Kochhar, recently talked with us about several things surrounding 5G. We also talked a little about 6G. Hear the full conversation here. #5G #6G #COAI #Telecom #Podcast

Anindya Saha, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Saankhya Labs, talked to TelecomTalk about how the dynamics in the Indian telecom industry with 5G on the way. We also talked about the Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) broadcasting technology and O-RAN deployment in the country. 

We recently talked with Vinish Bawa, Head of Enterprise, Emerging Business and Webscale, Nokia India. Bawa talked about how 5G is going to change things for enterprises and whether India's infrastructure is ready to deliver a seamless 5G experience to customers. Hear the full conversation here.

Indian consumers want good services against the money they are spending on mobile plans. Teoco India can help them in doing that by using geoanalytics. Here's a podcast with Mr Jugad Bawa from Teoco India explaining what geoanalytics is and how telcos can leverage it to grow. 

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in India, has done its part to keep people connected through the tough times of the pandemic. We recently invited Abhijit Kishore, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Vodafone Idea, to our podcast show, and we talked about a lot of things that the company is doing. We talked about 5G, customer problem-solving solutions that Vi has implemented and what's next for the company and more! Listen to the complete podcast here or on one of the audio platforms linked below.

Mavenir is counting on 5G as one of the key bets to proliferate ORAN in India. We recently talked with Sanjay Raina, Vice President, Sales for India & South Asia, Mavenir. Sanjay gave us a lot of insights on how ORAN will change the business landscape for the telcos and how India will benefit from 5G. 

Sandeep Lodha, Co-Founder, Netweb Technologies said that one of the biggest advantages of 5G is that it can support up to 1 million connections per square kilometer which is 10 times more than with 4G (100k connections per square kilometre.) Hear everything that Mr Lodhad had to say about 5G and more here or on TelecomTalk's official YouTube channel. 

Anuj Mathur, Senior Director of Engineering, Compass India Development Center talked with TelecomTalk about different things revolving around 5G. Hear the full conversation here or on other platforms such as YouTube on the official channel of TelecomTalk. 

With its BigWall UI, Daiwa is looking to deliver a unique customer experience to the users. The company has been working non-stop to launch new products in the Indian market and is also looking to expand in the washing machine product line. 

We talked with Mr Arjun Bajaaj, CEO, Daiwa and he told us about the company's vision for the Indian market this year and some strategies that Daiwa is following to acquire customers. 

Kodak wants to deliver a premium experience and features to customers for much less than its competitors. The company doesn't want to necessarily be in the affordable range but actually deliver more for the same price as its competitors, even in the premium range.

We talk with Mr Avneet Singh Marwah, CEO, Super Plastronics Limited, a Kodak brand licensee about the plans that the company has for the Indian market and more.

5G is around the corner. But there is still a long way for India to go for getting itself ready with the appropriate quality infrastructure to deliver a strong 5G experience to consumers across the country. 

We talk with Paul Atkinson, CEO, Connectivity Business, STL, about where India stands in the global telecom market infrastructure wise and what is STL doing to help businesses and telecom service providers (TSPs) in India to deliver a better service. 

Satcom sector's growth is inevitable. Private satcom companies have already started investing in India and we talk about what satcom holds for India in general, what it is, and what is its future with Pranav Roach, President, Hughes India. 

5G is going to revolutionise the way we connect. But at the same time, 5G is going to bring new security challenges with itself. Even as days go by, the networks are becoming more and more complex and harder to secure.   In this podcast, we are in conversation with Dhananjay Ganjoo, Managing Director and SAARC, F5 India.

We had an exclusive chat with Mr Vidhu Nautiyal and sought his views on the upcoming trends in the MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) industry and the sort of challenges he has to face with his business.

BSNL is expected to launch 4G services later this year. Team TelecomTalk including Tanay and Tarun have a chat with Karthikeyan Velumani, a Telecom Industry expert about where should BSNL's core focus should be.

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The requirement and demand for broadband Internet have surged due to the pandemic and the rising culture of working and learning from home. At a time such as this, one would want an internet network that’s not only fast and secure but is also reliable in the sense that it would not keep dropping its speed or connectivity. This is why broadband internet becomes an ideal option and in comparison is better than 4G if you are working from home.

One of the questions that a lot of people have in their mind today is, how much more will they have to pay for data once the private telecom operators are done with multiple tariff hikes. In late 2021, Airtel was the first to announce that it will be going with tariff hikes. Vodafone Idea followed it with a similar announcement but implemented tariff hikes a day earlier than Airtel. A few days later, even Jio hiked tariffs of prepaid plans. 

Airtel is eyeing for an average revenue per user (ARPU) figure of Rs 300 from its India mobile business. But the telco won’t be able to do it with a single tariff hike and won’t even wait for too long to reach there. This means that in the span of next two to three years, the prepaid tariffs from Airtel are going to go up by at least 50% to 70% (rough estimation) if multiple tariff hikes are factored. Naturally, Vodafone Idea is going to do the same followed by Reliance Jio. 

So, this begs the question, are we going back to the pre-Jio era where Indians used to pay a very steep amount for a single gigabyte of 4G data? 5G is going to arrive in the country very soon. It will be interesting to see how it affects the amount of data normal users consume. Because with 4G, the more expensive it gets, the lesser people are going to consume it.

Aviation Sector across the world was worried looking at what was happening in the United States (U.S.). But it shouldn't worry the Indian airlines or the Indian aviation sector because the 5G problems that affect the U.S. airlines is very different from that of what is happening in India. It all depends on how a country is deploying 5G. In India, the 5G deployment will happen in such a manner that it won't interfere with the sensitive aircraft equipment. 

India might require a whopping 22 million or 2.2 crore skilled manpower within 2025 as the country is taking a giant leap into the next-generation 5G-led technologies including AI, IoT, cloud computing and robotics, noted the telecom skills body.   

There is a huge workforce in the need to upskill themselves to match the huge demand in the industry. India is poised to become a global supplier of human resources and electronics. To achieve this, there is a need to create an extended skill network with both academia and industry participation.

Airtel Payments Bank (APB), an online banking subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in the country, had a great performance in 2021. APB benefitted a lot from the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision of increasing the day-end savings limit to Rs 2 lakh last year. Earlier, the limit was Rs 1 lakh. As customers or users could save more money in their APB online savings account, the customer deposits went up to Rs 1,000 crore in 2021.

Google is going to invest over $1 billion in Bharti Airtel as part of its Google for India Digitisation Fund. It is a long-term and multi-year deal where Airtel and Google will work together to explore and co-create India specific use-cases of 5G along with other standards and also work towards the acceleration of cloud ecosystem for businesses across India. Bharti Airtel is also going to give an equity stake to Google against the investment.

It hasn’t been long since the private telecom operators introduced prepaid tariff hikes for customers across the nation. Vodafone Idea (Vi) is planning to go for another round of prepaid tariff hikes in 2022 or 2023, Ravinder Takkar, CEO of Vodafone Idea, said during the earnings call. The Rs 99 prepaid plan from the company is not an expensive option for 4G users believes the company. Depending on the market reaction and how well the current new prices are embedding, the telco will take a call on whether another prepaid tariff hike for 4G plans will come in 2022 or 2023.

There are many consumers who are unhappy with the fact that their 5G smartphone supports less than five or, on certain occasions, a single 5G band. For the unaware, 5G services would be rolled out using a dynamic range of the spectrum, which would for the first time include mobile services rollout with C-band spectrum (3.3-3.6 GHz) and mmWave (26 GHz and 28 GHz) spectrum band. 5G speeds and use cases would differ with respect to the particular spectrum band that is being used by the operator to provide services.  

For example, the mmWave band 5G would be able to deliver download speeds of up to 4.2 Gbps (proven by Vodafone Idea 5G trials) while using the C-band spectrum, download speeds of up to 1.5 Gbps can be delivered.

Choosing the right telecom service provider (TSP) for yourself today is a very important thing. Be it connecting with your loved ones or be it just working from your home, you need the presence of a good network to ensure that there is nothing disrupting your mobile experience. In this episode, we talk about how you can choose the idea telecom operator for yourself.

5G or the fifth-generation network technology is soon going to be a part of India. Upon the dawn of 2022, it is important that everyone who is inclined towards a digital way of living life understand what 5G is. While many know that 5G is a network technology and it will be an upgrade over 4G, it is also important to know why and how is it an upgrade.

We are almost at the verge of 2022. The Indian telecom sector is looking forward to 2022 in a major way because there are things such as 5G, satcom, BSNL 4G, Spectrum auctions, new telecom reforms, enterprise revenue, and more coming. Here us talk about what's coming in 2022!

BSNL didn't go ahead with the prepaid tariff hikes. Many thought that it wasn't the right thing to do as it was a chance for the telco to attract some ARPU gains. Here's what we think.

Airtel Black was launched by Bharti Airtel a couple of months back after successful pilot project with One Airtel plans which were available only for select cities in India. However, Airtel Black is a finished product and it is available for customers across India.   

The prime benefit of the Airtel Black plan is that users will get one bill for all of the services mentioned above. Further, there will be a dedicated relationship team and a call centre available for the users. All the queries or problems of customers on the Airtel Black plans will be solved on priority by the company. The company promises to pick up the call of the customers in 60 seconds or less.

5G in India is going to be working its way towards consumers around the country in the next few years.  The telecom operators are currently in the testing phase of the 5G equipment and networks in different parts of the country.

The Indian government is of the opinion that the telecom operators in the country should go ahead with the 5Gi standard developed by the TSDSI. However, the telcos have vocally opposed the opinion of the government in the past.

OTT platforms are getting popular. Multiple things took place in the last few days such as Netflix decreased the price of its plans while Amazon increased the price of all Prime plans. The DTH space is also actively growing in the country with the government trying to bring digital access in every part of the country including remote and rural areas. In this episode of TelecomTalkShow, we talk about how the OTT space in growing in the country and whether it would replace DTH.

Tariff hikes got kicked in a few weeks back and because of that some people are confused whether they should go with prepaid plans or postpaid plans as both are expensive. Telcos needed the prepaid tariff hike and even postpaid tariff hikes are not far right now. Check out our video to understand who needs postpaid plans and when will the postpaid tariff hikes kick in.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNL) didn't launch its 4G networks in India even in 2021 and the wait continues. The state-run telco is still struggling to get past the PoC process with its Indian partner Tata Telecommunications Services (TCS). BSNL said that it would launch 4G networks by September 2022 or even later if there are more delays.

After prepaid tariffs went up, the broadband tariffs might go up as well! In the inaugural episode of TelecomTalkShow, we talk about the broadband tariffs that might go up soon and whether or not is it needed in the first place.