Bharti Airtel on Monday said it has launched a new high speed broadband plan that offers speed of up to 300 mbps. The new Airtel broadband plan is offered over WiFi under its FTTH (fiber to the home) services. The plan offers 1200 GB of high speed data at 300Read More

Despite technological innovations, government’s allocation of ample spectrum and customers’ keenness in having high-speed broadband, India’s mobile internet speed remains among the slowest in the world. So much so that the country is lagging behind Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire and Syria – countries with one of the poorest economies. India’s rank forRead More

State run telecom operator BSNL is leaving no stone unturned to keep pace with its competitors, be it Jio, Airtel or Vodafone. To retain its subscribers and keeping the rivals at bay BSNL has launched a new tariff plan ‘BSNL 1199 plan’ at the cost of Rs 1199 per month.Read More

Nokia has bagged a contract from Spectra to deploy IP/MPLS routing and GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) fiber solutions for the broadband operator’s network that would help it offer high-performance broadband services. With the improved network Spectra is planning to offer 1 Gbps broadband services with unlimited bandwidth to bothRead More

Huawei Thursday said it has launched a 5G wireless router and the customer premise equipment (CPE) has been put on trial with Canadian operator Telus to bring “wireless to the home” (WTTH) 5G service. The trial is taking place in downtown Vancouver’s “5G Living Lab,” a co-venture with Telus andRead More

ONE Broadband, an enterprise oriented braodband player from the Hinduja Group has partnered with Nokia to address growing customer demand for high-speed services and capacity by deploying its Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) technology. Using Nokia GPON solutions, the broadband operator now aims to offer 2 GBPS speed to homeRead More

Korea is developing a very fast high-speed WiFi network for passengers travelling in its underground subway trains. A mobile hot-spot network featuring an extremely fast 1.25 Gbps data transmission has been developed for public transportation systems by ETRI in South Korea. A pilot project featuring the new technology in Seoul’s subwayRead More

SNEA, an association of executives of BSNL, has written a letter to the telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan saying the state run operator is dying because of excessive work allotted to it from BBNL – the organisation responsible for rolling out BharatNet or the erstwhile NOFN. The letter, also marked toRead More

A latest Ookla report says India’s broadband speed has improved a lot in the last one year and to be precise, the country has shown the highest improvement, more than China and the US, in 2017. However, in terms of overall data speed, India is still lagging behind these countries. AccordingRead More

5G will cover more than 20 percent of the global population six years from now, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report Ericsson today said there will be 1 billion 5G subscribers by 2023 and the enhanced mobile industry will be primarily driven by increasing viewing of video content.This predictionRead More