Homegrown on-demand video service platform Zee5 has been named one of the top 10 most downloaded streaming app worldwide in June 2020, along with other giants like YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Videos, Disney+ and others. According to the ‘State of Internet Traffic Trend’ report by ACT Fibernet, India saw a 55% hike in overall streaming traffic during the Covid-19 resultant lockdown between March to May. Interestingly, unlike pre-Covid times, there is no significant difference in traffic during the weekdays and weekends.

The Indian wired broadband service providers lost 160,000 subscribers in April, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) highlighted in a report on Friday. According to the Trai report, the fixed broadband subscriber base in India dipped to 19.02 million in April as compared to 19.18 million in March. It has to be noted that India was under intense lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March 24. Atria Convergence Technologies recorded a subscriber base of 1.59 million in April as compared to 1.61 million in March.

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Broadband service provider Excitel is in talks with investors to raise ₹200 crore in funding as it looks to expand FTTH (fibre to the home) deployment on its network and establish presence in 50 cities by December 2021 The top five service providers in the total broadband subscriber base constituted 98.99% market share at the end of March. Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd had 388.39 million users, Bharti Airtel (148.57 million), Vodafone Idea (117.45 million), BSNL (24.50 million) and Atria Convergence (ACT) (1.61 million).

Broadband service provider Excitel is in talks with investors to raise ₹200 crore in funding as it looks to expand FTTH (fibre to the home) deployment on its network and establish presence in 50 cities by December 2021 The top five service providers in the total broadband subscriber base constituted 98.99% market share at the end of March. Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd had 388.39 million users, Bharti Airtel (148.57 million), Vodafone Idea (117.45 million), BSNL (24.50 million) and Atria Convergence (ACT) (1.61 million).

India’s wireless broadband subscribers increased 0.94 percent to 667.66 in March 2020 from 661.45 million in February 2020. The number of broadband subscribers – wired and wireless — increased from 681.11 million at the end of Feb-20 to 687.44 million at the end of Mar-20 with a monthly growth rate of 0.93 percent, TRAI said recently.

Airtel Xstream broadband is one of the few internet service providers in India who offers up to 1Gbps speeds on home broadband lines, some of the others include Reliance Jio Fiber, ACT Giga and Spectra. But that isn’t the only feather in the cap of the Airtel Xstream, at a time when users are relying heavily on their home broadband lines to get work done and stream some TV shows and movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ Hotstar, to name a few.

Work from home and online education is the new normal for most of us. Not just this, the need to be home unless stepping out is absolutely essential too has increased our dependence on online platforms for recreation, communication, shopping as well as several other things. For all this a good broadband connection is critical. Here are monthly broadband plans from Airtel, Tata Sky, BSNL, Reliance Jio and others under Rs 1,000. ACT Fibernet Rs 799 Silver Promo plan. The Silver Promo plan offers 100Mbps speed and 500GB data.