19/07/2020

India’s wired broadband subscribers reach 19.18 mn in March 2020

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. India’s top wired or fixed broadband providers are BSNL with 8.08 million subscribers, Bharti Airtel with 2.47 million, Atria Convergence Technologies with 1.61 million, Hathway Cable & Datacom with 0.97 million and Reliance Jio with 0.87 million.

19/07/2020

Buying Guide: How To Get Unlimited Data On Airtel Xstream Broadband And Up To 1Gbps Speeds

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. Airtel has simplified the broadband plans they have on offer, and also have an add-on that will get you unlimited data usage every month—which means a mammoth fair usage policy (FUP) of 3333GB per month.

19/07/2020

Excitel eyes ₹200-cr fund raise, to expand to 50 Indian cities

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).