27/02/2020

Bengaluru: BBMP plans free Wi-Fi in 2,000 locations

Hoping to provide seamless internet connectivity in public places across the city, BBMP has planned to introduce 4,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots in 2,000 locations. In order to implement the long-pending project - initiated in 2014 - the civic agency has collaborated with city-based internet provider Atria Convergence Technologies (ACT), as announced by deputy chief minister CN Ashwath Narayan at the recent Bengaluru Tech Summit. The minister had said, "The project will be implemented by ACT across Bengaluru at their own cost. EV Ramana Reddy, additional chief secretary, IT&BT said, "It has been over three months since the DyCM made the announcement at the tech summit. We held a meeting with ACT on Tuesday to push forward the proposal," he said. "We are more than willing to provide Wi-Fi to people, but we will also have to ensure ACT follows advertising rules," he added. According to the proposal, ACT would like to build hotspots in parks, bus shelters and major roads, but we do not feel it is necessary in parks," he said.

25/02/2020

TRAI telecom data shows rise in broadband subscribers in Dec 2019

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the telecom subscription data as on December 2019. Top five service providers constituted 98.98% market share of the total broadband subscribers at the end of December 2019. These service providers were Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (370.87 million), Bharti Airtel (140.40 million), Vodafone Idea (118.45 million), BSNL (23.96 million) and Atria Convergence (1.52 million). As on 31st December, 2019, the top five Wired Broadband Service providers were BSNL (8.39 million), Bharti Airtel (2.42 million), Atria Convergence Technologies (1.52 million), Hathway Cable & Datacom (0.90 million) and Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (0.86 million).

20/02/2020

India ranks 128 in mobile broadband speed, 66 in fixed broadband speed, 66 in fixed broadband: Report

US-based Ookla has released its January Global Speedtest Index. As per the Speedtest Index, India’s performance for fixed broadband since December 2019 improved with the country moving up a few rank, there was no movement when it came to mobile broadband ranking. India ranked at 128 position for mobile broadband speed and at 66 position for fixed broadband speed in January 2020, globally. A previous report by Ookla said that ACT Fibernet topped the charts in fixed broadband download speeds in India with speeds between 45.31 and 47.74 Mbps. Hathway was in second place for most of the time period with a top speed of 33.69 Mbps followed by Airtel and Jio.