Airtel launches new broadband plans

Airtel to set up digital tech hub in Pune

Bharti Airtel is planning to set up a new technology center in Pune to support digital services in the Western region and will be hiring around 500 digital engineering professionals by the end of the current fiscal, a senior company official said. This will be Airtel’s fourth digital technology hub in India and fi...


Airtel broadband suffers major weekend outage in India

Airtel broadband suffers major weekend outage in India

Airtel broadband services, which suffered a major nationwide outage that left millions of users without internet on both mobile and desktop for more than two hours, were later fixed. According to website outage monitoring platform DownDetector.com, the outage which affected millions of users across the country sta...


Vi partners with SonyLIV to bolster content offerings

Vi partners with SonyLIV to bolster content offerings

Telcom service provider Vodafone Idea (Vi) has announced a partnership with SonyLIV, the video streaming platform from Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), to offer premium content services.

Vi has introduced a new add-on recharge of Rs 82, which will provide a free mobile-only subsc...


Vi partners ICRIER to set up telecom centre of excellence

Vi partners ICRIER to set up telecom centre of excellence

Vodafone Idea has partnered with Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) to set up a telecom Centre of Excellence.

The centre has been named InViCT (ICRIER and Vodafone Idea Centre for Telecom), which will drive research advisory and policy support ef...


Bharti Airtel acquires Cnergee Technologies

Bharti Airtel acquires Cnergee Technologies

Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it has acquired a “strategic minority stake” in Mumbai-based cloud-based networking solutions provider Cnergee Technologies under the Airtel Startup Accelerator Program. The stake acquisition will enable Airtel to sharpen its network as a service (NaaS) proposition for small and medium businesses (SMBs) who are...