Guest Column: 5G roll out in India: Assessment and recommendations for Cable Headends.

Guest Column: Satellite b’band an upcoming opportunity for DPOs

Satellite industry is gearing up for a new regime and in a year’s time we could very well witness satellite companies offering high-speed broadband services to retail consumers; especially those consumers who live in far-flung places of our vast country, and where laying of cable or fibre is very difficult and a cost...


Prasar Bharati cautions against 526-617 Mhz spectrum auction for 5G services

Pubcaster Prasar Bharati goes paperless with e-office

Use of technology has turned the operations at India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati around, the government said yesterday.

It’s no more business as usual. In less than two years, 577 centers and 22,348 employees of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) have embraced e-offic...


A bug caused global Internet shutdown

A bug caused global Internet shutdown

Fastly Inc., the company behind a major global Internet outage this week, said on Wednesday the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings.

Tuesday’s outage raised questions about the reliance of the Internet on a ...


The world took a short break as global Internet hit by snag

The world took a short break as global Internet hit by snag

Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online Tuesday after getting hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to U.S.-based cloud company Fastly Inc.

High traffic sites, including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Me...


Telcos implement TRAI rules on monthly voucher schemes

TRAI extends deadline for b’band consultation paper

India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which had put out an additional consultation paper relating to ways to promote broadband infrastructure in the country in May, has extended the deadline for submissions till June 10, 2021.

According to TRAI, even as it was finaliz...