Airtel Current Affairs, GK & News
SEA-ME-WE-6 Undersea Cable Consortium
Bharti Airtel Ltd has joined “SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium”, for scaling up its high-speed global network capacity and serving India’s fast growing digital economy. Key facts Airtel is participating as a major investor in SEA-ME-WE-6. It is anchoring 20% of the overall investment in cable system. It will add a significant amount of 100 TBps ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • International Current Affairs
Topics: Airtel • Nxtra Data Centre Unit • SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium • undersea cable line system
Telecom Department permits 5G Technology and Spectrum Trials
The Department of Telecommunications recently allowed mobile operators to conduct 5G trials. The Chinese companies, however, have been kept out of the trials. About the Spectrum Trials The Telecom Department has allowed Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and MTNL to conduct trials using 5G technology. These service providers have tied up with original equipment ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: 5G • 5G spectrum • 5G Technology • Airtel • China-US • five eyes alliance • Huwaei • India China • Jio • Mobile technology • Vodafone
100% FDI in DTH
The Union Cabinet recently approved revised guidelines for Direct to Home (DTH) broadcasting services. The guidelines allow 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in DTH. Also, it has increased the license period to twenty years. Earlier, it was ten years. What are the new Guidelines? The license fee has been revised to 8% from 10% of ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Airtel • Dish TV • DTH Television Services • GSAT • GSAT-10 • GSAT-15 • Sun Direct • Tata Sky • Union Cabinet
Airtel and Amazon Web Services partner to provide cloud solutions to businesses
Bharti Airtel Limited and Amazon Web Services, the cloud-based services arm of Amazon, have announced a strategic partnership to provide a basket of clod solutions to the large, small and medium businesses in the country. Details of the Partnership As per the terms of this partnership, both the companies will bring together their capabilities to ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Airtel • Airtel Bluejeans • Amazon • Amazon Web Services • AWS • Bharti Airtel • Reliance Jio
What is Adjusted Gross Revenue?
There was a tussle between the Telecommunication industries and the GoI over the license fee settlement. The Union Budget waived penalty for those who paid their interest charges over the disputed tax liabilities before March 2020. The case over the license fee settlement was pronounced in favour of the GoI recently. Following this, several companies ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Airtel • Supreme court • Tata Group • telecom company • Telecom Industry • Vodafone