Subsequent to the launch of its flagship Rewards123 savings account, Airtel Payments Bank today announced the launch of the Rewards123Plus digital savings account variant. In addition to the assured benefits of different types of digital transactions, it also offers a one-year Disney+ Hotstar Mobile subscription.

Customers can digitally open or upgrade to Rewards123Plus through the banking section on the Airtel Thanks app. The process is simple and can be completed within minutes from anywhere in the country. Even wallet customers can now enjoy the benefits Rewards123Plus.

Customers can get Rewards123Plus at an annual fee of INR 499 only and enjoy an array of benefits for a year:

• Disney+ Hotstar Subscription 1 Year Disney+ Hotstar Mobile Subscription (worth Rs. 499)
• Load Money benefit – Flat INR 10 cashback once per month on adding money via UPI (minimum transaction amount INR 1,000)
• Payment Benefits – Flat INR 30 cashback once per month on payments for mobile prepaid recharges, mobile post-paid, broadband, landline, and DTH bill payments (minimum payment amount INR 225)

Rewards123Plus savings account customers will also get 6% interest on balances between INR 1 lakh – 2 lakhs, Zero minimum balance, and unlimited deposits with Auto-Sweep Facility.

Once the customer has opened or upgraded to Rewards123Plus, they can log in to the Disney+ Hotstar website (https://www.hotstar.com/in) or app using their registered number to activate the subscription. With this subscription, customers can access the wide library of Disney+ Hotstar comprising international and local content in eight languages along with LIVE streams of the biggest sporting tournaments including the upcoming IPL 2021 which starts on September 19.

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Chief Operating Officer, Airtel Payments Bank, said, “Aligned with our commitment to give assured monthly benefits to Rewards123 customers on digital transactions, we have introduced Rewards123Plus that also meets their entertainment needs. We are delighted to associate with Disney+ Hotstar to offer the subscription benefit to our customers. We plan to add more benefits to our Rewards123 offering in the future.”

Steps to upgrade to Rewards123Plus digital account:

1. log in to the Airtel Thanks app and go to the banking tab.

2. Click on the Rewards123Plus banner, or scroll down to click on ‘Rewards123 Savings account.’

3. Select Rewards123Plus from the options and make the payment to enjoy the benefits.

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have conducted India’s first 5G network demonstration in rural geography. The demonstration took place in Bhaipur Bramanan village on the outskirts of Delhi/NCR using a 5G trial spectrum allocated to Airtel by the Department of Telecom.

The trial showcases the massive potential offered by 5G towards bridging the digital divide by enabling access to high-speed broadband through solutions such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services.

The highlight of the trial was the demonstration of over 200 Mbps throughput on a 3GPP-compliant 5G FWA device at a distance of over 10 Km from the site. This translated into an inter-site (between two 5G sites) coverage of approximately 20 km, thus offering the ability to provide high-speed broadband coverage even in the remotest of geographies. As part of the trial, even a commercially available 3GPP-based 5G smartphone was able to connect to the 5G test network and record 100+ Mbps speeds at a distance of over 10 Km from the site.

The 5G site infrastructure was powered by Ericsson’s 3GPP-compliant 5G radio. The trial was carried out by utilizing the allocated mid-band trial spectrum in the 3500MHz band and the existing FDD spectrum band. The results of the trial demonstrate Airtel’s capability to enable 5G for both capacity and coverage over its existing nationwide 4G infrastructure.

Randeep Singh Sekhon, Airtel CTO says, “Having demonstrated India’s first 5G network and also the first 5G cloud gaming experience, Airtel is proud to have also conducted the nation’s first 5G trial in rural geography. 5G will be a transformational technology when it comes to delivering broadband coverage to the last mile through use cases like FWA and contribute to a more inclusive digital economy. Airtel will continue to be at the forefront of 5G technology and bring more India relevant use cases through partnerships such as the one with Ericsson.”

Nunzio Mirtillo, Head of Ericsson Southeast Asia, Oceania and India says, “The technology milestone of extended coverage achieved by Ericsson and Airtel as part of the ongoing 5G trial in India is even more significant since it demonstrates how 5G can ‘connect the unconnected in India, enable faster 5G rollout and truly help India realize its ‘Digital India’ vision”. 5G will serve as a socio-economic multiplier for the country. According to an Ericsson study, on average, a 10 percent increase in the Mobile Broadband adoption ratio causes a 0.8 percent increase in GDP.”

Over the past few months, Bharti Airtel and Ericsson have partnered to demonstrate enhanced speeds of more than 1Gbps on a live 5G network set up at Cyber Hub in Gurgaon using Bharti’s 3500 MHz trial spectrum. Earlier in January this year, the two companies also showcased Ericsson Spectrum Sharing capabilities on a commercially deployed installed base of 1800 MHz liberalized frequencies in Hyderabad to give consumers their first experience of 5G from a live commercial network.

Airtel in collaboration with Disney+ Hotstar has announced the launch of prepaid plans with combo benefits offering 1 year worth of Hotstar benefits worth Rupees 499 mobile edition.

Airtel offers three different prepaid plans with Hotstar benefits.

Plan 1: Rs. 499 recharge provides customers with truly unlimited voice calls, daily 100 SMS, and 3GB/Day 4G Data with a validity of 28 days.

Plan 2: Rs. 699 recharge provides customers with truly unlimited voice calls, daily 100 SMS per day, and 2GB/Day 4G Data with a validity of 56 days.

Plan 3: Rs. 2798 recharge provides customers with truly unlimited voice calls, daily 100 SMS per day, and 2GB/Day 4G Data with a validity of 365 days. 

Enjoy unlimited access to the best of LIVE sporting events including the upcoming IPL & T20 World Cup. Also, blockbuster movies, local original TV shows, Disney+ Originals and Hotstar Specials series

The customers can recharge and enjoy the benefits by visiting www.airtel.in. airtel thanks app and other third-party apps.

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Reliance Jio has announced the launch of No Daily Limit Packs for its prepaid subscribers in India, the offers are not limited to the Circles but are applicable for all its customer in India.

The No daily limit packs start at Rs 127 to Rs 2397 with a validity of 15 days to 365 days. The packs are unique and first in the industry, the packs are for customers who don’t require daily data benefits, the pack could cut the cost of consumers who are additionally recharging due to daily data exhaust.

Rs.127 recharge offers customers unlimited calls, 100 SMS per day, and 12GB of data with a validity of 15 days.

Rs.247 recharge offers customers unlimited calls, 100 SMS per day, and 25GB of 4G data with a validity of 30 days.

Rs.447 recharge offers customers unlimited calls, 100 SMS per day, and 50 GB of 4G data with a validity of 60 days.

Rs.597 recharge offers customers unlimited calls, 100 SMS per day, and 75 GB of 4G data with a validity of 90 days.

Rs.2397 recharge offers customers unlimited calls, 100 SMS per day, and 365 GB of 4G data with a validity of 365 days.

If the free data is exhausted with the combo plan customer can additionally recharge with 4G data vouchers, check out Reliance Jio Work From Home Packs – Click Here

Whether this offer will able to counter the Vi offering of Binge All Night, Weekend Data Rollover.

In India, there are lot of offers provided by telecom retailers for increasing the customer base. There will be lot of attracting offers and people tend to buy it, use it as a secondary connection, throw it off once the offer is exhausted.

In another instance there would be people buying the sim card in your name and creating an identity theft. SIM card could be used as anti social activities by the thief or hacker etc..

Inorder to curb such instances and reduce the number base of the customer Govt of India has brought in an innovative method.

Details of all SIM cards purchased with your Aadhaar number in your name can be found at the site below. Among them you can block SIM cards that stealthily use your Aadhaar number without your knowledge.

tafcop.dgtelecom.gov.in

Open the above site on your mobile and type in your mobile number and you will receive OTP, soon after you verify OTP, next page shows the numbers of all the SIM cards purchased with your Aadhaar number, You will have option to ban any of the number from any operator both postpaid and prepaid from Airtel Jio VI MTNL and BSNL.

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Reliance Jio, the mobile and fiber telephony company in India has launched a new offer with Rs.98 recharge pack in the selective circles. The new offer is applicable for all the customers both existing and new.

The recharge of rupees 98 offers customers unlimited voice calls in India both home and national roaming, 100 SMS per day, and 1.5 GB high-speed data per day. After the high-speed data quota is exhausted customers still can utilize the internet with 64kbps speed free of cost. There are additional data packs available for the customers for using high-speed internet after the high-speed data is exhausted.

The recharge pack of rupees 98 offers customers a validity of 14 days, we can say this is a mini version of 199 recharge. During this pandemic, the mini recharge of rupees 98 offered by Jio will definitely help the customers and increase the active subscriber base for Jio.

The customers are also provided with additional OTT benefits of JioTV, JioCinema, JioNews, JioSecurity, JioCloud along with the recharge.

Recharge Now by visiting Jio.com or myjio app , customers can also recharge by visiting other top wallets such as PayTM, Payzapp etc..

Bharti Airtel Limited, the pan India telecommunications company has announced the addition of 15Mhz 4G Spectrum Frequency in Kerala Circle.

Prior to addition of spectrum Airtel was operating with 20 MHz , bifurcated as 1800 5 MHz, 2100 5 MHz and 2300 10 MHz. 2100 5Mhz is acquired for 3G operations and later fielded into market for better 4G experience for the customers.

The addition of spectrum is applicable for 1800 L3 and 2300 L40 with 5 MHz and 10 MHz respectively. The total farming of spectrum in 1800 at 10 MHz and 2300 at 20 MHz.

The customers can enjoy better internet speeds with addition of bandwidth. Airtel operates carrier agreegation in L3 and L40 bands, there is 30 MHz available for CA enabling better speeds for the customers.

Bharti Airtel will be launching soon 900Mhz L8 frequency with 5Mhz bandwidth. By launching all the bandwidth Airtel will be holding 40 MHz of band in Kerala.

BSNL, the pan India telephony company under government of India has announced a limited period offer with Rupees 2399 recharge ( special tariff voucher )

Rupees 2399 is designed to provide the customers with daily 3GB high speed data, unlimited calls and 100 SMS per day for a validity of 365 days. The same special tariff voucher is available with same benefits for an extended validity of 455 days through this limited period offer. The limited period offer is applicable till 20th August 2021.

The limited period offer is available in Kerala Circle of BSNL. The customer can recharge the plan by visiting BSNL official website , BSNL app and other wallets such as Airtel Payments Bank and PayTM etc….

BSNL Offers 2G and 3G service, 4G services are yet to be fully operational in certain parts.

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BSNL, pan India mobile telephony company of Indian government has announced special offer on top up of Rs. 100. This offer is exclusively available for the prepaid customers in the Kerala Circle.

BSNL Prepaid Customers recharging with top up of Rs. 100 will be provided with TalkTime of Rs. 100 instead of Rs. 81. The offer is for limited time and is applicable only till 20th August 2021.

Recharge today and enjoy full talkvalue benefits with BSNL Kerala. The recharge can be done through self care app of BSNL or BSNL website. Recharge can also be done through other leading wallets such as Airtel Payments Bank, PayTM etc…

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