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Airtels ARPU has grown 9.28 per cent from ₹183 in the first quarter of the previous financial year, much sharper than the 2.8 per cent in Jios case

Market leader Jio believes that, at present, the cash reserve is being used to fiberise the towers of competitors which "should not happen", while second-ranked Airtel wants the Centre to now start using the fund to fiberise towers.

Bharti Airtel: USOF is an approximately Rs 65,000 crore cash reserve that is meant to provide quality and affordable mobile and broadband services in the rural and remote regions of the country.

As India makes the transition to 5G at breakneck speed, the large-scale network congestion and outages resulting from it have put the scanner squarely on the quality of services , , fintech nation, 5g, telecom, challenges, magazine 29 July 2023

Indias public WiFi hotspots rollout has missed its target by a long way—just 0.5 million have been rolled out so far, compared with a target of ten million by the end of next year. Telcos have high internet leased line charges that telecoms providers and Internet service providers charge to public data offices and public data office aggregators, making public WiFi unviable.

India has missed its public WiFi hotspots rollout target by a mile. The count is a paltry 0.5 million, a far cry from the 10-million target by the end of 2022 outlined in the National Digital Communications Policy-2018.

India has missed its public WiFi hotspots rollout target by a mile. The count is a paltry 0.5 million, a far cry from the 10-million target by the end of 2022 outlined in the National Digital Communications Policy-2018.

Vodafone Idea: According to industry estimates, Vi has a pan-India network of 4-5 lakh retail touch points, like its peers Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. Majority of the retailers are multi-brand operators, which means they offer services for all the telecom firms. A few thousand are exclusive retailers of Vi, including some company operated retail stores.

Most prepaid packs available today come with 1.5-2GB daily allowance, sufficient to stream a cricket match on mobile for the most part, analysts said. The average time spent on JioCinema per viewer per match for this year’s IPL was one hour.

This may result in a marginal increase - at most a 1-2% rise in the fiscal first quarter - in average revenue per user (ARPU) for the telcos as consumption would be within the daily allowance that most packs offer currently, analysts said. "This consumption spike would result in marginal ARPU improvement since higher consumption may not necessarily translate to equally higher data top-ups," Prashant Singhal, EY Global, TMT emerging markets leader, said.