Google Plans $10 B Data Hub in Visakhapatnam

By BPN News Desk October 8, 2025

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Google is reportedly preparing to invest USD 10 billion in India to develop a 1 gigawatt data centre cluster in Visakhapatnam, marking one of its largest proposed commitments in the country. The project would establish three campuses in villages near the city — Adavivaram, Tarluvada

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Zoho Founder Warns: AI’s Energy Cost Could Strain India

By BPN News Desk October 7, 2025

Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu has raised concerns that the massive energy requirements of current AI models could pose a serious challenge for India. He said AI in its present form is “extraordinarily energy inefficient” and could push electricity costs to unsustainable levels if deployed at scale. Example from the US Vembu cited a case from […]

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TRAI Denies Blocking Congress SMS Campaign

By BPN News Desk September 9, 2025

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has rejected the Congress party’s claim that it blocked an SMS campaign by rejecting the application to send messages to party workers in Maharashtra. The Congress said the messages contained a link to a documentary titled How the MH 2024 Election Was Stolen. TRAI’s Clarification TRAI clarified that […]

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Undersea Cable Cuts In Red Sea Disrupt Internet In Asia, Middle East

By BPN News Desk September 8, 2025

A series of undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access across parts of Asia and the Middle East, including India, Pakistan, and the UAE. Major systems affected include SMW4 and IMEWE, located near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with Kuwait’s FALCON cable also impacted. Connectivity Slows, Cloud Users Affected Internet users across the region […]

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Airtel Network Disrupted Across India, Services Down

By BPN News Desk August 18, 2025

On Monday afternoon, a major network outage affected Airtel subscribers across India. Around 3:30 PM, reports began to flood outage trackers like Downdetector, indicating that thousands of users were unable to make voice calls or access mobile internet. Scope and Scale of Impact At peak, the outage impacted an estimated 2,500 to 3,600 users across […]

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Govt Approves New Asset Sale Route for BSNL, MTNL

By BPN News Desk July 15, 2025

The central government has introduced a new framework that allows public-sector telecom companies like BSNL, MTNL, and ITI Limited to sell their surplus land and building assets directly to central government departments and agencies without the need for auctions. This new route grants priority access to government bodies for a 90-day period before the assets […]

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Ananth Technologies Wins Approval for India’s First Private Satellite Broadband

By BPN News Desk July 5, 2025

Hyderabad‑based Ananth Technologies has received regulatory approval to deploy India’s first privately operated satellite broadband service, marking a major shift in the country’s space and telecom sectors. The company has been granted permission by IN‑SPACe to launch a geostationary satellite and roll out high-speed internet coverage across India by 2028. Private Satcom

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BharatNet Phase III to Extend Subsidised Broadband to 1.5 Crore Rural Homes

By BPN News Desk July 4, 2025

The Government of India is set to launch BharatNet Phase III, an ambitious expansion of its rural broadband network that aims to deliver subsidised internet connectivity to 1.5 crore rural households. With a proposed investment of ₹1.4 lakh crore (approximately USD 18 billion), this phase will focus on extending optical fibre coverage, upgrading infrastructure, and […]

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OpenAI Signs $30 Billion Cloud Deal with Oracle for AI Expansion

By BPN News Desk July 3, 2025

OpenAI has entered a massive $30 billion, multi-year cloud infrastructure deal with Oracle, marking one of the largest AI–cloud agreements to date. The move is expected to drastically expand OpenAI’s computational power and reinforce its ambitions to scale next-generation AI models. OpenAI Expands Cloud Footprint The agreement gives OpenAI access to Oracle’s

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Meta Unveils ‘Superintelligence Labs’ to Spearhead AGI Race

By BPN News Desk July 1, 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs, a new AI division aimed at building the next generation of artificial intelligence with the goal of reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI). In an internal memo to employees, Zuckerberg described this initiative as a defining step toward “a new era for humanity.” The […]