Reliance Jio Chairman Mukesh Ambani said his company has come up with a set-top-box that will come with support for the existing digital cable TV business of local cable operators. This means that Jio Box will supply two services — the regular cable TV from the existing cable, and a new, high-end service via fiber […]
The following are the major highlights of the speech made by Mukesh Ambani at Reliance Industries’ annual general meeting 2019. He is expected to announce details of the launch of Jio GigaFiber, the cable and broadband service that has been five years in the making. He is also expected to detail the company’s ambitious e-commerce […]
Jio Box, the heart of the new GigaFiber service from Reliance Jio, is built on Android TV operating system and will support some third party apps, according to sources. However, it is not clear whether the box will support all apps that run on Android TV operating system and whether it will come with Google […]
Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm and Reliance Industries, is all set to unveil attractive broadband-cum-TV plans under Reliance Gigafiber at the annual general meeting of Reliance Industries at 11 AM. The plans have been a well kept secret, but according to early indications, the company will offer free cable TV and 200 […]
Reliance Jio GigaFiber, the new wired broadband and cable TV service from India’s biggest telecom operator by volumes, is likely to offer free cable TV and high-speed broadband for Rs 500 per month. The customer is likely to have to make an initial upfront payment of around Rs 3,000, which would enable him to avail […]
Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra, an independent Rajya Sabha MP from Haryana, today said all parties, including the opposition Congress, are secretly in favor of the abrogation of Article 370, but political compulsions force them to adopt a different stance in public. Delivering his maiden speech in the Rajya Sabha, the independent member from Haryana […]
While it is no secret that Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom operator by volume, is planning to introduce a new service that will combine on-demand TV, live TV, high-speed broadband, video conferencing, music and a host of other services, Bharti Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal indicated that his company too is about to launch such a […]
Bharti Airtel, one of the top three telecom companies in India, said it plans to shut down its 3G network across India over the next six months. “We intend to shut down 3G services by december,” said CEO Gopal Vittal today, speaking to investors. The company has already shut down the 3G network in Kolkata, […]
Bharti Airtel’s India numbers indicated that the company did indeed hit the bottom in the December quarter of last year, and continued to improve its numbers from then on. Airtel, which had seen its India revenue fall to Rs 14,768 cr in the December quarter, had improved it to Rs 15,241 cr in the quarter […]
Sanjay Kumar is a Delhi-based professional who does not consider himself very tech-savvy. But when he wanted to put up a refrigerator for sale, he turned to a classifieds site advertises heavily on TV, urging people to get rid of their superfluous goods. Within hours of putting up the ad, he was contacted by an […]
Vodafone Idea officials admitted that the outflow of customers from the network after the company started blocking incoming calls of low-use customers has been more than what they had expected. “The churn has been higher than what we thought it will be,” CEO Balesh Sharma said in Monday. Sharma also admitted that the company is […]
Vodafone Idea CEO Balesh Sharma today said the company had managed to increase the speeds of its 4G networks by 50-70% in around half of its circles where it has merged Idea and Vodafone networks together. However, said Sharma, the market is yet to fully appreciate the improvement in speeds because of the experience that […]
When Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel started cutting off the incoming call facility of low-spending customers around 4-5 months ago, the idea was to force these customers to stop using one of the SIM cards for incoming only. The idea was that if customers are forced to recharge their legacy numbers once every month for […]
The state wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) seems to have decided to win back the support of Hindu segments of the population, particularly savarnas (those with caste), to overcome a drop seen in its vote-share after the government sent a team of policemen and activists inside a temple last year. The forced […]
Outsourcing company Wipro has opened a digital product compliance lab in Hyderabad for automotive, defense, consumer electronics, aerospace, telecom, medical, energy and manufacturing. Wipro said it is now home to the only lab in South East Asia qualified to certify Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices. Globally, devices have to comply with a variety of emission and […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, which recently come in for a lot of pummeling from the small cable operators for its new tariff rules, has now emerged as a savior of the same set of operators as it has dismissed government’s suggestion of fixing a ‘net worth’ requirement for cable feed providers. Ministry of […]
The wait for the nationwide launch of Reliance Jio’s wired broadband service, Gigafiber, continued to drag on, with the company today saying that it has reached the ‘final stages’ of its beta testing for the service. The service has been available to test users in cities like Mumbai nearly three years now. “Ongoing beta trials […]
Gujarat-based cable feed provider and broadband operator GTPL Hathway said it will try to retain a higher share of what consumers pay every month, and is not currently looking to bring its broadband business under the Reliance Jio brand. In its cable feed business, GTPL retains only about Rs 30 out of the Rs 130 […]
GTPL Hathway, one of the country’s largest cable feed providers and the biggest MSO in Gujarat, said it expects media regulator TRAI to make further changes to the TV tariff order introduced in February this year. Speaking to analysts after announcing the quarterly earnings of the cable feed provider, officials — including MD Aniruddhasinhji Jadega […]
Brickwork Ratings has downgraded the credit rating of India’s largest telecom operator by subscribers, Vodafone Idea, due to the sharp shrinkage seen in the company’s user base in the last six months. The company’s subscriber base has fallen by a whopping 21% between September last year and March this year, going from 42.23 cr (422 […]
