Nearly three weeks after it started promising customers a 4G-upgrade along with new SIMs, Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Communications has finally managed to get its 4G service up and running in many circles such as Mumbai and Delhi. This marks the end of an agonizing wait for many customers who were promised easy and quick upgrade […]
Lenovo K5 Note, launched just weeks ago, has already got its first price cut with Flipkart offering a Rs 500 discount on the model. The 5-inch 4G-enabled smartphone is now available at just Rs 7,999 on the ecommerce portal, very close to the price of its predecessor the A6000 Plus, which was selling for Rs […]
Over the weekend, Reliance Jio has doubled the free, unlimited data and voice offer given on its LYF branded smartphones to six months from three months. UPDATED: The change has been rolled back, and the MyJio app now shows a validity of only till August 2016. You will not get six months of free data. […]
Anil Ambani group’s Reliance Communications and Aircel Cellular, a unit of Maxis of Malaysia, have again extended talks for merging the wireless operations of the latter with the former by 30 days. The companies noted that ‘substantial progress’ has been made in the matter. “Based on the substantial further progress made, RCOM, MCB and Sindya […]
Reliance Communications, the telecom firm from Anil Ambani Group, has extended the sale of its 4G SIM cards to all circles except the three southern states and Rajasthan. The states which are not getting a 4G upgrade immediately — including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala — are among the most lucrative data markets in India. It […]
If you are desperate to get hold of Reliance Jio’s 4G Preview offer, it might do you some good to physically go to your nearby Reliance Digital stores. According to our checks, some stores have started offering 4G preview invites this week. “Our SM (store manager) got ten invites yesterday,” said a store employee, adding that […]
Meizu, the Chinese brand that caters specifically to the tech-savvy young generation, is in the process of unveiling its 2016 smartphone — the M3 Note — in India right now. But the big question on everybody’s mind is — Can the device — priced at Rs 9,999 for the 3+32 GB version — challenge the […]
Are you tired of running after the elusive, almost ephemeral Xiaomi Redmi Note 3? Do you want something that you can get your hands on quickly, but at the same time don’t want to go for the LeEco Le 1s? Fret not, the Lenovo Zuk Z1 is here. BE WARNED, IT’S OLD The phone is […]
Samsung has unveiled its latest smartphones for India today — the Galaxy J7 priced at Rs 15,990 and the J5 at Rs 13,990, taking on Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and Le 2. Both phones will be available on Flipkart only. The highlights of the 2016 J7 are as follows: METAL BUILD: Comes with a new diamond cut metal […]
Reliance Communications started offering 4G SIMs to its CDMA customers to migrate them to its combined LTE network with Reliance Jio, but even after a week, these SIMs are yet to be activated. Many users are complaining that even though they’ve completed the migration formalities, including purchase of a new SIM, doing the migration recharge […]
Reliance Communications, the telecom operator from the Anil Ambani group, is offering a whopping 72% discount on its 4G dongle to those upgrading from CDMA data cards. The 4G data dongle has an MRP of Rs 3,199, but those who are upgrading from their existing CDMA card will get the new model for just Rs 899. […]
As we pointed out two days ago, Reliance has started advertising its LYF handset brand online and urging people to register if they are interested in buying the phone. With the company now unveiling an invite system, chances are that people who have registered to buy the handset from LYF website could turn lucky and […]
Reliance Jio, the 4G operator from the RIL stable, has started expanding its trial services to the public, but through an invite-only system. With this, you can go and get a trial SIM and a LYF phone, but you need to get the special invite — a bit like buying a OnePlus phone. To buy a OnePlus […]
Reliance Communications’ 4G upgrade has so far been rolled out in nine circles, and will reach the other states by around the 10th or 15th of this month. The nine circles where the upgrade offer is in effect are Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa, UP East, UP West, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and […]
Reliance LYF — the handset brand from the Reliance Retail — has started advertising online, indicating that the launch of 4G services from its communication arm Jio is inching closer. The telecom operator was supposed to have started opening up its trials to the public last month, but the company seems to have decided to open up […]
Reliance Communications is offering 10 GB of 4G data for those who upgrade their CDMA connections to 4G, but the company continues to maintain silence on what its eventual tariffs will be. According to a photo shared user volcano619 on photosharing website imgur, users in 2G-only circles will get 10 GB of 4G data for […]
Even as its Reliance Mobile Stores began handing out 4G SIM cards to CDMA users, Reliance Communications has tweaked its prepaid and postpaid GSM tariff plans across the country in anticipation of the 4G upgrade. While earlier, Reliance GSM used to have postpaid plans with unlimited data in non-3G circles, now the data benefits have […]
Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications has started giving 4G upgrade SIMs in many circles over the weekend, but in some circles, the availability of SIM has been delayed by at least a week. According to initial indications, all circles were supposed to get 4G upgrade SIMs by 25 April, and the actual activations were supposed to […]
Idea Cellular today told investors that it withdrew from a spectrum trading deal with Videocon — allowing Bharti Airtel to buy the airwaves — after it became clear that spectrum in the same band was coming up for auction next month. “TRAI announced total quantum of spectrum that was available and prices. We realized that […]
After several quarters of spectacular growth in its wireless data business, Idea Cellular seems to have hit a wall in the January-March quarter, with data growth falling to a disappointing 1.5% from 15-17% seen recently. In comparison, Bharti Airtel reported a data volume growth of 9.6% during the same three months, indicating that much of […]
