Idea Cellular, the telecom arm of the Aditya Birla Group, is in the process of adding 35,000 3G and 4G towers in the ongoing financial year, when total industry capacity for high-speed wireless data is set to triple. As of March this year, Idea had about 64,700 3G and 4G cell sites, out of which […]
Indian Railways, along with Google and Railwire, has expanded its free Wifi service in Mumbai to three more stations — Andheri, Borivali and Kurla, taking the total to 16 in all. Railwire Wi – Fi will be available to any user who has a working mobile connection on a smartphone. The project was kicked off […]
People trying to sign up for a new connection with Reliance Jio are facing problems receiving one-time passwords on certain rival networks, according to complaints on social media. Buying a new connection on Reliance Jio involves generating a one-time password in certain cases, such as where you are generating a bar code using the MyJio […]
Ten days after Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio, promised to roll out a superfast activation procedure for new SIMs within “2-4 weeks”, the facility is now available in several small towns, suggesting that the company may be running ahead of schedule on its e-KYC roll-out. The new system has been rolled out with the […]
Reliance Jio has increased the number of TV channels on its JioTV app to 368, making it a potential competitor to DTH and cable TV platforms. JioTV, which started out as JioPlay, had only around 200 channels in the beginning. However, the platform has added about 50 channels every month over the last three months, […]
India’s leading e-commerce marketplace, Flipkart has emerged as India’s most preferred e-commerce platform, the company said quoting “E-tailing Leadership Index” of research firm RedSeer Consulting. “With an overall score of 95, Flipkart has been ranked ahead of players like Amazon (87), Snapdeal (66), Paytm (65) and Shopclues (59), in the second edition of the survey […]
SpiceJet doubled its net profit to Rs. 149 Crore for Q1 FY17 as against Rs. 73 crore for the same quarter last year. Capacity deployed registered a growth of 37% over the same quarter last year and operating revenue was Rs. 1,522 crores, a growth of 37%. The profit increase was on account of higher […]
Reliance Jio, India’s latest telecom company, has more voice capacity than Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone combined and could unleash this tremendous capacity on the others, going by the latest submission by the Cellular Operators’ Association of India. According to a report in the Economic Times, the COAI has written to Nripendra Misra, principal […]
With the launch of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio threatening to push BSNL into irretrievable losses, the state-owned telecom company has introduced a new landline plan with true unlimited internet and voice calls for Rs 1,199 across India. The internet speed will be 2 Mbps download, while voice calling will be truly unlimited to all networks […]
As the ‘D Day’ of Reliance Jio’s launch approached, there was palpable excitement among the high-speed data users of the country. Finally, they said, they will be freed of the Rs 250-per-GB tyranny of the incumbent operator(s). (We’re using ‘operator(s)’ here because though there are three big operators, their pricing was more or less the […]
Vodafone India launched 4G services in Gujarat today, starting from Surat. “4G services will be rolled out across Gujarat over the next few months,” it said. Now in its second phase of launch, Vodafone SuperNetTM 4G services will soon also be available in West Bengal and in 1,000 towns across the country by end of […]
The following is the full text of RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani’s speech delivered today at Reliance Industries’ annual general meeting in Mumbai. Dear Shareholders, I start with the newest and youngest member of the Reliance family – Jio. Let me begin my words with a dedication. In the journey of time, there comes a few […]
Reliance Jio unveiled tariffs today that seem targeted one key aim — disrupt the businesses of its rivals. To this end, the company has made voice calling — the bread and butter of its rivals — totally free to anyone who buys a data pack of at least 300 MB per month (Rs 149). Not […]
Reliance Jio, India’s news telecom operator, today announced a new plan under which users can enjoy unlimited voice calls and 4G night data for just Rs 499, making it the cheapest telecom offering in the country. At present, no other telecom operator offers unlimited, full-speed 4G. In addition, users also get 4 GB of day-time […]
Reliance Jio, the start-up telecom operator led by Mukesh Ambani, has now started giving SIM cards with its three-month preview offer to corporate employees, according to people who have received such connections. “It is three month unlimited and all employees got it,” said a person working in a Mumbai-based financial services company. This marks an […]
Bharti Airtel has fired its biggest salvo against the upcoming onslaught of Reliance Jio by cutting 4G and 3G data price for heavy users to an unprecedented Rs 51 per GB. Though the plan can be availed by anyone, it will make financial sense only to those who use at least a 2-3 GBs per […]
The government is preparing for multi-billion dollar investment to push India into top five pharmaceutical innovation hubs by 2020, Assocham said. The goal of the program will be for the country to establish global presence in pharmaceutical research by launching at a global level 1 out of every 5-10 drugs discovered in the country, the […]
While long lines of people queuing up outside Reliance Digital outlets for preview SIM cards may be good news for Jio, it has also meant long delays in activation of these cards. At least some Reliance Digital outlets are unable to cope with the huge demand and are struggling to process and scan the documents […]
With only three more days to go before Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani makes his once-in-a-year speech to his shareholders, there is strong expectations that Reliance Jio — the group’s telecom arm — will make its commercial launch date and other details public on the day. Ambani typically uses Reliance Industries’ annual general meeting (AGM) […]
DataWind Inc — which specializes in entry-level tablets — said it was No.1 in the tablet market in India for the April-June quarter. The company said it had a market share of 37.2% in terms of volumes. A total of 950,000 tablets were sold in India during the three months, the firm said, quoting CMR […]
