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 […]
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) […]
If you believe the current fight between incumbent operators like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone on the one hand and Reliance Jio on the other is about everyone paying the same taxes, think again. While the Cellular Operators’ Association of India, which is batting for the big three operators, has focused its attack on […]
Bharti Airtel said it has optimized 30,000 base stations on its network and upgraded 9,000 sites as a result of feedback from customers via its open network initiative. Under the ‘open network’ project, Bharti Airtel allows its customers to see where their nearest towers are, and even offer cell sites on rent to the company. […]
Today, Reliance Digital stores across the country are seeing long queues of customers waiting to get free SIMs with three months of unlimited data and voice calls. “We are taking about half an hour to complete the process for each person,” said an employee at a Digital store in Kerala. “There are customers waiting. Please be […]
Singtel today entered into conditional share purchase agreements with Singapore’s sovereign investment firm Temasek to acquire 7.39% of Bharti Telecom — the holding company of Bharti Airtel — and 21% of Intouch Holdings — which holds stake in Thailands’ biggest mobile operator — for a total consideration of S$2.47 billion. Intouch is the biggest shareholder […]
Bharti Airtel said it completed the purchase of 2.3 GHz 4G spectrum from Aircel Cellular in 7 out of the 8 circles mentioned in an agreement between the companies earlier this year. These seven circles are Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal, Assam, North East and Orissa. With this, only the transaction in […]
Bharti Airtel said it has completed the purchase of 2.3 GHz 4G spectrum from Aircel Cellular in 7 out of the 8 circles mentioned in an agreement between the companies earlier this year. These seven circles are Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal, Assam, North East and Orissa. With this, only the transaction […]
As any trial user of Reliance Jio’s new 4G network knows, calling phones on rival networks is currently a hit and miss affair with a high chance of being greeted with the ‘all routes are currently busy’ message. It’s the oldest trick in the book that incumbents have traditionally used to thwart new entrants — […]
Idea Cellular replaced Vodafone as the most preferred network provider for those who use mobile number portability to change their operator. MNP was introduced in 2011 and has completed five years in India, but certain trends are visible when we compare the performance of telecom companies in the first half (mid-2011 to 2013) and the […]
Bharti Airtel posted a drastic drop in the number of new data subscribers today as it reported its operational results for the Apr-Jun quarter. While Airtel added a total of 4.5 mln voice customers during the three months, it added less than 700,000 data subscribers during the same period. In comparison, in the previous quarter […]
The directors of Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company, has suggested a salary of Rs 30 cr per year for Sunil Bharti Mittal, the founder and chairman of the company, for the current financial year. Out of the Rs 30 cr, Rs 21 cr will be paid as a fixed salary and Rs 9 cr […]
Following market leader Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular slashed the rates of its 4G, 3G BIG Internet packs by upto 67%, providing more value to heavy internet users who consume data packs of 2GB to 10 GB. Last week, Idea had announced the price reduction by 45% in its sachet data packs. Idea is now offering […]
Bharti Airtel chose a Sunday to make one of the most important announcements by the company from both its earnings and customer perspecitve — a deep slashing of its data prices. The move is seen as a precursor to the changes that will take place after Aug 15, the day when Reliance Jio is expected to […]
Business Standard reported that Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company, will launch 4G services in four new circles in the next three-four months. These circles include Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and UP East. With this, Bharti Airtel’s 4G network will expand to 19 circles out of the total 22 circles in India. The expansion follow the acquisition of […]
Reliance Communications has officially unveiled its much anticipated 4G data tariff plans, and they are unlikely to please CDMA data users who have recently upgraded to the new technology. As of now, only Mumbai circle tariffs have been announced. We have separately carried news about Maharashtra and UP circles, which show slightly lower tariff charges […]
Going by various news agency reports, Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, is likely to overtake all other operators in the total amount of wireless data carried even before it starts commercial operations. According to a report by news agency IANS, the company has reached 7 lakh subscribers, while a report from rival […]
The research wing of Credit Suisse, the international financial services and brokerage firm, said Reliance Jio — the telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries — is already far ahead of market leader Bharti Airtel and other competitors in total wireless network capacity. It found that Reliance Jio is home to a whopping 58% of the […]
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. […]
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 […]
