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 […]
As expected, telecom companies have rightly sought to exploit a loophole left open by the regulator and the government when they issued the famous ‘net neutrality’ guidelines earlier in the year. The TRAI and the government had, in February, banned any discriminatory charging for digital content flowing over their networks, and said that all bits should […]
According to the latest numbers released by Reliance Industries as part of its quarterly update, its telecom arm Reliance Jio has comfortably overtaken all other telecom companies in India in terms of the length of its fiber backhaul. Fiber backhaul is crucial to the operations of any telecom company as it helps it deliver high-speed […]
Reliance Jio has hardly hit the market, but its entry is leading to some innovative, and profitable, reactions from its rivals as far as telecom consumers in India are concerned. Though Idea Cellular withdrew its double data offer this month, Bharti Airtel has announced a new scheme under which it will offer a free Mifi […]
Reliance Jio continues to hold a substantial spectrum advantage over nearest rival Bharti Airtel, even after the latter’s recently announced deal to purchase airwaves from Aircel Cellular. According to the data collected from various sources including company reports, Jio holds spectrum in 62 of the 66 4G slots in the country, while Bharti Airtel holds […]
Reliance Jio and its partner Reliance Communications are all set to emerge as the strongest wireless connectivity provider in Mumbai and at least eight other circles, going by the latest regulatory filing by RCom. The Anil Ambani company today told the exchanges that the government of India has approved a plan by the two companies […]
As we predicted two week ago, Reliance Jio has kicked off its advertisement campaign for its bundled 4G and smartphone offer during the Indian Premier League. The first ad features the who’s who of Indian cricket, including captain MS Dhoni and star hitter Virat Kohli. The advertisement also features Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, and has […]
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications has put up a banner on its website with the words “Upgrade to 4G Coming Soon”, indicating that the company will indeed start rolling out its 4G services early next month. Media reports has indicated earlier that the company informed the government of its decision to move its CDMA subscribers to […]
The Reliance Group is all set to make a big promotion of its upcoming Reliance Jio 4G and LYF handset brands at the upcoming Indian Premier League sports event. The LYF logo will be emblazoned on the right arm of all the Mumbai Indian players, and underneath the logo will be the tagline ‘Smartphone+’ (see […]
Reliance Jio will offer 40 GB of data free with its MiFi device — which will reportedly be priced in the Rs 2,000-2,500 range — according to a screenshot of the company’s tariff plans shared by a user on Twitter. The company has announced new tariff plans. Please see details here, or on this chart. […]
Reliance Jio, the country’s latest telecom operator, will start its services with coverage over 70% of India’s population, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said. “From Day one, we will look at providing 40-80 times faster internet speed than the current speed,” he said at FICCI’s annual entertainment industry conference FRAMES. “We will cover 90% population with 40-80 […]
International financial services group Credit Suisse said Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, are preparing for a soft launch of its 4G services, three months after it was opened up to employees and their friends. “Our visits to Reliance Digital stores in Mumbai revealed that the stores are preparing for a possible soft […]
Reliance Digital outlets in India have recieved stocks of Reliance Jio SIM cards and will start selling them over the next one week or ten days. They will be followed by small retailers within the next 10-15 days. Due to technical issues, the company is unlikely to give 4G voice (VoLTE) facility initially, according to […]
The launch date of Reliance Jio’s 4G service has been pushed back by 15 days to Apr 15, said a Kerala-based partner of the upcoming mobile operator. “They informed us that the (new) date is Apr 15,” he said. The first launch date given to the distributor was in “early March“. This was however postponed to […]
Customers of Idea Cellular turned out to be the happiest among those of all the big private telecom operators in India, while those of Reliance Communications were the most likely to make complaints to the regulator or the government. Among all private operators small and big, MTS’ subscribers made the highest number of complaints per […]
Reliance Jio, which is yet to sign up a single paying customer, has already overtaken most of the telecom operators in India as far as tower numbers are concerned. As of last month, the upcoming operator had already erected around 1.2 lakh towers in India. This means that by now, Jio — which is still […]
Reliance Jio, which is expected to launch its 4G services in a month, has released version 2 of its App suite called Jio Apps. The program is in beta testing on Play store and not visible to general public. However, those with RJio SIMs get a message with a link to enable them to be part […]
India is getting ready for a digital revolution by auctioning 700 MHz spectrum that has the potential to take high-speed Internet to every village in the country. However, telecom operators — who have to play the role of the enablers — are not popping open the bubbly quite yet. The reason for their misgivings is […]
Sometimes, even the best can get it wrong, and it looks like that’s what happened in the case of ‘Mukesh Ambani says Reliance Jio to launch in second half’ story. Across publications, everyone is reporting that Ambani postponed the launch date of what is touted to be India’s biggest 4G service to the second half […]
The TRAI’s new net neutrality rules are likely to see the launch of a number of zero-rated networks by players whose dreams of zero-rated websites have been dashed by the regulator. Under the new regulations, telecom companies have been banned from offering any website for free, but have been allowed to offer entire networks for […]
