Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Communications, said his company has “virtually merged” with Reliance Jio, promoted by his brother Mukesh Ambani, and said the two brothers are working together. “Our spectrum is shared, our network is shared, our fiber is shared, our towers are shared, our voice is shared.. every effort to be capital light has […]
Days after elder brother Mukesh Ambani caused an earthquake in India’s telecom space with his speech at his company’s annual general meeting, younger brother Anil is all set to address his shareholders in a few moments. Reliance Communications is holding its annual shareholder meeting in Mumbai today. Ambani’s speech is to be preceded by an […]
Reliance Communications Ltd, the telecom arm of the Anil Ambani group, has reported a sharp fall in its active user base (VLR) for the April-June quarter. BEFORE UPGRADE RCom had 93.24 mln active users — going by the company’s visitor location register — for the January-March quarter, before the 4G upgrade began. The total subscriber […]
Untill now, to make calls using apps, you had to subscribe to a data pack. However, Reliance Communications has now introduced a new plan in which it will offer data for such app-to-app calls, but instead of billing you for the amount of data, it will bill you for the length of the calls. Typically, […]
Reliance Communications, which came under intense scrutiny and a barrage of criticism from consumers for jacking up data prices for 4G upgrade users, has unveiled a plan that may assuage some of their ruffled feathers. It is offering 2.5 GB of data, half of which must be consumed at night, for a recharge of Rs […]
Reliance Communications — an Anil Ambani company — is asking its postpaid mobile subscribers to choose from one of the new, more-expensive plans introduced by the company as part of its 4G upgrade. Wipod or dongle users are likely to continue on their old CDMA plans. There is some confusion on this point, please see the comments section. […]
Reliance Communications has started activating the connections of CDMA subscribers in its remaining circles — Kerala, Kartantaka, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan, marking the end of its protracted migration process. RCom first started the migration process for its CDMA subscribers in late April and had set a target of completing the process by the first half […]
Reliance Communications, which has diverted its CDMA spectrum to launch its upcoming 4G service, and its partner Reliance Jio have managed to get their new joint network up and running in southern states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the last one week. The two have created a joint 4G network on the 850 MHz […]
Reliance Communications, the telecom service from the Anil Ambani stable, has again put up a section on its website giving details about its new 4G service. The section was first unveiled about ten days ago, and was taken off soon after, setting off speculation that the company’s having trouble activating its roaming agreement with network […]
Reliance Communications has taken down its official 4G home page from its websites a week after it went live. The page gave various details including tariff plans for three circles. The page also had a graphics that said “4G Network Live in Mumbai”. At present, trying to access the 4G section results in the user […]
With widespread complaints about the lack of 4G data availability for some CDMA upgrade customers, Reliance Communications has introduced a new SMS-based LTE data activation facility. With this, the CDMA upgrade process now comprises three steps – buy 4G SIM, send SIM activation SMS from old mobile, and finally send 4G data activation message from […]
A report by Economic Times suggests that Reliance Communications, owned by Anil Ambani, will start offering 4G services to new and existing GSM users from August, in turn suggesting that its network partner Jio too could enter commercial launch at the same time. At present, RCom is offering 4G services only to those users who […]
After Delhi, Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Communications has launched its 4G services in several more circles today, including Mumbai and Kolkata. Maharasthra, which was among the first telecom zones where the company introduced 4G SIM cards, could also see 4G launch today. In addition to these three circles, RCom is expected to start 4G services in […]
Reliance Communications, the Anil Ambani promoted company, has started moving its CDMA users to the 4G LTE network of Reliance Jio, according to user testimony. According to information obtained from users (and not from the company), the users are being moved to Jio’s Band 3 LTE network. Separately, RCom is also trying to set up its […]
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 […]
After a frustrating wait of nearly a month, CDMA subscribers of Reliance Communications who upgraded to 4G are likely to get LTE signals on their new SIMs this week as a roaming agreement with Jio takes effect. According to a report by PTI, the intra-circle roaming agreement between Reliance Communications and Reliance Jio will kick […]
Reliance Communications and the shareholders of Aircel Cellular said they expect to be able to “shortly” sign an agreement for the merger of the latter’s wireless operations into the Anil Ambani company. “Maxis Communications Berhad and Sindya Securities and Investments Private Ltd expect to sign binding definitive documentation and announce the proposed Transaction for the […]
Reliance Communications is not charging customers for migrating them from CDMA to GSM in certain states such as Kerala. It is also providing the ‘4G’ SIM free of charge in these places. In other words, customers do not have to pay anything to migrate to the GSM network, while in the first 17 circles, they […]
Reliance Communications, the telecom service from Anil Ambani Group, has started the process of moving its CDMA subscribers in four remaining circles — Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Rajasthan — to its GSM network. Once moved to the GSM network, these subscribers will be able to use RCom’s 4G network when it becomes operational. Customers […]
Reliance Communications will offer higher subsidies on its 4G dongle to those who are classified as ‘Gold’ category subscribers, while those coming under bronze category have to pay the highest amount. Gold subscribers will be paying only Rs 899 for the new 4G dongle, while Silver subscribers will pay Rs 1699 and bronze subscribers will […]
