Bharti Airtel was forced to slash its data price by half to about Rs 60 per GB in the April to June period of 2017, the latest numbers revealed. In contrast, Bharti Airtel was charging around Rs 125 per GB in the three months from January to March of this year. A year ago, it […]
Bharti Airtel Limited reported a drop of 14% in its revenue for the first quarter, at Rs 21,958 crore. Adjusted for sale of its units, the drop was 11%, it said. Net profit fell 75% to 367 crore rupees for the first quarter. Operating profit was down 18%. India revenues for Q1’18 at Rs 17,244 […]
The latest entrant to India’s telecom market, Reliance Jio, has announced an unprecedented offer — a 4G enabled phone with support for apps and videocalling for free. According to Mukesh Ambani, customers do not have to pay anything for the phone as the cost of the phone will be returned to the buyer when he […]
Reliance Jio chairman Mukesh Ambani announced the JioPhone, which aims to bring smartphone features to the candybar form factor. The phone will be given to anyone if they deposit Rs 1500 with the company. The user will get the Rs 1500 back when the device is returned after 36 months. “Net net, you pay nothing […]
Reliance Jio chairman Mukesh Ambani announced the JioPhone, which aims to bring smartphone features to the candybar form factor. The phone will be given to anyone if they deposit Rs 1500 with the company. The user will get the Rs 1500 back when the device is returned after 36 months. “Net net, you pay nothing […]
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio will make a ‘significant announcement’ about the 4G wireless service provider’s offerings at 11 AM on Friday while delivering his annual speech at its parent’s annual general meeting. A live webcast of Mukesh Ambani’s speech at the AGM, at which he is expected to announce the launch of ultra-cheap […]
Faced with a slowdown due to the emergence of the pan-India competitor Reliance Jio, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has halved the price of its unlimited 2 Mbps DSL broadband plan to 599 per month. The player was earlier offering unlimited 2 Mbps for Rs 1,199. Though cheap by the company’s standards, the earlier offer […]
Netflix, the world’s biggest distributor of movies, ranked Mumbai-based 7 Star cable network and Spectranet, which offers fiber broadband in several cities, as the fastest networks for prime time usage. The average speed available to Netflix was 2.77 Mbps on 7 Star cable and 2.69 Mbps on Spectranet in June, the movie streaming company’s ratings […]
With Reliance Jio raising the price of its 1GB-per-day pack from Rs 309 to Rs 399, Idea Cellular has managed to beat the new operator in this segment, though not by much. Idea Cellular offers 1GB/day for 84 days at Rs 397, making it cheaper by 2 rupees. Though Idea’s scheme is not listed on […]
Most Reliance Jio 4G users have to recharge their phones by Friday, July 14 to continue uninterrupted service. This because the current offer — Summer Surprise or Dhan Dhana Dhan — came into effect on April 16, and will complete 90 days by Friday. The Summer Surprise plan had a validity of 90 days and […]
India’s biggest wireless data provider Reliance Jio unveiled a new set of plans as it continues to migrate its customers towards paid plans. The key difference between the new plans and the previous Dhan Dhana Dhan offer is that the new plans offer double validity for the recharges, while the earlier plan offered triple validity. […]
Today marks the last day of telecom operator Reliance Jio’s Dhan Dhana Dhan promotional offer that triples the validity of 4G recharges on its platform. The offer was unveiled as a promotional scheme on April 11, and according to the law, promotional schemes can be valid only for a period of 90 days, which expires […]
Users of the JioFi, the personal hotspot device from Reliance Jio, will be able to get a new plan that takes the free data offered per day to 5 GB. At present, the highest amount of free data that any user on the 4G service can get is 2 GB, for a payment of around […]
Reliance Jio users are a happier lot than customers of other services, but call drops and network availability remain key concerns, according to a survey conducted by a market research firm Velocity MR. The firm conducted a study among more than 2000 smartphone users across the cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad […]
Taking a leaf from new entrant Reliance Jio’s playbook, Vodafone India has announced a ‘truly unlimited’ five-hour data pack for Rs 29. The pack, called Vodafone SuperNight, will work between 1 AM and 6 AM and is open for prepaid customers only. It will work on both 3G and 4G connections and be available for […]
Shares of Reliance Industries rose 3.5% today — an extraordinary move for such a large company — after it emerged that not only did the company not lose subscribers when it made the transition from free to paid services in April, it actually added a few million. The result was that the new entrant had […]
Reliance Jio, the 4G operator is now offering 20% extra data to those who are using its services using a LYF branded handset. In other words, if you are eligible to get 1 GB of data per day, you will get 1.2 GB per day on a LYF device, and those who are on the […]
Anil Ambani Group’s Reliance Communications said it was in talks with its lenders and partners to put off some of the instalment payments that the company had to pay until the completion of its merger with Sistema Shyam Teleservices and Aircel Cellular by September this year. “RCom is presently engaged in discussions with its lenders […]
With new operator Reliance Jio snapping at its heels, incumbent Bharti Airtel has decided to slash its data prices for everyone with the introduction of new 4G dongle plans, Telecom Talk blog reported quoting unnamed sources. At present, Bharti Airtel does not offer any plan that comes close to what new entrant Reliance Jio has […]
Ahead of the launch of Jio Fiber by Reliance, Bharti Airtel slashed its home broadband prices with a new set of cheaper plans. The new plans now offer up to 100% more high speed data benefits within the same monthly rentals, the company said. Existing customers will be upgraded to the new benefits automatically within […]
