In what can only be called a highly disruptive move, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications has made all voice calls in India free for those who recharge with a coupon of Rs 149 per month. The impact of the move will be greater than that of Reliance Jio’s similar tariff, as this tariff is valid on […]
Reliance Jio’s free Welcome Offer will not be extended beyond Dec 31, despite widespread media reports saying that it will be. “There is practically zero chance of it getting extended,” said a marketing official working for the company in Kerala. “If there were to be any such thing, we would have got to know by […]
In what is becoming something of a routine, yet another rumor has been spread that Reliance Jio is about to start a DTH service and you will be able to get all the channels at half the price that you currently pay. According to this, 350 TV channels will be offered at Rs 185 per […]
To take on competitors like Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, state-owned BSNL has come up with a one-year 3G data plan that offers 80 GB of 3G data for Rs 4,498. That translates to roughly Rs 56 per GB with a one-year validity. In comparison, others like Idea and Bharti Airtel also offer similar scheme, […]
Anil Ambani Group’s Reliance Communications has seen a sharp fall in its subscriber numbers after the migration of its CDMA network to LTE. According to the latest numbers released by the company, the total number of voice customers fell by 11.6% in the three months from June to September. Voice revenue fell 8.3% from the […]
Keeping the volatile market conditions in mind, said Vodafone, there would be no initial public offering of its Indian units’ shares this year. Vodafone said it intends to proceed with an IPO of Vodafone India as soon as market conditions allow. “We do not expect this to take place during the current financial year,” it […]
Vodafone Group has taken an impairment charge of 5.0 billion euros — equivalent to Rs 36,540 cr, due to the increased competition in the Indian market after the launch of Reliance Jio. “A new entrant has recently launched free trial services for an extended time period and commercial price plans that were at a significant […]
Reliance Group on Tuesday launched its Internet-of-Things offering Unlimit. IoT is jargon for a connected world in which appliances and equipment are connected to the Internet and managed remotely. Reliance Communications had announced an IoT partnership Jasper Technologies, later taken over by Cisco Systems Inc, last year. Separately, the company said it will soon add […]
Anil Ambani Group’s Reliance Communications is all set to make a ‘major announcement’ in Mumbai tomorrow, the company said in an invite for journalists. Though the exact nature of the announcement was not revealed, it is being suggested that the company is likely to unveil something related to its ongoing merger with Aircel Cellular, even though the invite sounds […]
The interconnection dispute between Reliance Jio and incumbent operators like Idea Cellular, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel has been “largely resolved,” an official with one of the incumbent operators said. “We have provided enough points to avoid any congestion-related problems in the foreseeable future,” said an official with one of the three incumbents. According to the […]
The dispute over providing interconnection facility is set to end in the next two weeks, with Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone giving in to the demands of new operator Reliance Jio and the regulator. The decision to comply comes in the wake of a recommendation for a fine of Rs 3,050 cr to be […]
Hit by competition from Reliance Jio’s 4G services, Tata DoCoMo has halved the price of its 1 GB 3G pack to just Rs 98 from Rs 195 earlier. The new pack is being offered under the ‘My Best Offer’ service that users can activate by pressing *123# on their mobile phones. The company has 3G […]
Anil Ambani group’s Reliance Digital DTH may be rebranded to ‘Chois HD’, according to a twitter user, who also tweeted some photographs of the upcoming brand. Reliance Communications’ Reliance Digital is arguably the weakest candidate among the five private companies that compete in India’s DTH space. The DTH business is dominated Dish TV, Tata Sky, […]
Even as the average speed of Bharti Airtel remain high, the total number of people who conducted 4G speed tests from Airtel’s network is only 3% of total number of people who were conducting similar tests from Jio. In fact, Jio users accounted for 91% of the total 4G speedtests conducted using TRAI’s ‘My Speed’ […]
In an attempt to gather more information about actual Internet speeds experienced by its customers, Reliance Jio has placed 14 servers on Ookla’s bandwidth testing service. With this, Jio users can test their speed using either the Ookla app, or speedtest.net website. The move has come in the wake of criticism that many of its […]
Reliance Jio welcomed Bharti Airtel’s move to set up 7,007 additional points of interconnection to ease traffic between the two players, even as Airtel promised that it would uphold the law. The moves indicate the end of a bitter battle between the newcomer and India’s largest operator over connection rights to each others’ networks. Airtel […]
Hit by competition from Reliance Jio, rivals Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular are exploring the possibility of making voice calls ‘totally free’ under their upcoming VoLTE service, according to industry sources. VoLTE calls can only be made by phones that support 4G voice facility, and an estimated 99% of existing telecom subscribers do not […]
Idea Cellular has started offering ultra-low call rates in its biggest market, Kerala, for those who generate a unique porting code under mobile number portability. While companies typically do make calls to find out the reason why a subscriber is porting out, it is rare for Idea — which has close to 43% revenue market […]
Fitch Ratings said Reliance Industries’ unit Jio will be able to take advantage of the strong growth expected in India’s telecom sector in the future. Jio is India’s biggest 4G operator and at present carries an estimated 5-10 times the data of all other wireless operators combined. “We expect RIL to be able to take […]
Despite media reports claiming that Reliance Jio has extended its free Welcome Offer to March, company sources indicate that such a decision has not been taken. The offer, which includes free voice and data usage, was unveiled on Sept 5 by Mukesh Ambani at Reliance Industries annual general meeting. At the time, Ambani had said […]
