Days after Bharti Airtel slashed its data price to Rs 51 per GB under a special scheme to compete against Reliance Jio, Idea Cellular has chosen to imitate its larger peer. It has started informing users of a special scheme under which users can get 6 GB of 3G or 4G data for just Rs […]
Days after Bharti Airtel announced ‘free 4G data’ for 90 days, main rival Vodafone India has come up with a similar offer. The second biggest telecom operator in India by revenue is offering to provide free 9 GB of 3G or 4G data to anyone who buys a 1 GB pack for a new 4G […]
After crying wolf over Reliance Jio’s free offerings, rival Bharti Airtel has decided that if you can’t beat it, it’s better to join in. The company said it has decided to offer free 4G data to all its 4G customers for 90 days if they subscribe to its ‘rate cutter’ pack for data, starting from […]
After crying wolf over Reliance Jio’s free offerings, rival Bharti Airtel has decided that if you can’t beat it, it’s better to join in. The company said it has decided to offer free 4G data to all its 4G customers for 90 days if they subscribe to its ‘rate cutter’ pack for 4G data, starting […]
In the biggest ever foreign direct investment into India, global telecom operator Vodafone has invested Rs 47,700 crore (about $7.11 bln) into its Indian arm. The investment has come days ahead of the biggest ever spectrum auction that India has seen. Vodafone has submitted earnest money of around 2,750 cr to participate in the auction. […]
Vodafone India, one of India’s largest telecommunications service providers, said it got a contract from the Govt. of Uttarakhand to keep ASHA workers in the state connected. Through this partnership, Vodafone’s network will keep Uttarakhand’s ASHA workers connected to the hilly regions and rural hinterlands, helping them being accessible to address any query and timely […]
Whenever companies in a protected market become complacent, disruption is not far off in the form of a revolutionary newcomer. India’s telecom biggies — lulled into complacency with copy-cat products and tariffs — are now undergoing a mega disruption in the form of Reliance Jio’s entry. While Bharti Airtel has responded by cutting its data price […]
Reliance Jio Infocomm said the number of new interconnection points being put in place by Vodafone at its network junctions is “substantially less than the requirement”. Jio was responding to the announcement yesterday that India’s No.3 telecom company will increase interconnect points with the Ambani firm, which has been facing a virtual blockade from the […]
Cracking down on incumbent operators’ efforts to block Reliance Jio subscribers from calling their customers, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked big GSM companies such as Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone to provide connectivity to the new operator, according to sources. Meanwhile, certain other industry sources said no final decision was arrived […]
Reliance Jio, India’s latest telecom company, has more voice capacity than Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone combined and could unleash this tremendous capacity on the others, going by the latest submission by the Cellular Operators’ Association of India. According to a report in the Economic Times, the COAI has written to Nripendra Misra, principal […]
As the ‘D Day’ of Reliance Jio’s launch approached, there was palpable excitement among the high-speed data users of the country. Finally, they said, they will be freed of the Rs 250-per-GB tyranny of the incumbent operator(s). (We’re using ‘operator(s)’ here because though there are three big operators, their pricing was more or less the […]
Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunication services providers, announced the launch of the company’s 4G service in Haryana. The network, which is built on 1800 MHz band, will be made available across Haryana over the next few months. The launch also offers initial double data benefit of 20 GB for Rs 999 and follows similar launches […]
Taking a cue from other consumer-facing brands, Reliance Industries has decided to provide live streaming of Mukesh Ambani’s much expected speech at the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday. NOTE:THIS IS FROM SEPTEMBER. GO TO THIS PAGE FOR TODAY’S SPEECH The live transmission of the speech “will go LIVE tomorrow as soon as RIL’s CMD Shri Mukesh […]
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 […]
Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunication services providers, launched its 4G service in Haryana, starting with Karnal and Panipat. The service will be rolled out across Haryana over the next few months, the company said. As part of the promotions, customers buying greater than 1GB packs will get twice the data allowance and unlimited […]
The NSE has sought clarification from Idea Cellular after television channel CNBC TV18 reported that the company was in preliminary talks with Vodafone to merge its operations. “Exchange have advised the Company to provide clarification/confirmation on the news item in detail including the following: a) Whether such negotiations were taking place and b) Whether you/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 […]
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 […]
