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 […]
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 […]
Reliance Jio is likely to start selling its JioFi MiFi device over this weekend, according to a tip-off from an anonymous source. According to the tipster, whose genuineness we cannot vouch for, the company will offer for public sale its recently unveiled Haier M2 JioFi device at a price of Rs 2,899 via its Digital […]
Even as Vodafone is yet to report its numbers for the April-June quarter, Idea Cellular officials are popping open the bubbly for overtaking the British company as far as wireless data is concerned. Till last quarter, Vodafone was ahead of Idea in terms of wireless data, carrying around 29 bln MB of data per month. […]
Idea Cellular, which set a record in terms of speed of rollout when it introduced 4G services late last year, continues to expand its high-speed network at a breakneck speed. During the Apr-June quarter, the company added a whopping 5,296 towers, or 58 new towers per day. Idea had 19,939 4G towers at the end […]
Reliance Jio has started sending messages to those who availed its free 90 day preview offer informing them that their preview offers are being extended. “As a special gesture, we have extended our trial period. We will be auto-refilling your balance accordingly,” the company said in an SMS sent to preview users today. This would […]
Vodafone customers in Haryana who pre-book their Vodafone 4G SIM before 23 August will get free 1GB 4G data valid for 10 days from activation. Vodafone customers can avail this benefit simply by sending the SMS Go 4G to 199. To enjoy this offer, Vodafone customers in Haryana, should possess a 4G-enabled handset and active […]
Bharti Airtel posted a drastic drop in the number of new data subscribers today as it reported its operational results for the Apr-Jun quarter. While Airtel added a total of 4.5 mln voice customers during the three months, it added less than 700,000 data subscribers during the same period. In comparison, in the previous quarter […]
An anonymous reader has tipped off a tech portal that Reliance Jio will launch its first 4G hotspot device in the market this week at a price of Rs 2,500-4,000. Like its LYF branded handsets, the Wifi hotspot device will also carry free data for 90 days under Jio’s preview offer, according to a photo […]
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 […]
Following market leader Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular slashed the rates of its 4G, 3G BIG Internet packs by upto 67%, providing more value to heavy internet users who consume data packs of 2GB to 10 GB. Last week, Idea had announced the price reduction by 45% in its sachet data packs. Idea is now offering […]
Bharti Airtel chose a Sunday to make one of the most important announcements by the company from both its earnings and customer perspecitve — a deep slashing of its data prices. The move is seen as a precursor to the changes that will take place after Aug 15, the day when Reliance Jio is expected to […]
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 […]
Business Standard reported that Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company, will launch 4G services in four new circles in the next three-four months. These circles include Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and UP East. With this, Bharti Airtel’s 4G network will expand to 19 circles out of the total 22 circles in India. The expansion follow the acquisition of […]
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 […]
