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Rudradeep Biswas August 17th, 2016 3:21 PM 3 COMMENTS

Telenor India rolls out 4G in Warangal, starts offering 4G plans for customers starting at Rs 85

Telenor India today announced the launch of a pilot to deliver high speed 4G services for its customers in Warangal. The pilot in Warangal follows the successful test pilot of Telenor’s 4G services across its 6 circles in Varanasi, Vizag, Amravati, Agra, Anand, Lucknow, Ranchi, Vijayawada, Tenali, Eluru, Bhimavaram and Dhanbad. With this Telenor has moved a step closer to its ambition of Internet for All and becoming the preferred... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 17th, 2016 12:35 AM 95 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to Trai: Take action against telcos like Airtel, Vodafone for denying inter-connection

Reliance Jio Infocomm has urged Indian telecom regulator, Trai, to take action against incumbent telecom operators for not providing points of inter-connection (PoIs) to the Mukesh Ambani-led 4G telco during the ongoing test trials. The telco said that denying inter-connection was a blatant breach of the licence agreement, which provides for obligation of the licensee to provide inter-connection facilities to other licensees. "It may be pertinent to note that the... Read More

Imon August 13th, 2016 12:54 PM 84 COMMENTS

Jio to start selling MiFi devices without invitation from today for Rs. 2899

After extending Jio preview offer to JioFi 2 MiFi device purchases for HP India customers, the company has started selling MiFi devices over the counter for all subscribers, without an invite from its Reliance Digital stores across the country. Under the Jio Preview offer for HP customers, users were required to enter details about their HP laptop or desktop. The company would then send an SMS to users with a unique... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 11th, 2016 3:11 PM 14 COMMENTS

Airtel launches 4G services in Kharagpur, using dual spectrum bands of 2300 MHz (TD LTE) and 1800 MHz (FD LTE)

Airtel, today launched its 4G services in Kharagpur. With this, Kharagpur has become the second city in Bengal to have 4G mobile services. Customers can enjoy Airtel 4G at the price of Airtel 3G and customers will have the option of choosing from a host of attractive tariff packs. Airtel 4G in Kharagpur has been rolled out... Read More

Tharun G August 10th, 2016 9:19 PM 173 COMMENTS

Broken network, Slow activation, Call connectivity issue: Why Jio is not ready?

Reliance Jio, the Mukesh Ambani-led 4G telecom operator, is preparing to commercially launch its services with a country wide 4G network and one of the largest retail footprint comprising upto 5 lac activation outlets and a million recharge outlets. While all looks good for Jio, we take a closer look to find out Jio is actually prepared to handle millions of users after the commercial launch. Reliance Digital Store experience: The... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 7th, 2016 8:59 AM 138 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio 4G launch likely on August 15: Report

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in its latest report, said that Reliance Jio Infocomm is likely to commercially start offering services on August 15, and it would offer free voice along with its data services. The brokerage firm expects Jio to come up with a differentiated offering, which will be unlimited VoLTE voice bundled with its data offering above Rs. 300 per month. However, it added that the unlimited VoLTE... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 7th, 2016 6:32 AM 16 COMMENTS

After Airtel, Vodafone India to roll out free voice calls packs: Report

Vodafone India, the country’s second largest telco, will shortly announce free voice service through certain packs, following the footsteps of Bharti Airtel, which on Friday launch ‘infinity’ plans that offer unlimited voice offering with bundled data. An Economic Times report, citing sources, said that Vodafone India will shortly match Bharti Airtel's move. The report also added that incumbent telcos are expected to announce more such offers in coming weeks in a bid... Read More

Srikapardhi August 5th, 2016 9:04 AM 32 COMMENTS

Jio sets up 5 lac activation outlets, a million recharge outlets to support commercial launch

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm said that it is putting in place 500,000 activation outlets and close to a million recharge outlets to support its commercial launch, which it said will happen in "coming months". "With respect to sales and distribution, Jio will have half-a-million activation outlets and close to a million recharge outlets at launch. This will be in addition to the digital channels that Jio is promoting for seamless... Read More

Imon July 25th, 2016 5:31 PM 10 COMMENTS

Telenor Launches 4G In 4 Cities Of Andhra Pradesh, Offers Data Packs For Rs 149

Telenor has launched its 4G services in 4 cities in Vijayawada region of Andhra Pradesh. Telenor's 4G network will be available in Vijayawada, Tenali, Bhimavaram and Eluru. The company is also offering 4G services in Vizag of the same circle. The service provider has been launching narrow-band LTE network on its 1800 MHz spectrum in the city using Huawei's technology. The operator has also upgraded most of their cell sites... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 22nd, 2016 7:45 AM 48 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to commercially launch operations in October: CLSA

Jio may commercially launch 4G voice and high-speed data services ahead of festive season in October, even as the new 4G entrant has started to handle the second-highest data traffic among all telecom operators and could ramp up close to the highest even before launch, according to brokerage CLSA. "Several indicators suggest a strong possibility of commercial launch of Jio's services within the next three months ahead of festive season... Read More

Imon July 20th, 2016 9:08 AM 12 COMMENTS

Airtel revamps Mitra app to include new features for partner retailers

When Jio is offering its partner retailers to move to the digital ecosystem to ease their recharging and SIM activation process, Airtel doesn't want to go obsolete in the digital process to help their retailers. To do so, Airtel has brought a major update to their partner app called 'Mitra'. In the recent update to the app, Airtel has added several new features and significantly changed the user interface in... Read More