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December 30th, 2017 12:01 PM 0 COMMENTS

Acquisition of RCom Assets to Help Reliance Jio’s FTTH and Enterprise Services: Moody’s

Reliance Jio Infocomm's acquisition of Reliance Communications' assets, including spectrum, optical fiber network, and media convergence nodes, is set to help the Mukesh Ambani-led 4G entrant for a large scale roll-out of its wireless and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and enterprise services, Moody's said in a statement. As part of the transaction, Jio will acquire 122.4 MHz of 4G spectrum, 43,000 towers, 178,000 route kilometer of pan India optical fiber network and... Read More

December 29th, 2017 9:57 PM 17 COMMENTS

BSNL Launches a New Year Combo Plan of Rs 74 Offering 1GB Data and 100 SMS per Day for 3 Days

Government-owned telecom operator BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) has come up with a new tariff plan of Rs 74 on the occasion of Christmas and New Year. This plan is valid from December 24, 2017, to January 1, 2018, meaning customers can recharge the plan during these days itself. And the benefits offered by this plan is valid on blackout days as well, which is a good thing. BSNL has... Read More

December 29th, 2017 7:09 PM 0 COMMENTS

Government to Equip Towers With Solar Power Kits to Keep Them Functioning Even When There is No Power Supply: Sinha

At the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha held today, Manoj Sinha said that the government is looking to improve mobile internet connectivity in India by increasing the number of BSNL towers in rural areas. At the same time, he also revealed that there is a plan to set up towers with solar power kits so that the towers keep on functioning even when there's no power supply, which will... Read More

December 29th, 2017 1:31 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Offering Additional 90GB Data for the Infocus Vision 3 Smartphone Users

Bharti Airtel has extended its data bundling offer to Infocus Vision 3 smartphone. This is the first Infocus smartphone to receive additional data benefit from Airtel. Under the offer, Airtel is offering up to 90GB free data for the Vision 3 smartphone users, which converts to 15GB data per month for six months. In the past, Airtel partnered with mobile handset brands such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, Google, etc. The... Read More

December 29th, 2017 7:02 AM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Year in Review 2017: Benefited Customers the Most by Forcing Rival Operators to Offer More

Reliance Jio is the fastest operator in the world to achieve 160 million subscribers in just 16 months since launching the services to the public. The Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator opened the services to the public on September 5, 2016, and since then, it's unstoppable. The motto of Reliance Jio is to offer LTE services at affordable prices, and it succeeded in doing so during the entire 2017. What's highlight... Read More

December 28th, 2017 6:56 PM 140 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Confirmed to Acquire Wireless Infrastructure of Reliance Communications

As it was rumoured earlier, Reliance Jio officially announced that it's acquiring the wireless infrastructure of Reliance Communications (RCom). The subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of specified assets of RCom and its affiliates. The monetisation process of assets will be mandated by SBI Capital Markets Limited. “An asset monetisation process for RCOM assets was mandated by the lenders... Read More

December 28th, 2017 3:44 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Offering Free Subscription to Amazon Prime Video With myPlan Infinity Postpaid Plans Above Rs 499

It looks like Bharti Airtel is planning for a massive 2018 in the digital content space. The leading telecom operator has started offering a free subscription to Amazon Prime Video with its myPlan Infinity postpaid plans. That said, Airtel is yet to officially make an announcement on the same, but some of the Airtel postpaid users are already receiving the subscription notification in Airtel TV application. Maybe, the company is carrying... Read More

December 28th, 2017 1:30 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Updates its Airtel TV Application With New Interface to Match Up JioTV; Offers Free Subscription Until June 2018

Bharti Airtel today announced a new version of its content application, Airtel TV. Airtel states that the new version of Airtel TV has more categories of content and an entirely new user interface. Airtel TV application now has over 300 Live TV channels and is on the verge of catching up with Reliance JioTV application, which currently has over 550 Live TV channels. Recently, we reported that Airtel had added... Read More

December 28th, 2017 7:35 AM 38 COMMENTS

Right From Giving a Run to Private Telcos With Attractive Tariff Plans to Maintaining the Leadership in Wired Broadband Segment: Here’s Everything BSNL Did in 2017

Indian telecom operators did not have the best year in terms of financial status, but there's no doubt that customers are benefitted the most. BSNL is one amongst them which offered attractive tariff plans right from the start of the year. At the start of 2017, BSNL was under tremendous pressure with two major threats. The first one is to overcome the threat from Reliance Jio and to retain customers,... Read More

December 27th, 2017 6:01 PM 40 COMMENTS

BSNL to Rollout 4G Services in January 2018; Kerala and Odisha Users Will Receive in First Phase

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) has officially confirmed to launch its 4G services in Kerala next month. Followed by the rollout in Kerala, BSNL would expand the services to Odisha and other regions. This news is confirmed by BSNL's Chairman and Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava. BSNL 4G services are rumoured to launch since a long time, and even several officials in the past spoke about the rollout of 4G services,... Read More

December 27th, 2017 3:56 PM 15 COMMENTS

Vodafone, Idea Cellular Begin Exercise to Shortlist Senior Executives for Merged Entity: Report

Vodafone India and Idea Cellular have started the exercise to shortlist senior executives that will play key roles in the merged entity. Both the companies have appointed Spencer Stuart, a leadership management company, to shortlist these senior cadres as these companies move closer to complete the merger. Notably, Vodafone has already appointed Manish Dawar as the new chief financial officer, who will become the CFO of the merged entity. Aditya... Read More

December 27th, 2017 12:59 PM 39 COMMENTS

Tariff War: Bharti Airtel Combats Reliance Jio’s Rs 98 Plan With Unlimited Voice Calls, 100 SMS Per Day, 1GB Data for 10 Days at Rs 93

Bharti Airtel recently introduced a slew of prepaid tariff plans under the Prepaid Promise scheme. And the company has a Rs 93 tariff plan, which offers benefits for ten days. The Rs 93 tariff plan is one of the best plans from Airtel, aimed at users who're looking for an entry-level plan with a limited validity period. And more importantly, it competes with Jio's Rs 98 tariff plan. Airtel's Rs... Read More

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