January 31st, 2020 1:30 PM 23 COMMENTS

Coronavirus Contamination Causes Concern for Indian Telcos Airtel and Vodafone Idea Over 4G Expansion

Coronavirus outbreak may likely affect Airtel, Vodafone Idea’s 4G expansion and rollout as Chinese vendors will be unable to supply network gear over the period of time. Reliance Jio Infocomm not likely to be impacted as it sources gear from South Korea’s Samsung, which we are already aware of. Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are staring at costlier 4G expansion and rollout plans on account of coronavirus disruption in China... Read More

August 28th, 2019 12:40 PM 39 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Emerges as Top Telecom Operator by Revenue Market Share, Airtel Regains Second Spot

According to a new report, in less than three years in the telecom industry, Reliance Jio Infocomm has managed to occupy the largest revenue market share (RMS) of all the telecom operators in the April-June quarter. Also, on the same lines, Sunil Bharti Mittal led telecom operator, Bharti Airtel has also regained its position as the second-ranking telco in the industry by RMS. The new ET report highlights that Vodafone... Read More

June 25th, 2018 7:18 PM 12 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio and K-SURE Sign Billion Dollar Loan Facility

Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has now confirmed that it signed a USD 1 Billion equivalent term loan facility covered by Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-SURE) on June 22, 2018. The Loan Facility will be used to finance goods and services procured primarily from Samsung Electronics and Ace Technologies Corporation. Also, Jio confirmed that the Facility has a door to door tenor of 10.75... Read More

May 4th, 2017 6:52 PM 31 COMMENTS

Telecom Regulator Discards Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea’s Demand for Fixed IUC Charge: Report

India's telecom regulator Trai has reportedly dismissed incumbent telcos' demand that the interconnect usage charge (IUC) be fixed as the minimum price of a voice call at 14 paise per minute. In an interaction with ET, Trai chairman RS Sharma termed incumbents' demand as 'too much noise'. "I don’t think that’s really a correct thing to do for a regulator. The price is under forbearance; both the top and bottom... Read More

April 21st, 2014 11:16 AM 16 COMMENTS

4G : Reliance Jio and ATC India Sign Tower Sharing Pact

Pan India 4G Spectrum holder Reliance Jio Infocomm today sign tower-infra sharing deal with ATC India, one of the leading independent tower companies in India. Under the deal, Reliance Jio would utilize the telecom tower infrastructure of ATC India to launch its services across the country.ATC has a portfolio of 11,000 towers in India. Earlier Reliance JIO also sign tower and Infra sharing deal with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications... Read More

February 14th, 2014 11:20 AM 39 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Will be the Holder of the Largest Quantum of Liberalized Spectrum and Can offer 2G, 3G and 4G Services

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director Reliance Industries today said that Reliance JIO will be the holder of the largest quantum of liberalized spectrum and can offer 2G, 3G and 4G services and with the longest residual spectrum life. Reliance JIO has  acquired spectrum in 14 key circles across India in the 1800 MHz band in the recently concluded spectrum auction conducted by DoT. It has entered the voice segment... Read More

February 13th, 2014 6:31 PM 49 COMMENTS

2G Spectrum (900Mhz and 1800Mhz) Auction Ends, 9 Circles reported unsold in 1800 MHz

India's 2G spectrum auction today ends with 68 rounds after 10 days, Government is likely to get total Rs.61,150 crore as upfront payment. Eight telecom companies participated in the auction which include largest mobile service provider Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Uninor, Reliance Communications, Tata Docomo and new entrant - 4G operator Reliance Jio Infocomm. The government had set a target of Rs. 40,874 crore for this fiscal year (FY14)... Read More

February 12th, 2014 12:48 PM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio’s Voice and its Data Strategy: Our Take

Since its inception in Indian telecom, Reliance Industry's telecom arm Jio (formerly Infotel Broadband) is always on the news for the right reasons.  Reliance Jio has created so much hype in the country to change the country's digital vision that at present the competition is actually with themselves, to deliver what they promised. Though 4G is already launched in India by Airtel for more than one and half years it... Read More

January 6th, 2014 1:40 PM 122 COMMENTS

Reliance JIO to offer 4G LIVE TV Service, Set Top Box Developed on Google’s Android Platform

Reliance Jio Infocomm, which has pan-India license and Spectrum for 4G wireless broadband services, will launch LIVE TV services over its 4th Generation LTE network with Android run set top box (STB). Earlier We shared India's first Reliance Jio 4G Hands on Review on all its up-coming services over 4G, Now we bring you some more exclusive details on its 4G - LIVE TV services. Reliance will offer a Android OS... Read More

December 19th, 2013 2:14 PM 20 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Infocomm Gets LRN Code for Seamless Mobile Number Portability, Now One Can Port-Out from 2G, 3G to Opt 4G

India's Department of Telecom (DoT) today issued Location Routing Numbers (LRN) for seamless Mobile Number Portability Service to Reliance Jio Infocomm which is going to launch 4G Mobile and Broadband services soon. Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is a special facility where a mobile subscribers can retain the original mobile number despite changing the service provider or telecom operator. With the allocation of LRN to Pan India 4G spectrum holder Reliance... Read More

December 12th, 2013 2:39 PM 34 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Infocomm Issued 2.2 Crore Numbers for 4G Mobile and Data Services, Number Series Starts from 70

India's Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued 2.2 crore mobile numbers to Pan India BWA 4G spectrum and license holder Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) which paves way for the company to launch its 4G services. Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) rapidly deploying its infrastructure across 20 cities initially and set to launch its 4G LTE service for mobile customers over LTE enabled smart-phones as well as Only data... Read More

October 16th, 2013 1:48 PM 42 COMMENTS

4G Round up: Reliance Jio Clears All Hurdle for Offering Voice Services

Reliance Jio, the pan India 4G operator has received a letter of intent (LoI) from TRAI as an approval of unified license which will allow them to offer voice services as well. RJIL has to pay one-time entry fee of Rs 1673 crore along with performance bank guarantee of Rs 220 crore and a financial bank guarantee of Rs 44 crore. RJIL is testing voice and messaging services to be... Read More

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