Esmail

About the author: Esmail is our very own in-house spectrum specialist. He is passionate about Telecom, DTH and OTT video streaming apps. When not writing an article, you can find him binge watching shows on Netflix while sipping on a cup of coffee.

September 24th, 2016 9:52 AM 56 COMMENTS

Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Jio can bid for spectrum in any band in any circle in October auction

The department of telecommunications on Friday published the list of final bidders who are eligible for bidding for spectrum in the auctions commencing 1st of October 2016. The mega auction will see the government put for sale over 2350 MHz of spectrum across the 700/850/900/1800/2100/2300/2500 MHz bands. None of the 7 operators who had submitted applications withdrew it (Last date for withdrawing applications was 22nd Sept). The mock auctions will... Read More

September 24th, 2016 6:02 AM 15 COMMENTS

Shopclues to bundle Jio sim with welcome offer for shoppers who buy eligible 4G handset

Shopclues the e-commerce company has collaborated with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd for its 'Jio Welcome Offer', becoming the first e-commerce player to do so. Customers can purchase any 4G-enabled Jio eligible smartphone from ShopClues and get a free Jio SIM card from any Reliance Digital/ Digtal Xpress/ Digtal Xpress Mini store. Under the Jio welcome offer, users can enjoy unlimited access to HD voice calls (on Jio eligible VOLTE phones),... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 9:30 PM 36 COMMENTS

Jio expresses displeasure over Idea’s lackadaisical response to augmenting POIs, says 4 crore calls failing per day

Reliance Jio in its official statement to the Press today expressed concern  over the half hearted commitment made by Idea cellular today about augmenting the POI capacity for calls from Jio network by 230% of the current availability. Jio said, the response by Idea to the severe Quality of Service issues faced between the Idea and Jio networks is disappointing and displays lack of intent on Idea’s part to resolve... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 7:38 PM 8 COMMENTS

‘Connect’ starts offering 8 Mbps home broadband plans with effective rate of Rs.8/GB in Punjab circle

'Connect' which is a part of Videocon group and an ISP with Pan India license, has announced the launch of ultra cost effective home broadband plans which bring down the cost to as low as Rs.8/GB for its subscribers in Punjab circle, which is the only circle where the operator currently operates. The market has seen a steady growth in demand for data. An average internet user consumes about 50... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 6:35 PM 6 COMMENTS

Reliance digital TV subscriber base remains stagnated at 5 Million in quarter ended June 2016- Report

Reliance Digital TV, the direct-to-home (DTH) arm of Reliance Communications, neither saw any subscriber growth nor any churn for the second consecutive quarter. Its subscriber base remained static at 5 million as of 30 June 2016, with less than 6% share of the DTH market in India, reported TelevisionPost. Reliance Digital TV had touched the milestone of 5 million subscribers in the quarter ended 31 December 2015. Since then, the... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 1:07 PM 23 COMMENTS

Anonymous India accuses Jio of continuing to share user info with foreign countries

The famous hacker group Anonymous India has yet again accused Reliance Jio of sharing user data with foreign countries. Last year the group had made a similar claim stating that Jio chat app was sending across user location data to servers located in China, this time around they have accused Jio of sharing call data of users to servers located in USA and Singapore. Last year Jio had rubbished the... Read More

September 12th, 2016 12:22 PM 144 COMMENTS

Jio starts B3-B5 carrier aggregation trials in Kerala, may launch LTE-A soon

Reliance Jio which is currently the largest holder of liberalised spectrum in the telecom sector has recently started testing carrier aggregation of band 3 (1800 MHz) spectrum with band 5 (850 MHz) spectrum in Kerala circle and may soon launch LTE-A on a pan India scale. The operator currently holds liberalised airwaves in 2300 MHz and 850 MHz pan India and in 1800 MHz in 18 out of the total... Read More

September 11th, 2016 3:02 PM 9 COMMENTS

TataSky picks Ericsson AVP 4000 encoder to add additional capacity of 200 channels

TataSky has chosen the Ericsson AVP 4000 compression platform which offers superior quality system encoding for IPTV, Cable, Satellite and Broadcast and delivers greater reliability and flexibility with lower transmission delay to ensure media organizations use bandwidth more efficiently and ensure consumers receive a high quality viewing experience.  TataSky which currently has the highest number of HD channels and services in the DTH market will be benefited by this move... Read More

September 5th, 2016 7:42 PM 210 COMMENTS

First day of commercial launch- Jio stores rationing sim cards

Ok so the day that Jio fanboys had been waiting for since years finally dawned today, 5th of September when the operator could finally be referred to as having commercially launched and open to all. Sure the operator had been opening its doors to the public one step after another, starting from the employees, followed by their family and friends, followed by the people buying LYF phones, followed by people... Read More

September 5th, 2016 1:58 PM 10 COMMENTS

SAB HD and HBO HD added on TataSky

TataSky the leading DTH operator has added two popular HD channels on its platform. SAB HD which is leading in Hindi entertainment genre and HBO HD which is leading in English movies genre are now available on TataSky. Channel location numbers: SAB HD- Lcn 132 HBO HD- Lcn 363 With these additions TataSky maintains its title as the DTH operator with the most number of HD channels and services. The... Read More

August 20th, 2016 6:46 PM 35 COMMENTS

Indian government to increase minimum broadband speed to 2 mbps

The Indian government is finally mulling over increasing minimum broadband speed from the current 512 kbps (kilobits per second) to 2 mbps (megabits per second). The government has revised the minimum internet speed in August 2014 from 256 kbps to 512 kbps, which is now being considered as "abysmally slow". "I propose to take up the matter with the communications ministry. We will consider laying down a policy for increasing... Read More

August 18th, 2016 7:24 PM 71 COMMENTS

Rcom now ready to upgrade GSM 2G/3G subscribers to 4G platform ?

Reliance communications the 4th largest operator by subscriber base which recently migrated its entire Pan India CDMA user base to 4G now seems to be in the mod of opening the upgrade route for its much larger GSM 2G/3G user base. The operator has sent out invitation messages via SMS which read to the same effect to its subscribers in Punjab circle and may soon do the same for other... Read More

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