It seems that Reliance Jio is struggling hard to retain key people ahead of the commercial launch of services in the country. According to various media reports, SN Sharma and Anand Narang have left the company to explore new opportunities. SN Sharma, who was part of the leadership team to drive Reliance Jio's cable distribution business, has quit the company last week, and is most likely to join Sameer Manchanda-promoted DEN... Read More
Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) is reportedly shutting down its CDMA operations running on the 850 Mhz band across all 22 circles, even as telecom licenses for several circles such as Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are due for renewal in September 2017, according to an Economic Times report. TTSL's airwaves across all 22 circles in the band can't be used for 4G as they weren't bought in auctions, the report... Read More
Indus Towers, the country’s largest telecom tower company, announced the appointment of Mr. Tejinder Kalra as the Chief Operating Officer, as on 1st July 2016. With over 26 years of experience in the telecom and telecom services industry, Tejinder holds an extensive experience in strategy development, implementation and service delivery across geographies. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Bimal Dayal, Chief Executive Officer, Indus Towers said, “In line with Indus’ pursuit... Read More
HCL Infosystems said that it has designed, developed and deployed Defence Communication Network (DCN) - the first tri-service communication and IT network of the Armed Forces. Designed and developed in India, the fully secure DCN is the largest single satellite network in the Indian Defence Forces, spread across the country. This integrated communication architecture between the Army, Navy and Air Force bolsters the prowess of the Defence forces during both critical... Read More
Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal has said that impending entry of Reliance Jio will lead to "massive erosion of tariffs" in the Indian telecom industry, expressing concerns over the impending launch of Mukesh Ambani-owned 4G telecom operator. According to media reports, Mittal said that Jio’s entry is going to add to pressure in the market, which would lead to massive erosion of tariffs. Earlier, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla... Read More
Whatever the loyal fans of CDMA are thinking, CDMA will continue to be ceased in India. Starting from BSNL and MTNL which has pretty low subscriber base, the largest CDMA operator of the country - Reliance Communications continues to shut down its CDMA services across the country in the favor of LTE. Before the migration RCom promised CDMA users will be shifted to 4G, but post-migration users were actually shifted... Read More
A majority of telecom carriers (91 percent) surveyed plan to run voice over LTE (VoLTE) services over IMS in the next two years, according to IHS, which added VoLTE is the number-one driver for deploying IMS today. In India, Reliance Jio is the first mover in the IMS space, and it has adopted the IMS solution from Nokia to offer VoLTE services. Incumbent telcos-Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India--have recently selected Nokia... Read More
Jio, along with 24 other global telecom operators are supporting a mobile industry initiative for a universal Rich Communications Services (RCS) profile worldwide, according to GSMA. China Unicom, China Mobile, China Telecom, Singtel, T-Mobile US, Telefonica and Axiata Group, AIS, Beeline, Bell Mobility, Claro Brazil, Claro Colombia, Indosat Ooredoo, M1, Megafon, MTS, Optus, Personal Argentina, Personal Paraguay, Rogers Communications, StarHub, Telcel Mexico, Tele2, Telkomsel, and Telus are the other operators that... Read More
As Vodafone India enters the final stages of bringing the world’s largest 4G network to West Bengal & Sikkim circle, it announced today, the availability of 4G SIMs at all Vodafone Stores, Vodafone Mini Stores and 10000+ multi brand outlets located across West Bengal & Sikkim. All Vodafone customers in West Bengal & Sikkim can exchange their existing SIM to a 4G ready SIM. Initially the 4G services will be... Read More
At last Reliance Communications has launched its much waited 4G services in the country. Officially Reliance 4G has been launched in Mumbai and the company has uploaded the 4G data plans of the circle. However the plans are available for Reliance 4G WiPod only. Mobile data plans are coming soon. These 4G data plans are a real shocker to CDMA customers of RCOM, who were enjoying super cheap CDMA/EVDO data... Read More
Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd, TTML, said that it will raise up to Rs 3,000 crore from its promoter Tata Teleservices through allotment of preferential equities. The company, in a filing, has informed BSE that its board of directors has approved issue of redeemable preference shares upto an amount of Rs 3,000 crores to Tata Teleservices Limited (Promoter) on preferential basis pursuant to provisions of the Companies Act, 2013. The allotment of... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm, is yet to start commercial operations in the country, but its ambitious plan to disrupt the telecom market has already started giving sleepless nights to rival companies. The latest organization to express its concern is the Aditya Birla Group, which is the promoter of Idea Cellular, India’s third largest telecom operator with over 175 million subscribers. “Reliance Jio will obviously create an upset for all of us. When... Read More
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