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February 26th, 2019 7:02 PM 2 COMMENTS

Jio to Become Leading Telco in Terms of Both Subscriber Base and Revenue This Year: Report

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's telecom venture Reliance Jio will this year become India's No.1 telco in terms of both subscriber base and revenue, brokerages Bernstein and Credit Suisse said in separate reports Tuesday. Jio which stormed into the sector in 2016 by offering free voice calls and dirt cheap data on mobile phones, is reporting net profit and a positive return on invested capital was due to "non-standard depreciation metrics" and... Read More

February 25th, 2019 5:51 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Deploys Ciena’s Software Platforms to Offer Faster 4G and FTTH Data Speeds

Bharti Airtel today announced that it's deploying coherent optical and intelligent software platforms of Ciena to provide enhanced services to the customers. Airtel says that it's building the world's largest Photonic Control Plane networks in India. With this deployment, Airtel's backbone network will serve the aggressive demand for high-speed data services in India. After the entry of Reliance Jio to the Indian marker, the data consumption has seen a meteoric... Read More

February 21st, 2019 4:41 PM 1 COMMENTS

4G Subscriber Base in India is Five Times More Than That of 3G: Study

Rising hunger for data amongst Indians led to 109% growth in data traffic in 2018, fuelled primarily by 4G adoption, according to a latest study. Nokia's annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic (MBiT) Index study of mobile broadband performance in India showed that the average data usage grew 69% in 2018 to touch 10GB per user per month in December 2018. Interestingly, the 4G growth has come at the cost of... Read More

February 21st, 2019 12:01 PM 21 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Awards Vendor Contract to Ericsson for Deploying 5G Ready LTE Equipment

Swedish telecom gear provider, Ericsson has announced that it has bagged a contract from the leading telecom operator of India Vodafone Idea for radio and microwaves. The manufacturer has said that as part of its deal it is now providing its 5G ready LTE equipment in eight circles for the provider. The new deployment of the 5G ready equipment by Ericsson is expected to help Vodafone Idea in network expansion... Read More

February 15th, 2019 7:37 PM 57 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Again Outranks Airtel by a Twofold Margin in 4G Download Speed Chart During January: Trai

Just a couple of days ago, network tracking portal, Ookla revealed its speed test report of Indian telecom operators in which it stated Bharti Airtel is the fastest operator in India. However, the data of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) reveals that Reliance Jio is the fastest telecom operator in India with its download speeds double as those of Bharti Airtel. According to the data revealed by Trai... Read More

February 12th, 2019 4:48 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel Continues to Lead 4G LTE Network Speeds List in India: Ookla

Reliance Jio topped in terms of 4G availability among the telecom service providers with 98.8% availability during the second half of 2018, an Ookla report said on Tuesday. Jio was followed by Airtel with 90% availability, said the report titled, "Analysing India's 4G Availability: Including a Look at the 15 Largest Cities". "At country-level, Jio shows an impressive 98.8% 4G availability. That means that a Jio customer has access to... Read More

February 12th, 2019 2:21 PM 39 COMMENTS

4G Spectrum Allocation to BSNL in Final Stages, Telco Asked to Submit Roadmap for Rollout by DoT

For years now, BSNL has been promising the launch of 4G services in the country, but the telco was short of spectrum. However, since the last six or eight months, the telco is actively engaging with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for the spectrum allocation and even the government is ready to allocate 4G airwaves to the government-owned PSU. With the lack of 4G services, BSNL is not able to... Read More

February 6th, 2019 3:33 PM 14 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Enhances 4G Mobile Network in Punjab With LTE 900 Technology Deployment

Bharti Airtel already revealed its intentions of upgrading 4G network across the country. After deploying the LTE 900 technology in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana circle, the telco today announced the deployment of the same technology in Punjab circle. With the implementation of LTE 900 technology, Airtel 4G users in Punjab will experience better network coverage and download speeds. "With the rollout of 4G in the superior 900 Mhz spectrum band,... Read More

January 23rd, 2019 4:17 PM 11 COMMENTS

LTE Download Speeds in India Are 4.5 Times Faster at Night: OpenSignal

Amid growing 4G penetration in India, Navi Mumbai scored an impressive 8.1 Mbps in average LTE download speed to top 4G download speeds while Allahabad grabbed the last spot with an average of 4.0 Mbps speed, London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal said on Wednesday. According to the company, four million smartphone users in 20 cities across India experienced average download speeds of 16.8 Mbps, compared with the daily average... Read More

January 15th, 2019 2:50 PM 59 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces 4G Services in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Connects Territory to Digital Superhighway

Bharti Airtel, the Sunil Mittal led telecom operator has become the first of the many telecom companies to start deploying 4G services in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. With this launch, the company has connected the island with the digital superhighway. It is worth noting that before this, Andaman and Nicobar residents were limited to using slow internet services which did not facilitate lightning fast internet which the rest of... Read More

January 5th, 2019 12:59 PM 79 COMMENTS

BSNL Receives Previously Surrendered 4G Spectrum from Government in 2500MHz Band

The Indian Government has returned the 4G spectrum to the state-owned telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) which it had surrendered eight years ago to the government. To recall, back in 2010, during the first 4G auction in India, BSNL was allotted the spectrum in 2500MHz band in all its circles, however, it had surrendered the spectrum in its six expensive circles including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra... Read More

January 3rd, 2019 6:49 PM 46 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Launches 4G Services in Remote Hayuliang Area of Arunachal Pradesh

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel Thursday said it has rolled out its latest 4G services in the remote Hayuliang area in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh to expand operations. Customers in 100 villages across the Hayuliang region will be able to enjoy fast data experience on the Airtel network, the company said in a statement. "Airtel plans to gradually expand its 4G services to other parts of the district. The rollout,... Read More

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