February 18th, 2017 12:41 PM 8 COMMENTS

Following a war between Reliance Jio and top telcos, Trai to review tariff orders

Following a war between Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India over predatory pricing and promotional offers by the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has floated a 32-page consultation paper to review tariff orders within a bid to develop a new framework for the telecom sector. With this new paper, the regulator aims to address certain ambiguities in rules around issues... Read More

February 18th, 2017 5:44 AM 3 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Announces Completion of Augere Wireless Acquisition

Bharti Airtel, India's top telecom operator, has completed the acquisition of Augere Wireless India Private Limited, which holds 20 MHz of spectrum in 2,300 Mhz band spectrum in Madhya Pradesh circle. The Sunil Mittal-led telecom operator had last year inked a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent equity stake in Augere Wireless. Various media reports valued the deal at around Rs 150 crore. In a BSE filing on Thursday,... Read More

February 16th, 2017 8:04 PM 36 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel’s average download speed increased nearly by two fold to 8.42Mbps in January: TRAI

As per the latest data revealed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Bharti Airtel, at 8.43Mbps, records highest average download speed on a mobile network for January 2017. It is worth mentioning that Airtel’s average mobile data speed nearly doubled to 8.42Mbps from 4.68Mbps. Also, it is the third time in the past five months (since September) when Airtel topped the TRAI’s average download speed report. Reliance Jio’s average... Read More

February 16th, 2017 6:21 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel Expands its Future Ready 4G Network Across 400 Towns of Maharashtra and Goa

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company today said that they rolled out an upgraded 4G network across 400 towns of Maharashtra and Goa to deliver best-in-class mobile network experience to customers. Airtel already has 4G services in Maharashtra and Goa, but with the upgraded 4G network, the company is promising uninterrupted HD video streaming along with improved data speeds and better indoor and outdoor network reception. Airtel has deployed a... Read More

February 16th, 2017 3:19 PM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Bags 100 Million Subscribers in Five Months, Confirms Mukesh Ambani

The Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited Mr Mukesh Ambani said that his brainchild, Reliance Jio, crossed 100 Million subscribers in five months after its inception. This essentially means that Reliance Jio is bagging in half million customers every day. Though this milestone dips short of the telecom operator’s expectation, as Mukesh Ambani had earlier expected to bag in 100 million subscribers by the end of 2016, he... Read More

February 16th, 2017 6:17 AM 8 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Now Has 23 Percent Market Share in Indian Telecom Sector: Truecaller Report

Reliance Jio recently regarded as the fastest growing company beating the Facebook, WhatsApp, and others. And now, we have an interesting data from the recognized caller ID detecting service, Truecaller as their 'TrueInsights Q4 Report’ claims that Jio is India’ second largest telecom network in India with over 23 percent market share. The report further claims that all the networks combinedly added 1.12 billion consumers by the end of November... Read More

February 15th, 2017 5:21 PM 9 COMMENTS

Telecom consolidation in India will lead to massive layoffs: Report

The ongoing consolidation drive will lead to massive layoffs in the Indian telecom industry with as many as a third of over three lakh employees becoming redundant in the next 18 months as consolidation plays out, according to an ET report. The Economic Times, citing various experts and executives, reported that massive job losses are inevitable as telecom operators merging operations will streamline their respective businesses to remove redundancy and... Read More

February 15th, 2017 2:32 PM 1 COMMENTS

Vodafone gives new 4G contract to Ericsson for UP West, Rajasthan, Odisha, North East and Assam

Vodafone India, which is in talks with Idea Cellular for a potential merger, has reportedly given a big 4G deployment contract worth Rs 2,040 crore to Ericsson as the telco looks to speed up the network expansion to counter bigger rival Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. According to an ET report, Ericsson is deploying 4G sites in UP West, Rajasthan, Odisha, North East and Assam telecom zones. The deployment of... Read More

February 13th, 2017 2:06 PM 25 COMMENTS

Vodafone launches 4G services in Chennai

Vodafone, today announced the launch of its Vodafone SuperNet 4G service in Chennai in the presence of Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand former World Chess Champion. After successful launches in Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Madurai, Tuticorin, Trichy, Hosur, Salem, Erode, Pondicherry and Vellore Vodafone SuperNet 4G was launched in Chennai. Vodafone SuperNet 4G will be made available in all major towns and cities across the state by March 2017. Built on the efficient 2100... Read More

February 11th, 2017 5:48 PM 22 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Reliance Jio to soon offer 6-series numbers to customers in India, gets MSC Codes from the DoT

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has been allotted new MSC codes in the 6-series mobile numbers by the telecom department (DoT) in Rajasthan, Assam and Tamil Nadu telecom zones. The development will allow the 4G entrant to offer new mobile numbers beginning with “6”. The telecom department’s notification said that the new codes have been allotted to meet new one million users demand. “In consideration to the request of service providers,... Read More

February 11th, 2017 12:49 PM 23 COMMENTS

Vodafone-Idea merged entity to surpass Reliance Jio in network capacity terms: Credit Suisse

The proposed merger of Vodafone and Idea Cellular will create a telco with 35% network capacity share in the country, surpassing Reliance Jio, which would have 31% network capacity share, according to Credit Suisse. It however added that the Mukesh Ambani-led telco would continue to lead in capacity share of data networks “by virtue of its large data spectrum holdings and exclusive 4G deployment.” In a note, the brokerage said... Read More

February 10th, 2017 8:18 PM 51 COMMENTS

Reasons Why Telecom Operators in India Are Against BSNL’s App-Based Calling?

Telecom sector in India is undergoing some massive changes, not only in terms of providing offers to consumers, but also operators are working hard to improve the existing infrastructure to catch up with the new entrant, Reliance Jio. State-run telecom operator BSNL recently announced a new technology with which users can make calls by just installing an application on their phones and the company call it as ‘app-based calling'.  To... Read More

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