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July 5th, 2013 2:19 PM 8 COMMENTS

4G Update: Airtel Now Owns 51% of Qualcomm’s 4G Venture, Reliance Jio-Samsung Phone Deal Hits Roadblock

Though 4G is long way to go mainstream in the country, the market is evolving fast. This time we had two updates to share, from two locked horns competitor on 4G turf : Bharti Airtel & Reliance Industries backed Jio Infocomm. Airtel announced that they increased their stakes at Qualcomm's Indian 4G venture from 49% to 51%. With this acquisition the four entities of Qualcomm's 4G venture become Airtel's subsidiaries.... Read More

June 24th, 2013 11:43 AM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces New 4G Plans Starting at Rs. 450

Airtel today announced the introduction of all new plans for its Airtel 4G services in Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune and Chandigarh. Starting from monthly rent of Rs 450. While the Rs.450, Rs.650 and Rs.750 Airtel 4G plans offer data quota (GBs) at rents similar to 3G plans at superfast 4G speeds - the plans starting Rs.999 offer accelerated data benefits at rate of Rs.100/GB. New Airtel 4G plans MRP (in Rs)... Read More

May 30th, 2013 11:08 AM 19 COMMENTS

Maxis to Invest 5K Cr in Aircel, Wants to Shred 4G off by Selling Spectrum

After the failure of potential sale or merger plans with Sistema Shyam Teleservices and Tata Teleservices, Aircel's parent company Maxis Communications of Malaysia is planning to sell its BWA spectrum to reduce its debt and operational cash crisis. Aircel has scaled down services in 6 circles, and providing 3G/HSPA services in 13 circles. Reported by Times of India, the sale of BWA spectrum won by Aircel in 2010 auction in... Read More

May 22nd, 2013 5:05 PM 15 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to Roll out in Kolkata & West Bengal by 2013 End

There is some updates regarding Reliance Jio's roll out plans as Tarun Jhunjhunwala, the business head and state mentor for eastern zone at Reliance Jio Infocomm shared company's plan during the inauguration of a community policing and security servicing programme at Kolkata. As he said, the roll out will be done in Delhi, Mumbai and Jamnagar at one-go. Though he does not reveal the launch date, the company is looking... Read More

April 23rd, 2013 11:29 AM 10 COMMENTS

Bharti to Provide Asia Pacific Data Capacity to Reliance Jio

Surprise guys! Bharti Airtel enters into an agreement with Reliance Jio Infocomm to provide international data capacity via Bharti's India-to-Singapore i2i submarine cable. Both of the companies signed an Indefeasible Right to Use (IRU) Agreement for this. After the deal with Reliance Communications for nationwide fiber network access, the deal marks Reliance Jio’s continued efforts to rapidly grow and expand both its international and domestic network and infrastructure by building... Read More

April 18th, 2013 3:36 PM 28 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Gets 10,000 Mobile Numbers to Run Voice Over LTE Trial

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has provided 10,000 mobile numbers to Pan India 4G BWA spectrum winner Reliance Jio Infocom for trial of Voice over 4G LTE network, as requested by the company. The number series allocated to Reliance Jio is 83378 for trial propose, and it will be used across Mumbai, Delhi and Jamnagar where Jio will soon start the trial run of VoLTE with 4000 mobile numbers each in... Read More

April 3rd, 2013 3:32 AM 11 COMMENTS

United We Stand: Mukesh’s Jio 4G Partners Brother Anil’s Rcom for Optic Network Sharing

As many speculated, Mukesh Ambani contolled Reliance Jio Infocomm Infocomm( formerly Reliance Infotel Broadband) entered into an partnership with junior Anil Ambani headed Reliance Communications for using later's fiber optic usingnetwork and vice versa. The Rs 1,200-crore would be one time indefeasible right to use (IRU) fees for sharing RCom’s nationwide inter-city fiber optic network infrastructure, the companies said in a statement. The agreement permits Reliance Jio Infocomm to utilise... Read More

March 20th, 2013 1:49 PM 9 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Airtel to Launch 4G/LTE-TD Services in Chandigarh Today

India's largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel is going to announce its 4G presence in Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana today. Though the launch is announced today, the commercial availability is going to commence from 25th of March, 2013. Airtel 4G/LTE-TD network is also available in Mohali and Panchkula. Chandigarh will be the fourth city in the country with LTE network following Kolkata, Bangaluru and Pune where Airtel launched services.... Read More

March 19th, 2013 8:31 PM 10 COMMENTS

SPIRIT DSP Welcomes AT&T’s Move to Buy 25% Stakes in Reliance Jio Infocomm

It seems the latest rumormill saying AT&T's re-entry into Indian telecom sector via buying stakes in country's only pan India 4G operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is true, as Jio Infocomm's VVoIP software provider Russian software giant SPIRIT DSP welcomes the move. It was reported that AT&T may buy 25% of shares in Mukesh Ambani controlled Reliance Industries' subsidiary Reliance Jio Infocomm (formerly RIL Infotel Broadband). RJL is the only company... Read More

March 16th, 2013 5:06 PM 10 COMMENTS

Sistema Plans LTE for India in Future

Globally LTE is considered as the fastest growing wireless technology, and Indian mobile operators are also in LTE fever, as the spectrum they are receiving is technology agonist under unified license regime. The latest name to join in LTE league is Sistema Shyam Teleservices which operates under MTS brand. SSTL recently secured its operations in 9 circles of India, which are accounted for 60% data market, 40% of total population... Read More

March 10th, 2013 11:25 AM 47 COMMENTS

Locked Horns: Reliance Jio Infocomm vs COAI/Airtel over Voice Services

Though India's telecom sector is still messed up, pan-India BWA spectrum winner Reliance Jio Infocomm (formerly RIL Infotel Broadband) and mobile operators, especially GSM ones under COAI are locked horns regarding the permission of providing voice services by 4G/BWA players as well as internet service providers. In India internet service providers (ISP) were not allowed to provide Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services. But Telecom Commission allowed this recently and operators lobbies started... Read More

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