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Sanjay December 12th, 2013 2:39 PM 34 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Infocomm Issued 2.2 Crore Numbers for 4G Mobile and Data Services, Number Series Starts from 70

India's Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued 2.2 crore mobile numbers to Pan India BWA 4G spectrum and license holder Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) which paves way for the company to launch its 4G services. Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) rapidly deploying its infrastructure across 20 cities initially and set to launch its 4G LTE service for mobile customers over LTE enabled smart-phones as well as Only data... Read More

Sanjay December 5th, 2013 12:48 PM 36 COMMENTS

Exclusive : Airtel to Launch 4G LTE Services on Mobile Phone in 3 weeks

India's first 4G service provider Bharti Airtel all set to launch its 4G LTE service for mobile customers wherein airtel 4G users can enjoy fourth generation mobile service over LTE enabled smart-phones. According to our exclusive sources Airtel will officially launch 4G LTE services on Mobile Phone by the end of December, 2013 (expected in 3 weeks from now).As of now Airtel 4G services providing only Broadband Wireless Access over... Read More

Sanjay November 9th, 2013 2:21 PM 68 COMMENTS

Aircel Kick off 4G Trials in Andhra Pradesh

Aircel today said that trials of Long-Term Evolution (4G) services in Andhra Pradesh circle started however still it will take more time for commercial launch of 4G services due to lack of required ecosystem for LTE - 4G network. "The trials of 4G services are currently on but we don't have the required ecosystem, including the 4G-enabled mobile handsets, to launch the services commercially," Deepinder Tiwana, Business head of Aircel,... Read More

Sanjay November 7th, 2013 8:22 PM 17 COMMENTS

Mumbai emerged as the City with Highest Internet Penetration in India, Kolkata Clocks Highest Growth

India's business capital Mumbai with 12 million Internet users has emerged as the top most city, followed by country's capital Delhi with 8.1 million Internet users and Hyderabad with 4.7 million Internet users, as per the data released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Chennai with 4.5 million Internet users and Kolkata with 4.4 million internet users are fourth and fifth respectively. In 2012, Mumbai had 8.3... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas November 4th, 2013 5:45 PM 48 COMMENTS

Airtel Now Offers 4G dongle at Rs1500

Airtel recently had reduced rates of its 4G plans to 3G level. Now yet another move from Airtel to push its 4G internet. Airtel has slashed rate of 4G USB dongle to Rs 1500 as special offer. One of the main reason people stayed away from Airtel 4G was due to high cost of 4G modem and expensive plans. At the time of launch, USB dongle was Rs 7999. Now... Read More

Sanjay October 18th, 2013 5:30 PM 26 COMMENTS

Airtel Acquires 100 Percent Stake in Qualcomm Founded WBSPL – 4G Spectrum Holder in Mumbai, Delhi, Kerala and Haryana

India's largest mobile service provider Bharti Airtel today announced that it has acquired 100 per cent stake in Wireless Business Services (WBSPL), a company founded by US chipmaker Qualcomm which holds 4G BWA Spectrum in Mumbai, Delhi, Haryana and Kerala circle. Earlier Airtel had acquired a 49% stake in WBSPL (Qualcomm Asia Pacific -India) in May 2012 for USD 165 million. WBSPL ( Qualcomm) has emerged as a successful bidder... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 16th, 2013 1:48 PM 42 COMMENTS

4G Round up: Reliance Jio Clears All Hurdle for Offering Voice Services

Reliance Jio, the pan India 4G operator has received a letter of intent (LoI) from TRAI as an approval of unified license which will allow them to offer voice services as well. RJIL has to pay one-time entry fee of Rs 1673 crore along with performance bank guarantee of Rs 220 crore and a financial bank guarantee of Rs 44 crore. RJIL is testing voice and messaging services to be... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 15th, 2013 2:35 PM 18 COMMENTS

4G Round Up: Reliance Jio Inks Deals with KMC, Ciena & Tech Mahindra

Country's only pan-India 4G operator Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed a MoU agreement with Kolkata's city civic body - Kolkata Municipal Corporation to get the license to lay fiber optic cables across the metro. Tarun Jhunjhunwala, the business head and state mentor (east) of Reliance Jio and Mayor-in-Charge Atin Ghosh signed the deal. Reliance Jio will pay one-time fee of Rs 26 crore to city's civic body. Reliance Jio will... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 27th, 2013 4:02 PM 34 COMMENTS

4G India: Reliance Jio, TranSwitch, Rancore, Airtel, Tikona, Google, Videocon, Nokia

This week's biggest 4G news is Reliance Jio Infocomm has applied for unified license to offer any type of communications over its 4G/BWA spectrum won in 2010. That means Reliance Jio can offer voice and messaging services as well as data services over its 20MHz of 2300MHz spectrum. Govt recently has come up with unified license policy to open up new opportunities to telecom sector of the country. The new... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 10th, 2013 1:16 AM 46 COMMENTS

4G India: News Round-up – Reliance Jio, Airtel and Aircel

Reliance Jio Infocomm's 4G project gets a green signal in Kolkata metro areas following Mukesh Ambani met West Bengal's CM Mamta Banerjee in Bengal Indistry Summit held in Mumbai few days back. RJIL asked for permission to Kolkata Municipal Corporation to lay optic fibers across the metro last year and had metro KMC officials at least four times but it did not work. However it seems now the roadblock has... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 21st, 2013 11:04 AM 4 COMMENTS

4G Round-up: Reliance Jio, Airtel, ZTE & More

Reliance Jio Gets 6 Months Extension of Mobile Numbers to Keep Testing VoLTE Voice over 4G or LTE becomes more and more important to Reliance Jio Infocomm, as they asked for extension of another 6 months to keep testing VoLTE over its networks. The telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries asked for allocation of 10,000 mobile numbers to test voice calls on its LTE-TD/4G network in October last... Read More