Back in 2007, BSNL made an excellent move which marked as benchmarking event in India's broadband sector- to upgrade to wired broadband speed to 2 Mbps minimum in most plans. Though that time was Manmohan Singh's era, many argue that main game was started during Atal Bihari Bajpeyi's time. Whatever the man stood behind BSNL's growth is actually Dayanidhi Maran, who was the minister of communications and information technology (May... Read More
Indian telecom scene was quite dull in 2015-16 until Jio stepped in and started offering free services. Entry of Jio, the ambitious telecom project by country's richest man Mukesh Ambani has forced the Indian telecom to undergo a major overhaul of sorts. The most obvious change is merger and acquisition of telecom companies - which makes the telecom market quite smaller. If all go right, India will have only 5-6... Read More
2016 started on a promising note for all the Indian telecom consumers. When the year started, Reliance Jio was under testing phases, no Indian knows the meaning of combo offers, none of us expected that operators would star offering free unlimited calling offers, not even in our dream, that was the scenario of Indian telecom sector twelve months ago. But, things changed quickly. Indeed, very quickly. Reliance Jio came out... Read More
Fortunately or unfortunately though being fierce, the competition is not on par in the telecom industry on certain parameters, but a consumer has all reasons to rejoice. Be it quality or affordability, any consumer now has now multiple options to choose. We have been reporting various bundled offers for the prepaid segment from all the operators time to time on Telecomtalk. If we notice, the results are very clear. Few... Read More
Connecting people via the Internet is yesterday's topic, but connecting things via the Internet is today's technology. Amidst all the hurdles before people are completely connected end to end in India, things/devices are competing to enable connectivity to them in this era of technology. When a vast network of devices are connected via the Internet, the ecosystem built is termed as IoT stylized as Internet of Things. As the name... Read More
Though I heavily rely on social channels, especially twitter, for customer support, in the past few weeks, I had to approach customer support over the phone. That's when I discovered that despite several advancements, a customer is not gaining much through the phone channel. The core issues which one faces are long wait times, thereafter hold times while the agent looks up for additional information. Several times, I found that phone... Read More
Hours after the historically redefining announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, decommissioning all Rs. 500 and 1000 denomination currency notes, Mobile wallets and online payment service providers have seized the opportunity to promote cashless transactions by their users to tide over this period. Late evening on Tuesday came an announcement which shook the entire nation, the higher denomination currency notes of Rs.500 and 1000 ceased to be legal tender. People... Read More
We all know that India lags severely in terms of internet rankings. Here is a snapshot of India's position from Akamai's State of Internet Q1 2016 Report - While Jio was termed as a hope to gain some positions in this kind of lists, the reality doesn't seem to change so soon. We believe it is important to take some concrete measures, preferably by a regulator like TRAI for things... Read More
With the rollout of 3G services by MTNL/BSNL in the early years of wireless data era in India, these were the government operators who took an early advantage in promoting high-speed data services in the form of Video calling and high-speed connectivity services. BSNL also has a very good advertisement for video calling services on 3G technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4j6JIJfmSM Though 4G/LTE services are rolled by various operators, video calling was never... Read More
A new chapter begins in the story of Indian telecommunications industry with the launch of Reliance Jio’s 4G services earlier this month. In a highly disruptive move, Jio launched services by announcing one of the cheapest data plan in the world and free-voice-for-life service to its subscribers. As if this wasn’t enough the company would be offering free voice, data and messaging service till the end of the current calendar... Read More
Since the launch of Jio, one of the technical jargon's that is widely in buzz is VoLTE and Reliance Jio is also betting big on VoLTE. Being a highly technical terminology there have been many doubts arising on VoLTE. We have tried to clear all those doubts/confusions with this article. I will also try to explain VoLTE in a very simple terminology without going much into technical details and keep it... Read More
If I use 4G/LTE/VoLTE on my mobile, that doesn't mean I can presume everyone is using the latest and fastest technology available in the market. Likewise if I use 2G/3G on my mobile that doesn't mean no one is ahead of me in using the latest technology available. If I feel it in any of the above ways its just like “a cat drinking milk with eyes closed”. I certainly... Read More
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Well after loosing in 2 metro circles, only Mumbai is remaining where Vi has good enough brand image. Rest of…
CAP was never needed in Mumbai. As I said previously, postpaid users hitting 160-170Mbps on just band 41. This is…
Good for you.. Probably where they are getting confidence on their network, they are removing cap in those cities only.
Reason for 15 percent jump today in shares.
Off Topic : cap removed I feel
