For a lot of telecom subscribers, a different way to connect to the internet is through a Wi-Fi hotspot device. Owing to the availability of devices like the Airtel 4G hotspot, or the Jio-Fi, it has become more comfortable for the customers to connect multiple devices at once to the internet. Now given the market situations, and to lure more customers, we have seen Airtel revise and simplify its plans... Read More
Chennai has been declared the king of 4G video load time among the eight IPL cities with an average of just 6 seconds for a download on smartphones, global mobile analytics company OpenSignal said on Thursday. Kolkata came second with an average time of 6.2 seconds, followed by Hyderabad at 6.4 seconds for a 4G video load. Bengaluru and Chandigarh scored under the 7-second mark, with Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur... Read More
Reliance Jio's eight million strong subscriber additions, Airtel's stable market share and Voda Idea losing customers is the sum of brokerage firm CLSA 's telecom sector outlook for February 2019, that projects Jio will lead the subscriber market share in the current year. In its India Telecom report, CLSA said Indian mobile subscribers in February increased by two million to 1,184 million, with Reliance Jio adding eight million, while Bharti... Read More
OpenSignal, one of the well-known portals that test the network availability and speeds of telecom operators today released a new report of 4G availability in India's 50 largest cities. The report, which is named as 'OpenSignal's Hottest city for 4G Availability' reveals the 4G Availability in 50 cities. Out of the 50 cities, Dhanbad, which is also known as the coal capital of India has the highest 4G availability of... Read More
Tutela in February published its report on the ‘State of Mobile Networks India 2019’ which informed the consumers about the quality and coverage of various telecom operators across India along with some industry-specific insights. Other agencies like Ookla, Trai, and OpenSignal also published important data related to the telecom industry which showed some emerging trends which will be deemed crucial in the coming days for the companies. As per the... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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