Remember the Reliance group’s ‘Monsoon Hungama’ of 2003, when the new offering took the telecom industry by storm as it offered multimedia mobile phones for a down payment of Rs 500, with three monthly plan options— Budget 149, Budget 249 and Dhirubhai Ambani Pioneer Offer. The offering led to a revolution in the telecom sector and as a result, millions were added to the country’s subscriber base. Now, once again... Read More
Reliance Jio has requested state-run telco BSNL to define Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) for emergency calls such as 100,101,102, and 108, as the Mukesh Ambani's telecom company prepares to launch commercial services in the country shortly. Reliance Jio will be using BSNL network for provision of Level-I services including Emergency services as per latter's letter to BSNL. The letter sent to all BSNL telecom circles, telecom districts, and maintenance regions... Read More
Just a day after Idea Cellular announced that its 4G services will be live shortly and started pre-registrations for the next generation technology; Telecom Talk has learnt that Vodafone is all set to launch its 4G services in Cochin on December 8. Sources told TT that the Cochin launch will be followed by Mysore launch on December 21. Earlier, Vodafone had maintained that it would launch 4G services in Kerala beginning... Read More
Taking a cue from Idea Cellular's 4G launch teaser, Vodafone has also pushed its 4G launch teaser. The company has released a poster that hints about the approaching service. Vodafone published the poster on its Facebook India page, which reads,"Get ready for an international 4G experience ". The Facebook post also mentions,"it's here finally and it's going to be awesome!". The teaser clearly projects Vodafone's aggressive strategy to launch its... Read More
Idea started registrations for its 4G service by offering 1GB 4G free data. The registration page on Idea website reveal that 4G service to be available in 126 cities across 8 circles of Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. Idea 4G: List of 126 Cities Andhra Pradesh Haryana Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Odisha Punjab Tamil Nadu Banswada Ambala Ankola Hubli-Dharwad Calicut Bhopal Cuttack Ahmedgarh Ambur Bhainsa... Read More
Jio Chat, the instant messaging app from Reliance Jio which will compete with the likes of WhatsApp, Snapchat, Viber, has entered into nine global markets, including India. The app is now available for customers in Canada, United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), United Arab Emirates (UAE), South Africa, Singapore, Australia and China. One can download and access this application through any internet enabled smartphone (currently available on iOS... Read More
Idea Cellular today said that its 4G LTE services will go live shortly and as part of its 4G pre-book registration, it is offering 1GB-4GB data free. The company has recently acquired spectrum in the circles of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (West) from Videocon Telecom in a Rs 3,310-crore deal, which will help Idea to launch its 4G services in the areas. Industry experts are of the view that the deal... Read More
Over the past decade and a half, India has witnessed exponential growth in the telecom sector. The current mobile phone population is as high as 95+ crores. In fact, a number of cell phones we add every month is higher than the entire population of a country like Norway. This growth is predominant in the urban environment where the per capita mobile population in urban- India is 145%, which means... Read More
Talking about its formidable rival Reliance Jio, Gopal Vittal, CEO & MD, Bharti Airtel, today said that the every competitor is a challenge, but the company is more focused towards serving its customers better. “We don’t spend sleepless nights over competitors; we spend sleepless nights over customers. So our obsession is how we serve our customers better, if we become obsessive about competitors, we will become reactive, defensive...but we want... Read More
Reliance Jio is nearing its launch date, and the company is leaving no stone unturned to make a worthy entry. In accordance with the data published by an import tracking website, Zauba, Reliance Jio has imported more than 5 lakh units of SIM cards for the month of October and November. The company has imported these 4G-equipped SIM cards from China, which hints at its upcoming 4G services. The data... Read More
Traditionally Indian telcos have shied away from venturing in the devices segment. They have hardly ever aped the western model of bundled devices. Predominantly, this is because of extremely low Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), high churn and dominance of pre-paid users. Now the new kid-on-the-block, Reliance Jio seeks to change this. Because of new technology it is almost imperative for the company to focus on the devices as well... Read More
According to latest numbers from IDC, one of the trusted data analytics firms, the smartphone market jumped 21.4 percent in Q3 2015 with a major push towards availability of 4G smartphones and services. Shipments of 4G LTE-enabled smartphones have jumped three times in the third quarter of the year. In India, around 28.3 million units of smartphones were shipped in Q3 2015 when compared to 26.5 percent in Q2 2015 and 23.3 million... Read More
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