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Esmail November 17th, 2015 1:01 PM 254 COMMENTS

Exclusive: First look and feel of Reliance Jio’s 4G VoLTE service with speed test

As December approaches, the anticipation of Reliance Jio's commercial launch starts to heat up. Like every year around this time of the year subscribers become more hopeful and optimistic about the launch of an operator which has been predicted to grossly change the dynamics of the Indian telecom industry. But unlike the yesteryears this year has seen an official announcement by Jio about commercial launch at least in key markets... Read More

Tharun G November 10th, 2015 3:15 PM 22 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular’s 4G LTE signal is now live in Punjab

After Vodafone's 4G LTE signal went live in Kerala, Idea's 4G LTE signals were spotted in Chandigarh (Punjab). Idea is readying its 4G network for an early 2016 launch. Idea had earlier announced its plan to launch 4G LTE services in Kerala, Maharashtra & Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Haryana, North East, Tamil Nadu, and Orissa in a phased manner. Idea will be using its efficient... Read More

Imon November 10th, 2015 3:11 PM 21 COMMENTS

Idea teases its 4G LTE services with a ‘4G is coming’ banner

Aditya Birla Group controlled Idea Cellular has started teasing the launch of its 4G LTE services with a new banner on their website. The banner states that "4G is coming soon”. A few weeks back, Idea announced that they will launch the 4G network based on FDD-LTE standard in 300 cities starting in December till the first half of the next year. Primarily Idea, the third largest telecom operator by... Read More

Kaur G November 9th, 2015 10:33 AM 23 COMMENTS

Why 3G Will Be The Backbone Of 4G In India

With the telcos planning to focus on 4G services in the coming year, the market for 3G in India faces an uncertain future just four years after its commercial introduction and only five years after the telcos spent nearly $15 billion for their 3G licenses. While there is a little doubt that 3G services introduced India to mobile broadband and its vast potential, 3G has not led to mobile broadband... Read More

Tharun G November 6th, 2015 10:02 AM 25 COMMENTS

Vodafone 4G & 3G signal started appearing in Kochi, Kerala

Looks like Vodafone is all set to launch 4G and 3G service in Kerala circle ahead of Reliance Jio. Vodafone 4G and 3G signals are now live in different parts of Kochi. Kochi was in the list of initial cities announced by Vodafone where it plans to roll out 4G services by the end of December 2015. Live signals indicate that the operator is all set to meet its December... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas November 5th, 2015 4:31 PM 23 COMMENTS

Vodafone 4G LTE services to target metros initially: Sunil Sood

Vodafone India, the country’s second largest telecom operator, will primarily look at tapping metros with its 4G LTE services in the country, targeting high-end data subscribers, the company’s CEO Sunil Sood told Hindu Business Line. Taking a cautious approach, Vodafone will be launching 4G LTE services in select towns, given that the overall 4G phones on its network was below 2 percent, whereas 3G phones were 26-27 percent, Sood said,... Read More

Ria Lakshman November 5th, 2015 10:58 AM 19 COMMENTS

Airtel 4G launched in Tirunelveli, Operator promises attractive offers

Bharti Airtel has announced high speed 4G services at Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu. Airtel promises customers unlimited HD video streaming, superfast uploading and downloading of movies, music and images using Airtel 4G. “As customers in India show an increasing propensity for consuming data services, we at Airtel are excited to take the lead in introducing the market to the power of blazing 4G speeds. With the help of the feedback... Read More

Srikapardhi November 2nd, 2015 3:34 PM 18 COMMENTS

Airtel to see 8-10% revenue growth over next 12-18 months: Moody’s

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom carrier will have a revenue growth of 8-10 percent over the next 12-18 months on strong demand for data services and affordable smartphones, Moody's Investors Service said in its outlook for the Asia Pacific telecommunications industry. Bharti and Vodafone are increasing their 4G capex spending ahead of the 4G launch of Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, Moody’s said, adding that the capex of these incumbent telcos... Read More

Esmail November 2nd, 2015 10:29 AM 30 COMMENTS

Is the 4G that we have in India today actually true 4G?

Technically speaking, we can say that India has commercially deployed 4G LTE network, but is this network that we experience today actually true 4G? Is it just the higher speeds of data that we take as the one parameter to proclaim that we have upgraded to 4G? There is much more to 4G that we have yet to get a taste of. The current 4G deployment in India is in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas November 1st, 2015 10:44 AM 51 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to be the leading 4G player by 2019-2020: Report

Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm will be leading the country’s 4G LTE market with 40 percent market share by 2019-2020, while the share of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular will reach 60 percent by 2019-20, up from 53 percent in 2016-17, a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch said. The brokerage firm however said that Jio may find it difficult to poach high-end subscribers from Airtel, Idea... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 28th, 2015 6:42 PM 47 COMMENTS

Punjab to get 100% mobile broadband coverage from Reliance Jio: Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), said that Punjab will be the first state in India to have 100% mobile broadband coverage from Reliance Jio Infocomm, which is preparing to roll out commercial 4G services in the next financial year. Ambani said that the company earlier committed to invest Rs 2,000 crore, but has already invested over Rs 3,900 crore in Punjab. "We will commit to all the... Read More

Imon October 28th, 2015 4:43 PM 39 COMMENTS

Vodafone India’s 4G services to arrive in Kolkata by December 2015; pumped in Rs 960 million to modernize networks

Country’s second-largest telecom firm Vodafone India is planning to launch its 4G services in Kolkata by the end of December this year. Kolkata with 25% of data revenues is one of the top data markets for Vodafone in India and is growing at more than 50% YoY. The company said in a statement that testing of 4G services has commenced successfully and it has tied up with global technology infrastructure service... Read More