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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

Rudradeep Biswas July 12th, 2013 11:15 AM 3 COMMENTS

RCom Completes Securitization of Rs 1200 Cr Inter-City OFC Deal with Reliance Jio

Reliance Communications has announced that the company has completed securitization of Rs 1200 cr inter-city OFC deal with Reliance Jio Infocomm. The inter-city fiber agreement between the two Ambani brothers' companies was signed in April this year. Reliance Jio is being delivered the inter-city fiber links for few months already. The whole process will be completed within this financial year, as expected. Reliance Jio is in the process to roll... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 5th, 2013 2:19 PM 8 COMMENTS

4G Update: Airtel Now Owns 51% of Qualcomm’s 4G Venture, Reliance Jio-Samsung Phone Deal Hits Roadblock

Though 4G is long way to go mainstream in the country, the market is evolving fast. This time we had two updates to share, from two locked horns competitor on 4G turf : Bharti Airtel & Reliance Industries backed Jio Infocomm. Airtel announced that they increased their stakes at Qualcomm's Indian 4G venture from 49% to 51%. With this acquisition the four entities of Qualcomm's 4G venture become Airtel's subsidiaries.... Read More

Sanjay June 24th, 2013 11:43 AM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces New 4G Plans Starting at Rs. 450

Airtel today announced the introduction of all new plans for its Airtel 4G services in Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune and Chandigarh. Starting from monthly rent of Rs 450. While the Rs.450, Rs.650 and Rs.750 Airtel 4G plans offer data quota (GBs) at rents similar to 3G plans at superfast 4G speeds - the plans starting Rs.999 offer accelerated data benefits at rate of Rs.100/GB. New Airtel 4G plans MRP (in Rs)... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 30th, 2013 11:08 AM 19 COMMENTS

Maxis to Invest 5K Cr in Aircel, Wants to Shred 4G off by Selling Spectrum

After the failure of potential sale or merger plans with Sistema Shyam Teleservices and Tata Teleservices, Aircel's parent company Maxis Communications of Malaysia is planning to sell its BWA spectrum to reduce its debt and operational cash crisis. Aircel has scaled down services in 6 circles, and providing 3G/HSPA services in 13 circles. Reported by Times of India, the sale of BWA spectrum won by Aircel in 2010 auction in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 22nd, 2013 5:05 PM 15 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to Roll out in Kolkata & West Bengal by 2013 End

There is some updates regarding Reliance Jio's roll out plans as Tarun Jhunjhunwala, the business head and state mentor for eastern zone at Reliance Jio Infocomm shared company's plan during the inauguration of a community policing and security servicing programme at Kolkata. As he said, the roll out will be done in Delhi, Mumbai and Jamnagar at one-go. Though he does not reveal the launch date, the company is looking... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 15th, 2013 3:06 AM 7 COMMENTS

Govt Plans 4G Refund, Seperate Infra & Land Management Companies for BSNL & MTNL

State-run, loss making telcos MTNL and BSNL got a relief as the Govt is weighing the option to refund Rs 12,846 cr to them as the duo don't like to launch 4G/BWA services in some circles. The PSU duo got the spectrum in 2008 and paid the amount as per 2010 BWA auction price. Both the telco are making huge losses for last couple of years - BSNL Rs 24,681... Read More