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Arpit Sharma November 2nd, 2018 8:05 PM 9 COMMENTS

Vodafone Rs 511 Prepaid Plan With 168GB Of 4G Data and Unlimited Calling Introduced to Take On Airtel

Vodafone India has been leading the tariff war amongst the incumbent telcos for quite some time now. The telco has been on a launch spree lately catering to every prepaid customer's requirement. Vodafone launched a couple of prepaid plans priced at Rs 511 and Rs 569 taking on Airtel and Reliance Jio's offerings. With the Rs 511 prepaid plan, Vodafone is offering a whopping 168GB of 4G data and this... Read More

Chakri K November 2nd, 2018 3:15 PM 14 COMMENTS

JioMusic Will Soon Be Rebranded as JioSaavn, Likely to Offer 90 Days Free Subscription

Remember the transaction between Reliance Jio and music giant Saavn which happened back in March? Well, we now have the first signs of this transaction as the telco will soon be rebranding its music application- JioMusic as JioSaavn, creating the country's largest platform for music. Right now, we don't have any information on when the rebranding will come to effect, but Jio is offering JioMusic and Saavn has its own... Read More

Chakri K November 2nd, 2018 11:20 AM 0 COMMENTS

Telcos Planning to Rollout New Digital Verification Method for Subscriber Addition by November 20

Telecom operators have sought time till November 20 to implement the new digital system for subscriber registration and verification in place of the Aadhaar-based system. "...in order to ensure proper implementation and cause no inconvenience to the customers, we request that an additional period of 15 days, till November 20, 2018, be granted for the implementation of the new digital process," COAI Director General Rajan S Mathews said in a... Read More

Arpit Sharma November 2nd, 2018 10:21 AM 87 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel to Now Focus on High Paying Customers to Boost ARPU

Bharti Airtel now seems to have found a new way about selling differently priced plans as compared to Reliance Jio. The telco has decided that selling to the customers who are paying as low as Rs 35 per month is just not worth the hassle. As such, the telco will now focus on catering to better-paying customers, and it is going to be the telco’s new strategy against competing with... Read More

Chakri K November 1st, 2018 8:38 PM 46 COMMENTS

Prepaid War: Idea Cellular Offers 28GB Data, Unlimited Voice Calls With its Rs 159 Plan

Right after Vodafone introducing the Rs 159 prepaid plan, Idea Cellular also came up with the same because the telco is looking to unify its tariff portfolio for the new entity Vodafone Idea Limited. Vodafone introduced the Rs 159 prepaid plan in some of its 4G circles but as an open market plan, but that’s not the case with Idea Cellular; The telco has unveiled this plan in its popular... Read More

Chakri K November 1st, 2018 7:08 PM 10 COMMENTS

Vodafone VoLTE Support Has Been Added to Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL

It's very hard to find the incumbent telcos supporting VoLTE on flagship handsets from Google, but Vodafone is solving the issue. So far in India, the Google Pixel handsets supported VoLTE on Reliance Jio network only, but now, Vodafone has added the support to the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Other top telcos such as Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular are yet to add VoLTE support to the Pixel... Read More

Chakri K November 1st, 2018 2:51 PM 38 COMMENTS

Airtel Beats Trai Speed Champion Jio by Achieving 9.96 Mbps Average 4G Download Speed: OpenSignal

OpenSignal’s speed test reports for all the telcos in India are out now, and Bharti Airtel has emerged as the winner among all by recording the highest download speeds on 3G and 4G network. In the speed test, Airtel recorded a speed of 7.53 Mbps followed by Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and BSNL which averaged speeds of 5.47 Mbps, 5.20 Mbps, 4.92 Mbps and 2.70 Mbps. In the past two... Read More

Arpit Sharma October 31st, 2018 7:44 PM 39 COMMENTS

BSNL and MTNL 4G Services Launch Could Be Delayed Yet Again

A new report has come up which hints towards the stalling of allocation of 4G spectrum to the two-government led telcos, BSNL and MTNL. As per this new update which comes from the officials, the finance ministry will likely extend the timeline which was proposed by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for the allocation of fourth-generation network services to these state-run telcos. Fiscal Deficit Delays Investment for BSNL and MTNL... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj October 31st, 2018 7:00 PM 0 COMMENTS

RCom Ties Up With PacketFabric to Facilitate 100G Trans-Atlantic Service from New York to London

Reliance Communications (RCom)-promoted Global Cloud Xchange (GSX) on Wednesday announced that it has tied up with PacketFabric to provide 100G trans-Atlantic service from New York to London through the FA-1 North submarine cable system. GCX's FA-1 North submarine cable system connects the US, the UK and France. "It has interconnected with PacketFabric to provide 100G trans-Atlantic service from New York to London via the FA-1 North submarine cable system," said... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj October 31st, 2018 5:34 PM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Teleservices to Sell Half of Its Stake in Tower Company ATC for Rs 2,360 Crore

Tata Teleservices has offered to sell half of its stake and IDFC its entire stake in mobile tower company ATC TIPL to majority shareholder American Tower Corporation (ATC) for Rs 2,940 crore. Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTL) has also offered to pay USD 320 million or about Rs 2,360 crore to ATC Telecom Infrastructure Pvt Ltd (ATC TIPL) for termination of lease obligations following the closure of its mobile services business... Read More

Arpit Sharma October 31st, 2018 12:20 PM 8 COMMENTS

Annual Prepaid Plans by BSNL and Reliance Jio Compared

As soon as the festivities started knocking on the doors, the telcos also began launching their unique Diwali offers, discounts and unique plans. The first among the many was the Mukesh Ambani led telco Reliance Jio which introduced a year-long validity plan as its Diwali offer. Apart from the usual voice-centric or add-on plans, this plan came as a singular one from Reliance Jio and the first of its kind... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj October 30th, 2018 4:52 PM 3 COMMENTS

Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Narrows Losses to Rs 382.3 Crore from Rs 8,198.3 Crore a Year Ago

Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra), today reported narrowing of loss to about Rs 382.3 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2018, against Rs 8,198.3 crore in the year-ago period. During July-September 2017, the company had recorded Rs 7,708.6 crore towards impairment loss on its Consumer Mobile Business assets based on the assessment of its recoverable value and disclosed the same as an exceptional item, Tata Teleservices said in a regulatory filing,... Read More