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October 22nd, 2018 9:32 PM 6 COMMENTS

Tata Sons Reduces its Entire Investment of Rs 28,651 Crore in Loss-Making Tata Teleservices

Tata group holding company Tata Sons has written off its entire investment of Rs 28,651.69 crore in loss-making telecom arm Tata Teleservices, according to a regulatory filing. Tata Sons are in the process of transferring the consumer mobile business of Tata Teleservices to Bharti Airtel and hiving off the enterprise segment to merge with the group's networking arm Tata Communications. "The company has considered it appropriate to write off the... Read More

October 22nd, 2018 6:11 PM 0 COMMENTS

Google Pixel 3 Available for Rs 17,000 on Airtel Online Store, Comes Bundled With Postpaid Plan As Well

Google recently launched its latest flagship devices, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL on October 9 at an event in New York. The new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL come with some notable improvements over their predecessors, and they offer the latest Android 9 Pie out of the box. Some of the issues that the users get to see on the predecessors of the Pixel 3 and Pixel... Read More

October 22nd, 2018 1:19 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel Users Can Now Ask Google Assistant About Their Outstanding Bill and Data Usage Details

As Google announced at its Made for India event last month, Airtel smartphone users will now be able to get instant answers to their frequent account related queries through the Google Assistant. This essentially means Airtel prepaid, postpaid users will be able to know their data balance by issuing a query 'what is my data balance' to Google Assistant, and the virtual assistant will answer the query. To achieve this,... Read More

October 21st, 2018 6:34 PM 40 COMMENTS

Sunil Mittal and Mukesh Ambani to Speak About Indian Telecom Industry at the IMC

Heads of the country's top telecom firms will be seen sharing dais during the India Mobile Congress from October 25-27, where these telcos are expected to discuss critical issues facing the industry. According to the event schedule, Reliance Jio Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal are going to be part of the inaugural session on October 25. Vodafone Idea Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla is also expected to... Read More

October 21st, 2018 12:34 PM 74 COMMENTS

Sunday Talk: What’s Your Pick Between Jio Yearly and Short-Term Prepaid Plans?

Reliance Jio has introduced a new prepaid plan after nearly ten months. As always, the telco has introduced the best yearly prepaid plan in the industry. Yes, I am speaking about the newly launched Rs 1,699 annual plan. Unlike the other plans that we have talked about here, this new plan comes with a long-term validity, as much as a year-long, but unlike the earlier launched yearly prepaid plans from... Read More

October 20th, 2018 7:35 PM 66 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to Approach GigaFiber Rollout in a Similar Manner to Jio 4G

Reliance Jio introduced GigaFiber to the public only a few weeks ago. This new fibre-based high-speed internet service is going to be the first of its kind offering by the Mukesh Ambani led telco. As we reported earlier, Reliance Jio has also listed out the preview offerings for its new broadband service, and we can’t help but feel nostalgia over this announcement. The telco has announced that it would be offering... Read More

October 19th, 2018 5:19 PM 4 COMMENTS

Telecom Department Asks State-Run MTNL to Reveal Long-Term Roadmap as Part of Revival Talks

State-run telecom service provider, Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Limited (MTNL) is already conducting its revival talks with the DoT. As part of the talks, the Department of Telecommunications has asked MTNL to draft a long-term roadmap on how the telco is planning to sustain the competitive Indian telecom market. All the top private telcos- Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio have a pan-India footprint, but MTNL is providing services in just... Read More

October 19th, 2018 12:47 PM 69 COMMENTS

Prepaid War: Airtel Ships 35GB Data, Unlimited Voice Calls With its New Entry-Level Plan

Airtel is concentrating on grabbing more users by launching new entry-level plans and the latest one to join the list is Rs 195 prepaid plan. Bharti Airtel has launched a new prepaid plan of Rs 195 taking the battle to Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea Limited. This new entry-level plan offers a total of 35GB data and unlimited voice calls, but Airtel users will miss out on SMS benefits. With... Read More

October 18th, 2018 7:18 PM 4 COMMENTS

BSNL Pushes FUP Data on FTTH Plans to 3.5TB Per Month With 100 Mbps Speed

In the Chennai circle, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has made revisions to its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) broadband plans meaning that now FTTH customers in Chennai who have subscribed to the below mentioned FTTH plans would be able to enjoy more FUP and faster speeds. The BSNL FTTH plans which have undergone revision include the Rs 999, Rs 1,299, Rs 1,699, Rs 1,999, Rs 2,999 and Rs 4,999... Read More

October 18th, 2018 10:48 AM 3 COMMENTS

Telcos are Required to Inform Subscribers 30 Days Before the Closure of Services

In the last two years, we have seen a lot of small telcos exiting the market or merging with large telcos. During the process, telcos such as Aircel, Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices made their subscribers suffer from their sudden exit plans. Taking such incidents to notice, the government has decided to make it mandatory for every telecom service provider to give at least 30 days advance notice to subscribers... Read More

October 17th, 2018 10:08 PM 99 COMMENTS

ARPU of Reliance Jio Declined from Rs 134 to Rs 131 in Q2 FY19

Reliance Industries Limited, the parent company of Reliance Jio today released its telecom arm's financial results for the quarter that ended on September 30, 2018. During the quarter, Jio reported a standalone net profit of Rs 681 crore and the company posted a net loss of Rs 271 crore during the same period a year ago. On a quarterly basis, its profit grew around 11% from Rs 612 crore in... Read More

October 17th, 2018 9:49 PM 7 COMMENTS

Customers Will Not Face Any Disruption in Services During the Transition to New KYC: DoT

Telecom subscribers will not face any service disruption due to the change in the KYC regime following the Supreme Court order on Aadhaar use. A senior of DoT told PTI that the government would ensure that customers will not face any service related issues during the period. It's said that around 25-30 crore telecom subscribers across the country will likely be affected due to the transition from Aadhaar-based authentication to... Read More

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