As promised, Reliance Jio has made the new tariff plans live for its 160 million subscribers across the country. While Jio announced details of eight plans a few days ago, there are some plans which it didn't mention such as the Rs 509 and Rs 799 tariff plans. So, Jio's tariff plans now start at a mere Rs 19 and go all the way up to Rs 9,999. The entry-level... Read More
In a bid to improve the mobile connectivity in Karnataka, Indus Towers, India’s largest telecom infrastructure company, has deployed innovative tracking and management technologies across its mobile tower sites in the state. The company had been facing issues of theft of telecom equipment at its sites and therefore took stringent measures to safeguard the equipment by deploying innovative GPRS tracking to foil the cases of theft. The increased safety measures... Read More
Indian Railways to set up high-speed Wi-Fi facility across all railway stations in the country. Currently, there are nearly 8,500 railway stations in the country including those in rural and remote areas. The government is looking to set up the Wi-Fi facility under the Digital India initiative, and the estimated cost of this project is Rs 700 crore ($110 million). Under the Digital India initiative, the national railway agency has... Read More
Airtel Payments Bank has reportedly removed nearly 1,000 retailers from its network chain for not following the correct procedure while signing up customers. Airtel has conducted an internal investigation to minimise such errors in the future. For the unaware, Airtel recently received a temporary eKYC license suspension for opening Airtel Payments Bank account of customers without their notice. People familiar with the matter told Economic Times that Airtel "levied a... Read More
BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) is on a roll at the moment. The company has now announced a revised Plan 446 for its subscribers in Kerala circle. The Plan 446 from BSNL in Kerala circle is now valid for just 71 days, down from the earlier 84 days. However, this change will affect only the new users who will be joining the network as existing customers can enjoy the benefits... Read More
Finally, Vodafone India reacts to the new tariff plans from incumbent operators. India' second largest telecom operator has now increased the validity of its two long-validity plans- Rs 458 and Rs 509. The Rs 458 tariff plan now offers benefits for 84 days, while the Rs 509 tariff plan gives benefits for 91 days from the date of recharge. These new plans are valid in most of the Vodafone 4G... Read More
Bharti Airtel has finally brought Voice over LTE or VoLTE support for Nokia phones. The company announced that Nokia 8, Nokia 6 and Nokia 2 will now support Airtel’s VoLTE services. With the rollout of VoLTE services for Nokia phones, now users on these devices can experience HD quality crystal clear voice with faster call setup time. Airtel says VoLTE offers instant call connect which is three times faster than... Read More
As the headline itself states, it's just a reminder, and there's nothing to worry about. Reliance Jio arguably offers the best tariff plans amongst the Indian telecom operators, but since its inception, the company has proved that it also has many hidden terms and conditions for what it offers. Don't get us wrong, this statement doesn't relate to this article, but it's worth mentioning. We all are aware of JioPrime... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is now offering 2GB of free data to the customers who're joining the network. The company has officially announced this offer a couple of days without issuing the list of eligible circles. In the past, BSNL offered the same scheme on a pan-India basis, so expect the offer applicable in every circle where BSNL has its operations. In the official statement, BSNL confirmed that to... Read More
Reliance Communications' biggest foreign lender China Development Bank (CDB) has withdrawn a petition seeking to drag the debt-ridden telco into insolvency, following the Anil Ambani-led telco's deal with Reliance Jio to sell various assets, including spectrum, a fiber-optic network, and towers among others. However, Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson is continuing its fight against RCom to recover Rs 1,150 crore dues. China Development Bank is a secured lender accounting for... Read More
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm is planning to soon launch enterprise services in the country, having cornered around 160 million 4G customers in the country since its launch in September 2016. According to a report in Hindu Business Line, the 4G entrant is planning to launch enterprise services like unified communications, Multiprotocol Label Switching (a protocol for high-speed telecom traffic) networks, Internet Protocol-Virtual Private Networks, cloud services, and managed video-conferencing,... Read More
This is what we call disruption at its best. Reliance Jio made yet another change to its tariff plans. The existing tariff plans of Jio now offers up to 50% more data, and there are four new tariff plans as well. Overall, Jio now has eight tariff plans, out of which four plans offer 1GB data per day, and the other four plans offer 1.5GB data per day during the... Read More
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