After much anticipation, Jio4GVoice App has made its way to Apple App Store. With this, the hurdle for the older iPhone users (due to the lack of VoLTE support) to use Jio 4G SIM card to make/receive calls is cleared. The Jio4GVoice app for iPhone users is in its nascent stage and is available for download only for Mumbai and Karnataka users. Also, the subscribers' devices should be running iOS... Read More
Following a war between Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India over predatory pricing and promotional offers by the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has floated a 32-page consultation paper to review tariff orders within a bid to develop a new framework for the telecom sector. With this new paper, the regulator aims to address certain ambiguities in rules around issues... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India's top telecom operator, has completed the acquisition of Augere Wireless India Private Limited, which holds 20 MHz of spectrum in 2,300 Mhz band spectrum in Madhya Pradesh circle. The Sunil Mittal-led telecom operator had last year inked a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent equity stake in Augere Wireless. Various media reports valued the deal at around Rs 150 crore. In a BSE filing on Thursday,... Read More
Bharti Airtel has recently launched its V-Fiber broadband services in few cities in India. At the time of its inception in October 2016, Airtel claimed that the services would be rolled out in 87 major cities in the country. The service is currently available in the eight cities of Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, and Indore. The company will soon expand the V-Fiber portfolio to 10 more cities,... Read More
GSM telecom operator Aircel is reportedly laying off around 700 staff, which is almost 10% of its pan-India staff strength, as part of the first stage of workforce downsizing ahead of its planned merger with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communication. The telco plans for the next phase of job cuts in April this year. Aircel is currently in the process of merging its operations with RCom's wireless business to create a... Read More
India's leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel is reportedly planning to poach customers of Vodafone and Idea Cellular, which are in talks of merging operations in the country. Mint on Friday reported that Bharti Airtel is planning to bring many innovative schemes and tariff plans in at least six circles where the Vodafone-Idea combined entity will exceed the 50% subscriber and revenue market limit, and as per regulations the entity will... Read More
Google, after collaborating with Sprint and Rogers for the US and Canadian market respectively, joined forces with Telenor to introduce Rich Communications Services (RCS) in Europe and Asia including India. Although Short Message Service aka SMS has been all-pervasive in the mobile communication space for a long time, it hasn't received a massive upgrade over the time. Google’s joint venture with Telenor will, however, allow it (as well as the... Read More
Reliance Jio’s ability to retain market share would be driven by both pricing as well as user experience gave the choice of complete reliance on voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology, according to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra). Jio, which gained a quick subscriber base of 72 million by January 2017, could cross 100 million by March 2017, the agency said. Ind-Ra stated that Jio's free services have resulted in a... Read More
As per the latest data revealed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Bharti Airtel, at 8.43Mbps, records highest average download speed on a mobile network for January 2017. It is worth mentioning that Airtel’s average mobile data speed nearly doubled to 8.42Mbps from 4.68Mbps. Also, it is the third time in the past five months (since September) when Airtel topped the TRAI’s average download speed report. Reliance Jio’s average... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company today said that they rolled out an upgraded 4G network across 400 towns of Maharashtra and Goa to deliver best-in-class mobile network experience to customers. Airtel already has 4G services in Maharashtra and Goa, but with the upgraded 4G network, the company is promising uninterrupted HD video streaming along with improved data speeds and better indoor and outdoor network reception. Airtel has deployed a... Read More
The Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited Mr Mukesh Ambani said that his brainchild, Reliance Jio, crossed 100 Million subscribers in five months after its inception. This essentially means that Reliance Jio is bagging in half million customers every day. Though this milestone dips short of the telecom operator’s expectation, as Mukesh Ambani had earlier expected to bag in 100 million subscribers by the end of 2016, he... Read More
Netflix has just announced its ISP Speed Index rating revealing that Bharti Airtel was the fastest internet service provider in the country for January 2017. With a speed of 2.25Mbps, Airtel managed to climb to the top spot leaving behind Spectranet whose speed was recorded to be 2.10Mbps. Despite topping the chart, in comparison to previous Netflix’s ISP rating, Airtel's speed has decreased from 2.33Mbps to 2.25Mbps. The same holds... Read More
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Difficult to believe.
And there are wifi 7 router on amazon lol
wifi is western culture hence ban wifi -these ppl probably
If BJP govt wants to move forward with fast broadband penetration and follow Industry standards by de-licensing 6Ghz for Wifi7…
Wi-Fi 6E came before COVID ( 5+ years ago ). World moved on to Wi-Fi 7 last year. & Here…
