Voice & Data

September 24th, 2016 9:52 AM 56 COMMENTS

Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Jio can bid for spectrum in any band in any circle in October auction

The department of telecommunications on Friday published the list of final bidders who are eligible for bidding for spectrum in the auctions commencing 1st of October 2016. The mega auction will see the government put for sale over 2350 MHz of spectrum across the 700/850/900/1800/2100/2300/2500 MHz bands. None of the 7 operators who had submitted applications withdrew it (Last date for withdrawing applications was 22nd Sept). The mock auctions will... Read More

September 24th, 2016 6:02 AM 15 COMMENTS

Shopclues to bundle Jio sim with welcome offer for shoppers who buy eligible 4G handset

Shopclues the e-commerce company has collaborated with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd for its 'Jio Welcome Offer', becoming the first e-commerce player to do so. Customers can purchase any 4G-enabled Jio eligible smartphone from ShopClues and get a free Jio SIM card from any Reliance Digital/ Digtal Xpress/ Digtal Xpress Mini store. Under the Jio welcome offer, users can enjoy unlimited access to HD voice calls (on Jio eligible VOLTE phones),... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 9:30 PM 36 COMMENTS

Jio expresses displeasure over Idea’s lackadaisical response to augmenting POIs, says 4 crore calls failing per day

Reliance Jio in its official statement to the Press today expressed concern  over the half hearted commitment made by Idea cellular today about augmenting the POI capacity for calls from Jio network by 230% of the current availability. Jio said, the response by Idea to the severe Quality of Service issues faced between the Idea and Jio networks is disappointing and displays lack of intent on Idea’s part to resolve... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 4:45 PM 21 COMMENTS

Idea provides 230% additional capacity to Jio says QoS for customers, top priority

Idea Cellular recently invited Jio for a discussion to mutually resolve the traffic asymmetry. As Quality of Service for its customers is top priority, Idea has agreed to further enhance capacity in both access and long distance interconnection, by providing over 230% additional capacity, allowing for two way calling between the networks. Idea has now provisioned 1,865 ports for access, from 565 earlier – a 230% increase in capacity. Simultaneously,... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 1:07 PM 23 COMMENTS

Anonymous India accuses Jio of continuing to share user info with foreign countries

The famous hacker group Anonymous India has yet again accused Reliance Jio of sharing user data with foreign countries. Last year the group had made a similar claim stating that Jio chat app was sending across user location data to servers located in China, this time around they have accused Jio of sharing call data of users to servers located in USA and Singapore. Last year Jio had rubbished the... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 12:05 PM 99 COMMENTS

Airtel launches long duration 4G data pack with effective rate less than Rs.50/GB

Airtel today announced the launch of a special data pack that offers 30 GB 4G data for 90 days. While the pack is available for Rs.1495 for existing users; new users can avail this offer via first recharge of Rs.1494 thus bringing down the per GB cost to just below Rs.50 (which was the price point advertised by Jio at the time of launch). After crossing the 30 GB data... Read More

September 22nd, 2016 4:30 PM 25 COMMENTS

Vodafone Group invests Rs 47,700 crore in India ahead of spectrum auctions

Vodafone India, the country's second largest telecom operator with 200 million users, said that it has received an equity infusion of Rs 47,700 crore from its parent company, Vodafone Group, in the first half of the current fiscal. The carrier claimed that the equity infusion via foreign direct investment (FDI) is largest ever FDI infusion in the country. "This equity infusion of Rs 47,700 crore, which we believe is the... Read More

September 22nd, 2016 12:41 PM 44 COMMENTS

Operators handling MNP requests to RJio by offering better data benefits, say sources

Reliance Jio’s entry into the market with disruptive pricing offering free voice calls and free roaming have pushed the other players in the market to slash their rates. While this occurs at one end, there are subscribers trying to port to RJio at another end. The operators are reportedly handling the MNP requests by being generous, offering 100% data benefits to the customers who are deciding to port out their... Read More

September 22nd, 2016 6:50 AM 16 COMMENTS

BSNL to get richer by Rs.1250 cr for installing rural wireline connections before 2002

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will get subsidy support of Rs 1,250 crore from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) as a compensation for the deficit that the State-run telecom operator incurred in operating the rural wire-line connections installed prior to April 1, 2002. The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given the approval for the subsidy support on Wednesday. The Cabinet also decided no further request from... Read More

September 21st, 2016 6:47 PM 17 COMMENTS

Telenor in talks to merge data business with Tikona

Telenor India, a smaller GSM telecom operator, is reportedly looking at merging its data business with Goldman Sachs-owned Tikona Digital, which offers broadband services to home and business customers and had lately started providing 4G services in a few cities such as Varanasi. According to an ET Now report, the talks between these companies are revolving around just the data business, and Telenor’s oice business may be kept out of... Read More

September 20th, 2016 10:50 PM 155 COMMENTS

Jio says top telcos still not providing new interconnection capacity to hamper entry

Reliance Jio has alleged that the continued denial of requisite interconnection capacity or PoIs by top telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular was aimed at hindering the 4G telco’s entry into the sector, and depriving Indian customers from enjoying superior HD voice services. The telco also said that the denial of requisite PoI’s is also in clear violation of the License conditions and TRAI regulations on quality... Read More

September 20th, 2016 8:51 PM 4 COMMENTS

Idea will now offer e-KYC ‘Aadhaar’ based SIM activation across its service centers

Idea Cellular, has announced the roll out of ‘electronic – Know Your Customer (e-KYC)’ based activations for both Prepaid and Postpaid customers across its service centers in 22 circles. The pan-India roll-out of e-KYC has been enabled after the successful pilot by Idea in Delhi circle, in association with UIDAI, and as per the DoT guidelines. The e-KYC solution allows users to avail instant verification using their ‘Aadhaar’ Number, enabling quicker... Read More

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