Struggling PSU telecom operator, Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd. today reported that their standalone loss was at Rs 718.02 crore in the April-June quarter this year down fro Rs 734.24 crore in the same period a year ago. The total income of MTNL from their two operational circles of Mumbai and Delhi also declined by 4.5 per cent to Rs 744.72 crore in April- June quarter from Rs 780.12 crore in the... Read More
Soon after Airtel announced its plan to offer three times more points of interconnect (PoI) to Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio), the latter released the call failure rates on various networks via a statement to the media. According to the statement, around 22 crore calls have failed on Airtel network. Around 52 crore calls have failed cumulatively on the networks of the three incumbent operators viz. Airtel, Vodafone India Ltd, and... Read More
Airtel, today said that following its bilateral discussions with Reliance Jio, it will provide additional PoIs to Jio which will be more than adequate to serve over 15 million customers. Airtel has been providing PoIs to Jio, well ahead of the commencement of its commercial operations. With the latest augmentation, the total number of PoIs will become 3 times the present number of PoIs. Based on the current traffic pattern... Read More
After an initial uproar, the feedbacks about Reliance Jio depict a mixed reaction, according to various reports. In terms of addition of new customers, Reliance Jio is adding five lakh customers a day for the Welcome offer instead of the one million customers it targeted, pointed out a report by The Hindu. December 31, 2016, is the internal target for the company to reach 100 million customers using e-KYC. However,... Read More
Airtel has started Aadhaar based e-KYC solution in Bihar from today following the notification by the Department of Telecom, Government of India. Consumers in Bihar have appreciated the e-solution and started taking SIM based on Aadhar e-KYC. Airtel become the first company to roll out E-KYC solution in Bihar. The solution will facilitate and enable instant activation of Airtel mobile connection and thereby enhance customer convenience and experience. The digital... Read More
Vodafone India, has launched 4G service in West Bengal in the prominent business and residential town of Siliguri. 4G services will be rolled out across West Bengal over the next few months. The launch in West Bengal follows the successful launch of Vodafone 4G services in Kerala, Karnataka, Kolkata, Delhi & NCR, Mumbai, Haryana UP East and Gujarat. Announcing the launch of Vodafone 4G service in West Bengal, Naveen Chopra,... Read More
Idea Cellular, today said that it welcomes Jio, and remains committed to facilitate its seamless entry into the hyper-competitive market. Idea Cellular has in the past been providing and augmenting Points of Interconnect (POIs) very liberally and we will continue to support all new operators for all their reasonable, fair and legitimate requirements of POIs. In the month of August 2016 there were a total of 2.97 million unique Jio subscribers who... Read More
Reliance Jio which is currently the largest holder of liberalised spectrum in the telecom sector has recently started testing carrier aggregation of band 3 (1800 MHz) spectrum with band 5 (850 MHz) spectrum in Kerala circle and may soon launch LTE-A on a pan India scale. The operator currently holds liberalised airwaves in 2300 MHz and 850 MHz pan India and in 1800 MHz in 18 out of the total... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the largest telecom operator in the country which enjoys 24.71 percent of market share with more than 255 million customers on their network has now crossed 1.5 crore subscriber mark in West Bengal circle, a category B circle where the Mittal owned telco has a robust network with 2G, 3G and recently launched 4G network became the second operator to cross the milestone. Vodafone was the first operator in... Read More
After announcing commercial launch, it seems Jio is working hard with its sister unit Reliance Retail to re-brand hundreds of Digital xpress mini stores as Jio Stores to offer better customer service from early next year. According to our sources, Reliance Retail, the retail arm of Reliance Industries will re-brand most of the Digital xpress Mini stores in coming months so that new customers can experience Jio's seamless high speed... Read More
The total mobile subscriber base in the country has marginally grown to 1.035 billion, with Bharti Airtel leading the GSM subscriber addition for the month of June 2016. According to latest subscription data shared by TRAI, overall 1.36 million new mobile subscribers were added during the month. Top operator Bharti Airtel added 1.4 million new users, followed by BSNL (1.3 million) and Vodafone (0.70 million users) in the month. Idea Cellular... Read More
India’s top telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular have agreed to discuss and negotiate reasonable interconnect points that can be provided to Reliance Jio, following the Trai meeting, which has brought an end to a stalemate between both the warring parties. The telecom regulator has asked top telecom carriers to allow points of interconnections to Reliance Jio on an incremental basis. It has also told these telcos... Read More
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Mmwave should be deployed commercially at crowded places. I think smartphones will have to incorporate mmwave in their smartphones immediately…
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