Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio’s launch has resulted in a massive cut in data prices, and the average cost of 1GB data by all telcos stood at $ 0.33 at the end of March 31, according to the Internet Trends Report 2017 by Kleiner Perkins. The report said that Jio's average revenue per user (ARPU) has grown to $ 4.70 or Rs 300 after its ended freebies on March 31, 2017,... Read More
In a fresh salvo against Reliance Jio, Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel has reportedly sought the Mukesh Ambani-led 4G telco's license cancellation in Jammu & Kashmir for allegedly flouting licence conditions. Airtel, in a letter to the telecom department, said that Jio was not following instructions from the security agencies to stop pre-paid services in Jammu and Kashmir, and wrongly classified 95% of its subscribers in the state as post-paid users,... Read More
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm is now preparing to disrupt the country's fiber-to-home segment with the launch of commercial service around September-October period. According to an Economic Times report, JioFiber's base pack is likely to be 100 GB of data for just Rs 500, which may give birth to another price war in the FTTH segment. In India, Bharti Airtel and BSNL are large fixed-line home broadband service providers that... Read More
Reliance Jio, the 4G entrant, may raise tariffs in the medium term to start generating a return on its massive investment of $27 billion-$30 billion, rating firm Fitch Ratings said, adding that India's leading telecom operator Airtel may not raise tariffs due to market pressure. "We believe that Jio may continue to disrupt the market by offering cheaper tariffs than the incumbents to gain market share. Ongoing industry consolidation will... Read More
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has fired a fresh salvo at India's leading telecom operators --Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular -- alleging that they paid Rs 400 crore less in licence fee to the government for the January-March quarter, according to various media reports. Jio has asked the telecom department (DoT) to levy penalties and even terminate the licences of these incumbents, besides seeking an inquiry against them. In a... Read More
Indian telecom industry continues to rise with every passing month. According to the data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the telecom industry has added 2.8 million mobile subscribers (both added and left out subscribers) in April 2017. Based on the data released by the association of mobile operators in the country, the total number of mobile phone subscribers has... Read More
Reliance Jio will start facing the heat in coming days as its subscriber addition has slowed down in the month of March 2017, according to a report from UBS. The Mukesh Ambani-led newcomer has added just 5.8 million new customers in March 2017, which is more than 50 percent down from 12.2 million subscribers added in February 2017. The Telecom Regulator Authority of India (TRAI) recently said that Jio's market... Read More
Reliance Jio, the 4G entrant, has cornered 9.29 percent subscriber market share as on March 31, up from 8.83 percent in February, becoming the fourth largest wireless telecom operator in India, according to TRAI's latest data. Reliance Jio was also the top wireless broadband service provider in March with 108.68 million users, followed by Bharti Airtel (47.04 million), Vodafone (37.71 million), Idea Cellular (24.70 million) and Reliance Communications (14.01 million).... Read More
Reliance Jio, India's newest and fastest growing service provider, has also propelled Mukesh Ambani to lead the Forbes list of `2017 Global Game Changers'. The Forbes report says that it not only features 'game changers,' but also the people who are changing lives around the world. Ambani shares space with Snapchat's CEO Evan Spiegel, James Dyson- the founder of home appliances startup- Dyson, and Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm has urged the country’s telecom department to block Bharti Airtel’s acquisition of Tikona’s 4G business for Rs 1600 crore, taking its fight with the latter to another level. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco has alleged that Airtel is exploiting a gap in M&A rules through this deal, which actually is a spectrum trading deal. In a letter to the DoT dated May 15, the 4G entrant said that... Read More
Reliance Jio is finding every possible way to impress the customers. After luring the users with the Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan offer, the newcomer has come up with yet another new scheme, which is first of its kind in the Indian telecom sector. The new feature is called as 'My Vouchers' where a user can purchase a recharge voucher now and use it later. Sounds confusing, right? Let me explain... Read More
There’s a lot of buzz on the internet regarding the launch of Reliance JioFiber broadband service. Back in April, Jio officially confirmed that they are conducting the trial services in select cities and will be expanding to some of the major cities in coming days. Today, the company officially confirmed that the service is being offered as Preview offer in six cities of the country. JioCare, the official Twitter handle... Read More
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Can we expect anything nice from this govt? Or they just like banning things Imagine buying a router above 5K…
Now only for 7 days only, and increases plan price too.eg:- 199>299(Pay whenever you are comfortable like 15 days comfortable…
From where can we support ACT on this and make gov listen.
Yeah, and they demand for rampant installation fees varying from 2000 to 10,000
