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Imon March 29th, 2016 2:21 AM 158 COMMENTS

Jio 4G sims to be available in Reliance digital express stores from first week of April, confirm sources

Reliance Jio is preparing to soft launch its commercial 4G services in key metro cities, in the coming few days, multiple sources close to the development told TelecomTalk. The telco has already started shipping 4G SIM cards and Mi-Fi devices to Reliance Digital stores across metro cities. However, sources said that these SIM cards and Mi-Fi devices will be limited to few users as a part of beta extension process,... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 24th, 2016 7:53 AM 461 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio may push commercial launch to December: Report

Reliance Jio’s commercial launch of 4G services could be further pushed back to December, as the telco struggles to improve network quality, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said in a recent note. A delayed launch may spoil the telco's plan to aggressively poach high-end consumers from incumbents – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular -- unless it brings down prices. The US brokerage expect Reliance Jio to delay its 4G launch... Read More

Esmail March 23rd, 2016 9:55 AM 61 COMMENTS

JioNet WiFi network review at Wankhede stadium Mumbai- with speed test

Cricket fever is in the air as India Hosts the ICC world T20 championship. Reliance Jio the soon to launch telecom network is providing free public wifi service at 6 of the stadiums hosting the matches. The company’s WiFi network JioNet is available in Eden Garden at Kolkata, Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai), IS Bindra Stadium (Mohali), HPCA stadium (Dharamshala), Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bengaluru) and Feroz Shah Kotla (Delhi). JioNet supports 68,000 connections at... Read More

Srikapardhi March 19th, 2016 8:30 PM 79 COMMENTS

Videocon deal to make Airtel largest spectrum holder, pipping Reliance Jio

Airtel, the country's largest telco by subscribers, is all set to pip Mukesh Ambani's telecom venture Reliance Jio in terms of overall spectrum holdings once it completes the Videocon spectrum trading deal. Bharti Airtel had on Thursday inked pact with Videocon Telecom to buy the latter's 4G bandwidth in the 1800 MHz band in Bihar, UP-East, UP-West, Gujarat, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh for Rs 4,428 crore. The deal was announced hours... Read More

Esmail March 16th, 2016 1:22 PM 32 COMMENTS

Jio Join app: First look and comprehensive feature review

We recently shared with you the initial impressions of the Jio Mi-Fi pocket router which acts as a bridge between non VoLTE smartphones and voice services on Jio's 4G LTE network. Today we would like to share with you the look and design of the app which makes this possible and brief you about its features and capabilities. Jio join app is a one stop solution for all calling and... Read More

Srikapardhi March 15th, 2016 1:53 PM 37 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to reportedly spend over Rs 1000 cr on commercial 4G launch next month

Reliance Jio will reportedly spend over Rs 1000 crores on commercial launch, which is likely sometime next month, Exchange4media reported Tuesday citing industry sources. The launch however will happen in phases with initial focus on metro or high ARPU cities. Till date, the telco is providing services to over 1.5 lakhs group employees to get feedback around the quality of services. Reliance Jio will offer 4G services using the 2300... Read More

Esmail March 14th, 2016 10:20 AM 67 COMMENTS

Hands on with Jio Mi-Fi device: First impressions

We've been getting a lot of requests for a hands on review of the Jio Mi-Fi personal hotspot which will be sold by Reliance Jio at the time of commercial launch. So here we would like to give you just a bird's eye view of the device and its features without delving deep into the tech specs. So out of the box the device looks and feels like a large... Read More

Tharun G March 11th, 2016 5:44 PM 61 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio sister company to source lakhs of VoLTE smartphones ahead of 4G launch

Reliance Retail will source three lakh high-end VoLTE smartphones from Chinese handset maker ZTE to support its sister company Reliance Jio’s commercial launch, which is likely to take place soon. According to a report in ET, the retail arm of Reliance Industries Limited is also sourcing VoLTE smartphones from other Chinese original device manufacturers (ODMs) CK Telecom, Wingtech, and Tinno Mobile, which are among the top five ODMs globally. The... Read More

Esmail March 8th, 2016 4:22 PM 4 COMMENTS

Ex-Reliance Jio executive Vivek Jain joins CA Media Digital as India CEO

Former Reliance Jio digital media vice president Vivek Jain has joined CA Media Digital (India) as chief executive officer. He will now report to the board of directors of CA Media Digital, which is an operating business of CA Media LP, owned by The Chernin Group, KKR, and other investors. Prior to joining CA Media Digital, Jain served Reliance Jio for two years. He also worked for Amazon, Google and... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 7th, 2016 3:44 PM 53 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio offers unlimited Wi-Fi facility at 6 cricket stadiums for T20 World Cup

With T20 World Cup followed by the IPL, what more can one ask this cricketing season, apart from some smashing activity. A good news for all the cricket fans: Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited brings high-speed Internet connectivity (Jionet) at 6 main stadiums across the country during the upcoming T20 World Cup matches. This is a first for Jio Net to be connecting 6 cricket stadiums in the country that to... Read More

Esmail March 3rd, 2016 2:00 PM 40 COMMENTS

A sneak peek into the production and packaging of Jio 4G sim cards [Video]

Now that we are even closer to the commercial launch of the most awaited Indian telecom operator, we think it would be nice to give you a virtual tour of the manufacturing and packaging of the Jio 4G sim cards. Earlier we had reported that Jio has been importing sim cards from China. Below is a video showing the manufacturing and packaging process of the Jio sim cards. 'Pack... Read More

Esmail February 23rd, 2016 9:13 AM 105 COMMENTS

Hands on with Jio connected home solutions: First impressions

With the commercial launch of Jio still some time away, Jio fanboys are getting impatient, but the delay Jio says is on account of network optimisation on a Pan India scale. There are a lot of developments happening under the hood which most of us here are unaware of, so we at TelecomTalk thought that while you wait for the full fledged launch we could give you a little taste... Read More