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Rudradeep Biswas June 7th, 2013 12:02 PM 3 COMMENTS

Stronger Brotherhood: After OFC Deal, Reliance Jio Goes for RCom’s 45,000 Towers

Shortly after Annual Meeting of Reliance Industries, the company announced that Reliance Jio and Reliance Communications signed comprehensive agreement for sharing later's nationwide tower infrastructure. This deal follows the inter city optic fiber network sharing deal between two companies in April, 2013. The deal is expected to be valued at Rs 12,000 crore (more than $2 billion) during the lifetime of the agreement. Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 6th, 2013 5:33 PM 18 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Will Not Be A Luxury Product, Plans to Hire More Manpower in Next Months

In the 39th Annual General Meeting (AGM) Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani mentioned Reliance Jio as the company's digital services initiative, though kept mum regarding Reliance Jio's roll out plans. RIL backed Reliance Jio will not a just another broadband service provider, but aims to become a global leader in delivery of digital content, applications and services. The official statement from Reliance Industries says, Reliance is investing in future India... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 22nd, 2013 5:05 PM 15 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to Roll out in Kolkata & West Bengal by 2013 End

There is some updates regarding Reliance Jio's roll out plans as Tarun Jhunjhunwala, the business head and state mentor for eastern zone at Reliance Jio Infocomm shared company's plan during the inauguration of a community policing and security servicing programme at Kolkata. As he said, the roll out will be done in Delhi, Mumbai and Jamnagar at one-go. Though he does not reveal the launch date, the company is looking... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 10th, 2013 4:35 PM 13 COMMENTS

4G Round up: Reliance Jio Cracks Important Deals, LG to Intro LTE-TD Smartphone

Though India's telecom market lost its sheen, there are some happenings ongoing inside the market, specially on the 4G space. While presenting annual report for 2012-13 Reliance Industries, who own Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has said that they have completed finalizing key agreements with its technology partners, service providers, infrastructure providers, application partners, device manufacturers and other strategic partners for the project. The company also finalize the planning for pan... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 30th, 2013 3:02 PM 11 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to Make Own Submarine Cable System – Bay of Bengal Gateway with Other International Players

Reliance Jio Infocomm, which own pan India BWA spectrum is going to invest in making submarine cable system along with several international carriers. Reliance Jio formed a consortium with Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) (Malaysia), Vodafone Group (UK), Omantel (Oman), Etisalat (UAE) and Dialog Axiata (Sri Lanka) to establish the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) submarine cable system. All the carriers signed the Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) and the Supply... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 18th, 2013 3:36 PM 28 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Gets 10,000 Mobile Numbers to Run Voice Over LTE Trial

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has provided 10,000 mobile numbers to Pan India 4G BWA spectrum winner Reliance Jio Infocom for trial of Voice over 4G LTE network, as requested by the company. The number series allocated to Reliance Jio is 83378 for trial propose, and it will be used across Mumbai, Delhi and Jamnagar where Jio will soon start the trial run of VoLTE with 4000 mobile numbers each in... Read More

Sanjay January 3rd, 2012 4:28 PM 23 COMMENTS

RIL Infotel – Network18 Deal to Offer Live TV on 4G Wireless Broadband

Pan India Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum winner Infotel Broadband Services Ltd. (Infotel), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd. today said that a part of the interest owned by it in the ETV Channels is being divested to TV18 Broadcast Limited (TV18) to offer Live TV and Multimedia contents over its up-coming 4G Wireless Broadband service. Infotel expects to take a leadership position in content distribution through 4G Wireless broadband... Read More

Sanjay November 8th, 2011 7:28 PM 10 COMMENTS

RIL – Infotel Broadband Acquires Stake in Extramarks Education

Pan India Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum winner Infotel Broadband Services Ltd. (Infotel), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd., has acquired a 38.5% stake in Extramarks Education Pvt. Ltd. (Extramarks), a company focused on school education and digital learning. The investment in Extramarks has been made through an affiliate company Reliance Strategic Investments Ltd. RIL Infotel Broadband also plans to offer fourth generation (4G) wireless networking services for Education, E-Learning... Read More

Sanjay November 3rd, 2011 6:23 PM 42 COMMENTS

RIL- Infotel and RCom To Tie-Up For 4G Wireless Broadband Services

Pan India Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum winner Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries (RIL) owned Infotel Broadband Ltd to tie-up with Anil Ambani's Reliance Communication (Rcom) to revolutionize Long Term Evolution (LTE) based High Speed 4G Wirelss Broadband service in India. For the first phase of RIL's wireless broadband foray, it plans to lease around 26,000 towers from telecom power operators. The major source of its infrastructure will be contributed by... Read More

Sanjay September 19th, 2011 5:54 PM 19 COMMENTS

Reliance – Siemens To Offer Homeland Security Solutions Over 4G Network

Pan India Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum winner Reliance - Infotel Broadband Ltd plans to offer fourth generation (4G) wireless networking services for safety, security and other advanced applications. Reliance Security Solutions Limited, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) and Siemens Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop Homeland Security Solutions for Safe, Secure and Smart Cities and Highways in India. Reliance and Siemens will combine... Read More

Sanjay April 19th, 2011 8:09 PM 81 COMMENTS

Reliance – Infotel Plans Ambitious 4G Wireless Broadband Launch

Pan India Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum winner Infotel Broadband Ltd geared up to launch Long Term Evolution (LTE) based High Speed 4G Wirelss Broadband service in India. Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) controlled Infotel Broadband Ltd plans to create world class state- of-the-art technology using an asset light strategy. RIL will forge several strategic relations with a host of leading global technology players, service providers, infrastructure providers,... Read More

Sanjay June 11th, 2010 6:25 PM 13 COMMENTS

Reliance Industries to Acquire Stake in Infotel- Pan India BWA Winner

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a substantial stake in Infotel Broadband Services (P) Ltd, which has emerged as a successful bidder in all the 22 circles (Pan India) of the auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum conducted by the DoT. RIL said that it will invest about Rs 4,800 crore by way of subscription to fresh equity capital at... Read More