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Apurva October 11th, 2014 3:56 AM 15 COMMENTS

Vodafone India Calls Govt’s Favourable Stand Towards Relaince Jio As Unfair

Vodafone India has accused the regulatory structure of Indian telecom and said that the government has not been fair with its favourable stand towards Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm. The company pointed out that Mukesh Ambani run Reliance Jio Infocomm was awarded voice facility on its ISP licence without having to pay any higher spectrum usage charges like other telcos have been subjected to. Besides this, Vodafone India will also... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 22nd, 2014 4:17 PM 15 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio and Indus Towers Ink Infrastructure Sharing Deal

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and Indus Towers, the world’s largest and India’s leading provider of telecom tower infrastructure, today announced the signing of a Master Services Agreement (MSA) for tower infrastructure sharing. Under the agreement, Reliance Jio would utilize the telecom tower infrastructure services being provided by Indus Towers to launch its services across the country. As per the agreement, the pricing would be based on prevailing market rates. The agreement... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 18th, 2014 4:23 PM 10 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio and GTL Infra sign Tower Infrastructure Sharing Deal

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and GTL Infrastructure Limited, a Global Group enterprise, engaged in the business of Shared Passive Telecom Infrastructure in India, today announced the signing of a Master Services Agreement (MSA) for tower infrastructure sharing. Sanjay Mashruwala, Managing Director, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited said, “Our mission is to launch a pan India next-generation voice and data services. We will build the same through a judicious combination of own... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 6th, 2014 3:12 AM 18 COMMENTS

Can Reliance Jio Disrupt Telecom Market in India with its launch?

There are lots of talk on success of Reliance Jio, the dream project of Mukesh Ambani - can he achieve the success he is looking for? In the second week of August, 2014 Jio joined COAI as core member. The GSM lobby which works under COAI was having tussle with Jio previously in several matters including testing of mobile numbers, spectrum allocation etc. Whatever it was it seems it's alright... Read More

Mahit August 27th, 2014 3:04 PM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio strikes a pact with BSNL for leasing its towers, a good move ?

Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed a pact with the Government owned BSNL allowing them to lease out 4000 mobile towers. BSNL will be charging flat Rs 38,000 per month for a Ground based Tower. The charges for the roof based tower will be Rs 24,900. Additionally it is also said that BSNL is ready to toss in some discounts if RJIL commits to leasing a bulk of 1500 towers. BSNL... Read More

Esmail June 30th, 2014 1:28 AM 40 COMMENTS

CAG urges DOT to cancel Pan India 4G spectrum held by Reliance Jio

Comptroller & Auditor General of India in a draft report sent to the Department of Telecom for comments, said, "the DoT failed to recognise the tell-tale sign of rigging of the auction right from beginning of the auction" in which a small ISP, Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (IBSPL) emerged winner of pan-India broadband spectrum by paying 5,000 times of its net worth. RIL, which acquired IBSPL within hours of... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 21st, 2014 1:12 PM 19 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Bets on Cloud Computing: to Set up 14 Data Centers across the Country

Reliance Jio which is expecting a August 2014 wide level trials and any time in 2015 for commercial roll out is on its way create several data centers across the country. As per the media reports Jio will have 14 data centers in the country. All of them will few of the largest data centers in the world with space of 50,000 - 7,00,000 sq ft. Expected list of Jio's... Read More

Esmail June 18th, 2014 5:27 PM 42 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to launch 4G broadband services from 2015

For the first time Mukesh Ambani has made an official statement regarding the date of launch of 4G broadband services by Reliance Jio on a Pan India scale. While addressing the shareholders in the 40th annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani declared that Jio will roll out its services in 2015 in a phased manner. RIL promoted Jio holds pan-India broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum that can... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 13th, 2014 8:59 PM 18 COMMENTS

Should Reliance Jio’s Voice Strategies Consider MVNO Possibility?

Though many of our impatient readers are skeptical about Reliance Jio's commercial launch of 4G services, let me tell you guys one thing, the services will be so fast that you will never be impatient. What I believe by seeing the progress of laying OFC across Kolkata, Jio may go for launch at several cities at one-go in next 90 days and there is little chance that they start offering... Read More

Ritij June 3rd, 2014 11:16 AM 26 COMMENTS

Telecom operators hike salaries to prevent staff from going to Reliance Jio

Reliance Jio is planning to begin its operations in full swing this September and it has already started increasing the worries for competitors. It is believed that it is offering about 20-25 percent salary hikes to the circle head level management of other operators to switch their jobs to Reliance Jio. It plans on having a phased roll out in the country and the hiring is in sync with that... Read More