Bharti Airtel consolidated its market leadership position with 23 bps improvement in market share to 24.6% as of May 2016, followed by Vodafone at 19.1% and Idea at 17.0%. The top three telcos continued to strengthen their position with combined market share of 60.8% as against 58.9% from a year ago, according to ICRA, which said that the majority of this gain in market share has come at the expense of... Read More
In a recent move, Anil Ambani led Reliance Communications which operates as Reliance Mobile has started offering free data to its customers who download & sign up to use their self-care app 'Instacare'. RCom customers who haven't used the app before can sign up in their self-care app to avail the offer. Under the promotional offer, the company is offering 500 MB free data which can be used on 2G... Read More
In a recent move, Reliance Communication has now launched 'Double Data' for their prepaid customers across Andhra Pradesh & Telangana. Though unlike other operators like Airtel or Vodafone; RCom isn't offering 'Double Data' on 3G recharges, instead they are offering 'Double Data' on few 2G packs. Reliance Mobile customers in the circle can recharge with Rs 199 & Rs 43 2G data packs after which they would receive 100% more... Read More
In recent time Reliance Communications that was offering mobile services on dual platform is winding up its CDMA business and refarming the spectrum on 850 Mhz for LTE. Initially they asked the CDMA subscribers to migrate to 4G/LTE. However the migration is actually CDMA to GSM only. Globally CDMA operators are also in the same mood. The CDMA based operators of Canada, United States, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Indonesia have... Read More
Since the Rcom CDMA shut down in favour of 4G rollout by the operator has been the talk of the town over the past couple of months, I decided to throw some light on the dark underbelly of this whole migration process. Reliance has left no stone unturned in trying to lure its CDMA and EvDO subscriberbase to migrate to its new LTE platform in order to vacate the precious... Read More
After announcing 4G tariff for Mumbai circle, Reliance Communications has now announced its 4G data tariff for Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra circles. Unlike Mumbai where RCOM 4G tariff was more than incumbent operators, RCOM has slightly lower 4G tariff in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra circles. RCOM 4G services is expected to go live at 9.30am today as per update on its website. The tariff starts at Rs 95/97 for 1GB data for 2 days, while... Read More
So today finally my Reliance LTE wi-pod showed a green light in the network signal indicator which implied that Reliance had completed the migration process from the EvDO data card to the new LTE sim. For those of you who are new to the site, I live in Mumbai circle and most of my reviews are centred around Mumbai. So let me go ahead and give you the initial glimpses... Read More
Whatever the loyal fans of CDMA are thinking, CDMA will continue to be ceased in India. Starting from BSNL and MTNL which has pretty low subscriber base, the largest CDMA operator of the country - Reliance Communications continues to shut down its CDMA services across the country in the favor of LTE. Before the migration RCom promised CDMA users will be shifted to 4G, but post-migration users were actually shifted... Read More
Reliance communications the 4th largest operator by subscriber base is all set to launch its 4G data services across the country. The operator has updated its website with a countdown timer which suggests that the 4G services will go live at 9.30 Am tomorrow 30th June. Rcom has in the first phase only targeted its 5 million CDMA and EvDO subscribers who will be the first ones to get a... Read More
At last Reliance Communications has launched its much waited 4G services in the country. Officially Reliance 4G has been launched in Mumbai and the company has uploaded the 4G data plans of the circle. However the plans are available for Reliance 4G WiPod only. Mobile data plans are coming soon. These 4G data plans are a real shocker to CDMA customers of RCOM, who were enjoying super cheap CDMA/EVDO data... Read More
Reliance Communications has reportedly received the legal intercept and monitoring (LIM) approval from the department of telecom in 12 out of 22 circles, which will allow the telco to offer 4G services to its CDMA subscribers, who have a 4G SIM. A Business Standard report said that Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Kolkata, Maharashtra, Punjab, east and west Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are the first 12 circles. The... Read More
Change is good, not always! The line turns true when Reliance Communications had planned to decommission its CDMA services and would use the spectrum (of 800Mhz) for LTE roll out by reframing. Though CDMA was never able to edge out over GSM in India, some people like it for cheap voice calls and better wireless broadband (than 3G). All good thing come to an end, so does Reliance CDMA. But... Read More
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