January 1st, 2020 12:00 AM 2 COMMENTS

What to Expect From Indian Telecom Industry in 2020: BSNL 4G, VoWi-Fi, 5G Trials and More

We have already taken a look at how the year 2019 has been such a bumpy ride for the telecom industry. There have been many highs and many lows for the telecom industry in general, and for the subscribers as well. However, that does not mean that the upcoming year is going to be lukewarm in terms of innovation and services from the telecom companies. 2020 is going to be... Read More

December 31st, 2019 7:20 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Industry In 2019: A Look Back On Major Events That Were the Milestones This Year

The year 2019 has been a very happening one for the Indian Telecom industry. This was a year full of ups and downs and many waves. The telecom operators were mostly locked in a battle for the large part of the year, and the effects of the data tariff war definitely spawned in the entire industry. The future of the telecom industry was also decided somewhat in this year with... Read More

December 30th, 2019 5:19 PM 57 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Adds 9.1 Million Subscribers in October 2019, No IUC Effect Noticed: Trai Data

Reliance Jio continues its aggressive subscriber addition even after the introduction of IUC Top-Up vouchers. Back in October this year, Reliance Jio came out with IUC vouchers and also started charging six paise per minute from the users for off-net voice calls. According to the latest Telecom Subscription Data released by Trai, Reliance Jio added a whopping 9.1 million new customers in October 2019, which was followed by other operators-... Read More

December 30th, 2019 7:11 AM 14 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Offering 1TB of Data and 7 Days Validity With Rs 199 JioFiber Plan

Reliance Jio has been tweaking the entire JioFiber working process right now as the ISP wants to start 2020 on a high note. Already, JioFiber Preview plan users are being migrated to paid plans and all the users will be billed from January 1, 2020. A few days ago, we reported the arrival of JioFiber affordable plans like Rs 199 and Rs 351. While the Rs 199 pack is a... Read More

December 28th, 2019 7:05 AM 18 COMMENTS

Vodafone Has the Most Versatile Postpaid Plans Right Now Starting at Just Rs 399

Vodafone has been going head-on-head with Bharti Airtel in the postpaid segment. The launch of Vodafone REDX premium postpaid offering gave the UK-based telco an upper hand in the industry, but that's not all. Vodafone has three different types of postpaid plans- for a single user, for a family and a premium plan of Rs 999. The company even has postpaid plans which ship with iPhone Forever subscription- a feature... Read More

December 27th, 2019 4:17 PM 13 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio No Longer Allowing Users to Recharge Old Prepaid Plans via Tariff Protection

Reliance Jio has stopped the tariff protection service which we spotted a few days ago on the company's website. With the help of Jio's tariff protection service, prepaid customers were able to get the previous plans and not the newly launched plans. However, the service is no longer available, meaning every Jio prepaid user will now have to recharge the newly launched prepaid plans itself. For the unaware, Reliance Jio... Read More

December 27th, 2019 12:25 PM 113 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea 4G Network to Suffer As Telco Focuses on Paying AGR Dues

Out of all the telecom operators in the industry right now, Vodafone Idea is the worst hit with financial troubles and the latest AGR dues. As per a new report from ETTelecom, Vodafone Idea is putting its plans of 4G network expansion and network modernisation on hold to focus on payment of dues which it has to make in late January, as per people aware of the matter. It is... Read More

December 26th, 2019 11:21 AM 9 COMMENTS

Prepaid Subscribers Said to Be Recharging Monthly Plans After the Tariff Hike

It seems like prepaid subscribers of the telecom operators are moving to monthly recharges after the recent tariff hike in the Indian telecom industry. A new report now says that the tariff hike is forcing the users who are on a tight budget to choose monthly plans over the long-term plans. An ET Telecom report highlights that some customers are even opting data-only packs from the telcos as they are... Read More

December 25th, 2019 7:42 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Is Taking These Steps to Improve Health of Telecom Sector But Still There are Hurdles

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is responsible for overseeing the regulations in the telecom and other related industries. The year 2019 has been a very important one for the telecom regulatory majorly because of the regulations that it has issued and whatever has ensued in the sector as a whole. But, right now, the responsibility on the shoulder of Trai is a huge one because the telecom regulator... Read More

December 25th, 2019 10:14 AM 31 COMMENTS

Tariffs Should Keep on Increasing to Address the Financial Distress in Telecom Industry: COAI

Over the last few weeks, there has been a long debate going on the internet regarding the latest tariff hike from telcos. Some say that the tariff hike is good for the industry, while some believe that it's not at all a good move from the operators as they don't have the capability to provide quality services. Rajan Mathews, the Director General at Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), believes... Read More

December 25th, 2019 6:59 AM 11 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Goes for Pricing Advantage Yet Again With Rs 2,020 Plan, But is That Enough

Reliance Jio has now discounted its yearly prepaid plan of Rs 2,199 and started offering the same benefits at Rs 2,020 on the occasion of New Year. When incumbent telcos- Vodafone and Bharti Airtel announced their revised prepaid recharges earlier this month, Jio had an upper hand thanks to the slight edge on the pricing front. However, Airtel and Vodafone Idea removed the FUP voice calling limit on off-net voice... Read More

December 23rd, 2019 1:09 PM 46 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea and Other Telcos Unlikely to Show Interest in Upcoming Spectrum Auction: Analysts

The biggest upcoming event in the telecom industry is going to be the auction of the 5G and 4G airwaves which is bound to happen in the next calendar year or to be precise, sometime in the last quarter of the current FY. As per a new ET Telecom report, however, although the 5G spectrum auction is happening as earliest as possible, it is likely to garner a lukewarm response... Read More

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