14 rounds in a total of 2 days have been completed in the spectrum bidding auction and the telecom operators are going pretty aggressive. At the end of the day 2, DoT released that it had received bids for all the 22 circles in the 1800 MHz band and the three circles in 900 MHz band. Mumbai, Delhi circle was the most popular circle in the 900MHz band and Uttar... Read More
Pan India 4G - LTE service license holder Reliance JIO Infocomm (RJIL), Idea Cellular and Uninor (TeleWings) today submitted their applications for taking part in the 900mhz and 1800mhz GSM spectrum auction scheduled for February 3, 2014. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance Communications (Rcom), Aircel and Tata Teleservices (Tata Docomo) already applies for the same as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk. The Auction of Spectrum will be a big bang now... Read More
Another year passes by Indian telecom was filled with many ups and downs many good friends lost their jobs in Telecom in 2013 but still there is always a ray of hope that telecom in India will be better in coming days.... as far as i see 2013 was relative a bad year for Indian Telecom I don't know how many of them will agree with it .. Though in... Read More
India's telecom regulator TRAI issued an guideline, making it mandatory for every Broadband service provider ( Wireline - ISPs) to offer minimum download speed 512 Kbps as "broadband' and reports the number of broadband subscribers in accordance with the revised definition i.e. greater than 512 Kbps. Earlier The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued a Notification on revising the definition of Broadband as ‘Broadband is a data / Internet connection that... Read More
India's Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued 2.2 crore mobile numbers to Pan India BWA 4G spectrum and license holder Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) which paves way for the company to launch its 4G services. Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) rapidly deploying its infrastructure across 20 cities initially and set to launch its 4G LTE service for mobile customers over LTE enabled smart-phones as well as Only data... Read More
India's leading mobile service providers Vodafone, Idea Cellular BSNL and Aircel are tops on the list of higher billing dispute in several telecom circles during the quarter ended June, 2013 according to sector regulator TRAI's Telecom Services Performance Indicators Report (Metering and billing credibility). As per TRAI Quility of Service (QoS) benchmark, not more than 0.1 per cent of the total bills raised by a company in a telecom circle... Read More
India's single largest Duel technology mobile service provider (GSM and CDMA), Reliance Communications (Rcom) has de-activated around 10 million in-active, low-end mobile subscribers at the end of September. According to telecom regulator TRAI's data, Reliance Communications (Rcom) purged approx 8% of its GSM and CDMA subscriber base in the month of September, 2013. With this clean-up move, Rcom lost its third position in the Indian mobile - telecom market to... Read More
Vodafone India today announced the launch of ‘M-Pesa’ a unique mobile money transfer and payment service in Maharashtra. The financial transactions are provided by ICICI Bank for M-Pesa services. This service will now be available across 286 Tehsils, 33 Districts through 4080 specially trained authorized agents and across 387 Vodafone exclusive retail stores in Matharashtra. ‘M-Pesa’ has been already rolled out in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, UP... Read More
Reliance Communications (Rcom) today announced that company is offering a daily free recharge of 10 minutes for a period of five days, from October 20 to its customers in Odisha circle on both the CDMA and GSM platforms to ensure that they stay connected with their loved ones in this hour of need. To help people connect with each other in the aftermath of devastation by cyclone Phailin, After Aircel,... Read More
Aircel today announced that it has restored its mobile communication services in record time in Odisha circle to help victims of the Cyclone Phailin and also provide free 10 minutes calling to over 3.5 lakh affected customers. The talktime was provided to the customers whose balance was less than Rs. 5 with an objective to connect the cyclone affected with their families and friends. Aircel has restores 1400 affected mobile... Read More
UK based global telecom major Vodafone Group Plc wants to invest more than $2 billion in its Indian venture and becomes the first mobile operator to have the advantage of 100% foriegn direct investment. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal informed this in Delhi. In August this year India's Telecom Commission approved the removal of limit of foriegn direct investment in telecom sector. Earlier it was capped at 74%. Telecomtalk forcasted that... Read More
Reliance Jio, the pan India 4G operator has received a letter of intent (LoI) from TRAI as an approval of unified license which will allow them to offer voice services as well. RJIL has to pay one-time entry fee of Rs 1673 crore along with performance bank guarantee of Rs 220 crore and a financial bank guarantee of Rs 44 crore. RJIL is testing voice and messaging services to be... Read More
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Yes, But some investment is better than none. Also as said by CEO, these funds and 18k crore FPO money…
IMO, Airtel only needs to buy sub GHz ( like B8/B5 ) to have atleast 10 MHz in that. &…
Yes I like your detailed reply. I have noticed same in Kolkata circle. Under many metro train station, Jio 4G…
It's good that Airtel is sharing number of 5G customer circle by circle to attract new customer from that circle…
Thank you Rupesh for good realistic long writing on Vi and BSNL.??
