December 22nd, 2016 1:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

RCom sells its tower business to Brookfield Infrastructure

Brookfield Infrastructure, along with its institutional partners, is buying the tower business of Reliance Communications (RCom) at an upfront payment of Rs. 11,000 crores in cash, announces a statement released by RCom. The transaction is subject to authority approvals. The binding agreement will de-merge RCom’s tower business into a separate business entity, owned by Brookfield Infrastructure. RCom will get ‘B’ class non-voting shares in the new business. Besides the non-voting shares,... Read More

December 20th, 2016 12:47 PM 56 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Updated their myPlan Infinity Postpaid Plans; Rs. 549 Plan Now Offers 3GB of 4G Data

Bharti Airtel today updated their recently announced myPlan Infinity of Rs. 549 and Rs. 799. With the increasing craze to 4G data consumption in India and to match Reliance Jio’s free data offering, Airtel is making this move. As we already know, Airtel recently unveiled two new Infinity plans under their postpaid scheme of Rs. 549 and Rs. 799 and they offer free voice calling along with a certain amount... Read More

December 20th, 2016 7:08 AM 29 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Adds Yet Another Affordable Rs. 349 Plan for the Postpaid Users With Unlimited Free Voice Calls

Idea Cellular, India’s third-largest telecom network have regularly been updating their tariff plan lineup after the introduction of Reliance Jio. Recently, the company launched two new postpaid plans of Rs. 1599 and Rs. 1199 with unlimited voice calling. Expanding the same plan lineup, the telecom network today listed yet another plan under the same ‘New Ultimate’ scheme and it costs just Rs. 349. In-line with the earlier announced plans, this... Read More

December 19th, 2016 12:29 PM 139 COMMENTS

Pan India 4G maps of Telecom Operators across various Bands

At TelecomTalk, we always strive to make telecom more interesting and thrive for it's best development in India. Though we maintain a spectrum holding sheet, many readers find it confusing and tedious to understand. Also, readers have personally informed me the same and asked to come up with something easy. As I always say 'Pictures speak better than words' and here we now come up with PAN India 4G service... Read More

December 19th, 2016 7:15 AM 65 COMMENTS

Does BSNL Rs. 99 Unlimited Calling Offer has what it takes to rival its opponents

BSNL, the state-run telecom operator, recently introduced unlimited calling offers for its prepaid offers. We have exclusively reported these plans a couple of days ago. But, the major part is we know this move was coming from BSNL for a long time. We have earlier written an article on this BSNL free unlimited voice calling offer on how BSNL is going the change the telecom industry with its free offerings.... Read More

December 18th, 2016 7:14 AM 13 COMMENTS

4G, Augmented Reality, USSD: Just some of things that will make headway in 2017

We could better call 2016 as ‘the year of 4G’, with the advent of Reliance Jio and free voice calling offerings and some exciting data packs. In fact, with Reliance Jio, the whole telecom ecosystem geared up to provide 4G and VoLTE phones. As we bid adieu to 2016, we zeroed in on few trends that we may see in the year to come: 1. Inevitable Existence in the devices segment... Read More

December 17th, 2016 7:38 AM 54 COMMENTS

Airtel myPlan Infinity 1199 vs Idea Unlimited Combo Plan 1199: Which Plan Serves You the Best?

Four months back, a relatively new telecom network, Reliance Jio, forayed into the Indian telecom sector with an aim to disrupt the telecom market in India. Having said that, the new entrant’s goals have been successful to much extent. Yes, with the entrance of Reliance Jio, things have changed with major telecom networks such as Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone India battling for pride. With its complete free services, Jio... Read More

December 16th, 2016 7:50 PM 105 COMMENTS

Exclusive: BSNL’s Unlimited Calling Offers for Prepaid Customers are here

After private telcos went on an announcement spree of unlimited calling at reasonable rates, BSNL today announced similar offerings. When compared to private telcos offerings, BSNL is offering better benefits as the vouchers are priced a little lower and offer data benefits to all customers without any discrimination. In the case of private telcos who also offer 4G services, 4G phone users get more data benefits. Details The above-mentioned plans... Read More

December 16th, 2016 3:58 PM 0 COMMENTS

Nokia claims to have bagged maximum 4G deals in India

Nokia, the Finnish telecom gear maker, has claimed that it has bagged maximum 4G LTE network deals from Indian telecom operators, and is currently leads the market with maximum share, besides leading the VoLTE market with almost 100% market share. The company’s new India head, Sanjay Malik, in an interaction with the Economic Times, said “We are number one in LTE (4G) market on the basis of all deals that... Read More

December 16th, 2016 9:09 AM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel, Vodafone & Idea up focus on secondary businesses to up revenues: Report

Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, India’s top telecom operators have increased focus on their secondary businesses to offset revenue related challenges in their mobile operations, according to an Economic Times report. These telcos’ respective revenues from the mobility business are set to go down following Reliance Jio’s free offer, coupled with the government’s move to demonetize Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. These developments could reduce their Ebitda... Read More

December 15th, 2016 6:01 PM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, others get demand-cum-show cause notices for under-reporting revenues

The country's telecom department has reportedly issued demand-cum-show cause notices to leading telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, along with Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications and Aircel for under-reporting revenues amounting to Rs 29,474 crore. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha, in a written reply, informed Lok Sabha that the demand-cum-show cause notices were issued to six private telecom companies on the basis of C&AG Report No 4 of 2016,... Read More

December 15th, 2016 5:01 PM 80 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Bharti Airtel to make free Voice Calls on Postpaid at Rs. 549 Per Month

Airtel will soon launch two new Infinity plans exclusively for their postpaid customers. Yes, postpaid subscribers of Airtel can now make unlimited calls to any number all over the country starting at just Rs. 549. Primarily, Airtel hasn't introduced any new plan, but marginally cut down the price of their affordable infinity plan of Rs. 1,199 to Rs. 549 per month. Alongside the Rs. 549 plan, there’s another plan which... Read More

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Well it depends how operator wants to use this feature. But yeah, bandwidth, speed and latency all can be customised,…

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Tariff restructure? Can you elaborate? Like what kind of tarrif you wanted/were expecting?

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they're too lazy to do that.

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