December 11th, 2016 7:39 AM 60 COMMENTS

Intense competition from incumbent telcos to impact Jio’s profitability and returns: Ind-Ra

Reliance Jio, the 4G entrant, is facing intense competition from incumbent telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, which may impact its profitability and returns, according to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), which has assigned the Mukesh Ambani-led telco a Long-Term Issuer Rating of ‘IND AAA’ with a Stable Outlook. Jio launched its IP based 4G-LTE (long-term evolution) services on September 5, 2016 and its operations are in... Read More

November 1st, 2016 7:26 PM 46 COMMENTS

VoLTE Explained and Updated List of Jio 4G supported VoLTE Smartphones in India

Now the most sought after feature in any smartphone is the support for VoLTE a.k.a. Voice over Long Term Evolution. As the full-form indicates, VoLTE is all about using the LTE network for the transmission of voice calls. It supports high-definition (HD) voice-calling. Benefits of VoLTE For a layman to understand, here are the benefits of VoLTE technology. The biggest benefit of VoLTE is the call quality. Delivering crystal clear... Read More

October 28th, 2016 3:46 PM 70 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Launch: Who is gonna feel the heat?

The ultimate winner of a tariff war in any industry is customers, and Indian telecom sector at the current scenario is no different. With the launch of Jio, tariffs has started to fall sharply with each company's coming with new deals every day or the other. But intense competition and tariff cuts is nothing new in Indian telecom industry. The industry has been noisy with up to 14 operators competing... Read More

October 27th, 2016 7:42 PM 128 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal says Jio’s free tariffs issue needs to settle as nothing can be free for a lifetime

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal on Wednesday said the Indian telecom industry needs to settle the issue of Reliance Jio's free tariffs, adding that “nothing can be free for a lifetime.” The telecom czar also urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to look into Jio’s free services. His comments however follow the regulator’s clean chit to Jio’s tariff plans.   Incumbent telcos claim that free voice services for... Read More

October 27th, 2016 12:32 PM 24 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular says Jio’s impact negligent due to a few port outs, to approach DoT on Rs 950-cr Trai penalty

Idea Cellular will shortly approach the telecom department (DoT) on the Rs 950-crore penalty recommended by the regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for not providing adequate providing interconnection points to Reliance Jio Infocomm, claiming that the telco has not violated any quality of service (QoS) norms Responding to analysts’ questions on the penalty slapped by the telecom regulator, Idea Cellular’s managing director Himanshu Kapania said that the... Read More

October 25th, 2016 7:16 AM 133 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio is likely to extend benefits under “Welcome Offer” till march 2017

Reliance Jio Infocomm is most likely to extend the validity of free 'Welcome Offer' to March end 2017, as it wants to aggressively meet 100 million subscriber target. Motilal Oswal analysts, in a note, said, “Mass scale free welcome offer could continue until March 2017 to attract subscriber growth towards the celebrated 100 million mark with RJio’s indicative data pricing at Rs 130-140 per gigabyte (GB).” The prediction comes a... Read More

October 23rd, 2016 2:00 PM 31 COMMENTS

GSM body COAI says will not get involved in Rs 3,050 crore penalty case, says issue is bilateral between top telcos and Jio: Report

GSM industry body Cellular operators' association COAI said that it will not get involved in the fresh Rs 3,050 crore penalty case involving top telecom operators allegedly denying inter-connectivity to 4G entrant Reliance Jio, having faced the criticism from Trai chief and Mukesh Ambani. The industry body said that the interconnect issue is a matter involving “individual operators and bilateral agreements”, expressing disappointment over the penalty recommended by Trai on... Read More

October 22nd, 2016 12:55 PM 85 COMMENTS

Customers opting for our services after Dec 3 to get new offers and tariff plans: Reliance Jio

Mukesh Ambani-led 4G telco Reliance Jio has come up with a clarification over Trai's order which limits its promotional offer till December 3, 2016, and said that its subscribers will continue to get the benefits of free unlimited voice and data under the "Welcome Offer" till December 31 2016. It however said that the promotional offer, namely, Welcome Offer, will be available to all the new customers for subscription till... Read More

October 21st, 2016 11:21 AM 47 COMMENTS

At 16,000 terabytes per day traffic, Jio is the largest network globally

At 16,000 terabytes (TB) per day of traffic, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio may have become the largest network globally in terms of data carried, according to Credit Suisse estimates. The agency said that Jio is ahead of China Mobile (12,000 TB), Vodafone Global (6, 000 TB), China Unicom and Bharti in terms of data carried on a daily basis. Credit Suisse findings are based on Jio’s recently announcement of 16... Read More

October 21st, 2016 7:13 AM 49 COMMENTS

Jio may extend free services period if interconnection issue stays

Reliance Jio may extend the period of free services in case its subscribers are not able to get adequate experience due to interconnection congestion., the company said. The telco on Thursday said that its customers are facing severe quality of service issues due to inadequate release of points of interconnection by the incumbent mobile operators. Jio said that call failure rates continue to be severe with over 75 calls failing... Read More

October 19th, 2016 1:23 PM 75 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio is a well engineered ecosystem with Rs 2,50,000 crore investment, developing content in 12 regional languages: Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said that Reliance Jio is a well thought-out, well executed and well engineered ecosystem with Rs 2,50,000 crore investment. In an interview to The Print, a digital media outfit owned by senior journalists Shekhar Gupta and Barkha Dutt, Ambani also termed the ongoing fight for inter-connectivity as ragging by the top telcos like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. Ambani compared Jio to a... Read More

October 18th, 2016 10:20 PM 49 COMMENTS

Average call failure rate on Vodafone’s network over 63% and 44% with Idea Cellular, claims Reliance Jio

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has said that Vodafone and Idea Cellular are still not releasing sufficient interconnection points (PoIs), which it said is resulting in massive call failures. Jio has written letters to both these telcos earlier this week, warning them of consequences if they continue to ignore the 4G entrant’s requirement for more PoIs . As per media reports Jio, in separate letters that were marked to the regulator... Read More

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