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October 18th, 2016 6:29 PM 42 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio has threatened top telcos’ major revenue contributor with free voice offering

Reliance Jio has threatened India telecom operators’ major revenue contributor, voice, with the launch of life-time free voice calls, and its launch strategy will squeeze operational cash flows of the Indian telecom sector in Fiscal year 17-18, according to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra). Top telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular’s debt burden will also go up with the increase in spectrum and non-spectrum debt capital expenditure... Read More

October 17th, 2016 1:16 AM 44 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio now uses 10 MHz spectrum in Band 3 to offer 4G services in Kolkata

Reliance Jio has completed the upgradation of its network in the Kolkata circle with the deployment of unused 5 MHz spectrum block in the band 3, now running the network with a total of 10 MHz spectrum in the band 3, according to information shared by a tipster. The move will help the company offer better speeds to customers in the circle. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco is running 4G services using the... Read More

October 15th, 2016 7:49 AM 105 COMMENTS

Jio may soon make changes in tariff plans: Report

Jio is gearing up to bring some changes to its tariff plans. As per a report by Times of India, Telecom regulators have been seeking clarification from Jio for its free voice calling schemes. After making the changes, Jio will be reporting them to TRAI for submission. The report states that TRAI officials allegedly met Jio executives to scrutinize the tariff plans submitted by the operator. The current Jio plan... Read More

October 12th, 2016 3:28 PM 1 COMMENTS

Ex-Jio MD, Indus CEO join Sterlite in advisory roles

Former Reliance Jio managing director Sandip Das and former Indus Tower CEO BS Shantharaju have joined Sterlite Technologies’ newly formed advisory board, the company said on Wednesday. The company said that both the executives have experience in creating large customer and service oriented companies, and they will provide strategic guidance and direction on the company’s growth roadmap and focused capabilities in the highly evolving digital communications industry. Sterlite is the... Read More

October 9th, 2016 2:49 PM 142 COMMENTS

Jio creates a new record by adding 16 million new subscribers in first 26 days of launch

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (Jio) announced today that it has created a world record by crossing 16 Million subscribers in its first month of operations (September, 2016). Jio which launched commercial operations on 5th September has achieved this growth faster than any other telecom operator or start up in the world including the likes of Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype. Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, said, “We are... Read More

October 2nd, 2016 12:12 PM 56 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio in talks with Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei & Samsung to add 40,000 new 4G sites: Report

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm is reportedly in discussions with vendors including Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei and Samsung for the next phase of its pan-India deployment of 4G LTE sites roll-out. The new 4G entrant operator is seeking vendors for a plan to add over 40,000 new LTE sites nationwide, along with the deployment of technologies like Carrier Aggregation or LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) sources told financial daily Economic Times. The report said... Read More

September 29th, 2016 11:43 AM 83 COMMENTS

Jio set to change the Indian telecom landscape- Our take

It has been nearly a month since India's richest man Mukesh Ambani announced his ambitious telecom project- digital services of Reliance Jio. Jio is different from all existing mobile operators of the country in many ways. Jio is a completely green field operator which has only 4G-LTE network without any fall back 2G/3G network. And since its network went online it continues to offer services free of cost to its... Read More

September 27th, 2016 9:36 PM 74 COMMENTS

Airtel blames Jio’s unpreparedness, insufficient testing teams for call failures

Bharti Airtel, India's leading telecom carrier said that the ongoing call failure issue with Reliance Jio is happening due to the latter's under- preparedness and insufficient testing efforts. The Sunil Mittal-led telco said that the prime reason for such call failures was on account of acquisition of a large number of subscribers by Reliance even before the declaration of the commercial launch. In a letter to Reliance Jio, Airtel said: "It is... Read More

September 27th, 2016 11:38 AM 82 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio makes call failure data live to put pressure on incumbent telcos

Mukesh Ambani-led 4G telco Reliance Jio has been locking horns with top telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular for the release of adequate interconnection points, absence of which is resulting in massive call failures between the networks of Jio and incumbents. In order to make its case even stronger and to take the fight to next level, Jio has made live the data of call failure data its users... Read More

September 25th, 2016 10:16 PM 51 COMMENTS

Jio says incumbents misuse COAI to freely indulge in cartelization, demands complete overhaul

Reliance Jio Infocomm has declared war against the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), accusing the GSM lobby body of a biased functioning and serving the vested interest of three incumbent operators – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. Jio has also demanded a comprehensive overhaul of the GSM industry body's rules, regulations and processes. “COAI Regulations are overwhelmingly biased and lopsided and have been framed to sub serve the... Read More

September 23rd, 2016 1:07 PM 23 COMMENTS

Anonymous India accuses Jio of continuing to share user info with foreign countries

The famous hacker group Anonymous India has yet again accused Reliance Jio of sharing user data with foreign countries. Last year the group had made a similar claim stating that Jio chat app was sending across user location data to servers located in China, this time around they have accused Jio of sharing call data of users to servers located in USA and Singapore. Last year Jio had rubbished the... Read More

September 18th, 2016 7:04 PM 177 COMMENTS

War of words: Jio claims daily 2 crore call failures; Airtel says correct your VoLTE

Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have kicked off a war of words on Sunday accusing each other over the ongoing interconnection points and mobile number portability (MNP) issue. Jio on Sunday has again alleged that Airtel was abusing its market dominance for not providing sufficient interconnection points, besides restricting mobile number portability (MNP) requests. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco further said that more than two crore calls are failing everyday between... Read More

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