March 31st, 2025 6:54 AM 10 COMMENTS

Jio 5G in 26 GHz band Launched in 21 States/UTs of India: List with Cities Here

Reliance Jio, India's largest telecom operator, has launched 5G in 26 GHz band or mmWave (milimeter wavelength) frequency in 21 states and union territories of India. Jio's 5G in the 3.3 GHz band is available in every telecom circle. The mmWave band is more expensive to deploy and requires a much denser network infrastructure for coverage. The 26 GHz band or mmWave band will majorly be used by enterprises for... Read More

March 28th, 2025 3:36 PM 0 COMMENTS

Meta in Talks with Indian Telcos for Project Waterworth’s Cable Landing: Report

Meta is advancing its Project Waterworth, a 50,000-km undersea cable initiative set to become the world's longest. The project aims to enhance internet speeds and reliability across India, the US, Brazil, South Africa, and other key regions, supporting data demand for apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube. Now, Meta is in discussions with local telecom players such as Airtel, Jio, Tata Communications, and Lightstorm, to land its subsea cable in... Read More

March 27th, 2025 12:22 PM 10 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Beats China Mobile, Processes 50 Crore GB in a Single Day

Reliance Jio has beaten the record of China Mobile, a Chinese telecom giant, by processing 50 crore GB (500 million gigabytes) of data in a single day. Jio processed this humongous amounts of data on the day of ICC (International Cricket Council) Champions Trophy final, 2025. This means on March 9, 2025. The match was played between India and New Zealand. Reliance Jio is offering free 5G to the consumers... Read More

March 26th, 2025 9:19 PM 4 COMMENTS

AirFiber is Just Repackaged 5G, Says Excitel CEO: Report

With the rollout of high-speed wireless networks supporting tens of Mbps to up to Gbps, broadband services now include both wired and wireless, and wired internet is no longer a necessity for calling it "broadband." With the launch of wireless 5G services, Airtel and Jio both offer Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services, which they call AirFiber, a wireless broadband service leveraging their existing 5G networks. However, the CEO of the... Read More

March 24th, 2025 7:29 AM 0 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Plan with 25GB Monthly Data

Reliance Jio, India's largest telecom operator, has a monthly prepaid plan with which users get 25GB of data. This is the kind of plan that users who want a monthly prepaid plan can go for. However, it doesn't come cheap, and also, it doesn't bundle unlimited 5G for the users. Since this is a lump sum data bundled plan from the telco, users don't get 5G. Jio has reserved the... Read More

March 18th, 2025 7:09 AM 3 COMMENTS

Jio’s Three Super Affordable Plans for Validity

Reliance Jio, the most affordable private telecom service provider in India has multiple plans that would fit in the super affordable category if users want validity. These plans cost Rs 189, Rs 198, and Rs 199. These plans are not new, and have been present since the telco hiked tariffs back in July 2024. Users can recharge with these plans to get service validity. Since these are super affordable plans,... Read More

March 17th, 2025 10:25 AM 0 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Prepaid Plans: Unlimited Cricket Offer Announced on March 17, 2025

Reliance Jio keeps updating, adding, and removing plans from time to time based on holidays, special days, festivals, and cricket matches to offer the best value to its users. Jio offers a range of prepaid recharge options to its customers via plans, data packs, JioBharat plans, and IR (International Roaming) packs, among others. Just today, the telco announced a FREE OTT bundling offer for the upcoming cricket season. Hence, we... Read More

March 17th, 2025 10:23 AM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel is Coming Super Close to Jio’s Revenue Market Share

Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, is closing the gap between Jio and itself in revenue market share (RMS). Telcos look at RMS as key figure to understand how much value are they able to capture from the market. Jio's RMS has been steady at 42% QoQ. However, Bharti Airtel has seen an improvement of 100 basis points or 1% QoQ and around 2.2% YoY in Q3 FY25. One reason... Read More

March 17th, 2025 9:45 AM 0 COMMENTS

Jio Announces Free JioHotstar with Prepaid Plans Above Rs 299

Reliance Jio, in a new move to entertain customers, and allow them to watch IPL for free essentially has announced that it will offer free JioHotstar subscription with prepaid plans. JioHotstar subscription will allow users to watch cricket in India after the merger of JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar earlier this year. While you can purchase the subscription of the OTT (over-the-top) platform separately too, you will have to pay a... Read More

March 16th, 2025 9:20 PM 9 COMMENTS

Airtel, Jio, and Vodafone Idea: Data Usage Trends and ARPU in Q3FY25

Indian private telecom operators—Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea (Vi)—have been offering generous amounts of data bundled with their plans. While Airtel and Jio have been offering complimentary unlimited 5G on their networks, Vi, on its part, has been offering Unlimited 4G, Free 4G, or generous amounts of 4G data bundled with its plans through various plan components all this while. Every operator reports the total data traffic on... Read More

March 16th, 2025 8:07 AM 3 COMMENTS

Jio, Airtel and BSNL Cheapest Wi-Fi Plans

Today, we will look at the cheapest Wi-Fi plans or broadband plans from the top three internet service providers (ISPs) in India. All of these companies have a plan priced under Rs 500 for the customers. This is the monthly price we are talking about. If you have the budget, you can also go for the long-term plans and get further discounts from these companies. Jio is the largest ISP... Read More

March 15th, 2025 11:43 AM 25 COMMENTS

Jio’s 700 MHz Spectrum Contributed to Broader Coverage at Maha Kumbh 2025, Says Ookla

Reliance Jio reported 83.9 percent 5G availability, nearly twice that of Airtel's 42.4 percent, ensuring broader coverage and more consistent connectivity for users. According to Ookla's recent research report titled "5G at Maha Kumbh: How Networks Handled the World's Largest Gathering," released on March 10, 5G maintained a significant performance advantage over 4G during Maha Kumbh 2025, despite periods of congestion. Also Read: Monetising 4G and 5G: Key Takeaways to... Read More

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