March 30th, 2022 5:53 PM 21 COMMENTS

Jio Lost 9.3 Million Users in January 2022, Only Airtel Added New Subscribers

Post the tariff hike, Jio has been actively removing inactive users from its total subscriber base. As per the monthly performance report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Jio lost 9.3 million users (93,32,583) subscribers during January 2022. Along with Jio, Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) also lost 3,89,082 (0.38 million) and 3,77,520 (0.37) million subscribers. Amongst all the telecom service providers, only... Read More

March 30th, 2022 1:25 PM 3 COMMENTS

JioMart Maha Cashback Offer to End on March 31, What You Should Know

JioMart Maha Cashback offer is going to end on March 31, 2022. The offer was rolled out by Reliance Retail, and it was applicable for customers/users purchasing products and services from any of the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) platforms, including Reliance Smart/Fresh/Smart Point/ JioMart, Reliance Digital/My Jio Store/Jio Points, Reliance Trends/Ajio/Project Eve, Partner Grocery Stores, Netmeds, and more. The cashbacks are offered to users on their JioMart number whenever they... Read More

March 30th, 2022 10:02 AM 1 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio in Advanced Talks With Samsung for 5G Gear

Samsung, the South Korean technology giant, helped India’s number one telecom operator, Reliance Jio, with its 4G deployment across the country. Now, both the companies might work together for the 5G rollout as well. Jio and Samsung have also worked together during the 5G trials of the former, which started back in June 2021. Now, according to a BusinessStandard report, Jio is in advanced talks with the South Korean tech... Read More

March 29th, 2022 12:32 PM 9 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Rs 259 Plan Compared With Airtel’s Rs 265 Plan

Reliance Jio recently brought a new Rs 259 prepaid plan for the users. This plan is a step-up over the Rs 239 plan already offered by the telco. With the Rs 259 prepaid plan, the telco wants to give users a complete 30 days validity option. Jio’s biggest competitor, Bharti Airtel, also offers a prepaid plan that costs almost the same amount of money as the Rs 259 plan of... Read More

March 28th, 2022 11:53 AM 3 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Prepaid Plan for Users Who Want 1 Month Complete Validity and Ample Data

Reliance Jio has added multiple new prepaid plans to its offerings recently. One of those plans is the Rs 259 plan. With this plan, users get 1.5GB of daily data, 100 SMS/day, and unlimited voice calling. But the speciality of this plan is that users get 30 days of validity with this plan. Post the consumption of daily data; the speed drops to 64 Kbps for the rest of the... Read More

March 23rd, 2022 3:37 PM 0 COMMENTS

Samsung Might Benefit from Airtel Eyeing to Avoid Ericsson, Nokia Duopoly for 4G/5G Gear

Samsung has conveyed to the Indian government that it is interested in participating in the second phase of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for the telecom sector. The South-Korean tech giant wants to set up telecom equipment manufacturing facilities in India. It is worth noting that Samsung had earlier avoided participating in the telecom PLI scheme because it didn’t want to invest a large amount of money just to... Read More

March 23rd, 2022 2:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

Asteria Aerospace, Jio Subsidiary Launches SkyDeck DaaS Platform

Reliance Jio’s subsidiary, Asteria Aerospace, a drone manufacturer and solution provider in India, has announced the launch of SkyDeck, a new Drone-as-as-Service (DaaS) platform. It is a cloud-based software platform built for delivering a DaaS solution to several industry verticals such as surveillance, security, agriculture, industrial inspections, and more. What Does SkyDeck Provide to Clients? SkyDeck offers a unified dashboard to the clients and services for drone fleet management. Customers... Read More

March 22nd, 2022 8:15 AM 0 COMMENTS

Jio Readying for 5G With $750 Million Fund Raise

Reliance Jio is raising $750 million (approximately Rs 5,700 crore) via an offshore syndicated loan for funding the capex requirements, which will come for 5G. Multiple banks, including the State Bank of India, Bank of America, Credit Agricole, HSBC, along with three Japanese banks - MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho might be syndicating the five-year offshore loan. According to the ET Telecom report, the loan agreement between the banks and Reliance... Read More

March 21st, 2022 8:27 AM 1 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea, Jio, Airtel Worried About 5G Phone Availability in India: Report

Vodafone Idea, Reliance Jio, and Bharti Airtel, all the three private telecom operators, are slightly worried about the reduced availability of 5G smartphones in the country. For the unaware, the Indian government has called for the need to test 5G mobile locally and certify them safe from January 1, 2023, before they are made available to the people of India. According to an ET Telecom report, the private telcos have... Read More

March 17th, 2022 9:56 PM 15 COMMENTS

Jio Launches New Rs 2878 and Rs 2998 WFH Prepaid Plans, Check Details

Reliance Jio has launched two new work from home (WFH) prepaid plans for users across India. These plans are listed under the Work From Home Data Packs category. The denominations of these two new plans are Rs 2878 and Rs 2998. Both the plans are meant for users looking for long-term data pack options. Note that since these are data packs only, they don’t offer voice calling and SMS benefits... Read More

March 14th, 2022 2:11 PM 2 COMMENTS

Jio Users Should Know This About all Prepaid Plans Above Rs 200

Reliance Jio, India’s number one telecom operator, is offering cashbacks with prepaid plans that cost Rs 200 and more. But, for the time being, when users go on the website of the telco and click on the ‘JioMart Maha Cashback’ plans, only four plans come on the list. But the truth is, it is all the plans above Rs 200 which are coming with the JioMart Maha Cashback offer. Jio... Read More

March 12th, 2022 9:52 AM 0 COMMENTS

BSNL, Airtel, Jio, and Vi Can Get More Customers if They Did This

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are the four active telecom service providers in India who are directly selling services to consumers. All of these telcos have been after gaining new users to increase their subscriber market share for the last few years. But for now, the telcos seem to focus more on their average revenue per user (ARPU) figure than the number... Read More

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