The financial results for March 2022 quarter are out for all the private telecom operators now. Amongst all the telcos, Airtel’s performance was way better than its competitors, including Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi). When it came to revenue growth, Airtel reported an increase of 9.5% QoQ, while Jio and Vi’s revenues were only 7.4% and 5.4% up QoQ in Q4 FY22. The data was shared by BofA Securities... Read More
Reliance Jio has maintained its lead for offering the best average download speeds to users in April 2022. The telco had achieved an average download speed of 23.1 Mbps during the month compared to 21.1 Mbps in March 2022. This is good performance gain by the network of Reliance Jio and the average download speed delivered by the telco is much higher than what its competitors are providing to their... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has just released its monthly telecom performance report for March 2022. During the month, Airtel was seen adding the most number of subscribers. Jio was right behind Airtel, while Vodafone Idea (Vi) was the only private telecom operator to lose subscribers. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-run telecom operator, also saw its overall user base declining during the month. Airtel Added 2.25... Read More
Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom operator, is now testing the interoperability between the 5G VoNR and 4G VoLTE. Aayush Bhatnagar, Senior Vice President, Reliance Jio, said in a LinkedIn post that Jio has upgraded its 4G VoLTE network and has integrated 5G core for testing 5G VoNR with 4G VoLTE. Bhatnagar said that the trial would include testing seamless interoperability between the devices that are 4G voice and video-capable with... Read More
The consumer spends on mobile services has finally crossed the pre-Jio levels in Q3 FY22. The previous high was in Q1 FY17. The total consumer spends during the quarter post-GST rose 4.2% QoQ and 8% YoY to Rs 420 billion, said ICICI Securities taking data from the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) report. The rise in consumer spends will be attributed a little to the prepaid tariff hikes introduced... Read More
The Indian telecom operators are not necessarily bad or not paying attention to the problems of the customers. It is just that India is a very hard place to do business in, especially if you are in the telecom sector. This is because of the sheer size of the market. Forget urban areas for a second, there’s just such a huge population in the rural and backward parts of the... Read More
Reliance Jio, one of the most profitable subsidiaries of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has reported that its net profit for FY22 jumped to Rs 14,817 crore. Compared to this, Jio had posted a net profit of Rs 12,015 crore in FY21. For the last quarter of FY22, Jio’s net profit stood at Rs 4,173 crore which was more than the preceding quarter’s Rs 3,615 crore. License Fees/Spectrum charges for the... Read More
Reliance Jio has launched multiple new prepaid plans, which will now come with a Disney+ Hotstar Mobile subscription for three months. Until now, all the existing prepaid plans which offer Disney+ Hotstar Mobile benefit come with a one-year subscription and are slightly more expensive than what users would have liked. But now, the company has launched four new plans which will offer three months of Disney+ Hotstar subscription. The four... Read More
Reliance Jio can never do what Bharti Airtel can do with Airtel Black. Airtel Black is one of the most unique bundled digital services in the country. Even Vodafone Idea can’t follow Airtel’s steps in creating services such as Airtel Black. Jio might be the number one telecom operator in the country, but it doesn’t have any Direct-to-Home (DTH) arm to compete with Airtel’s DTH brand. The fact is, to... Read More
Both Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio offer a 1GB daily data prepaid plan to the consumers. These plans are meant for people who don’t have heavy data usage. Further, to ensure that the telcos are earning enough out of their customers, they don’t offer their 1GB daily data plans for the long or medium term. Users can only get these plans for the short term. Airtel and Jio are considered... Read More
On March 31, 2022, Reliance Retail stopped giving cashbacks under the JioMart Maha Cashback offer to consumers making purchases from Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) owned companies. These cashbacks could be used for making purchases and getting discounts across Reliance owned retail stores, both online and offline. Reliance Jio, a telecom brand under RIL, also allowed users to utilise this cashback to get a discount on the recharges made through the... Read More
Earlier, it was just Reliance Jio which offered the over-the-top (OTT) benefit of Netflix to users. But now, Bharti Airtel has joined the league as well. Airtel Xstream Fiber, the fiber broadband service arm of Airtel, is now bundling Netflix with its two high-end plans. Jio also bundles Netflix with its broadband plans starting at Rs 1,499. With Airtel, too, it is the same. The Rs 1,498 broadband plan from... Read More
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um no no i meant how 3500mhz doesnt penetrate through walls and such
That not gonna happed instead Government should mandate all new phone (Smartphone & Keypad phone) should come with 4G Network…
Target is mid May for 1L sites. I don't have any doubt that it won't be covered. I am keeping…
2G should be shut down immediately by all three operators. BSNL should fast track LTE on 700Mhz and 900Mhz bands…
6G frequency should be around 7-8Ghz and bandwidth should be atleast 500Mhz per operator and sub-Ghz bandwidth should be 30-40Mhz(600/450Mhz).
