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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reliance Jio had recently introduced two new prepaid plans for its users with which a Disney+ Hotstar Premium subscription is bundled. Jio is the only telecom operator in the country which is offering a Disney+ Hotstar Premium subscription with its prepaid plans. The other telcos which offer Disney+ Hotstar only offer its Mobile subscription to the users. The Premium subscription costs Rs 1499 per year, while the Mobile subscription costs... Read More
Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are going to battle it out in the satellite communications (satcom) market in the near future. Both the telcos are already tussling over the spectrum auctions where Jio says that everyone who wants spectrum for offering communication services should get it from the auctions. However, Airtel is of the view that satcom companies don’t require spectrum the way terrestrial network service providers do and hence... Read More
Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi), the three leading private telecom operators, will have a big question to address in the near future. It is how to offer 5G services and how to differentiate network services for regular consumers between 4G and 5G. There’s no doubt that normal consumers won’t have a very high demand for 5G network services if they have access to good 4G networks. Thus,... Read More
Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are both going to be entering the satellite communications (satcom) market in India. Jio will be in the distribution segment while Airtel will be producing and distributing as it owns the satcom company OneWeb. Jio will operate its satcom business under Jio Satellite Communications Ltd (JSCL), which was incorporated only a few months ago. Ahead of the 5G spectrum auctions, both Jio and Airtel have... 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).
