Bharti Airtel has beaten its competitors Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Reliance Jio in testing 5G in rural India. The Chief Technology Officer of Bharti Airtel, Randeep Sekhon, said that Airtel partnered up with Ericsson to conduct rural India’s first 5G trial. Sekhon said that 5G will be a revolutionary technology and with use cases such as Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), the telco will be able to deliver last-mile coverage, helping... Read More
Even though Vodafone Idea (Vi) isn’t the best operator when it comes to providing excellent coverage, the telco more than makes up for it in the internet speed department. As per an Opensignal report, Vodafone Idea’s 4G networks were the best in both providing downloading and uploading speeds in September 2021. At the same time, Bharti Airtel’s networks were the best performing when it came to metrics such as ‘Games... Read More
Reliance Jio recently introduced a new offer giving 20% cashback to the users with three of its prepaid plans worth Rs 249, Rs 555, and Rs 599. BofA Securities, a global research firm, has said that Jio’s recent offers have brought unwarranted stock reactions. For the unaware, the stock prices of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) have seen a negative impact during the last few days. But the thing... Read More
Reliance Jio offers two prepaid plans to its customers that suit almost everyone. These plans are the cheapest in the industry in their category, and people love the benefits they offer. This is the reason Reliance Jio has marked these plans as ‘Best Seller’. The reason why these plans are so popular is a) price and b) benefits. People love anything that offers more benefits than what they believe they... Read More
Reliance Jio keeps on making changes to its prepaid plans time and again. The recent changes come on the back of the festive season when people are ready to spend more. With the changes, Jio has aimed to make some of its best-selling prepaid plans even more affordable for users. The changes are already live on the website, and the users can take advantage of them before the offer on... Read More
Reliance Jio last year launched the JioPostpaid Plus plans. Until then, Jio didn’t look too keen on growing the postpaid segment and fairly so as it was doing really well in the prepaid segment. JioPostpaid Plus has not worked out too well for Reliance Jio, though. Even though these plans are at par with what other operators are providing, some even better, Jio has been unable to gain the attention... Read More
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has expressed its happiness on the recent amendments introduced in license conditions which will now allow the telcos to actively share infrastructure with each other. This will allow the telecom operators to save high costs and also roll out services much faster. For the unaware, COAI is an industry body that represents telcos, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea. COAI said... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator, has seen its stock or share price touch a lifetime high on Friday morning. This is good news for the investors of the company since the telco’s stock has been performing very strongly for the last few weeks. At the time of writing, Airtel’s stock price is Rs 749, which is 3.05% in the green. The telco’s stock touched a high of Rs 752.60... Read More
Reliance Jio’s low average revenue per user (ARPU) figure is a concern over the long term. Jio likes to play on large scales and keep its profits marginal from each user. Because of this, the telco’s ARPU is considerably less than that of its top competitor Bharti Airtel. Yes, even with marginal profits from individual users, the telco’s total volume of profits is quite high. Jio has been able to... Read More
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the parent company of Reliance Jio, India’s number one telecom operator, will have to spend more on the subsidies it plans to provide to the customers for making JioPhone Next affordable. For the unaware, JioPhone Next is an ultra-affordable 4G smartphone that both Jio and Google have developed together for the Indian market. The expected launch of the smartphone was delayed from September 10 to the... Read More
The telcos including Vodafone Idea (Vi), Reliance Jio, and Bharti Airtel are currently testing their 5G networks in different parts of the country. Airtel has taken the tests even one step above and proved that the mobile gaming use case on its 5G network is successful. There was an underlying concern with 5G though. While it was definitely going to be the next big thing, operators might not have been... Read More
Alliance Broadband offers a 100 Mbps plan that might Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel nervous. But let me just make it clear, nervous to a very small degree because both Jio and Airtel are PAN-India operators while Alliance Broadband only operates in select places. Alliance Broadband offers a very economical 100 Mbps broadband plan that offers a ton of over-the-top (OTT) benefits to the users. Not just the OTT benefits,... 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).
