Catching up on the growing fintech and payments scene, Reliance Jio has also confirmed their plans to start ‘Jio Payments Bank’ last year. And the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Tuesday, officially announced that Jio Payments Bank had commenced operations starting April 3, 2018. The Reserve Bank of India in their official statement said: "The Reserve Bank has issued a licence to the bank under Section 22 (1) of... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio being the top telecom operators in the country are now preparing for the upcoming telecom war that seems to be heating up in the country. According to Bloomberg’s report Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal might raise as much as 365 Billion Rupees ($5.6 billion) selling bonds, this strategy is supposed to build a stable financial cash pile for the telcos to help them soar... Read More
Well, Reliance Jio has just announced that its subscriber base has crossed 175 million and to celebrate that, the company has announced massive thing for its existing subscribers. Reliance Jio, as expected has announced the free renewal of JioPrime membership for existing JioPrime subscribers for another 12 months. For the existing JioPrime members, Jio has renewed the membership until March 31, 2019, but the new customers still have to make... Read More
In the telecom feud against each other, charged by competitive pricing from the telecom operators the users have found themselves lost between a plethora of data plans to choose from. In a recent development of events, after Airtel started making headlines with their attractive tariff plans, Vodafone decided to triple down on their branding by announcing two new data packs. The two Vodafone packs, which are priced at Rs 549... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) now released its report on Independent Drive Tests conducted in four cities- Indore, Bhubaneswar, Nagpur and Mysore. Trai conducted these tests between October 9, 2017, to December 30, 2017. And guess what, Bharti Airtel has achieved an average 4G download speed of 8.125 Mbps during the independent tests. On the other hand, Reliance Jio, the LTE-only network averaged 5.35 Mbps only. Idea Cellular... Read More
Reliance Industries, the parent company of Reliance Jio today announced a strategic transaction with popular music streaming service Saavn. Under the agreements made, the digital music service of the company, JioMusic will be combined with that of Saavn. And the combined entity is valued at over USD 1 Billion, with JioMusic’s implied valuation at USD 670 million. "The integrated business will be developed into a media platform of the future... Read More
Reliance Jio continues its authority in the new subscriber addition every month. As per the data released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for the month of January 2018, the Mukesh Ambani-led telco has added a whopping 8.3 million new subscribers, taking its overall subscriber base to 168.413628 million. Other incumbent telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular added 1.5 million, 1.2 million and 1.1 million... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India beat the market leader Reliance Jio and challenger Idea Cellular in on-the-ground 4G speed tests conducted by Trai in ten cities in India last year. Airtel scored an average download speed of 9.64 Mbps, which was over 40% faster than Jio’s 4G download speed of 6.57 Mbps. Idea Cellular scored an average download speed of 7.41 Mbps. Vodafone’s 4G network was also part of the... Read More
The entry of possibly the most awaited flagship phones of the year – the Samsung Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ is making telecom companies crowd around the device to offer very appealing cashbacks and offers. Major players like Airtel and Reliance Jio have rolled out their own respective cashback offers which provide not only cashback but also data and other benefits. The most popular offers have been rolled out... Read More
Reliance Jio’s initial steps in the Indian telecom scene changed the scenario of data prices forever. Other operators suffered a massive blow by Jio’s competitive pricing and extravagant marketing tactics. However, the big players obviously refused to give in to the pressure and constantly kept on chasing the prices to compete with Jio. The first one to take the step was Bharti Airtel. While other companies like Vodafone India and... Read More
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has reportedly approved the proposed sale Reliance Communications (RCom) infrastructure assets to Reliance Jio. Reporters at PTI has confirmed the progress, and they learnt this information from two people who are familiar with the development. This news will surely boost Reliance Jio as it's expected to bolster its network infrastructure by acquiring RCom's assets. At the time of announcing the definite agreement, both the companies... Read More
Reliance Jio has introduced a new feature to the popular Live TV streaming application JioTV. JioTV users can now watch the ongoing Nidahas Trophy cricket matches in five different camera angles, and Jio is calling it as India's First interactive sports experience for consumers. For the unaware, Jio has recently bagged the rights to telecast the tri-nation Nidahas trophy happening in Srilanka. With this new feature, JioTV consumers can interact... Read More
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