Bharti Airtel, the country’s leading telecom operator, has reportedly launched two aggressive bundled plans at Rs 145 and Rs 349 to counter Reliance Jio’s Prime offer, which will offer unlimited voice calls and 1 GB data per day at just Rs 303 starting April 1. Jio Prime subscription offer will be limited only to the existing 100 Million subscribers, and new users coming before... Read More
Reliance Jio’s 4G LTE small cell network comprising thousands of Airspan small cells is carrying more than 350 TB of data and terminating more than five million VoLTE calls daily, the company said in a statement. The 4G entrant, which is now serving over 100 million customers across India, said that its small cell deployment would help its self-healing Heterogeneous Network or HetNeT to transition to 5G technology seamlessly. Jio... Read More
Vodafone Group sees Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio as a formidable adversary in India’s fiercely competitive telecom market, which has forced the telecom group to cut the value of its India unit by Rs 36,448 crore. According to an Economic Times report, Vodafone Plc chief executive Vittorio Colao has asked business heads of the Indian unit to leave no stone unturned in combating Reliance Jio... Read More
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio's tariff plan beginning April 1 this year will improve industry-wide average revenue per user over the longer term, but intense price competition is expected to persist over the next few quarters, according to Moody’s Investors Service. “…we still expect intense price competition to persist over the next few quarters, as incumbents such as Bharti, Vodafone India (unrated) and Idea Cellular respond in efforts to protect their... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm, which has disrupted the Indian telecom space with free data and voice services, pushing other telecom operators to consider merger and acquisition strategies, is now planning to disrupt India’s taxi space with the launch of an app-based taxi service. Reliance Jio Cabs, expected to be launched as early as this year. Reliance Jio claims to be a digital company than mere... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm Chairman, Mukesh Ambani, earlier today announced the news of Jio crossing 100 million subscriber base in just 170 days adding seven customers per second. At the same stage, Ambani announced that the company wouldn't be extending the 'Jio New Year Offer, .'' and instead, a new Membership based scheme will go live on March 1, 2017 namely, the 'JioPrime.' Just after Mukesh Ambani announcing the new membership... Read More
Mukesh Ambani, for the third time, took centre stage and made some big announcements related to Reliance Jio. Firstly, Ambani announced that Jio had crossed 100 million subscribers in just 170 days after its roll out to the general public on September 1. Ambani also revealed that Jio is the quickest one to reach the milestone and has added seven customers every second on average for 170 days. He quoted... Read More
After much anticipation, Jio4GVoice App has made its way to Apple App Store. With this, the hurdle for the older iPhone users (due to the lack of VoLTE support) to use Jio 4G SIM card to make/receive calls is cleared. The Jio4GVoice app for iPhone users is in its nascent stage and is available for download only for Mumbai and Karnataka users. Also, the subscribers' devices should be running iOS... Read More
Following a war between Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India over predatory pricing and promotional offers by the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has floated a 32-page consultation paper to review tariff orders within a bid to develop a new framework for the telecom sector. With this new paper, the regulator aims to address certain ambiguities in rules around issues... Read More
Reliance Jio’s ability to retain market share would be driven by both pricing as well as user experience gave the choice of complete reliance on voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology, according to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra). Jio, which gained a quick subscriber base of 72 million by January 2017, could cross 100 million by March 2017, the agency said. Ind-Ra stated that Jio's free services have resulted in a... Read More
The Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited Mr Mukesh Ambani said that his brainchild, Reliance Jio, crossed 100 Million subscribers in five months after its inception. This essentially means that Reliance Jio is bagging in half million customers every day. Though this milestone dips short of the telecom operator’s expectation, as Mukesh Ambani had earlier expected to bag in 100 million subscribers by the end of 2016, he... Read More
Reliance Jio recently regarded as the fastest growing company beating the Facebook, WhatsApp, and others. And now, we have an interesting data from the recognized caller ID detecting service, Truecaller as their 'TrueInsights Q4 Report’ claims that Jio is India’ second largest telecom network in India with over 23 percent market share. The report further claims that all the networks combinedly added 1.12 billion consumers by the end of November... Read More
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No issues for me. I am using Airfiber continuously in Navi Mumbai at two locations along with 4G night unlimited…
Not sure I dont have a airtel sim at home Oh btw airtel airfiber is giving a lot of random…
I was getting 40Mbps on both Airtel and Jio on band 3. And 10-20Mbps on Idea 4G on band 3.
Airtel started 4*4MIMO on band 3 at Andheri?
I think its a very respectable rank for India We aren’t NOTHING as compared to a tiny extremely rich nation…
