Remember the Reliance group’s ‘Monsoon Hungama’ of 2003, when the new offering took the telecom industry by storm as it offered multimedia mobile phones for a down payment of Rs 500, with three monthly plan options— Budget 149, Budget 249 and Dhirubhai Ambani Pioneer Offer. The offering led to a revolution in the telecom sector and as a result, millions were added to the country’s subscriber base. Now, once again... Read More
Reliance Jio has requested state-run telco BSNL to define Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) for emergency calls such as 100,101,102, and 108, as the Mukesh Ambani's telecom company prepares to launch commercial services in the country shortly. Reliance Jio will be using BSNL network for provision of Level-I services including Emergency services as per latter's letter to BSNL. The letter sent to all BSNL telecom circles, telecom districts, and maintenance regions... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm, the country’s only pan-India license holder of broadband wireless spectrum, is deploying 300 small cells per day and plans to increase it to 1,700 small cells in order to meet its long-term goals, according to the company’s Senior VP of Wireless networks, Tareq Amin. RCR Wireless reported that Jio’s network plans include the deployment of 150,000 small cell, which is largest such deployment in the world. “To... Read More
Nikhil Rungta, the Senior Vice President - Marketing of Reliance Jio, has quit the company to join SoftBank-backed realty portal, Housing.com, as its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Rungta’s departure is among the high-profile exits from Mukesh-Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, which is preparing to start commercial operations in the country. Sandeep Das and Sumit Chowdhury are some of the high-profile executives who left Jio earlier this year. Rungta served Jio for over... Read More
Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm will be leading the country’s 4G LTE market with 40 percent market share by 2019-2020, while the share of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular will reach 60 percent by 2019-20, up from 53 percent in 2016-17, a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch said. The brokerage firm however said that Jio may find it difficult to poach high-end subscribers from Airtel, Idea... Read More
A few months back the incumbents were believed to be in a strong position to put up a good fight against Reliance Jio, which is planning to launch 4G services in December this year. However some recent developments point to a changing scenario, which is fast turning out to be detrimental to the incumbents, especially the top three, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. A key recent development is... Read More
Goa, the most hip and happening tourist destination in India, marked another first, as its famous night club Love Passion Karma Waterfront entered the digital age today, with the launch of ‘Jionet’, a high speed Wi-Fi Internet service from Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL). ‘Jionet’ High Speed Wi-Fi service will be covering the entire LPK Waterfront which is Goa’s most exotic party and wedding venue situated on the banks of... Read More
Anil Ambani today announced in the Annual general meeting of Reliance communications that his company is in advanced talks with elder brother's Reliance Jio for spectrum trading and sharing agreement across India. This will be a strategic partnership which will benefit both operators such that Rcom subscribers can use Jio's 4G network while Jio's subscribers can fall back on Rcom's 3G and 2G network for voice services. Currently, RJio has... Read More
Reliance Jio the most anticipated operator which will launch commercial services Pan India in December this year, has declared that it has installed Eco-friendly, low pollution Green mobile towers in Goa. These State-of-the-art Reliance Jio towers (Roof-top and Ground Based Masts) are designed to consume just 600-700 Watts of power, one fourth of the power consumed by existing conventional towers. These towers operate on lithium-ion batteries, eliminating need for space... Read More
Indian government gave its final clearance to long-awaited rules on sharing and trading of spectrum recently, and according to Fitch ratings, the newly announced approval for spectrum trading and sharing is likely to push industry consolidation further, reduce regulatory uncertainty and ease network congestion. To date, active consolidation in the sector has been prevented by inefficient utilisation of spectrum assets by smaller telcos, and regulatory uncertainty regarding M&A rules. This seems... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), will offer ‘Jionet’ High Speed Wi-Fi internet service at Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet (TN -GIM). The meet is supposed to be held between the 9th & the 10th September 2015 at Chennai Trade Centre in Chennai. Reliance JIO is the only operator with BWA spectrum across 22 service areas. The two-day conference will be inaugurated by Honourable... Read More
Kerala High Court has approved to the consent order given to Reliance Jio Infotech Pvt. Ltd., to use Kerala State Electricity Board’s (KSEB) towers for installation of its optical fibre cables (for 4G services). The Court added that any telecom operator who wishes to bring in 4G services can seek permission to use KSEB towers. The verdict was passed in a petition filed by COAI and its members questioning the... Read More
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