Reliance Jio, India’s number one telecom operator, doesn’t like what Vodafone Idea (Vi) is doing with its prepaid plans. Post tariff hikes, Vodafone Idea, is the only operator that is offering the minimum SMS bundled prepaid plan for Rs 179. This isn’t sitting well with Reliance Jio. This is because this restricts the users from sending port out messages. Regardless of the fact that Vodafone Idea is in a desperate... Read More
Reliance Jio is offering a subscription to Disney+ Hotstar with only one prepaid plan now. The telco recently moved ahead with prepaid tariff hikes. Due to this, a lot of the plans not only saw their price increase but a few Disney+ Hotstar plans were also removed. Now, only one plan from the telco offers a mobile subscription to the Disney+ Hotstar worth Rs 499 with one year’s validity. This... Read More
Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea have asked for more time from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for conducting 5G trials. While this is not a new development, there might be many who will be wondering why did the DoT allow a time extension. If delays in trials amount to delay in 5G roll out, wouldn’t it be bad for India? There are a lot of factors at play... Read More
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries denied any participation in the bidding for the UK telecom group British Telecom, popularly known as BT. Calling the report entirely speculative and baseless, the telecom major requested the media to conduct due diligence and verification before publishing such articles. The mentioned news report was published by The Economic Times on November 29, 2021. The report cited that Reliance might make an unsolicited offer to purchase... Read More
The month of October witnessed the launch of the JioPhone Next smartphone by Reliance Jio in India. Now, as the reports come in, it is speculated that the company is working on two new devices to launch in the foreseeable future. These two devices will be consumer electronics products and, to be precise, a Smart TV and a new tablet. Both these products are expected to be launched next year.... Read More
The recent hike in prices of the prepaid plans by the telecom companies has been the highlight for more than a week. Now, as events unfold, it is being reported that Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are expected to witness an additional $1 billion increase (around Rs 7,500 crores) in each of their Free Cash Flow (FCF) annually. According to an ET Telecom report citing Goldman Sachs, this rise in... Read More
Reliance Jio, India’s number one telecom operator, on November 28, announced prepaid tariff hikes. The telco said that it would be raising the tariffs of its select prepaid plans from December 1, 2021. However, customers have two days to recharge with the lower prepaid tariffs in advance to save money. Reliance Jio arguably offers the best multi recharge or advance recharge facility to the users. Reliance Jio Multi Recharge, How... Read More
Reliance Jio has also announced a prepaid tariff hike after similar announcements from Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi). The telco has, however, kept the prepaid plans the cheapest in the industry, which will help in growing subscriber market share further. This tariff hike will help Reliance Jio in increasing its average revenue per user (ARPU) figure substantially. Not all the plans have received a hike, but most of the... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi) was quite desperate to get the tariff hikes going. The telco was just waiting for Bharti Airtel to make the first move. Post the tariff hikes; analysts are positive that Vi’s revenues are going to grow. However, the subscriber churn rate is also expected to be higher. In a note, Motilal Oswal Institutional Equities said that Vi’s average revenue per user (ARPU) figure would grow to Rs... Read More
Reliance Jio, Indian’s number one telecom operator in terms of subscriber market share and 4G coverage, might go opposite Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi). The telco isn’t in need of a prepaid tariff hike desperately like Airtel and Vi. Jio is already making huge profits even though its average revenue per user (ARPU) and active subscriber percentage is lower than Airtel. Vodafone Idea recently announced prepaid tariff hikes following Airtel’s... Read More
Bharti Airtel offers users a Rs 249 prepaid plan, but so does Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi). All of the telcos offer this plan with the same validity, which is 28 days. But as TelecomTalk reported recently, Bharti Airtel is also offering additional bonus data with its Rs 249 plan. With Airtel’s Rs 249 plan, users will get 500MB or 0.5GB of bonus data daily for the entire 28... Read More
In many ways, while Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) prepaid plans are a tad bit expensive than Jio and Airtel’s offerings, you can’t deny the benefits they come with are really good. Vodafone Idea knows how to stand out with its prepaid plans and that too how to do it in style. There’s a prepaid plan in the telco’s arsenal that trumps Jio’s offering badly. So much so that Jio’s plan looks... Read More
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