The war between Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio in offering better services to users living in different parts of India seems to be a never-ending one. Both the telcos offer multiple prepaid plans that cost the same but offer different benefits. There are some plans of Jio which are ahead, and then there are some plans of Airtel which are better. Today, we are going to look at the benefits... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has taken Reliance Jio’s throne when it comes to adding wireline broadband subscribers in the month of July 2021. For the unaware, as per the monthly data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for June 2021, Reliance Jio had added the most number of wireline broadband subscribers in India. But in the month of July 2021, Jio’s throne was overtaken by BSNL,... Read More
Bharti Airtel might not have as many 4G subscribers as Jio, but it still has more active subscribers than its competitor. Airtel focuses more on quality while Jio mostly on numbers. According to the monthly performance report shared by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Airtel’s 97.74% users of the total subscriber base were active as compared to its rival Jio’s 78.18% users of the total subscriber base. Even... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) offers really economical plans and with great benefits. The same image is shared by Reliance Jio too. But there’s one area where BSNL beats Jio comfortably, and it is in offering a heavy data long-term plan. Both the companies have one such plan in their portfolios, and Jio’s plan is cut short severely by BSNL. Yes, BSNL doesn’t have a PAN-India 4G network to back... 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
5G is going to be the next revolution in the connectivity standards, and it is going to come with its share of challenges. One of the biggest issues that Vodafone Idea (Vi) and other telcos will have to navigate through will be delivering the network seamlessly to the end-user. Since 5G networks would operate on a higher spectrum band, they will require even denser infrastructure and backhaul to support the... 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
Reliance Jio, the number of telecom operators in India, has increased the data benefits for users on select prepaid plans. The telco already offered some of the most affordable prepaid plans. But with the additional data on its select prepaid plans, its offerings become even better. Reliance Jio will now be offering more data than ever with three of its prepaid plans. These plans not only offer huge amounts of... Read More
Vodafone Idea Limited’s (VIL) future, until yesterday, was mixed in dark clouds. Things weren’t clear, and the company had failed to secure any new investors. However, with the announcement of the relief package, one thing’s fixed, Vodafone Idea (Vi) is not going to go out of the market, even in the long-term, at least that’s what the evidence suggests. The company’s visibility as a “going concern” has increased with the... Read More
Bharti Airtel is following similar strategies as that of Reliance Jio. While both telcos have different ways of acquiring customers, their corporate structure, as well as way of doing business, is pretty similar. For example, Bharti Airtel last year changed its corporate structure wherein the telco shifted all of its digital assets and businesses, including Wynk Music, Mitra Payments, Airtel Xstream, Airtel IQ, Airtel Thanks, and Airtel Secure, under one... Read More
Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, and Reliance Jio, all have shown their support for the relief measures that were announced by the government today. The Government of India (GoI) has changed its definition of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues and have also allowed a moratorium with interest rates for four years in the payments related to AGR and spectrum purchased, ease in process of getting clearance for tower installation, 100%... Read More
India’s number one telecom operator, Reliance Jio, has welcomed the reforms that the Government of India (GoI) has announced for the sector. The telco has called the reforms a “timely” step from the GoI and believes that these new reforms will aid in strengthening the telcos sector of India. Further, Jio said that the relief measures announced will help the government is moving towards its Digital India ambition. Reliance Jio... Read More
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