Telecom operators in India last year started offering Disney+ Hotstar benefit with their prepaid plans. It is a great benefit for a user who would have bought the subscription of the over-the-top (OTT) platform anyway. It is important to note that the plans that we are going to list will offer Disney+ Hotstar VIP and not the Premium subscription. The Disney+ Hotstar VIP plan costs Rs 400 for a year.... Read More
5G has become the talk of the town. While 5G is still quite far away from being rolled out in India, the government and the operators have started planning and investing on it quite heavily. After 4G, the next big thing in the Indian telecom industry will be ‘Made in India’ 5G network. Both Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have said that they will rollout homegrown 5G. Airtel has even... Read More
Reliance Jio, India’s leading telecom operator, might not be too keen to increase tariffs owing to lower net user additions in the previous quarters. Even though the telco's tariffs were 7-20% lesser than that of Bharti Airtel, it did not add many users during the October-December period in 2020. The increasing subscribers churn rate is directly impacting the net users' addition of the telco. This is why the telco is... Read More
Reliance Jio customers generally recharge the popular plans available on the telco's website as they come with daily data benefit and OTT subscriptions. For those who don't consume a lot of data daily, the telco has affordable prepaid plans which start at just Rs 129. These affordable plans from Reliance Jio do not come with daily data benefit, instead, there's a fixed data limit for the entire validity period. But... Read More
During the quarterly performance report for Q3 FY21, Reliance Jio said it has 'indigenously' developed 5G Radio. This means the telco now has entire in-house end-to-end Jio 5G technology. Reliance Jio also integrated the 5G Radio with its 5G Core Network and managed to achieve throughputs of more than 1 Gbps on 5G smartphones. The Jio gNodeB base station is also being tested with Jio 5G Core, confirmed the company.... Read More
Reliance Jio has released the quarterly performance report for Q3 FY21 (October 31, 2020-December 31, 2020). Key highlights of this quarter performance from Jio include an increase in ARPU to Rs 151, subscriber base boost to 410.8 million, total data traffic increase by 28.4% YoY and total voice traffic increase by 18% YoY. Despite the challenges put by COVID-19, Reliance Jio says it managed to add 25.1 million subscribers during... Read More
Reliance Jio has revised the cheapest 4G Data Voucher priced at Rs 11. The Rs 11 4G Data Voucher from Reliance Jio used to offer 800MB of data up until now. After the revision, the plan is offering 1GB of data. Besides the Rs 11 4G Data Voucher, the remaining vouchers of Rs 21, Rs 51 and Rs 101 continue to offer the same benefits as earlier. Earlier this month,... Read More
India's telecom industry wants to pay lesser taxes and need exemption on paying custom duties to the government. The license fee which telcos in India have to pay is way too high than what operators in other parts of the world need to. That is why, the industry has sought for a reduction in spectrum usage charges (SUC), spectrum acquisition charges, licence fee, removal of GST (goods and services tax)... Read More
Reliance Jio has the affordable 4G prepaid plans in the Indian telecom industry. The Mukesh Ambani-owned telco always tried its best to innovate; Because of Reliance Jio, the mobile phone subscribers in India started getting daily data plans. It is because of Reliance Jio the self-care applications of telcos improved leaps and bounds in less than two years. It is because of Reliance Jio the competitors Bharti Airtel and Vodafone... Read More
Users making outgoing calls to mobile numbers via landline connection will soon have to add ‘0’ as a prefix on the number. This is not new information; the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had floated a circular in November last year directing all the telecom operators to implement this rule in their system. As per an ET Telecom report, starting January 15, 2021, this rule will be applicable for all the... Read More
Reliance Jio has removed the redundant JioPhone plans. The removal of non-Jio voice calling charges resulted in four JioPhone plans becoming redundant. The four plans in question are Rs 99, Rs 153, Rs 297 and Rs 594. The Rs 153 JioPhone plan overlapped with the Rs 155 plan because it offered better data benefit than the latter. The Rs 99, Rs 297 and Rs 594 JioPhone plans did not offer... Read More
JioPhone has always been at the centre stage for Reliance Jio. It was after the introduction of JioPhone in 2017, the company' subscriber base got a major boost. At the end of 2019, JioPhone subscriber base was over 70 million, and the number must've grown in 2020. JioPhone users enjoy the cheapest 4G tariff plans in the industry starting at just Rs 75. To recall, Jio offered a Rs 49... Read More
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49 is not possible with 5MHz. EARFCN is 515, so, bw must be 10, not 5. for 5, the earfcn…
It'll take at least 3 years to happen that. People look at Airtel when they don't get good service in…
Very poor speeds. In three circles, Band 3 20Mhz gives 160Mbps easily. Vi in Gujarat, Airtel and Jio in Maharashtra…
No value left in airtel. 4G recharge is costlier than Jio. 5G isn't widely available plus 300gb restriction, cut from…
Damn, add that bandwidth already along with 700Mhz. Lot of phones support 1-28 CA on 4G.
