The parent company of Reliance Jio, headed by the billionaire Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) filed its quarterly earnings report today. This means that we got to know a great deal about the business of Reliance Jio in the past three months, the third quarter of FY20. This quarter has been a major one for the telecom companies with the data tariff hike introduction and increase of the price... Read More
Reliance Jio is now officially the leading telecom operator in India in terms of subscriber base. As per the Trai subscription data for November 2019, Vodafone Idea lost more than 30 million subscribers, whereas Jio added five million new users, taking its overall user base to 369.93 million. The Trai subscription data has always been confusing; Back in July 2019 itself, Vodafone Idea stated that its subscriber base has been... Read More
The telecom operators in India, all of them, have come around for the 5G trials and submitted their applications for the same. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea have submitted their applications for the 5G field trials in India with various gear manufacturers. The gear manufacturers with whom these companies have submitted their applications include names like ZTE, Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung. While... Read More
Reliance JioFiber debuted in September last year in India. However, the fibre-based broadband service could only garner a lukewarm response from the Indian broadband users. The reason for this was the pricing of the service and the limited data which the plans were bundling in this price point. However, to make the offering more attractive Reliance Jio launched the Jio 4K Set-Top Box along with the JioFiber connection. The Jio... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is retaining the six paise per minute Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) for another year. To recall, Trai was supposed to implement zero-IUC regime on January 1, 2020, according to its announcement made back in 2017. However, incumbents Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea had approached Trai to postpone the zero-IUC regime by at least three years. Zero-IUC regime would benefit Reliance Jio the most... Read More
The telecom industry has seen a lot of bloodbath in the past few months, and the condition of the industry has only stabilised in the last few months. The data tariff hike which was made in the start of December 2019 was one of the major factors behind the stabilisation in the telecom industry which helped the telecom companies in putting a break to the excessive competition and put an... Read More
Reliance Jio has officially rolled out the much-awaited VoWi-Fi service in India. Dubbed as Jio Wi-Fi Calling, it allows users to make video and voice call over any Wi-Fi network. Similar to Airtel Wi-Fi Calling, Jio Wi-Fi Calling will be extremely handy for users who are facing poor indoor connectivity. As always, Jio Wi-Fi Calling is a free service to the users and the best part is the support for... Read More
At the end of 2019, Reliance Jio made some huge changes to its prepaid portfolio like introducing IUC Top-Up Vouchers, removing full talk time benefit with the talk time plans and also the latest revision of prepaid plans. Reliance Jio has been providing 4G data vouchers to the users for a while now. However, after the introduction of IUC Top-Ups, these 4G data vouchers from Jio become redundant. Because, Jio... Read More
One of the major moves in the telecom industry in the last few days has been that of the tariff hike by the telecom companies. The companies like Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea, and Bharti Airtel have hiked their tariffs by as much as 40% after Vodafone Idea first made the move. This data tariff hike has already been expected to boost the revenue of the companies by a certain extent... Read More
Reliance Jio is now into its fourth year of operations in India. However, the telco did not stop its domination and commitment to providing the cheapest data plans to the users. Even after the latest tariff hike, Jio has the best-prepaid plans in the industry when it comes to data benefit, but the limit on off-net voice calling is something not doing well with the subscribers. For instance, Reliance Jio... Read More
A disproportionate number of subscribers own a Reliance Jio SIM card, and it is quite possible that now they are that you are reading this right now on a Reliance Jio connection. There was a time when Reliance Jio was undoubtedly the best choice of telecom operator, if using data was your priority. But, there are two thoughts about it in the minds of the consumers now. The main reason... Read More
There was a time a few years back when Voice Over LTE was all the craze in the telecom industry. The first telecom operator to step into this field was the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operators, and it makes perfect sense because the telco is the only one in India to have a 4G-only network and the only thing necessary for a VoLTE deployment was a robust 4G network which... Read More
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