Reliance Jio Infocomm is said to be working with partners to bring in affordable Android smartphones with large-screens that can cater to the large mass of customers. Jio is in talks with US contract manufacturer Flex for locally producing about 100 million smartphones Jio seeks to rapidly enhance its market share by signing on a majority of those now using feature phones. Continue reading “Reliance Jio said to be in talks with partners to launch affordable large-screen smartphones”
Reliance Jio has launched the first VoLTE-based international roaming services in India in partnership with KDDI. With this KDDI becomes Japan’s first telecommunications service providers to offer VoLTE telephony in India for their international roaming users. Continue reading “Reliance Jio launches first VoLTE-based international roaming services in India”
After Airtel started eSIM activation for iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR in India a few days back, and quickly paused it, Reliance Jio has started eSIM activation for the eligible iPone users from today, after the support was enabled with iOS 12.1 update earlier this week. Apple already announced that Airtel and Reliance Jio will support eSIM in India, and more partneres will be added next year. Continue reading “Reliance Jio begins eSIM activation on iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR”
Reliance Jio has reported Rs. 9240 crore revenue, up 13.9% QoQ and 50.3 YoY and a net profit of 681 crore, up 11.3% QoQ for its fifth quarterly financial performance for the period that ended 30th September, 2018. Jio reported Standalone earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of 3,573 crore, up 13.5% QoQ, EBITDA margin of 38.7%, and Standalone earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of 2,042 crore, up 19.6% QoQ . Consolidated value of services stood at 10,901 crore, up 13.9% over trailing quarter. It has 252.3 million subscribers as of September 30th, achieving it in 25 months of commencemnt of services.
Jio today announced that it has signed a 5 year partnership with Star India to make all televised India-cricket matches available to users of JioTV and Hotstar in India. This partnership will cover T20, One Day Internationals (ODI), International Test Cricket and Premier Domestic Competitions of the BCCI. Continue reading “Reliance Jio signs 5-year partnership with Star India to show all India-cricket matches on JioTV and Hotstar”
Reliance Jio has been offering free data occasionally. It offered 8GB free data at 2GB per day for users with 4 days validity during cricket season, now it is once again offering two vouchers, each with 2GB data per day, valid for 4 days as a part of its 2nd anniversary celebration, so you get 16GB free data. Continue reading “Reliance Jio celebrates its 2nd anniversary by offering 16GB free data to its users”
Reliance Jio is back with the free data offer, this time it has partnered with Cardbury Dairy Milk to offer users 1GB of free data just by uploading a photo of an empty Dairy Milk wrapper on MyJio app.
Reliance Jio today opened registrations for JioGigaFiber, its upcoming connected home solution that includes ultra-high speed fiber connection of up to 1Gbps with the GigaRouter, GigaTV Set-top box to watch Live TV, Smart Home solution, free calling and more. Continue reading “Reliance Jio opens JioGigaFiber registrations – Up to 1GBps fiber broadband, GigaTV and more”
Reliance Jio today reported Rs. ₹8,109 crore revenue, up 13.8 % QoQ and a net profit of 612 crore, up 19.9% QoQ for its fourth quarterly financial performance for the period that ended 30th June, 2018. Jio’s rival Airtel earlier this week reported 97.3 crore crore net profit for the same quarter. Continue reading “Reliance Jio reports Rs. 612 crore profit in Q1, up 19.9 % QoQ”
Xiaomi really nailed it last quarter in India pushing Samsung behind to regain the number one position in the smartphone space. However, Samsung gave it back this time reclaiming the top position. According to Counterpoint Research, the smartphone market returned to double-digit growth (18%) YoY after flat first-quarter growth. Continue reading “Samsung surpasses Xiaomi in India to regain number one position with 29% market share in Q2 2018: Counterpoint”
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries at the company’s 41st annual AGM announced that Reliance Jio has crossed 215 million customers in 22 months of launch, compared to 125 million in July last year. Earlier this year when announcing the financial results, the company said that it had over 186 million customers.
Continue reading “Reliance Jio now has over 215 millions users, more than 25 million JioPhone users”
Earlier this year Reliance Jio revised some of its plans to offer more data. Today, to counter Airtel’s 1GB/day additional data on Rs. 149 and Rs. 399 packs, Reliance Jio is offering 1.5GB/day additional data for all daily recurring recharges in the month of June. Continue reading “Reliance Jio offers 1.5GB additional data per day for all users till June 30”
Last month Reliance Jio offered 8GB free data at 2GB per day for users with 4 days validity that got automatically added in their account, now it is once again offering 2GB data per day, valid for 4 days as a part of Jio Cricket Season data pack, and to watch IPL qualifier 2 today and finals on Sunday. Continue reading “Reliance Jio once again offers 8GB free cricket add-on data pack for users”
Reliance Jio today reported Rs. 7,128 crore revenue, up 3.6 % QoQ and a net profit of 510.44 crore, up 1.2% QoQ for its third quarterly financial performance for the period that ended 31st March, 2018. Jio’s rival Airtel earlier this week reported 652.30 crore crore net loss for the same quarter. Continue reading “Reliance Jio reports Rs. 510 crore profit in Q4, has over 186 million customers”
According to the latest market research from Counterpoint, India’s overall mobile phone shipments grew 48% YoY in Q1 2018. The feature phone segment almost doubled in Q1 2018 due to strong shipments of Reliance JioPhone, while the smartphone market remained flat compared to same time last year. Continue reading “India feature phone market doubled, mobile phone shipments grew 48% YoY in Q1 2018: Counterpoint”
