Roundup of all the Telecom providers and Operators
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries at an event last month launched Reliance Jio Prime membership at a one-time payment of Rs. 99 for a year. As promised, the company has started activation of the Prime membership through MyJio app, Jio.com and retail store from today, 1st March, which will last till 31st March. Continue reading “Reliance Jio Prime plans – Unlimited plans start at Rs. 303, 1GB data pack at Rs. 51, 5GB pack at Rs. 201 and more”
Vodafone has launched its 4G services in Pune. Vodafone 4G is now available across 107 cities and towns in Maharashtra & Goa including Nagpur, Nashik, Vasai, Akola, Chandrapur, Amravati, Latur, Dhule, Malegaon, Goa, Ahmednagar, Nanded, Sangli, Miraj, Kolhapur, Jalgaon etc. and will soon be rolled out across all major towns and cities of Maharashtra by March 2017. Continue reading “Vodafone launches 4G services in Pune”
American luggage maker Samsonite has joined hands with Vodafone for a luggage tracking solution. Samsonite is trialling a new longer battery life, wider range technology called Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) with Vodafone, as an additional option for their Track&Go solution. Continue reading “Samsonite and Vodafone team up to improve Track&Go luggage tracking solution”
Google has partnered with Bharti Airtel and SK Telecom to build a platform for operators to run their network services. The company says its own SDN framework will enable networks to adapt to new services and traffic patterns. Continue reading “Google teams up with Bharti Airtel and SK Telecom for next generation of mobile networks”
Samsung at its joint event with Jio at the MWC 2017 in Barcelona today announced I&G (Infill & Growth) Project for Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd in India. This is aimed at upgrading current LTE mobile communication services across India by expanding both the current network capacity as well as network coverage.
Airtel today announced that it will offer free incoming calls while roaming nationally for all its customers. Starting this April 1st, all Airtel customers, travelling anywhere in the country, can take incoming calls for free without opting for any special packs. Vodafone introduced this last year. Continue reading “Airtel won’t charge for incoming calls when roaming nationally starting April”
T-Mobile today announced that it has started deploying LTE-U technology in its LTE network and will launch in Spring 2017, following today’s FCC certification of equipment from strategic partners Ericsson and Nokia. This comes after more than three years of extensive research, development and testing to ensure LTE-U works well alongside Wi-Fi technologies. Continue reading “T-Mobile starts deploying LTE-U technology in its LTE network, will launch in Spring 2017”
Verizon has announced that it will deliver 5G pre-commercial services to select customers in 11 cities throughout in the US on its newly built 5G network. Continue reading “Verizon to test 5G in 11 cities across U.S. this year”
Airtel today announced that it has agreed to acquire Telenor India. As part of the agreement, Airtel will acquire Telenor India’s running operations in seven circles – Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Gujarat, UP (East), UP (West) and Assam, and transfer of all of Telenor India’s assets including spectrum, licenses and operations, including its employees and customer base of 44 million as well as outstanding spectrum payments and other operational contracts, including tower lease. Continue reading “Airtel to acquire Telenor India”
Verizon Communications and Yahoo back in July last announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Yahoo’s operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash. Today both the companies have announced that they have agreed to reduce the price Verizon will pay to acquire Yahoo’s operating business by $350 million. Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo is now valued at approximately $4.48 billion in cash. Continue reading “Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo now valued at $4.48 billion after price is reduced by $350 million”
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries at the company’s special event today announced that Reliance Jio has crossed 100 million customers in 170 days of launch, adding 7 customers every second on average. It has 60,000 Jio employees and over 10 lakh Jio retail partners. Continue reading “Reliance Jio clocks 100 million customers, introduces Jio prime membership for Rs. 99 for 1 year”
Uber and Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. today have announced a strategic partnership. As a part of the partnership, Jio and Uber will work together and explore various opportunities to progressively enrich and enhance the Digital Life experience of their users through complementary programmes. Continue reading “Uber partners with Reliance Jio, starts rolling out JioMoney payment option”
Airtel launched 4G on mobile in Bengaluru based on 2300 MHz TDD-LTE (Band 40) last year. Today the company has rolled out 4G services in the 1800 MHz (Band 3) spectrum band using FDD-LTE technology. Continue reading “Airtel enhances network capacity in Maharashtra and Goa, launches 4G in 1800 MHz band”
Reliance Jio Infocomm, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) officially launched for all on September 5th, 2016. In October the company announced that it signed record 16 million new subscribers in 26 days of its commercial operations, later in November the company said that it has added 50 million subscribers in 83 days. It clocked 72.4 million subscribers as of December 31, 2016.
Continue reading “Reliance Jio beat its own customer base target: Mukesh Ambani”
Reliance Jio is the second largest telecom player in India, according to a latest Truecaller Insight. The newest entry in the telecom sector responsible for the disruption has a 23% market share. Continue reading “Reliance Jio has second largest user base with 23% market share: Truecaller study”
