Reliance LYF starts online ads as Jio 4G launch draws nearer

Reliance LYF — the handset brand from the Reliance Retail — has started advertising online, indicating that the launch of 4G services from its communication arm Jio is inching closer. The telecom operator was supposed to have started opening up its trials to the public last month, but the company seems to have decided to open up […]

CORRECTED: Murugappa Group withdraws FIPB proposal for sale of TI’s Cholamandalam stake to Sumitomo

The government of India today said that Tube Investments, a part of the Murugappa Group, withdrew its proposal seeking approval for the sale of the 14% equity it held in Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co to Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd. CORRECTION UDPATE: Murugappa Group has clarified that it has withdrawn the application after […]

Reliance Communications’ 4G upgrade could drive up data tariff

Even as its Reliance Mobile Stores began handing out 4G SIM cards to CDMA users, Reliance Communications has tweaked its prepaid and postpaid GSM tariff plans across the country in anticipation of the 4G upgrade. While earlier, Reliance GSM used to have postpaid plans with unlimited data in non-3G circles, now the data benefits have […]

Reliance Communications 4G SIM sales start in some circles, delayed in others

Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications has started giving 4G upgrade SIMs in many circles over the weekend, but in some circles, the availability of SIM has been delayed by at least a week. According to initial indications, all circles were supposed to get 4G upgrade SIMs by 25 April, and the actual activations were supposed to […]

Allowed Airtel to buy Videocon spectrum due to auction availability – Idea Cellular

Idea Cellular today told investors that it withdrew from a spectrum trading deal with Videocon — allowing Bharti Airtel to buy the airwaves — after it became clear that spectrum in the same band was  coming up for auction next month. “TRAI  announced total quantum of spectrum that was available and prices. We realized that […]

High prices limit Idea’s 4G growth; Reliance Jio launch could add more pressure

After several quarters of spectacular growth in its wireless data business, Idea Cellular seems to have hit a wall in the January-March quarter, with data growth falling to a disappointing 1.5% from 15-17% seen recently. In comparison, Bharti Airtel reported a data volume growth of 9.6% during the same three months, indicating that much of […]

Reliance Communications revamps official store with 4G phones and USB dongle

After remaining offline for three days, Reliance Communications’ official e-store shop.rcom.co.in, is back online after a big makeover. On a day when the company also launched a webpage for upgrading its USB data dongle customers to 4G, RCom has thrown open its new official ecommerce website with spanking new 4G handsets and devices. All the […]

Reliance Jio CAF testing in final stages, RCom stores get 4G SIM stock

Reliance Jio, the upcoming 4G operator, is still busy conducting tests using customer acquisition forms or CAFs across the country in an effort to ensure a flawless activation process when it opens up the trial phase to non-staff subscribers in the coming days. The so-called second phase soft launch was supposed to happen this month, […]

Bharti Airtel calls TRAI’s bluff over net neutrality with intranet query

As expected, telecom companies have rightly sought to exploit a loophole left open by the regulator and the government when they issued the famous ‘net neutrality’ guidelines earlier in the year. The TRAI and the government had, in February, banned any discriminatory charging for digital content flowing over their networks, and said that all bits should […]

With 2.7 lakh km, Reliance Jio overtakes Airtel in fiber backbone

According to the latest numbers released by Reliance Industries as part of its quarterly update, its telecom arm Reliance Jio has comfortably overtaken all other telecom companies in India in terms of the length of its fiber backhaul. Fiber backhaul is crucial to the operations of any telecom company as it helps it deliver high-speed […]

Intex Aqua Super with Reliance 4G SIM, 3GB RAM priced at Rs 5,909; better than LYF Flame 1

Under its Reliance 4G upgrade offer, PayTM is offering Intex Aqua Super 16 GB phone for just Rs 5,909 under a cash back scheme along with a free 4G SIM from Reliance Communications. The Intex phone is currently selling on Snapdeal for Rs 7,500 and on Amazon for Rs 8,300 and was launched late last year […]

Reliance Jio launch looming, Airtel offers free Mifi and 2 GB of 4G trial data

Reliance Jio has hardly hit the market, but its entry is leading to some innovative, and profitable, reactions from its rivals as far as telecom consumers in India are concerned. Though Idea Cellular withdrew its double data offer this month, Bharti Airtel has announced a new scheme under which it will offer a free Mifi […]

Reliance Communications launches 4G mifi device on website at Rs 2,699

Reliance Communications, controlled Anil Ambani, has listed its first 4g mifi device on its ecommerce website, just days ahead of the planned upgrade of its CDMA service to 4g LTE. The mifi device will work on all the three bands on which Reliance Jio and Reliance Communications plan to operate their LTE services – 3, […]

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