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Mukesh Ambani unleashes disruptive 'datagiri' via Jio

Voice calls to be free, may force the incumbents to lower voice charges, affecting their margins

Idea, Airtel tank up to 9% on Rel Jio's lower tariff offers

Mukesh Ambani offered customers free data services for 4 months, starting Sep 5 to Dec 31

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani says to slash telecom prices

He was speaking at the company's annual general meeting in Mumbai

Poser over long-term yield of Jio's strategy

According to analysts, Jio's aim of getting large number of subscribers on to its network could face technological challenges

Reliance Jio begins 4G preview offer

Long queues outside Reliance Digital Stores tell the story of India's pent-up demand for data services. As Mukesh Ambani's telecom venture, Reliance Jio Infocomm, readies for a full-blown commercial launch later this year, the company has made its preview offer available to all fourth-generation handset owners with promises to deliver free voice and data for three months.The internet is flooded with images of customers queuing to get their free SIM cards.The chairman of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani, is going to address shareholders on September 1, where he is expected to share details of Jio's trial preview. Customers lined up for the 4G SIM in one of the outlets in Mumbai (pictured).

RJio extends preview offer to Gionee, Karbon, Lava users

Under the offer, customers will have unlimited access to Jio services for 90 days from the day of activation of Jio SIM

People throng stores for Reliance Jio's free 4G test SIM

Jio's 4G-LTE services include unlimited HD Voice and video calls, unlimited SMS, and unlimited high-speed data

Jio's preview offer to cover Micromax & TCL users

Under the offer, Jio offers free internet data and voice calls for 90 days

Reliance Jio blasts COAI for 'lying'

Jio said it would place on record its protest against the "gross and serious acts of breach of trust, fraudulent conduct and gross misrepresentation of facts with wilful and deliberate intent to malign and damage" its interests

Reliance Jio test uses commercial airwaves, but no revenue to govt: COAI

Also, data traffic generated by such 'so called beta tests' is rivaling combined traffic other operators present for 15-20 years

Jio says incumbents failed to share interconnection ports

Over the past few months, Jio has asked for a time-bound release of ports to meet expected traffic on the network so that other operators are able to plan better

Not granting interconnect capacity is breach of licence agreement, says Jio

Jio wants Trai to direct incumbents to release interconnect capacity to meet its 100 mn subscriber target after launch

Jio launches MiFi devices under trial programme

Jio MiFi is available at Rs 2,899 with 90-day preview offer of unlimited internet

For telcos, data war may not be a bad thing

Analysts believe making mobile data more affordable will fuel mass market adoption of data services

Reliance Jio strikes back, sees vested interests at play

RJIL blasts COAI for vilification campaign against Trai as well

RJio commercial launch soon

Reliance Jio Infocomm's share capital, including reserves, stood at Rs 45,000 crore and Jio's debt at the end of 2015-16 was Rs 33,187 crore

Concerns over RJio break-even

With RIL likely to exceed its targeted capex in telecom, some brokerages have increased their loss estimates for Jio

Reliance Jio's 4G rollout in next three months: CLSA

Company management believes Jio's network can easily handle usage of 5 GB per month data each, by over 100 million subscribers

Telcos incentivise pre-paid data usage

Move said to be in anticipation of Jio launch; might not lead to higher usage, protect market share of service providers

Ahead of Jio launch, existing telcos cut data prices by up to 67%

Reliance Jio Infocomm has announced that it would launch commercial 4G services in 6 to 8 weeks