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Satellite spectrum battle: Ambani calls for auction; Musk backs allocation

While Starlink and Amazon's Project Kuiper are batting for administrative allocation of satellite spectrum, Reliance Industries argues that auctions are necessary to ensure a fair playing field

Jio financial services unveils new app packed with features and upgrades

Jio Financial Services on Friday announced the launch of a new and improved JioFinance App that offers a range of services, including loans, savings accounts, UPI bill payments, recharges, and digital insurance. A beta version of the JioFinance App was launched on May 30, 2024. Over six million users have experienced Jio Financial Services Ltd's (JFSL) new-age digital platform, and the valuable customer feedback received was instrumental in improving the app's overall user experience. "A wide array of financial products and services have been added since the Beta launch, including loans on mutual funds, home loans (including Balance Transfer), and loans against property. These loans are available at competitive terms and will offer substantial savings for our customers," JFSL said in a statement. The new app is now available on the Google Play Store, Apple App Store and MyJio, with a wide range of attractive offerings, it said. On the savings front, the digital savings account from

BIF opposes Jio's demand of revising consultation paper on Satcom rules

Industry body Broadband India Forum on Tuesday opposed Reliance Jio's demand for revising the consultation paper on Satcom spectrum rules. Reliance Jio has urged telecom regulator Trai to come up with a revised paper on spectrum allocation for satellite communication, alleging that it ignores the key points of ensuring a level-playing field between satellite and terrestrial services. Without naming Reliance Jio, Broadband India Forum (BIF) said the argument for a 'level playing field' between satellite-based and terrestrial communication services is fundamentally flawed, demonstrating a profound misunderstanding of the technologies and the law. "In a desperate attempt to confuse all, stakeholders' have questioned the regulator's preference or 'tilting of preference' on the administrative allocation of satellite spectrum, advocating for auctioning such airwaves. "This seems to be a direct defiance of the Telecommunications Act passed by the highest legislative authority of the count

Jio urges Trai to review consultation paper on satellite spectrum

Reliance Jio has urged telecom regulator Trai to come up with a revised paper on spectrum allocation for satellite communication alleging that it ignores the key point of ensuring level-playing field between satellite and terrestrial services. In a letter to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman, Anil Kumar Lahoti, Reliance Jio has sought revision of the consultation paper on recommending rules for "terms and conditions for the assignment of spectrum for certain satellite-based commercial communication services". "We are surprised that the consultation paper has completely overlooked the critical issue of ensuring level-playing field between satellite-based and terrestrial access services. This omission has resulted in the lack of any questions addressing the need to create a level-playing field between these services," Reliance Jio (RJIL) said in a letter dated October 4. Jio said that due to the omission of this point, stakeholders will not be able to adequately ..

Vodafone Idea expands long-term partnership with Ericsson for 5G rollout

As part of the new agreement, Ericsson will upgrade Vi's existing 4G networks and introduce 5G in key areas, including Delhi, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan

Telecoms may be holding off on 5G expansion to strengthen 4G: Here's why

Major telecom service providers in India Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel appear to be prioritising 4G expansion over 5G

BSNL's market share gain from lower tariffs unlikely to impact Airtel, Jio

Analysts believe market share gains by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel will continue

BSNL adds 2.9 mn users after telecom rivals hiked tariffs in July

State-owned telecom company was the only one in industry not to raise tariff

Bharti Airtel becomes 4th listed company to cross Rs 10 trillion market cap

The combined market cap of Bharti Airtel (Rs 9.52 trillion) and Bharti Airtel's partly paid shares (Rs 49,526 crore) touched Rs 10.02 trillion in intra-day trade on Thursday.

Fire at data centre likely cause of India-wide outage for Jio users: Report

The website also showed that more than half of the affected users were facing issues related to their mobile network, while others had mobile internet and broadband-related complaints

Jio is down; users complain about network disruption on social media

Jio Down: Thousands of users are complaining about the network issue on social media. The users are also not able to connect to the internet

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel part of global venture to sell network API

Set to begin by early 2025, venture includes 12 major telcos globally

Armani/Caffe makes India debut with launch at Jio World Plaza in Mumbai

Reliance Retail launched India's first Armani cafe at Jio World Plaza in Mumbai. The upscale cafe, Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani, features designer's favourite dishes, and 52 imported wines

Bharti Hexacom up 13% on Jefferies' upgrade to 'Buy' with Rs 1,600 target

The stock hit a new high of Rs 1,454, as Jefferies expects Jio's rising focus on growth and Vodafone Idea's market share losses to drive Bharti Hexacom's operating performance in the medium-term.

Indian telcos to join forces to tackle rising spam calls & messages menace

Telecom companies have traditionally been hesitant to share sensitive data because it could affect their business customers financially

JioPhone Prima 2, powered by Qualcomm chip, launched: Check price, features

The JioPhone Prima 2 is priced at Rs 2,799 and is available on e-commerce platform Amazon. The feature phone is offered in Luxe Blue colour

Jio marks 8th anniversary celebration with offers on select recharge plans

India's largest telecom operator Reliance Jio marked its 8th anniversary milestone on Thursday doling out offers on select recharge plans for its users. According to information on Jio.com website, those recharging between September 5 and September 10 will get three benefits worth Rs 700 with quarterly plans of Rs 899 and Rs 999 as well as annual plan of Rs 3,599. Benefits on offer include subscription to 10 OTTs and 10 GB data pack with 28 day-validity worth Rs 175, subscription to three months of gold membership of Zomato at no cost among others benefits. The two offerings -- Rs 899 and Rs 999 plans -- currently have daily data limit of 2GB and have validity of 90 days and 98 days, respectively, while Rs 3,599 plan comes with daily data quota of 2.5 GB, valid for 365 days. It is pertinent to mention here that in September 2016, Jio's entry with free voice calls and cheap data rates dislodged well-entrenched rivals, and the Mukesh Ambani-led telco subsequently emerged as the natio

A new technological gamechanger: Can RIL do a Jio in AI services?

To ensure that AI is available to everyone, Reliance is building a delivery model where AI services and processing will be hosted on the Cloud over low latency broadband networks

Anatomy of Reliance-Disney merger: What are the strategies and challenges?

The Rs 23,000 crore (revenues FY24) venture, announced in February, was cleared by the Competition Commission of India this week

Jio Brain to AI-Cloud welcome offer: Key tech announcements from RIL AGM

Mukesh Ambani announced that Reliance is establishing a "national AI infrastructure" aligned with Jio's vision of "AI Everywhere For Everyone