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IPL 2023: JioCinema sets concurrency world record with 25.7 mn viewers

JioCinema's IPL 2023 presentation has continuously set new benchmarks and shattered records almost every week through the season, evidence of cricket fans' preference

IPL 2023: CSK vs GT match sets record for highest-ever digital viewership

The record was previously held by the IPL match between CSK and RCB on April 17

Jio 5G services now available in all districts, 200 major cities of Odisha

Jio 5G service is now available in all district headquarters as well as over 200 major cities and towns across Odisha, a company official said on Tuesday

Jio adds 3.05 mn mobile users in March, Vodafone Idea loses 1.2 mn users

India's largest telecom operator Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh mobile subscribers in March, accelerating its momentum of February, while Vodafone Idea lost 12.12 lakh wireless users during the month, according to data released by telecom regulator TRAI. Sunil Mittal-led telecom company Bharti Airtel onborded 10.37 lakh mobile subscribers in March, raising its subscriber base to 37.09 crores in March against 36.98 crores in February. Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh subscribers in March, as its subscriber count exceeded 43 crore, compared to 42.71 crore in February. It is pertinent to mention that in February too, Reliance Jio had added the maximum number of mobile subscribers (at about 10 lakh) among telcos, while Airtel had gained 9.82 lakh mobile users during February. A look at March data released by TRAI showed that Vodafone Idea -- which trails Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel in the mobile market subscriber tally -- lost 12.12 lakh mobile users in March. Vodafone Idea's mobile ...

HFCL bags Rs 222 cr order from Reliance Jio for transmission equipment

Domestic telecom gear maker HFCL has bagged about Rs 222 crore order from Reliance Jio and its sister concern Reliance Projects & Property Management Services Limited for transmission equipment, according to a regulatory filing. The company has bagged an order worth Rs 179.24 crore from Reliance Projects & Property Management Services Limited for supplying various types of Optical Fiber Cables by October. Reliance Jio has placed an order worth Rs 42.71 with HFCL to supply indigenously designed, developed and manufactured 700 megabits per second (Mbps) and 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) point-to-point Unlicensed Band Radios by July. "...the Company, along with its material subsidiary, HTL Limited, has received the Purchase Orders aggregating to about Rs 221.95 Crore, consisting Purchase Orders of about Rs 179.24 Crores from Reliance Projects & Property Management Services Limited for the supply of Optical Fiber Cables and of Rs 42.71 crores approximately from Reliance Jio ...

JioCinema, Voot merger in final stages; may be announced by May-end: Report

The companies are waiting for the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to conclude before finalising the merger

Viewership of premium videos up in India, Disney+ Hotstar most dominant

In April, the consumption of videos on Jio Cinema saw an uptick of 20x on the back of the ongoing season of men's IPL: Report

Jio to cross 500 mn subscriber mark by FY26, maintain market leadership

Currently, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel command more than 80% of the country's mobile network business. Jio has a market share of 48%, whereas, Airtel has 35% of it

Ambani's JioCinema unveils pricing in fight with Netflix, Disney

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's streaming platform JioCinema announced premium pricing of 999 Indian rupees ($12) a year, its first step to move away from a free content model to fight global rival

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel gaining equally at the expense of Vodafone Idea

Over 2 million wireless subscribers exited Vodafone Idea in February; Reliance Jio gained 1 million, and Airtel added 982,554 subscribers

Reliance Jio, Airtel add 1.9 million mobile subscribers in February: Trai

Telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added 19.8 lakh mobile subscribers month-on-month in February, even as Vodafone Idea lost 20 lakh customers, according to data released by Trai on Thursday. India's largest telecom player Reliance Jio added the maximum number of mobile subscribers at about 10 lakh, taking its wireless subscriber tally to 42.71 crore users in February, as against 42.61 crore in January. Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel gained 9.82 lakh mobile users during February and ended the month with a wireless subscriber base of 36.98 crore. Vodafone Idea lost 20 lakh subscribers in the wireless category as its mobile subscriber base shrunk to 23.79 crore, as per data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). "...the total Broadband Subscribers increased from 839.18 million at the end of January-23 to 839.33 million at the end of February-23 with a monthly growth rate of 0.02 per cent," the release said. The top five service providers constituted 98.

JioCinema reports record 1,300 crore views in first five weeks of IPL

Reliance-owned JioCinema, which has the live streaming right for Tata IPL, on Thursday said it has clocked over 1,300 crore video views in the first five weeks of the T20 cricket tournament. The average time spent per viewer per match touched 60 minutes, said a statement from JioCinema, an OTT platform owned by Viacom 18. "JioCinema continues to grow from strength to strength every week and it is based on clear evidence of consumer's outright preference of catching the TATA IPL on digital, said Viacom18 Sports CEO Anil Jayaraj. JioCinema also breached the peak concurrency records of TATA IPL twice in five days. "The combination of outstanding cricket action and our robust platform proved the stellar opening weekend was just the beginning of bigger things to come," he said. After witnessing an encouraging response, JioCinema has released a 360-degree viewing feature to delight fans, showcasing the power of immersive fan engagement on digital. "The number of advertisers on JioCinem

IRM partners with Jio to drive enterprise risk management in telecom sector

IRM India Affiliate has entered into a partnership with Reliance Jio Infocomm to strengthen and promote Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in the telecom industry, according to a statement on Monday. As a part of this knowledge partnership, both Institute of Risk Management (IRM) India Affiliate and Reliance Jio will be organising webinars, roundtables, and industry meetings and contributing thought leadership articles towards knowledge building and enhancing ERM and risk intelligence for the sector. IRM is a leading professional body for ERM qualifications across 140 plus countries, and Reliance Jio is a telecommunications company and a subsidiary of Jio Platforms that operates a national LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network with coverage across all 22 telecom circles. "IRM India Affiliate has entered into a knowledge partnership by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd to build resilience and promote the need for and importance of Enterprise Risk ..

Trai backs Jio's method to calculate additional charges for shared spectrum

The Trai has backed Jio's approach, which states that the additional fees for shared spectrum can be levied only in the band in which airwaves are shared

Reliance launched first VR headset, JioDive: Check price, features & more

Reliance Jio launches its first JioDive VR headset called JioDive at an affordable price of Rs. 1299 to watch TATA IPL in a 360-degree view on a virtual hundred-inch screen

TMS Ep423: Byju's troubles, JioCinema, sugar stocks, Ludhiana gas leak

Is it the end of the road for Byju's? Is JioCinema the new star of OTT? Is there more sweetness left in sugar stocks? What caused the Ludhiana gas leak tragedy? Answers here

After Reliance-Warner deal, JioCinema pricing and local content in focus

Reliance's JioCinema to lock horns with Netflix, Disney; Warner deal to boost English content, local content in focus too

Race for scale: HBO finds a home in India after deal with JioCinema

Does its deal with HBO mean that JioCinema is planning to go pay?

Airtel's 5G service reaches 3,000 cities, Jio 5G in 3089 urban areas

For easy transition from 4G to 5G, Airtel has tuned all the current Airtel 4G SIMS to be 5G compatible

After IPL, JioCinema now lands a deal to stream Warner Bros, HBO content

The content deal could bring in thousands of hours of streaming content onto JioCinema, which has become popular for streaming IPL for free