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Reliance Jio seeks approval from CCI for spectrum sharing with RCom

As per CCI website, the deal is under review

Reliance Jio is still a second option for 82% telecom users

About 86% of Jio users intend to continue using its services in future, despite call drop issues

No floor price for voice, data in most developed countries: Morgan Stanley

Even though a few mobile operators in India have sought fixing of a floor price for voice and data services, it is not a norm in most developed markets and only a few countries like Morocco have a floor price on bundled services.As per a report by Morgan Stanley, most of the developed markets globally do not have any such floor price for both data and voice. Last week, some of the incumbent operators had asked sectoral regulator Trai to fix a floor or minimum price for voice and data services. The operators had suggested imposition of floor rate for tariffs to check predatory pricing. The incumbents have alleged that latest entrant Reliance Jio had adopted a predatory pricing approach to win market share.However, as per Morgan Stanley, globally only a few countries like Morocco have a floor price for bundled services. In Nigeria, there was a directive by the Nigerian Communications Commission to implement a floor price on data from December 1, 2016 as a means to promote level playing .

90% Jio users opted for Prime, 76% ready to continue: BofAML

Jio is offering 1 GB of 4G data per day and unlimited voice calls under Rs 303, Rs 309 schemes

CCI rejects another complaint against Reliance Jio

The complaint mainly pertained to the free services offered by the new telecom player

RJio effect? Your free data offers may end if Trai accepts this proposal

Trai chairman spoke about 'deliberating' upon fixing a minimum floor price for voice, data

You can get 20% additional Reliance Jio data for free; here is how

The move from Reliance Jio comes against the backdrop of falling market share of Lyf handsets

Reliance Jio active subscriber additions slowing down? Airtel wins in April

Reliance Jio (RJio), which has stormed the 4G market in India, is witnessing a slowdown in subscriber additions and for the first time since September last year, Bharti Airtel has added more active subscribers in a month than RJio.However, in terms of net additions, RJio continues to add maximum subscribers. The latest entrant added 3.87 million subscribers in April followed by 2.85 million by Airtel, 0.81 million by BSNL, 0.75 million by Vodafone and 0.68 million by Idea. All the other operators lost subscribers on net basis in April.As per reports by Goldman Sachs and ICICI Securities, RJio added 0.4 million active or VLR subscribers in April as compared to 2.6 million by Airtel. The active subscriber additions by Jio continue to slow down from September-October period of last year, when it was adding around 16 million subscribers a month.RJio has witnessed a deceleration in its active subscribers in fourth straight month and as the company has started to charge from April, the ...

Reliance Jio says incumbent telcos to be blamed for debt woes

Blames Airtel, Vodafone and Idea for cartelisation and financial stress of smaller players

RJio broke no rules with cheap data plan: Trai's Ram Sewak Sharma

Once Reliance Jio's promotional phase was extended, we revisited our rules, said Sharma

No sign of higher tariff as Jio works on next disruption

Experience Centre showcases Jio's futuristic products and services like Jio Money, JioMags, JioNews

Jio user? You've got the fastest 4G download speed in India at 19.12 mbps

Mukesh Ambani-led network topped charts for the fourth consecutive month

Reliance Jio's LYF branded handsets' market share shrinks to 2.5% in Q1

The onslaught of China-based vendors has not only displaced Indian handset companies but also dislodged Reliance Jio-owned 'LYF' brand from the top five smartphone brands in the country. Going by the numbers shared by Counterpoint Research, the market share of LYF smartphones has been reduced to 2.5 per cent in Q1 of 2017 as against the high of 6.9 per cent in Q3 of 2016.In Q3 of 2016, LYF became the fourth largest smartphone brand in the country. However, after that, LYF has seen a slide in sales mainly because all the vendors have migrated to VoLTE (voice over LTE) enabled devices across all price ranges.Analysts Business Standard spoke to said LYF should exit the smartphone segment and start targeting the VoLTE feature phone category. As per IDC, in the first quarter of 2017, China-based vendors captured 51.4 per cent share of the smartphone shipments in India with 16.9 per cent sequential growth and impressive 142.6 per cent growth over the same period last year. In contrast, ...

Airtel accuses Jio of fraudulent practices in J&K; nonsense, replies Jio

Amid the ongoing slugfest among them, Bharti Airtel has now alleged that Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) is "fraudulently disguising" its pre-paid customers in J&K as post-paid thereby causing a grave security threat while also violating the license conditions.In view of the gravity of the situation, Airtel has sought cancellation of Jio's license for J&K service area.In a letter to Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Airtel said the telcos have received instructions from Zonal Police Headquarters (Kashmir) to stop data services for all subscribers and stopping of all services for pre-paid subscribers. Post-paid subscribers may be allowed to use voice services.However, Airtel said, "In the case of RJIL, the prepaid subscribers tactically and deliberately are being tagged as postpaid purely for its economic gain and competitive advantage, at the cost of national security and putting the lives of our security forces in danger, when they are battling an unprecedented situation ..

100 GB broadband data for Rs 500: Reliance Jio may launch JioFiber by Oct

Besides many freebies, the JioFiber services are expected to offer 100 Mbps speed

Reliance Jio user addition slowing; Airtel could be long-term winner: UBS

The momentum of subscriber additions has slowed down for the latest entrant Reliance Jio, with the telco adding 5.8 million subscribers in March as compared to 12.2 million in February, a report by UBS on the Indian telecom sector said.However, despite the slowdown, the Mukesh Ambani firm continues to top the subscriber additions, followed by Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, BSNL and Vodafone.The market share of Jio has increased to 9.3 per cent from 8.8 per cent in February. The UBS report is based on monthly data released by sectoral regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). "March momentum favours incumbents, Jio "Prime" not driving demand pick-up. We are surprised to see lack of acceleration in March since Jio "Prime" offer was announced in the month. April was the first month of Jio's paid services and would offer further insight into customer conversion and migration from incumbents to Jio," UBS said in the report.Airtel, Idea and Vodafone reported net additions of 3 .

Shortfall of Rs 400 cr on breach of licence terms, says Reliance Jio

There will be no loss to the government, says COAI

Airtel, Voda, Idea caused Rs 400-cr loss to govt, says Reliance Jio

According to complaint, Airtel paid around Rs 950 cr as the licence fee for Jan-Mar 2017

Jio to DoT: Don't okay Airtel's Tikona acquisition until it pays Rs 217 cr

Jio said that Airtel was misusing the merger and acquisition guidelines

CCI was split on Jio interim order

In the decision reported last week of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) taking a majority view that there is cartelisation by incumbents Vodafone, Airtel and Idea in the telecom sector, two of its members believe there is no such case. The interim CCI order had directed a detailed probe in this regard by its director-general against the major incumbents for allegedly trying to block the entry of Reliance Jio into the segmen.However, the two members have said Reliance Jio is to blame, not the others. Business Standard has reviewed the order, and the two members have said Jio's complaint is not justified. The reasoning is that Jio is still in its trial phase, not marketing the product commercially. and, as Jio's users aren't being charged for the period under review, they are not subscribers.They have noted test cards "are to be issued to business associates, employees, relations, etc, only for the purpose of checking the quality of service. This does not seem to be the case ...