Vodafone India said on Friday it would launch fourth-generation (4G) mobile phone services in the country by the end of the year.
4G services typically make it much faster than 3G services to surf the web on mobile phones, tablets and laptops.
Profit from its retail business jumped 77 per cent to Rs 1,923 crore and that from telecom rose by 78.3 per cent to Rs 2,665 crore.
Reliance reported record pre-tax profit from its retail and telecom businesses. The two now account for nearly 32 per cent of EBITDA, up from close to 25 per cent previously.
It has invested $2 billion and spent $200 million on its R&D centre in Bengaluru, the largest such centre outside China where some core technologies are under development.
The telecom companies have also been asked to urgently improve their infrastructure, as the government aims to digitise a host of services.
Unlike other SM sensations, 'Khan Sir' became a star with well-researched news-related videos, not 30-second inanities. Syed Firdaus Ashraf tracks down the elusive coach to IAS aspirants.
'When a person is capable of infecting 50 others, will you think about the privacy of the person or about protecting the lives of people?'
The market valuation of Reliance Industries, the country's most valued firm, is fast nearing the Rs 10 lakh crore mark, surpassing British energy major BP Plc.
The company at present provides monthly mobile services at starting price of Rs 24 without data, and plans with data service starts from Rs 33 onward. It did not disclose the quantum of hike.
With 8.5 per cent market share in the quarter ended September 2017, Nokia makes it to the top four bestselling feature phones in India.
Mamata launched the 'Jionet' brand Wi-Fi service.
Mittal said he discussed a plethora of issues with Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and sought the government's support for faster clearances to streamline the group's investment plans.
The market could see a fresh round of tariff war, similar to what happened in the voice market a few years ago.
With a string of deals with telecom service providers, DTH operators and Bollywood stars, Netflix goes all out to protect its turf in India and fend off competition, says Viveat Pinto.
Reliance Jio submitted the highest pre-auction deposit.
Unlike Reliance Jio's focus on 4G, it plans to segment the data market based on device prices and spectrum.
Airtel offers 4G service in 1800 Mhz band frequency while other companies are yet to roll out their services.
Categories such as lifestyle, food and electronics accounted for over 1,350 sellers across the country last year.
Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced the commercial launch of 4G services in 296 towns across India after testing the market in select cities.
At the heart of one of the biggest transformations in India's corporate history lies a plan to offer super-fast broadband services.
Although Walmart-Flipkart wholesale game-plan is to target about a $150 billion market out of a total pie of $700 billion in the country, the consolidation marks the end of the multi-brand dream of the American retail giant.
Of the two big players, while Bharti Airtel can leverage its existing subscriber base, newcomer Reliance Jio will have to wean away subscribers from the incumbents
Companies are playing the price game to woo customers.
Nokia has managed to enter the top-five list in the feature phone market within six months of its comeback
A slew of Indian firms, including Flipkart, Byju's and Zomato, is building a path to profitability and diversifying into newer business segments ahead of mega-IPO plans.
The pandemic has confined students across all ages to home and digital education is the only way to continue learning.
iPhone will have to break Android's domination to make India the next China for Apple
iPhone sales in India were up by 56 per cent during the period.
Over a third of Ambani's speech was focussed on RIL's plans.
Given the security dilemma prevailing between India and China, India should curb the operation of Chinese telecom companies in India, asserts Dr Rup Narayan Das.
Reliance Jio had proposed that besides satellite connectivity, In-Flight Connectivity can be provided using cellular network as well.
The race to get a New Umbrella Entity (NUE) licence for digital payments may get crowded. As many as six consortiums are said to be in the fray to apply for an NUE licence, which would create a for-profit National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)-like body for retail payments. A consortium led by Financial Software and Systems (FSS), a leading provider of payment products and payment processor, is in talks and may file an application to the RBI for an NUE license, said sources aware of the development. The other constituents of this group include Indian Bank, Central Bank of India, India Post Payments Bank, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), and a few small finance banks.
In effect, companies which put their money in telecom in India would have done much better to keep the cash in bank and earn interest.
Officials of Reliance Jio Infocomm claimed to have achieved broadband speeds on their networks that are 10-12 times faster than 3G services.
'The workers's dance of wilful destruction has the potential to kill all investments planned in India by any foreign entity,' argues Dr Sudhir Bisht.
Given the military's requirement for watertight cyber and communications security, L&T will establish a Security Operations Centre which will deal with security threats.
India has around 355 million Internet users, second only to China, says a report
This smartwatch is to Android what the Apple Watch is to the iPhone, says Khalid Anzar.
To make the scheme attractive, the government has announced a rate structure wherein the operators may take the optical fibre on lease and provide broadband connectivity to customers.
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