Downloading music and streaming videos on the Internet and mobile handsets may soon be pass. With the government allocating 3G spectrum, content providers are ready with new services.
Reliance Industries, which holds pan-India 4G telecom spectrum for data services, has applied for a licence to offer mobile telephony.
CanvasM, a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and Motorola, is planning to launch 6,000 new indigenously developed applications for mobile phones.
At the heart of one of the biggest transformations in India's corporate history lies a plan to offer super-fast broadband services.
Under the arrangement, a Reliance India Mobile user with an SBI account will be able to pay the bill amount directly from his account without having to pay any service charges.
While the government has not barred procurement of equipment from Chinese companies, the process to amend the general financial rules (GFR) 2017 has started. This will impose restrictions on bidders in public procurement from countries that share a land border with India, reports Megha Manchanda.
Global investment management firm Bernstein has pegged the enterprise valuation of Reliance Industries (RIL)'s 85 per cent stake in Reliance Retail at $111 billion, while valuing the Mukesh Ambani-led company's 66.5 per cent stake in telecom and digital platform arm Reliance Jio at $88 billion. Reliance Industries had earlier planned to list both its subsidiaries to unlock value for its shareholders but hadn't fixed any timeline. The report said that Reliance Retail had raised $6 billion by diluting a 10.1 per cent stake, while Jio Platforms raised $20 billion from investors by selling 33 per cent in 2020.
Private telecom company Reliance Infocomm has launched international roaming facility through tie-ups with global operators including China Unicon and Sprint PCS of the US.
Reliance Infocomm on Thursday announced new schemes for its four important prepaid user segments - youth, semi and urban groups and rural segment in Tamil Nadu.
The setting up of STEAG is part of the Army's efforts to develop technologies considering the future battlefield, they said.
Unlike Reliance Jio's focus on 4G, it plans to segment the data market based on device prices and spectrum.
Nine million subscribers opt for mobile number portability in first three months of its launch.
Like Bharti, India 's largest mobile operator, Reliance has global aspirations. After losing last year's keenly-contested $11bn takeover of Hutchison Essar, India 's fourth-largest mobile operator, to Vodafone of the UK, Reliance needs to raise its game or risk becoming an also-ran.
Text messaging services of all telecom operators also remained suspended in Lucknow and some other parts of UP. In Assam, services were restored 10 days after being banned.
Mobile services provider Reliance Infocomm has begun migrating its Mumbai subscribers to an exclusive 10-digit series beginning with 93.
Reliance Communications, India's second-largest wireless operator, will launch phone services in Uganda by year-end, marking its first foray into international mobile phone markets.
A possible merger of Reliance Communications of India and South Africa's MTN could see Anil Ambani become the enlarged group's chairman and biggest shareholder with a stake of almost 35 per cent.
Multinational mobile companies such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and LG, who dominate the mobile handset space with over 75 per cent of the market share, might face a new challenge. This time it's not from Chinese unbranded products, which have been flooding the Indian market.
The Unified Licence for all 22 Service Areas across India will make the company the first telecom operator in the country to get pan India Unified Licence, the company said in a statement.
The GSM Association, a union of 650 GSM mobile phone service operators, asked India not to allocate spectrum at 1900 MHz to CDMA operators like Reliance.
Reliance group firm employee under the scheme can invite 10 people to buy Jio's 4G sim and LYF Handset.
RIL has been talking to groups including Gionee, Huawei and Xiaomi
The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has granted seven authorisations to companies for selling automobile (auto) fuels in the country. These new approvals are under the relaxed guidelines for authorisation to market transportation fuels that were revised in 2019. This is expected to make the competition more intense in India's petroleum retail business. According to a top oil ministry official, a fresh marketing authorisation has been granted to Reliance Industries (RIL) under these norms. This is being done since RIL's existing retail marketing authorisation has been transferred to its subsidiary Reliance BP Mobility
Indian Railways is in talks with Reliance Jio Infocomm to allow the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom major's use of its towers. The aim is seamless mobile and internet connectivity for passengers along the 67,368-km of tracks. The Railway Board has entrusted its RailTel Corporation arm to work on the modalities with Jio. The Jio tie-up is expected to bring down its telecom bill by at least 35 per cent from this financial year.
Mobile subscriber base touched 5.29 crore (52.9 million) in April with the addition of 396,000 CDMA based mobile users during the period.
We will do 7-8 high-end games for global markets every year, Manish Agarwal, CEO, Reliance Games
The plan, available at a monthly price of $15.99, gives unlimited calling facility to more than 25 other countries worldwide.
The three companies for sale are Reliance Communications, Reliance Telecom and Reliance Infratel.
