Highlights Reliance Jio is a full 4G network All voice calls take place using Voice Over LTE – using data This usage does not count against your data quota Since the launch of Reliance Jio last week, the company’s various plans have been slowly getting clarified, though as of now there is still an element of doubt and confusion on some of the details. At the Reliance Jio launch announcement... 

As Reliance Jio’s commercial launch nears, incumbent telecom operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have cut tariff and bundled free calls with data to drive mass market adoption, brokerages said. The industry has been trying various data pricing strategies, with Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea trying innovative price structures. Market leader Bharti Airtel yesterday announced two plans with data tariffs... 

Reliance Jio will be primarily banking on Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology for voice service through its 4G network. However, not all 4G devices available in the market will support this feature, and some phones may need a software update to enable this. Here’s the official list of VoLTE-enabled smartphones that are supported on Reliance Jio’s 4G network  Reliance Jio will be primarily banking... 

Terming it as a “virtual consolidation” in the highly-competitive telecom space, Anil Ambani said his group firm RCom is tying up ‘trading and sharing’ of spectrum with Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio including for the much-awaited 4G services. Addressing shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, Reliance Communications Chairman also said he was “grateful” to his elder brother for “unstinted... 

Bharti Airtel on Tuesday reported an over 30 percent jump in its consolidated net profit at Rs.1,255 crores for the March quarter, driven by growth in mobile data revenue. The country’s largest telecom operator had reported a net profit of Rs. 962 crores in the corresponding period a year ago. Total revenue of the company rose 3.6 percent to Rs. 23,016 crores for the reported quarter as compared... 

Aditya Birla group-owned Idea Cellular on Tuesday said its consolidated net profit during 2014-15 soared by 62.26 percent at Rs. 3,192.9 crores against Rs. 1,967.8 crores for the previous year. Its total consolidated revenue went up by 19.1 percent at Rs. 31,570.9 crores against Rs. 26,518.9 crores during 2013-14. The company, in a statement, however, said that on account of the changes in the Trai... 

If you thought you were the only one who finds the 3G services offered by Airtel/ Vodafone/ *Insert name of your operator here* useless, think again. According to an Ericsson consumer insight report released in New Delhi on Tuesday, 48 percent of mobile Internet users in India are unable to perceive any difference between 2G and 3G Internet services. You can call them silly or foolish, given the huge... 

Sweden’s Ericsson, the world’s biggest maker of mobile telecoms equipment, will probably have to expand its range of fixed line products to defend its turf following Nokia’s purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. As the Finnish and French firms combine, Ericsson will face a much stronger competitor with a broader product offering, bigger sales and R&D clout than itself. It may therefore... 

Xiaomi at its Tuesday event in China revealed new devices on the occasion of its fifth anniversary, alongside announcing a price cut for the Mi 4. The firm’s 2014 flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi Mi 4 will now retail at CNY 1,799 (approximately Rs. 18,000) for the 16GB variant down from the previous price tag of CNY 1,999 (approximately Rs. 20,000). According to GizmoChina, a ‘lite’... 

Samsung Korea is giving away its new flagship smartphone to loyal Galaxy S owners in South Korea, a local newspaper reports. The company offered the new Samsung Galaxy S6 to SK Telecom customers who either bought all Galaxy S-series smartphones or were still using the Galaxy S1, which was launched back in 2010. The South Korean electronics giant on Tuesday held an event to reward its loyal customers,... 

Xiaomi, the company often referred to as China’s Apple, has teamed up with the Android Open Kang Project (popularly known as AOKP) for its MIUI 7 custom user interface based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. The news was confirmed via AOKP’s official blog that revealed both Xiaomi and Team Kang were working closely on MIUI 7, which will debut on the next flagship smartphone, the Mi 5. For the uninitiated,... 

Apple may not debut its much-anticipated 4-inch iPhone model this year, while more details about the implementation of the expected Force Touch feature on the iPhone range have been tipped. KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo contradicts recent rumours that suggested three new iPhone models were likely to launch this year – the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, and iPhone 6C. Kuo further added that the next-generation...