Telecom Subscriber Base Rise Marginally to 1,170.75 Million in Jan 2023: TRAI

The telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 1,170.75 million in January, driven by net customer gain in the fixed line segment, according to a sector regulator TRAI report released on Friday. The net gain in the wireline segment was 0.28 million customers while mobile telephony recorded a net gain of 0.09 million … Read more

Airtel Rolls Out New Family Postpaid Plans Bundled With Data, Streaming Websites

Bharti Airtel has rolled out various family plans offering monthly data in the range of 105-320 GB as it looks to attract prepaid users to switch to postpaid connections. The new family plans uploaded on the company website are in the range of Rs. 599 to Rs. 1,499 per month, while Black family plans, that bundles DTH … Read more

Reliance Jio Expects to Become Largest Player in 5G Sector in 2023, Says Company’s President

India’s biggest telecom operator Reliance Jio expects to become the world’s largest player having a pure 5G network this year with promise to provide services at affordable rates to the masses, a senior official of the company said here. Speaking to the PTI at the Mobile World Congress, Reliance Jio President Mathew Oommen said India … Read more

Airtel Surpasses 10 Lakh 5G Customers in Mumbai, Service Live in Over 140 Cities in India

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced that it has surpassed the 1 million 5G user mark on its network in Mumbai. Airtel recently crossed the 10 million unique customer mark on its 5G network nationally. The Sunil Mittal-led telco said it is well poised to cover every town and key rural areas with Airtel … Read more

SoftBank, Ant Group to Sell Paytm Stakes via Block Deal After Failed Talks With Bharti Airtel Founder: Report

China’s Ant and Japan’s SoftBank are likely to offload their stakes in Indian digital payments firm Paytm in the open market, after talks with Bharti Airtel founder failed, the Economic Times reported. Shareholders and investment banks representing Ant and Softbank had earlier approached Bharti Airtel founder-chairman Sunil Mittal with an offer to sell their stakes … Read more

Sixty-Nine Percent of Respondents Experience Call Drops, Connection Problems on Most Days, Survey Reveals

A majority of respondents in a survey claimed that they face call drop or call connection issues on any given day, online survey firm LocalCircles said on Thursday. According to the survey report, 28 percent respondents said that they get uninterrupted access to 4G or 5G network while 32 percent shared that they do not … Read more

Reliance Jio Leads Wireline Segment in December 2022 With Nearly 3 Lakh New Customers

Telecom subscriber base rose marginally to 1,170.38 million in December 2022 on account of an increase in fixed line connections, according to official data. The total subscriber base in the country was at 1,170.17 million in November last year. “The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,170.18 million at the end of November … Read more

DoT Said to Have Directed TRAI to Introduce Strict Service Quality Norms

The Department of Telecommunications has asked sector regulator TRAI to make quality of service norms stricter in order to curb call drops and improve call quality, an official source said on Tuesday. The move comes after the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) collected feedback from the public through an IVRS call around call drop, quality of calls … Read more

Airtel Rolls Out 5G in Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur; Service Now Live in 4 Cities in Kerala

Leading telecom firm Bharti Airtel on Friday launched its 5G services in Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram and Thrissur. The company mentioned in a statement that its 5G services are already live in Kochi. Airtel 5G Plus services will be available to customers in a phased manner as the company continues to construct its network and complete the … Read more

TRAI to Meet Jio, Airtel and Other Telcos on February 17 to Discuss Plan for Improvement in Services

Telecom regulator TRAI has called a meeting with telcos on February 17 to discuss measures and action plan for improving service quality, review of norms, benchmarks for 5G services, and unsolicited commercial communications. The meeting assumes significance as improvement in telecom service quality is bound to cheer mobile customers, irked by call drops and patchy … Read more