Cisco and Jio to build largest all-IP services platform check here...

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Reliance Jio has announced a collaboration with networking giant Cisco to further expand Jio's existing multi-terabit capacity with the first All-IP converged network in India.
With this network, Jio will offer a combination of high-speed data, mobile video, VoLTE, digital commerce, media, cloud and payment services, Cisco said in a statement.
It is the first network of its kind globally with the fastest growth to 100 million broadband and VoLTE customers, reaching the milestone within six months of launch.
"As part of our journey in fulfilling the aspirations of the nation to be a key transformational agent in digital adoption and Leadership, Cisco has been a great partner for in building this highly scalable cloud centric All-IP Digital Services Network Platform meeting unprecedented data growth," Mathew Oommen, President of Reliance Jio, said in a statement.
A result of co-innovation around product and services between the two companies, the Jio All-IP digital platform is built on Cisco's Open Network Architecture and Cloud Scale Networking technologies featuring IP/MPLS, spanning areas, including data centre, Wi-Fi, security and contact centre solutions.
"We share the vision with Reliance Jio for an open, programmable infrastructure to simplify, automate and virtualise core network functions in order to digitise faster," Yvette Kanouff, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider Business at Cisco, added.
Jio has more than 300,000 km of fibre and built India's largest cloud data centre to build platforms for applications and vertical solutions.
Cisco is building the simplified, automated and virtualised network platform of the future on industry-leading software, systems, silicon and services.
This enables service providers, media and web companies worldwide to reduce costs, speed time-to-market, secure their networks and sustain profitable growth

Telcome: Vodafone -Idea Merger and how it will change the Indian telecom industry check here..

Image result for vodafone idea mergeIn November, when British telecom major Vodafone Plc slashed the value of its local business by five billion euros (Rs 36,449 crore), for once it seemed that the India’s second largest telecom operator is hanging up its boots in the battle of might, triggered by Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio.
All that changed on Monday, when the Vodafone announced talks of a merger with Idea Cellular, the telecom operator run billionaire industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla. If the merger goes through, it will make the combined entity the largest telecom company of the country.
Is that enough to protect Vodafone against the $25 billion investment by Ambani into Reliance Jio? Jio with its free internet services has already acquired over 70 million subscribers, making it one of the fastest growing companies in the world.
In November, Vittorio Colao CEO of Vodafone Plc said, “Any company that gives stuff away is not a company, it is a charity.”
Consolidation was inevitable, it seems. In 2008, when six new licences were given the number of telecom operators grew to 12. After the 2G scam surfaced a couple of years later, some pulled out of the telecom market, others were reduced to marginal players, operating in a few cities.
“This could unlock $9 billion in potential synergies and offer an elegant route for Vodafone to deconsolidating India, thereby helping focus attention back onto a rebounding European equity story,” said New York-headquartered financial services firm JP Morgan.
The merger would leave three big telecom players – Airtel, Vodafone-Idea and Reliance Jio, apart from state-owned telco BSNL. The merged entity will hold revenue marketshare of 42%, overtaking Airtel, which has 31.4%.
Reliance Communication, run by Ambani’s younger brother Anil Ambani is in talks to acquire Aircel to sustain business. It has already acquired MTS, which was earlier run by a Russian conglomerate.
The consolidation will leave enough marketshare for each player to make significant investments in the Indian entity. Vodafone and Idea will have more spectrum than any other telecom operator, and can focus its investments in offering cheaper high-value products to its customers.
“The combined entity will have best-in-class coverage as well as capacity spectrum,” Singapore-based PhillipCapital wrote in its report. “The combined entity will have to give up some spectrum in 900MHz and 2500MHz; the spectrum in 900MHz in 17 out of 22 circles contributing more than 90% of industry revenues will be significant competitive advantage… The spectrum requirements for the combined entity will reduce significant over the years to come.”
According to Indian regulations, a telecom operator cannot have more than 50% revenue share in any circle. There is also a cap of spectrum holding.
“(The merged entity will) hitting revenue or subscriber share and spectrum holding caps in few circles (revenue cap hit in six circles, subscriber cap hit in five circles, and spectrum cap in five circles (900MHz and 2 circles in 2500MHz),” New York-headquartered investment banking firm Jefferies said in a report.
Had it not been for Reliance Jio’s entry, the merger would have been delayed. Analysts wrote that “Jio’s disruptive free distribution of SIM cards” was a catalyst.
Another American financial services firm Bernstein wrote, “The merger would be achieved through an issuance of Idea shares to Vodafone, with Vodafone technically ceding control of its Indian operations and hence deconsolidating Vodafone India.”
However, Idea in its filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange said that the premise of the merger talks is based on “equal rights” in the merged entity.
The merger doesn’t indicate that the price war between the large telecom operators will end. Maybe it is just the beginning of a bitter battle.
“We see a three player mobile market more sustainable in the long-term, as it can also accommodate Jio’s market share aspirations while ensuring profitability for all majors. While voice or data pricing and ARPUs will continue to decline for the next few quarters, we see room for ARPUs to go up, once Jio gets a decent revenue scale (double digit RMS) and achieves EBITDA positive,” said a report by JM Financial.

Jio effect: Vodafone India to offer 28GB data, Unlimited calling at Rs 346 -- Check full details

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New Delhi:  The effect of Reliance Jio seems to be creating double joy for the telecom consumers.As per a report in the Indian express, Vodafone is going to bring unlimited calling along with 28 GB data for its users.
The Indian Express reported that the new plan called ‘Welcome Back Offers’ will have two tariff regime –Rs 342 and Rs 346.

Here are all the details of the Vodafone Welcome Back Offer

  • Rs 342 plan = Unlimited calling along with 28GB of data per month along with FUP of 1GB per day.
  • Rs 346 plan = Unlimited calling with 10GB of data for 28 days, voice calls up to 300 minutes per day. Post exhaustion of limit, users to be charged at standard rates.
  • Offer valid till 15 March.
  • Customers who recharge with the plans before March 15 will get additional 28 days of same benefits at free of cost.
  • Schemes exclusively available for prepaid customers
  • Customers who recharge with the above plans will be white-listed and can continue with with the same plan for the next 11 months.

Jio Prime Members to get extra 5GB free Data check here...

Reliance Jio Prime members to get extra 5GB free data
New Delhi: Reliance Jio on Friday sweetened the offering for its 'Prime' members saying those recharging with Rs 303 will get an extra 5GB data beyond the 28GB promised under the scheme.
So far, Prime members -- on payment of Rs 303 per month and a one-time joining fee of Rs 99 -- would be entitled to unlimited free voice calls (STD and roaming) and text messages, 28GB data at 4G speeds, subject to a usage cap of 1GB a day, the breach of which would slow down the speed unless more data was bought. The plan comes with a 28 day validity.
The Prime membership offer requires customers to Enron by March 31.

Under the new offer announced today, Jio has decided to load an extra 5GB data (worth Rs 201) to those recharging with Rs 303.
This essentially means that subscribers who breach the 1GB daily limit would not face slowdown in speeds given the new 5GB data pool being made available.
Similarly, those recharging with Rs 499 and above would now get additional 10GB data extra, over the already promised 56GB (or 2GB per day limit). The extra data pool is only valid for the first month.
On February 21, while announcing that it has crossed the 100 million customers mark in 170 days of launch, Reliance Industries' Chairman Mukesh Ambani had announced a slew of offers, including 20 per cent more data than any rival from April.
Reliance Jio, he had said, will continue to offer free voice calls and national roaming post April 1, when its promotional free voice and data offer ends.
For existing customers, he had announced a Jio 'Prime Membership program' wherein customers could enroll by paying one-time fee of Rs 99 and continue to get the existing benefits till March 2018 at "a rock-bottom introductory price of only Rs 303 per month".

Reliance Jio Prime Subscribers Can Now Enjoy New 'Buy One Get One Free Recharge' Offer check here...

Reliance Jio recently revealed its wide variety of Jio Prime plans for subscribers, but the company was certainly not done with its announcements. Reliance has now announced a limited period "buy one get one free recharge" offer for users who subscribe to Jio Prime before March 31.
Under the new Jio Prime "buy one get one free recharge" offer, Reliance Jio users who buy the new Rs. 303 monthly pack will receive up to 5GB free data (which is equal to the Rs. 201 booster pack). Similarly, Jio users who buy the Rs. 499 or higher Prime pack will get 10GB free 4G data (equal to the Rs. 301 booster pack). The company says that the free add-on data will be given to users automatically. Reliance Jio has confirmed the "one plus extra data" offer to Gadgets 360. The details were first tweeted out by Twitter user Sanjay Bafna.
Until March 31, both new Reliance Jio subscribers and those enrolled in the Happy New Offer can upgrade to the Jio Prime subscription for an annual fee of Rs. 99. This subscription has validity until March 31, 2018. Apart from the one-time fee, Jio Prime subscribers will need to buy a Jio Prime plan or pack to avail the benefits. Reliance Jio subscribers can opt for Jio Prime plans by either heading to the MyJio app to subscribe to the Jio Prime service, or use the Jio.com website. One can also choose to any Jio store or Jio partner store near you to enrol for the plan.

Jio Prime vs. Non-Prime Plans

Jio Monthly rentalJio Prime PrepaidJio Prime PostpaidJio Prepaid PlanJio Postpaid PlanFUP
Rs. 19200MBN/A100MBN/ANo FUP
Rs. 49600MBN/A300MBN/ANo FUP
Rs. 967GBN/A600MBN/ADaily 1GB FUP for Jio Prime Users
Rs. 1492GBN/A1GBN/ANo FUP
Rs. 30328GB30GB2.5GB2.5GBDaily 1GB FUP for Jio Prime Users
Rs. 49956GB60GB5GB5GBDaily 2GB FUP for Jio Prime Users
Rs. 99960GB60GB12.5GB12.5GBNo FUP
Rs. 1,999125GBN/A30GBN/ANo FUP
Rs. 4,999350GBN/A100GBN/ANo FUP
Rs. 9,999750GBN/A200GBN/ANo FUP


The Jio Prime plans will come into effect from April 1, 2017, the day the existing Jio Happy New Year Offer expires. The company last month announced its new Jio Prime subscription plan, which will now charge over 100 million subscribers for data and other services from April 1.

Reliance Jio 4G Voice App Launched In Apple Store in Mumbai And Karnataka for iPhone Users






After much anticipation, Jio4GVoice App has made its way to Apple App Store. With this, the hurdle for the older iPhone users (due to the lack of VoLTE support) to use Jio 4G SIM card to make/receive calls is cleared.

 The Jio4GVoice app for iPhone users is in its nascent stage and is available for download only for Mumbai and Karnataka users. Also, the subscribers’ devices should be running iOS 8 or above. This implies that Apple iPhone 5s, iPhone 5, and below can download the app. Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, iPhone 7, and 7 Plus already have support for VoLTE

 Meanwhile, there are complaints from many Apple users that some of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are unable to use the voice calling service in Jio network. Aforesaid, the application is in its developing stage, and it will take some time for the company to add all the features available in the Android app. Till then, if you’re an old iPhone user and installed the Jio4GVoice app on your phone, please let us know the experience by commenting below.


Jio4GVoice app has some interesting features under-the-hood. You can instantly message to your friends who are currently using the Jio4GVoice app without any additional charges. With the Jio4GVoice app, the company is promising quality voice calls, and the application also has support for video calling.
Another highlight feature of the Jio4GVoice is ‘Rich Calls’ in which the users can display real-time images, their current location to make the calls more interactive. Jio4GVoice also has a feature named ‘In Call Share’ under which callers can share doodles, sketch something within the dialer itself and all these will be displayed on the receivers dialer in real time.
Besides Jio4GVoice app, the company also has other digital content applications such as JioCinema, JioMusic, JioPlay, JioMoney, etc., which are already available for iOS.