By offering free voice services for life, and free data services over a six-month period, India's Reliance Jio telecommunications company triggered a price war that affected the rest of the country's telecom providers. Profits have fallen, and a phase of consolidation has begun in India's mobile market. A merger between...
Cisco Teams up with India's Reliance Jio for Converged Networks
San Francisco-based Cisco will collaborate with India's Reliance Jio to build an All-IP services platform. Cisco's Open Network Architecture and Cloud Scale Networking technologies featuring IP/MPLS, spanning areas, including data center, Wi-Fi, security and contact center solutions will form the base infrastructure of this concept. Cisco will build a simplified,...
Vodafone Confirms Merger Talks with India's Idea Cellular
U.K.'s Vodafone confirmed it was in talks to merge its Indian subsidiary with its local rival in an all-share deal. A possible merger between the country’s No. 2 provider Vodafone India and its third largest, Idea Cellular Ltd., will create a subscriber base of 395 million subscribers propelling Vodafone to first...
PwC Spells Out Telecom Trends in 2017 for India
Arpita Pal Agarwal and her team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, India forecast 5 trends in India's telecom industry for 2017: Data Markets - With the entry of Reliance Jio a price war has begun in the telecom industry. The subsequent increase in data traffic will not compensate for the reduced data revenues,...
4G Subscribers in India Close to 70 Million
Reliance Jio claims to have signed up 52 million 4G subscribers since its official launch in September, while Airtel added nearly three million 4G users in the second half of the year, taking its total to 7.4 million. Idea Cellular at number 3 is forecast to have 4.2 million 4G...
India Smartphone Sales Cross 30 Million per Quarter
Framingham MA-based IDC Research Inc., reports that smartphone shipment crossed the 30 million mark in India for the first time ever in the third quarter of Calendar Year 2016, maintaining a healthy traction with 11 percent year-on-year growth, and a 17.5 percentage growth over the previous quarter. Market Share by...