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With current market share, Jio stood 4th in overall base, behind Airtel, Vodafone and Idea LATEST NEWS    : Reliance Jio added nearly 5 million users ( 4,786,324 subscribers )  and controlled 9.94 per cent of the telecom market in May, shows the latest report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). In May, Airtel led in terms of overall telecom market share, with 23.59 per cent subscribers. It was followed by Vodafone with a 17.86 per cent share, and Idea with 16.62. Reliance Jio was a distant fourth with 9.94 per cent subscribers. According to the report, the telecom industry saw a net addition of 6,228,813 customers in May. While Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL, Reliance Jio and Idea Cellular continue to add subscribers to their base, telecom operators such as Telenor and Tata lose most of their subscribers. Last year, Reliance Jio had entered the highly competitive telecom space with a free preview plan that offered unlimited free 4G high-speed ...

Key challenge to come from the launch of 4G feature phones by the RIL subsidiary, say analysts LATEST NEWS :  The share prices of Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular gained on Wednesday, on the expectation of the new rate plans announced by Reliance Industries’ (RIL) telecom subsidiary, Reliance Jio (Jio), leading to improvement in their operating metrics. The price plan announced by Jio on Tuesday is estimated to be 30-57 per cent higher than earlier promotional offers. Brokerages say this is positive and a clear indication of rationalisation of pricing. Analysts at UBS say the first Jio price increase in almost 12 months supports the brokerage view that sector revenues are close to bottoming out, with the top three operators and Jio expected to incrementally take share from smaller entities. Credit Suisse in a note said the new Jio rates would start the process of normalising these from the current discounted levels. Also indicating that RIL is looking at monetising its...

However, on net basis, RJio continues to add maximum users Latest news :Reliance Jio has begun to witness a slowdown in active subscriber additions. For the first time since September, when Jio stormed into the market, Bharti Airtel has added more active subscribers than Jio. As per reports by Goldman Sachs and ICICI Securities, Jio added 0.4 million active subscribers in April as compared to 2.6 million by Airtel. During the September-October period of last year Jio was adding around 16 million subscribers a month. However, in terms of net additions, RELIANCE JIO continues to add maximum subscribers. It added 3.87 million subscribers in April followed by 2.85 million by Airtel, 0.81 million by BSNL, 0.75 million by Vodafone and 0.68 million by Idea. All other operators lost subscribers on net basis in April. Jio has witnessed a deceleration in its active subscribers in fourth straight month and since the company has started to charge its users from April, the de...

However, on net basis, RJio continues to add maximum users Latest news : Reliance Jio (RJio), which has stormed the 4G market in India, is witnessing a slowdown in subscriber additions and for the first time since September last year, Bharti Airtel has added more active subscribers in a month than RJio. However, in terms of net additions, RJio continues to add maximum subscribers. The latest entrant added 3.87 million subscribers in April followed by 2.85 million by Airtel, 0.81 million by BSNL, 0.75 million by Vodafone and 0.68 million by Idea. All the other operators lost subscribers on net basis in April. As per reports by Goldman Sachs and ICICI Securities, RJio added 0.4 million active or VLR subscribers in April as compared to 2.6 million by Airtel. The active subscriber additions by Jio continue to slow down from September-October period of last year, when it was adding around 16 million subscribers a month. RJio has witnessed a deceleration in its act...

Reliance Industries plans to spend a further Rs 18,000 crore additional investment in Jio Reliance Jio stormed into the telecom industry with the launch of ultra-affordable high speed 4G internet services combined with free voice calls, SMS and Jio apps. To keep the momentum going, Reliance Jio Infocomm is reportedly gearing up to expand the company’s product portfolio by venturing into diverse areas such as broadband services and Direct-to-Home (DTH) TV services. ALSO READ: No end to data wars: Reliance Jio free offers to continue for 12-18 months  Things to expect from Reliance Jio in 2017  Reliance Jio FTTH broadband services  Reliance Industries plans to spend a further Rs 18,000 crore additional investment required for its fibre network as it expands Jio's 4G reach, reports Business Standard. The Reliance Jio fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband services has already been offering trials at a few locations and the services will expand to more cities soon...