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New Year disruption plan: Now, Reliance Jio moves to broadband, TV space

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Jio mapped out plan to address 100 mn TV households in 30 cities by ensuring dense fibre presence for last-mile connectivity to homes LATEST NEWS :  After its success in mobile telephony, Reliance Jio is preparing to disrupt the market once again. This time in the fixed broadband and television (TV) space. The Mukesh Ambani-led company will launch high-speed fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband in more than 30 cities early next year, to offer TV as well as internet to subscribers, it is learnt. Jio has mapped out a plan to address over 100 million TV households across these cities, including Tier II and III, by ensuring dense fibre presence for last-mile connectivity to homes. In the first phase itself, at least 50 million households will be offered the service, according to sources in the know. Jio has already spread out over 300,000 kilometres of optic fibre (half of which is through a long-term contract with Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications). In fac...

Vodafone India launches unlimited international plan for Rs 180 per day

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The pack is available at multiple affordable price points ranging from Rs 5,000 for 28 days to Rs 500 for every 24 hours usage LATEST NEWS :  Vodafone India on Wednesday launched unlimited international plan across the UK and Europe for Rs 180 per day, the company said here. International travellers can now easily activate a pack and use their number overseas from the UK and other popular travel destinations of Europe like Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. The company statement said apart from Europe, travellers can also use unlimited calling and data in the US, the UAE, Singapore and Malaysia with the same pack, taking the total tally of "unlimited" countries to 18. The pack is available at multiple affordable price points ranging from Rs 5,000 for 28 days to Rs 500 for every 24 hours usage. Apart from offering unlimited usage in 18 countries, the same pack also allows consumers to us...

Reliance Jio active subscriber additions slowing down? Airtel wins in April

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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...