When it comes to the Indian market, things are pretty clear as to what the operators want to do next and how the tariffs will change in the future. But until now, one thing that the private operators in the country, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have ensured is that Indians keep getting data at one of the cheapest rates globally. While the data price has increased by a good margin, it is still pretty affordable....

As per brand intelligence and data analytics company TRA, Reliance Jio, owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, is the strongest telecom brand in India, surpassing Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Ltd. In its India’s Most Desired Brands 2022, TRA, previously Trust Research Advisory, ranked businesses based on the strength of their brands. Due to its strong strategy and effective moves, Jio was able to capture the subscriber market share of the old telcos pretty fast, leaving most of the players no other option but to go bankrupt....

India’s leading telecom operator Reliance Jio offers a bunch of prepaid plans for its subscriber base. The prepaid plans provided by Jio tends to have an edge over its competitors when it comes to pricing. The company also provides multiple prepaid plans that come with discounted price tags allowing users to save some money. Mentioned below are the prepaid plans offered by Reliance Jio under its JioMart Maha Cashback packs that come at an offer price along with the details....

Reliance Jio was the only Indian telecom operator which went for the 700 MHz spectrum during the recently concluded 5G spectrum auctions. During the auctions, all the telcos bid for the mmWave (millimetre wavelength) frequencies and mid-band frequencies. Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) did not bid for the 700 MHz airwaves for strategic reasons. Jio is now the only telco in the country that will deploy 5G using the sub-GHz spectrum....

Reliance Jio Rs 149 Prepaid Plan The first plan that draws the eye in the case of Reliance Jio portfolio is the Rs 149 prepaid plan from the telecom operator. So, if we are to look at the portfolio of Reliance Jio, we are more likely to find other prepaid plans which offer 1.5GB daily data or 2GB daily data, and there are many more options for the users when they want those offers....

Reliance Jio is struggling to grow its average revenue per user (ARPU) per month the way Airtel is growing it. Jio’s ARPU for Q3 FY23 was Rs 178.2, and in the previous quarter (Q2 FY23), it was Rs 177.2. In Q1 FY23, Jio’s ARPU was Rs 175.7. This is a very slow growth of ARPU despite the tariff hikes in 2021. It looks like the effect of the tariff hikes has faded from the business of Jio, and now, without any further hikes, the telco’s ARPU is going to grow at these small margins only....

One of the strongest players and perhaps the most triumphant one in the wired broadband industry is Reliance Jio. If the prepaid data network revolution was not enough, Reliance Jio did the same thing with the wired broadband industry. Last year has been particularly good for the wired broadband companies because of the massive surge in data courtesy of work from home and online classes. Even the masses who did not rely on much data shifted to a permanent, home-based broadband connection to have some stability and Reliance Jio definitely led this wave....

JioPages Key Features You Should Know About Users will get the flexibility to customise the app as per their wish. They can set a personalised home screen. Users can select through any of the major search platforms such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, and more and set it as their default search engine. Just like in Chrome, users can pin their favourite websites on the home screen for faster access. There is added support for changing the browser’s theme to ‘Dark Mode’ and set it as the default one....

Reliance Jio Set-Top Box has its own app store called ‘JioStore’, which we are already aware of. JioStore allows the Jio STB users to download apps for free from more than ten categories such as Kids, Devotional and so on. The company now says there are 26 applications for kids on JioStore and these apps are completely free to download and use. Jio STB runs a forked version of Android TV with the company’s launcher app on top....

Microsoft on Saturday released the latest preview build of Windows 11, which sports the build number 22000.100. This build from the tech giant comes with certain new features and a host of bug fixes. The key aim for this update is to improve Windows 11’s stability and to do so, it has been made available to members of the Microsoft Insider Program who are part of the Dev Channel or Early Access channel....

Ashwini Vaishnav, the Minister of Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology, unveiled the Lava Blaze 5G at the October India Mobile Congress 2022 (IMC). The smartphone will undoubtedly launch as a low-cost 5G option with a starting price of about Rs 10,000. Lava Blaze 5G Specs The smartphone will have a 6.51-inch HD+ (720 x 1600 pixels) LCD IPS display, according to Lava. It has a 2.5D curved panel and a refresh rate of 90Hz....

Lava, an Indian manufacturer of smartphones, is back with a new model that will debut on September 20. The phone, known as Lava Blaze Pro, will be superior to Lava Blaze, which was introduced in India in July. Lava has released its design and four colour possibilities, which include Green, Orange, Blue, and White, in advance of the debut. A new camera module is also shown on the official poster....

LG G8X ThinQ Highlights Recently, LG has launched the G8X ThinQ in the Indian market, and the highlight of the phone is that it comes with dual screen, which is also a detachable display. To recall, the first time that we had seen the glimpse of this detachable screen phone from LG was at IFA 2019, and now the phone has made its way to the Indian smartphone market. The secondary display of the LG G8X ThinQ measures 2....

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) will not be privatised. The state-run telecom company has been incurring losses for as long as one can remember. Even though MTNL has very limited operations left in India now, the government plans to keep running it. According to a PTI report, Devusinh Chauhan, Minister of State (MoS) for Communications, gave a written reply to the Rajya Sabha detailing the losses that the company has been making....

The network software provider Mavenir has announced the commercial availability of its 4G Open RAN small cell for outdoor deployments. The solution expands the MAVair radio and access portfolio of small cells. The solution had already been tested and deployed in commercial operation with a Tier 1 European communication service provider. Solution ideal for rural and remote locations Mavenir’s outdoor small cell (O410) addresses the requirement for outdoor small cells supporting both distributed and centralized Open RAN architectures....

MediaTek seems to be working towards the next-generation 5G flagship chipset based on the 4nm and 3nm process. According to a MoneyUDN report, the chipset maker is said to be aiming above Qualcomm’s 5nm process built chipsets. With that, MediaTek might become a key supplier of 5G SoCs for the upcoming next-gen flagship Android devices. According to the report, MediaTek is one of the first companies to place an order with TSMC for 4nm SoCs and 3nm SoCs....

Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 4: Features Detailed The Mi Smart Band 4 is a significant upgrade over the Mi Band 3 that was launched in India exactly a year ago. The latest smart band from Xiaomi features a 39.9% bigger display compared to its predecessor, and this around, the panel is also an AMOLED one. On top of the screen, there’s a 2.5D curved glass as well which adds up for the overall look of the band....

Xiaomi India today announced a new programme called ‘Mi Smart Upgrade.’ As the name of the programme itself suggests, it is a buyback scheme for Redmi and Mi devices. Xiaomi launches a plethora of phones every year and some users purchase almost every new phone from the brand. The Mi Smart Upgrade scheme is for users who are looking at upgrading to the latest offering from Xiaomi. As part of this scheme, users can upgrade to new models at an affordable price point by exchanging their existing device....

Microsoft’s potential Windows ban could also affect Huawei’s server solutions. Microsoft and Huawei both operate a hybrid cloud solution for Microsoft’s Azure stack, using Microsoft-certified Huawei servers. Over the weekend, Google cut off Huawei’s Android license but Microsoft stayed silent on whether it will prevent the Chinese company from obtaining Windows licenses. For now, Huawei has been granted a 90-day extension to provide software updates to Android-powered handsets and maintain “continued operation of existing networks and equipment”....

In the US, the Moto Edge 2022 has been released. It is the first phone in the world to use the MediaTek Dimensity 1050 chipset, which is based on a 6nm processor and should provide excellent performance. The Moto Edge 2022 has a 91.32 percent screen-to-body ratio, runs Android 12, and comes with a 3-year OS upgrade warranty and a 4-year security update warranty. In addition to triple cameras and an in-display fingerprint sensor for security, it boasts a punch-hole cutout for the selfie camera....