Airtel, Jio add 48 lakh users in Sept, VIL loses 7.5 lakh
Reliance Jio added 34.7 lakh mobile subscribers in September, followed by Airtel with 13.2 lakh new users, while Vodafone Idea lost 7.5 lakh customers.
Reliance Jio added 34.7 lakh mobile subscribers in September, followed by Airtel with 13.2 lakh new users, while Vodafone Idea lost 7.5 lakh customers.
This is a big win for Bharti Airtel's Eutelsat OneWeb, Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's Kuiper.
Bharti Airtel added 15.17 lakh wireless subscribers during the month under review, up 11.4% month-on-month, as against 14.09 lakh subscribers in June.
Regulator asks if it should introduce extra measure for rejection of MNP request on mobile connection that has undergone SIM swap
As per guidelines by the telecom department, the DTH operators are required to pay a license fee, which is 8% of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) on a quarterly basis
TRAI says "selective banning” of OTT apps, websites, which can be used by "terrorists or anti-national elements", appears to be “preferable” against full internet shutdown
This comes at a time when customers have raised their concern regarding robocalls, spam calls, and fraud calls.
Telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says current pace of 5G tower development is "very less" and "slow" at 2,500/week, and that industry must increase it to 10,000/week.
For the first time, a private telecom service provider has become a top landline player in the country. The Trai data shows Jio's landline userbase at 71.3 lakh, while that of BSNL's at 71.3 lakh.
At present, identifying the culprit who engages in fraudulent activities has been one of the major challenges for TRAI to curtail fraudulent calls.