Telecommunications & Technology
Reliance Jio Infocomm has objected to the telecom regulator’s recent recommendation of an uniform spectrum usage charge of 3% of revenues after 1st April 2014, for all spectrum acquired through an auction. Reliance Jio is the telecom venture of Reliance Industries. It acquired 20Mhz pan-India spectrum in 2.3GHz band through an auction in June 2010 at a price of Rs128bn. The spectrum carries a charge of 1%.
Reliance Jio had acquired
Investors in the Indian Telecom Space focused on two important issues – Indian Currency and the 4G-LTE Space.
Foreign Investors Wary of Indian Government Flip Flop Policies – We believe that, despite the government’s decision to allow 100% FDI and a depreciating rupee, the experience of some of the players – such as Telenor, Etisalat (licence cancellations), and Vodafone (tax dispute) – has not been encouraging. Separately, the last set of new players giving up their pan-India dreams and shutting down circles suggests that it is hard to make a case for a foreign player to take the new-entrant
Reliance Jio Infocomm thinks big like the Ambani DNA. As the Economic Progress in India came to an halt, affordability of 4G got pushed back by few more years. In this backdrop, 2G Voice continues to be the Cash Ringing Register for Telcos.
The State of Voice over LTE
With challenges in commercial VoLTE deployments, circuit switched fallback (CSFB) has been the more popular form of providing voice and data services globally. CSFB allows the subscriber to use data services over 4G networks but switches back to the traditional 2G/3G networks when using voice. Globally, only MetroPCS and Korean operators have launched VoLTE services and the technology is still
Reliance Jio Infocomm will launch 4G / LTE Services by the end of this year, at least in Delhi NCR and Mumbai region. According to Analysts in the Research community, their is a buzz that Reliance Jio Infocomm will launch FTTx [Home / Enterprise]
G V Giri @ IIFLCap said,
RIL may also use FTTX (Fibre to the x) to service the home and enterprise broadband market, chiefly the former. It may bundle broadband services of various hues above in a single offering
Goldman Sachs Report said,
RIL’s focus is on offering high speed services and considering that TDLTE ecosystem is at a nascent stage, we believe the company will focus more on fiber based fixed-line services and nomadic LTE (in limited areas) in the near term
Other Device & Services that Reliance Jio will launch along with 4G LTE Launch is as follows,
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd and Reliance Communications Ltd. today announced the signing of a definitive agreement worth over $2.5 Bn over the Lifetime of the agreement. RCom will offer its 45,000 Towers to Reliance Jio Infocomm to roll-out its 4G LTE Network. In our Previous Article we had raised the issue of Suitability of Reliance … Read more
Reliance Communications co-operation with Reliance Jio Infocomm is expected to be extended to tower assets and intra-city fibre assets as well. We raised some Key Questions with the managements of both the companies which have went un-answered. 1. Quantum of towers which will come up for monetization over next 2 years- We are of the … Read more
Reliance Jio Infocomm’s Tarun Jhunjhunwala, Business Head East Indian Operations has said, We have plans to provide 4G services at affordable rates. Talks are on with device manufacturers for dongles, tablets and smartphones Reliance Jio is planning akin to something in the US market where the Hardware is Subsidized upon subscription to Data / Voice … Read more
Currently 40% of Reliance Communications tower assets are supported with fibre backhaul and the remaining 60% is on Microwave backhaul as described here. We believe that Reliance Jio Infocomm 4G launch will allow Reliance communications to monetize intra-city fibre given Reliance Jio’s likely focus on data market.
Reliance Jio Infocomm has entered into an agreement with Bharti Airtel under which the latter will provide a dedicated capacity to RIL’s telecom arm on its i2i submarine cable linking India and Singapore. This deal along with the infra-sharing deal with RCom announced earlier this month provides RIL with access to significant infrastructure, both at … Read more
Reliance Jio Infocomm a 95% subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd controlled by Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Communications controlled by Anil Ambani have joined hands at the beginning of FY 2014. Anil is meeting Mukesh every fortnight to discuss co-operation in business. Ambani’s have manipulated Government policies to suit their needs and what are the chances that they may do it again ?
The following chart shows the Spectrum Spread of Reliance in GSM / CDMA / 3G and 4G LTE Bands