The total fixed communication services revenue in India is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.9 per cent from $11.5 billion (€10.5bn) in 2023 to $13.2 billion in 2028, mainly driven by the healthy growth in the fixed broadband segment, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s India Fixed […]
India’s government is proposing that satellite spectrum over the country will be assigned without would-be operators having to bid for the bandwidth. This rule, if enabled, will be a major advantage for the likes of Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Eutelsat/OneWeb and Elon Musk’s SpaceX/Starlink. The proposed Bill was tabled for approval in India’s parliament on December […]
Reliance Jio Infocomm, the Indian telecom network, have announced a partnership with consumer experience pioneer Plume to provide smart home and small business services to its subscribers across India. This partnership will deliver solutions through Plume’s cloud platform to approximately 200 million premises in India. With this new partnership, Jio will deploy HomePass and WorkPass consumer services […]
The total telecom and pay-TV services revenue in India is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.1 per cent from $42.3 billion (€39.7bn) in 2022 to $44.9 billion in 2027, primarily driven by mobile data and fixed broadband segments, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s India Telecom Operators […]
Parade Media Group’s tech incubator, Parade Labs, has partnered with Reliance Jio to launch Biopic in India. Parade’s first dedicated FAST offering via app has been launched in India on JioStore Application Store as part of Strategic Partnership across multiple devices such as Jio STB, JioPhone, JioBook, JioPC. Jio is the largest mobile network operator […]
India’s secretary for telecommunications Kalyanaraman Rajaraman believes that Indian users will likely be able to access satellite-based broadband connectivity by the middle of 2023. The department of telecommunications has already sent its reference to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to auction the spectrum in the 27.5-28.5 MHz band, which is essential to rollout […]
A major Joint Venture from Reliance Jio, the giant Indian telco, and satellite operator SES, which will see Jio use the SES capacity for broadband connectivity for its Indian customers. Investment bank Exane/BNPP says the move is a major endorsement for SES and in particular its mPower fleet of satellites. The bank says: “The endorsement […]
The SVoD service revenue in India is expected to grow at a robust compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.9 per cent from $0.9 billion (€0.76bn) in 2020 to $1.9 billion in 2025 in line with increasing demand for various OTT video service platforms in the country, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. GlobalData’s […]
India’s Reliance Jio is 5 years old (it launched to the public on September 5 2016) and is – by any measure – a huge success. Data usage in India, on Jio and its rivals, has exploded by 1300 per cent during the 5 years, and some of the global content suppliers have publicly congratulated […]
India’s cabinet has decided to proceed with an auction of spectrum in some key frequencies. The government will auction spectrum in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz and 2500 MHz terrestrial frequency bands. The spectrum licences will then be valid for 20 years. A total of 2251.25 MHz […]