Mobile Subscribers In India

Truecaller announced an insurance protection plan to protect users against mobile frauds on Thursday. The plan, dubbed Truecaller Fraud Insurance, is being offered to the paid subscribers of the app on both Android and iOS. The new plan is currently only available in India, and will be rolled out in other regions later. The caller ID platform has p...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is fixing bugs in its do not disturb app, which helps mobile subscribers report pesky calls and text messages immediately, a senior official of the regulatory body said today.

Telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 1,173.89 million at the end of June on account of new customer additions led by Reliance Jio, sector regulator TRAI said on Thursday. The subscriber base growth was driven by mobile telephony where Reliance Jio added over 2.27 million new customers and Bharti Airtel added 1.4 million custom...

India's largest telecom operator Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh mobile subscribers in March, accelerating its momentum of February, while Vodafone Idea lost 12.12 lakh wireless users during the month, according to data released by telecom regulator TRAI. Sunil Mittal-led telecom company Bharti Airtel onborded 10.37 lakh mobile subscribers in March.

Telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added 19.8 lakh mobile subscribers month-on-month in February, even as Vodafone Idea lost 20 lakh customers, according to data released by TRAI on Thursday. India's largest telecom player Reliance Jio added the maximum number of mobile subscribers at about 10 lakh, taking its wireless subscriber tall...

iPhone 14 is set to go on sale for Rs. 66,999 during the upcoming Amazon Great Summer Sale, but Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to club offers together to lower the price of the handset to Rs. 39,323, according to details shared by the company.

The telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 1,170.75 million in January, driven by net customer gain in the fixed line segment, according to a sector regulator TRAI report released on Friday. The net gain in the wireline segment was 0.28 million customers while mobile telephony recorded a net gain of 0.09 million subscribers.

An overwhelming majority of mobile phone subscribers in India get at least one pesky call every day and 92 percent receive unsolicited calls even after being in the 'Do Not Disturb' list, as per a survey by online firm LocalCircles. According to the survey, 78 percent respondents said they get the highest number of pesky calls from financial servic...

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel cumulatively gained nearly 25 lakh mobile subscribers in November, while Vodafone Idea lost nearly 18.3 lakh customers, according to TRAI data. Reliance Jio cemented its lead in the market adding 14.26 lakh net subscribers in November, whereas Airtel added 10.56 lakh users. The top five service providers constituted over...

The Amazon India website recently teased the launch of Prime Gaming in the country, promising free monthly PC games and more. The service, which comes bundled with a Prime membership, is currently unsupported in India and provides mobile gaming offers only, in addition to other Prime benefits.

Google is finally rolling out free Google One VPN access for its flagship phones, the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. Google had stated that Pixel 7 series owners would get access to the same Google One VPN available to subscribers 2TB cloud storage plan on Google One. Pixel 7 owners in 15 countries can access the feature, while India and Singapore will n...

Jio led the market in the number of subscribers added in September, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), adding 7.2 lakh wireless subscribers during September, while Bharti Airtel increased its mobile users' tally by 4.12 lakh. Meanwhile, Vodafone Idea's base shrank to 24.91 crore during the same month, as...

India's total mobile subscriber base fell by 3.6 million in September, with Vodafone Idea suffering subscriber count decline even as larger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added users month-on-month, according to telecom regulator's data.

Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition was launched in India on Monday as an affordable version of the company's video streaming service. Subscribers will have access to all videos available on the service in standard-definition (SD) on a single smartphone, and the service will be available for a single user, according to Amazon.

Bharti Airtel on Thursday said its 5G services have gone live in eight cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The customer availing 5G services will have to pay as per their existing 4G plan, it said.

Truecaller announced an insurance protection plan to protect users against mobile frauds on Thursday. The plan, dubbed Truecaller Fraud Insurance, is being offered to the paid subscribers of the app on both Android and iOS. The new plan is currently only available in India, and will be rolled out in other regions later. The caller ID platform has p...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is fixing bugs in its do not disturb app, which helps mobile subscribers report pesky calls and text messages immediately, a senior official of the regulatory body said today.

Telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 1,173.89 million at the end of June on account of new customer additions led by Reliance Jio, sector regulator TRAI said on Thursday. The subscriber base growth was driven by mobile telephony where Reliance Jio added over 2.27 million new customers and Bharti Airtel added 1.4 million custom...

India's largest telecom operator Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh mobile subscribers in March, accelerating its momentum of February, while Vodafone Idea lost 12.12 lakh wireless users during the month, according to data released by telecom regulator TRAI. Sunil Mittal-led telecom company Bharti Airtel onborded 10.37 lakh mobile subscribers in March.

Telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added 19.8 lakh mobile subscribers month-on-month in February, even as Vodafone Idea lost 20 lakh customers, according to data released by TRAI on Thursday. India's largest telecom player Reliance Jio added the maximum number of mobile subscribers at about 10 lakh, taking its wireless subscriber tall...

iPhone 14 is set to go on sale for Rs. 66,999 during the upcoming Amazon Great Summer Sale, but Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to club offers together to lower the price of the handset to Rs. 39,323, according to details shared by the company.

The telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 1,170.75 million in January, driven by net customer gain in the fixed line segment, according to a sector regulator TRAI report released on Friday. The net gain in the wireline segment was 0.28 million customers while mobile telephony recorded a net gain of 0.09 million subscribers.

An overwhelming majority of mobile phone subscribers in India get at least one pesky call every day and 92 percent receive unsolicited calls even after being in the 'Do Not Disturb' list, as per a survey by online firm LocalCircles. According to the survey, 78 percent respondents said they get the highest number of pesky calls from financial servic...

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel cumulatively gained nearly 25 lakh mobile subscribers in November, while Vodafone Idea lost nearly 18.3 lakh customers, according to TRAI data. Reliance Jio cemented its lead in the market adding 14.26 lakh net subscribers in November, whereas Airtel added 10.56 lakh users. The top five service providers constituted over...

The Amazon India website recently teased the launch of Prime Gaming in the country, promising free monthly PC games and more. The service, which comes bundled with a Prime membership, is currently unsupported in India and provides mobile gaming offers only, in addition to other Prime benefits.

Google is finally rolling out free Google One VPN access for its flagship phones, the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. Google had stated that Pixel 7 series owners would get access to the same Google One VPN available to subscribers 2TB cloud storage plan on Google One. Pixel 7 owners in 15 countries can access the feature, while India and Singapore will n...

Jio led the market in the number of subscribers added in September, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), adding 7.2 lakh wireless subscribers during September, while Bharti Airtel increased its mobile users' tally by 4.12 lakh. Meanwhile, Vodafone Idea's base shrank to 24.91 crore during the same month, as...

India's total mobile subscriber base fell by 3.6 million in September, with Vodafone Idea suffering subscriber count decline even as larger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added users month-on-month, according to telecom regulator's data.

Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition was launched in India on Monday as an affordable version of the company's video streaming service. Subscribers will have access to all videos available on the service in standard-definition (SD) on a single smartphone, and the service will be available for a single user, according to Amazon.

Bharti Airtel on Thursday said its 5G services have gone live in eight cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The customer availing 5G services will have to pay as per their existing 4G plan, it said.