Jio's Rs 251 prepaid recharge plan will offer mobile data of 102 GB for a period of 21 days,
the telecom company said.
The additional spectrum will allow more consumers to be on its network at the same time watching a hockey game on their mobile devices, giving them a consistent and fast experience, the Toronto - based
telecom company said.
Not exact matches
BENGALURU / MUMBAI, April 25 - India's Bharti Infratel Ltd
said it has agreed to merge with Indus Towers, in a deal that creates the world's No. 2
telecom tower
company with an estimated equity value of $ 14.6 billion.
At a Wells Fargo media and
telecom conference on Wednesday morning, AT&T chief financial officer John Stephens
said that closing the mega-deal for Time Warner «is now uncertain» even as he declined to elaborate on the
company's ongoing discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice about securing regulatory approval for the transaction.
Nevertheless, the
companies providing platforms for the homespun «algos»
say popularity is growing among everyone from advertising executives and
telecom engineers to defense contractors.
BT, Britain's dominant fixed - line
telecoms operator that provides networked IT and cloud services to
companies and governments around the world, had
said that it had seen a marked slowdown in its international order book, prompting it to take a more cautious approach to the sector.
CEO Marcelo Claure
says Combes is capable of accelerating the
company's turnaround as the
telecom giant battles debt.
Finland's Nokia will tie the knot with Alcatel - Lucent in an all - stock deal that values the French
telecom company at 15.6 billion euros ($ 16.6 billion), the
companies said on Wednesday.
Holmes also
said that if Salesforce.com owned all of Twitter's data, it could have better insights into what sort of conversations
companies such as airlines or
telecom firms might be having with their customers and thereby gain more understanding of their business challenges.
COPENHAGEN, Feb 8 - Shares in Danish
telecoms operator TDC surged 20 percent on Thursday after Australia's Macquarie and three Danish pension funds
said they had made a takeover approach for the
company.
Vice has
said it wants to expand into offering more traditional types of programming in more than 80 countries this year, and has signed a number of deals with media
companies and
telecom providers in the Middle East and Asia for distribution.
Finally, Laurence
said Rogers» stable of sports, broadcast and publishing properties will differentiate the
company from its
telecom peers:
What's different now is that, on August 31, the
company said it will build servers targeting the public and private clouds, as well as
telecom - focused data centers.
Apple also reportedly considered a much larger content acquisition last year: A number of news outlets
said the
company made a takeover bid for content giant Time Warner, which owns HBO and CNN among other things, but the latter decided to accept an offer from
telecom player AT&T instead.
«He is a visionary executive with a proven track record of successfully transforming leading
telecom and media
companies and will help us to execute our strategic plan and strengthen our team,» Claure
said.
But the
telecom executive cut him off before he began,
saying that the
company had already engaged a high - profile firm and had its re-engineering well in hand.
He now plans to start a venture capital
company focused on
telecom, technology and media,
saying there is not enough capital available to young entrepreneurs.
He
says tweaking the
telecom regulations without doing the same in broadcasting makes no sense in a converged world, where
companies own both distribution and broadcasting assets.
Primack
said in an interview Tuesday with Cheddar that AT&T doesn't need the deal to go through in order to survive, but it would enable the
telecom company to challenge new media rivals.
BEIJING (Reuters)- China has asked the United States to amend a seven - year ban on American
companies selling components and software to Chinese
telecom equipment firm ZTE Corp, two sources with knowledge of the matter
said on Friday.
Reform advocates
say economic growth rates will plunge, undermining the ruling party's claim to power, if industries from energy to
telecoms to banking that are controlled by state
companies are not opened to competition.
«Cable and
telecom companies are consolidating quickly,» Rifkin
says.
Adesina
said that the business man and philanthropist rose from a modest background, defied many odds, and realised his dream of setting up and grooming successful
companies in the oil and gas, banking and
telecom sectors.
Citing people familiar with the situation, the newspaper
said former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder pleaded with Nigerian officials last month on behalf of the
telecoms company.
The former U.S. law enforcement officer, Holder, is
said to have pleaded with Nigerian officials last month on behalf of the
telecoms company without success.
Telecoms companies and big multinationals will get faster speeds,
says Avanti chief executive David Williams.
But if you're excited about the
telecoms sector's challenging research problems, be warned: «The main challenge at the moment is to find jobs,»
says Rich Miner, VP of Orange Imagineering, the
company's R&D division.
«We can't compete with the huge corporate linkups between US media and
telecoms companies,»
says Huber.
The first networks won't be operational for at least a few years, but technology and
telecom companies around the world are already planning to spend billions to make sure they aren't left behind,
says Lawrence Surtees, a communications analyst with the research firm IDC.
Apple has reached an agreement with Japanese
telecom operator NTT Docomo for iPad sales in Japan, the
companies said Wednesday.
[The delay] is not about the
telecom companies or the retailers,»
said one source familiar with the matter.
OTTAWA — Although the big
telecom companies have agreed to exempt some customers from fees charged for paper invoices, the federal government
says it's going to end the whole practice.
Some industries — newspapers,
say, or fixed - line
telecom companies — truly do have questionable futures.
Famed venture capitalist Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures has called the net neutrality situation a «nightmare» for startups trying to get funded,
saying that he expects
telecom companies to «pick their preferred partners, subsidize the data costs for those apps, and make it much harder for new entrants to compete with the incumbents.»
Matt Berriman, co-founder and CEO of Unlockd,
says the
company already scored deals with
telecom operators in the UK, Asia and Europe.
Network maker Huawei has signed pre-communication deals with over 30
telecom operators to develop 5G technology,
said the
company's CEO at MWC 2018.
Several hours later the ban was lifted, and the
company says players should be able to access their game library, however, some
telecoms are still imposing the block.
The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, Republican senator Richard Burr of North Carolina,
said, «The focus of my concern today is China, and specifically Chinese
telecoms companies like Huawei and ZTE that are widely understood to have extraordinary ties to the Chinese government.»
This merger is akin to all
telecom companies merging except for Sprint, leaving a world of only two large, nationally recognizable options — even if all stores still
say «AT&T» or «Verizon» on the signs, in this theoretical example, they're all still owned by AT&T, so there are only two competitors.
«Just because a
telecom company has a fat bank account doesn't equal success,» he
said.