Airtel, Vodafone and Idea - 3G Map of India (2015)

In the recently ended auction, only Airtel, Vodafone and Idea (the so-called incumbents or infamous A-Vo-Id group) have spent money to grab more 3G spectrum. Well the 3G spectrum term is wrong, it's 2100MHz band, generally to be used for 3G/UMTS/WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+ services. 

Aircel, Reliance Communications or Tata Teleservices/Tata Docomo did not acquire any new pie for 3G. Even Reliance Jio skipped 3G spectrum. 

Airtel 3G Map

Idea 3G Map

Vodafone 3G Map

Reliance Jio - 2300/1800/800MHz Spectrum Map

Reliance Jio : 1800MHz band in 18 circles. 

Videocon Telecom : 1800Mhz band in 7 circles.

Reliance Jio : 2300MHz band in all 22 circles 

Reliance Jio : 800MHz band in 10 circles [2015]

Tata Tele to Axe Down Virgin Mobile Brand

India's Tata Teleservices, a subsidiary of Indian of Tata docomo who offer GSM & CDMA voice & data services under primary brand name of Tata Docomo, with partnership from Japan's NTT Docomo is going to kill unnecessary sub-brand - Virgin Mobile.

Today I received a text message from TD-DOCOMO which says: Virgin Mobile is now Tata Docomo.

Webpage Redirected to VAS Activation Page: Idea Cellular

Few days back, I was browsing internet on my smartphone on Dolphin Browser. I tried to open http://djmaza.info/ and it got redirected to some shitty VAS page. (see below)

If you touch on YES, you will be deducted Rs 45 for 15 days. I was lucky that I was using Idea 3G that time with zero main balance.

Ozone WiFi Review

Public Wifi is getting traction in India. Several companies are investing money to make money from Public Wifi services. Among them Tata Teleservices and Ozone WiFi is have prominent background.

Random Approach: Airtel 4G Wifi vs Tata Photon Max Wifi vs MTS Mblaze Ultra Wifi

On my way from CITY CENTER 1 to Bidhannagar railway station to Shovabazar metro station (Auto route), I have collected available Wifi networks details. This random approach is based on that details.

WiFi Based ISP at Barrackpore

Location : Barrackpore

SPEEDNET - open wifi network. (https://speednetkolkata.com/)

5 such networks found - PANPARA, WIRELESS PARA, SECTOR 1, SECTOR 3 (equipment company is Ubiquiti Networks), RUIYA (by Routerboard.com).
* Earlier all of them were detected as 'Meghbela Broadband'

DIGINET 5G - one network, euipment from Ubiquiti.

WISHNET wifi (at Atindra Cinema?) - single network. Once found, later it's not found.

Website: https://wishnet.in/

** Though these are open, here authentication is done with your device's MAC address. So unless you're subscribed to them you can't connect to these networks.

** Recently people found 'Jionet' Wifi network (secured). It's Reliance Jio's Wifi service.

Update from future i.e. in 2025 Jio is offering AirFiber services using UBR technology - that's similar to WiFi over extended area. Initially Jio's fixed wireless access services, AirFiber was deployed over 5G but later shifted over home grown UBR technology using Mimosa's equipments. 

Also I found MoreWiFi (https://morewifi.in/) in Siliguri - that's also similar to Jio FWA.