The growth in Jio's subscriber base doesn't imply that the tariff war is likely to subside anytime soon.

Jio's national average of 4G download speed was more than double compared to its rival Bharti Airtel, which recorded a download speed of 10 megabits per second (Mbps), according to the data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on MySpeed Portal.

Idea continued to top the chart in terms of 4G upload speed with 5.9 mbps.

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel had yesterday confirmed that it has received demand notices towards penalties totalling Rs 11 lakh for six circles for the quarter ended March 2018.

While the top telcos in the country are in hot water with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the buzz is that industry disruptor Reliance Jio is facing the steepest fine of them all.

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TRAI has imposed penalties on major telecom operators, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, for slipping on various service quality benchmarks for the March quarter.

The telecom operators had disagreed to the model recommended by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on grounds that it will have adverse effects on the debt-ridden industry and might even compromise national security.

At 10:42 am, the stock was trading at 1,300 level, up 0.66% on the BSE. Its market capitalisation rose to Rs 8,23,419 crore on BSE.

The growth happened after Jio recorded strong performance in the rural mobile markets as competitors continued to struggle due to aggressive pricing offered by Reliance. Jio's free voice and cheap data offerings have dented the financials of incumbent players.

There is still no clarity on the pricing. However, it is anticipated that the cost will far surpass that of normal rates for mobile services.

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 115.35 crore at the end of May 2018 to 116.88 crore at the end of June 2018. Reliance Jio added over 97 lakh new connections during the month.

Vajpayee government took some historic decisions to fast-track the growth in the telecom sector.

The Unique Identification Authority of India intends to equate the Aadhaar number with other personal information (such as PAN, bank account and credit card number) to caution users against placing their personal details in the public domain.

Sharma was originally appointed as the TRAI chief back in July 2015 for a tenure of three years, which he completed today.

The transition from 4G to 5G will be a software transition so it can be done much faster, says Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan.

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, does cover some of the key tenets that form the basis of any data privacy framework but a few aspects have not been covered by it.

The Srikrishna Committee report has too many loose strings that need to be fixed before it becomes law.

Google explained, later in the day, that it had configured the UIDAI helpline number along with other distress helpline numbers into the Android SetUp Wizard in 2014. This is what caused the contact to appear on Android as well as devices running on other operating systems as it got transferred from one device to another.

UIDAI has denied it, COAI and TRAI have also refused. Even Google doesn't know how it got there. So, who's done it? There's no explanation yet to the mysterious presence of UIDAI contact on many phones.