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From Sukh Ram to Mukesh Ambani, here're the men who changed telecom

With a charge of Rs 18/min for voice calls to free voice calls now, and a burgeoning subscriber base, India's telecom sector has come a long way. We look at the men who made all of this possible

25 years since the first mobile call: Roller-coaster ride for telecom

It's been through dizzying peaks, troughs, policy U-turns, court battles, brutal competition, and daily controversies

The family way

Dynastic governance constrains India Inc

Mukesh Ambani now world's fifth richest: Check the top 10 list

Mukesh Ambani inched to the fifth position in the Forbes' global rich list as Reliance Industries' market capitalisation, topped the Rs 13-trillion mark

Reliance breaks into top 50 most valued companies globally, ranks 48

Globally, Saudi Aramco is the company with the highest market cap of $1.7 trillion, followed by Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet

Mukesh Ambani world's 5th richest after RIL market cap tops Rs 13 trillion

Ambani, who owns half of RIL's equity, managed to achieve this feat after raising funds from a slew of marquee investors in the Jio wireless telephony business

Lenders may convert part of Kishore Biyani's Future Retail debt into equity

RIL is in talks with banks for a possible takeover

Riding the 5G wave: Jio takes big leap, applies to DoT for spectrum

After the trial runs, India, through Jio, will join the exclusive club of just a few countries with their own 5G technology that they can sell to the world

RIL deploys Rs 35,000 crore from Jio stake sales into debt funds

The monies have been deployed into ultra-short and money-market funds, and others focused on debt with an average of three-to-five year maturities

Disruption in retail? Avenue Supermarts has a strong competitor in JioMart

Cost efficiency provides DMart an edge, but competitive intensity is growing

Top headlines: US firms protest India's Google tax, JioMart means business

India's digital services tax runs into opposition from America's biggest tech companies.

Reliance Industries looks to storm entry-level 4G, 5G smartphone market

On Tuesday, during the company's first pandemic-forced virtual annual general meeting, Ambani outlined another vision to disrupt the mobile device market again.

Can Mukesh Ambani take on Chinese giants like Tencent, Huawei and Xiaomi?

Ambani dropped enough hints that last year's plan to sell 20 per cent of his mainstay oils-to-chemicals business to Saudi Aramco was now unlikely

Reliance Jio's 2G-free India drive likely to hit Vodafone Idea hard

About 60% of Vodafone Idea's customer base is in the 2G space

Reliance emerging as bigger threat for US giants like Amazon, Walmart, Zoom

Stake sales in Reliance's digital unit Jio Platforms attracted not just private equity and sovereign wealth funds but also Google and Facebook

Google stake in Jio, 5G plans: How brokerages interpreted RIL's 43rd AGM

Mukesh Ambani said in the company's 43rd AGM on Wednesday that homegrown 5G solutions would be available for trials as soon as spectrum was given out.

Best of BS Opinion: Reinventing RIL, Covid-19 pandemic, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

From Ericsson to Huawei, global 5G players face a Reliance Jio challenge

Having built a solution from scratch, Mukesh Ambani now wants to get cracking

Google to invest Rs 33,737 crore for 7.73% stake in Jio Platforms

The two companies will collaborate for the development of entry-level affordable 4G and 5G smartphones as well as Android-based operating systems, Ambani announced during the virtual AGM

It's time for RIL 3.0: Made-in-India 5G network, affordable smartphones

Delay in striking a deal with Saudi Aramco disappoints investors