INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Reliance Industries share price: RIL soared by 3.6% at Rs 1,565 after hitting record high of Rs 1,571.Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is
within stone's throw of the Rs 10 lakh crore market capitalisation milestone -- hovering at Rs 9.92 lakh crore - after its wholly owned
subsidiary Reliance Jio announced plans to hike the mobile phone call and data charges
This tariff hike announcement comes on the heels of similar declarations by rivals, Airtel and Vodafone Idea, in the past two days
Reliance Jio has disrupted the telecom industry since its launch three years ago by offering mobile telephony and data services at dirt
cheap prices, and this would be its first significant tariff hike since its inception
likely to initiate the consultation process for revision in telecom tariffs
The telecom giant further added that it would carry out an "appropriate" increase in tariffs which "does not adversely impact data
consumption or growth in digital adoption and sustains investments".Reliance Industries had hit the Rs 9 lakh crore market-cap milestone as
The share prices of index bellwether Reliance Industries have been on a tear this year after Mukesh Ambani made public his intentions in
August to cut the company's net debt to zero in 18 months by selling stake in its oil-to-chemicals business to Saudi Aramco.Mr Ambani has
now overtaken Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese technological conglomerate Ali Baba to become the richest person In Asia.Rival telecom company
Bharti Airtel is also going strong at Rs 446, up 1.7%, after touching a fresh 52-week high of Rs 452.95 earlier in the day.(Except for the
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