It’s not even a week since Vodafone Idea finalised its M&A deal and the company has already started making moves left, right and centre to prepare its war chest. In the latest turn of events, Vodafone Idea is set to move telecom tribunal to demand Rs 7,249 crore which the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had forced to pay to clear the most significant M&A deal of the sector. Now with... Read More
Soon after the finalisation of the Idea-Vodafone merger, the former market leader Bharti Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal sent out an organisation-wide email informing the employees about the competition that lies ahead and also talking about the strengths of the company. In a related development, one day after the companies' merger, the newly formed Vodafone Idea conducted a two-hour town hall which was streamed across the nation in Vodafone-Idea offices. The... Read More
Bharti Airtel is no more the leading telecom operator in India, and Gopal Vittal, the CEO of the company, has already urged its employees to focus on adding new customers to regain the top spot. And as a first step towards the same, Airtel has rolled out three new prepaid plans today, priced at Rs 35, Rs 65 and Rs 95. In the press statement issued by the company, with... Read More
Ahead of the two-year milestone completion of the latest telecom entrant in the industry, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel CEO, Gopal Vittal wrote an email addressed to all the Airtel employees urging them to put in every effort to increase the Revenue Market Share (RMS) of the company. This move comes after Bharti Airtel lost its top spot to the newly merged entity Vodafone-Idea Ltd. The CEO said that for the... Read More
Reliance Jio Infocomm has informed that it has received a positive response for its latest home broadband service GigaFiber from 900 odd cities after two weeks of registration. Even then Reliance Jio has also remarked that it is facing resistance in crucial last mile connectivity in select towns because of Local Cable Operators (LCOs). When LCOs were asked about this issue, the operators said that the problem erupted because of... Read More
Asus Zenfone 5Z and Sony Xperia XZ2 are the two major smartphones which received support for Vodafone VoLTE recently. On the whole, Vodafone now has a total of 122 devices under its VoLTE supported list of devices, which doesn't come anywhere close to Airtel's 200 VoLTE supported devices list. Having said that, Vodafone's list is way better than Idea VoLTE eligible list of devices and all these telcos fall short... Read More
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) is planning to seek approval for raising its authorised share capital to Rs 10,000 crore. The government-owned entity also plans to borrow powers by almost 40%, which will aid the telco's 4G plans and provide it with the firepower to compete in the market. MTNL has been struggling a lot in recent times, especially after the entry of Reliance Jio to the Indian market. Also,... Read More
Airtel VoLTE is now supported by over 200 4G smartphones in India. Announced back in September 2017, Airtel VoLTE initially had less than 20 devices support, but exactly, a year later, the support has been extended to more than 200 smartphones. Popular brands such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Nokia and so on have added Airtel VoLTE software patches to its smartphones. Also, Motorola has added Airtel VoLTE support to its newly... Read More
Following its tradition of revising broadband plans, BSNL has made changes to entire broadband tariff portfolio. With this move, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is looking to compete with the likes of Airtel V-Fiber and Reliance Jio GigaFiber. BSNL has now made minor changes to its broadband plans priced between Rs 249 and Rs 2295. As we reported recently, the entry-level BB249 plan now offers three times more FUP. Some... Read More
The finalised merger of Idea Cellular and Vodafone is the biggest M&A deal happening in the country right now. After being severely bogged down by the latest telecom entrant in the country, Reliance Jio, the British Vodafone Plc owned Indian wing, and the Kumar Mangalam Birla led telco decided to join their forces to tackle the increasing competition in the telecom sector. In the last few months only, we have... Read More
The former telecom leader, Bharti Airtel has not put down its defence against its biggest competition Reliance Jio. The Sunil Bharti Mittal led telco has launched a Rs 449 prepaid tariff plan which is providing benefits which surpass the offering by Reliance Jio. To recall, the Reliance Jio plan of Rs 449 offers 136GB of data spread over a period of 91 days. Whereas the Bharti Airtel prepaid plan of... Read More
The highest decision-making body in the telecom sector, the Telecom Commission has finally approved the norms for telcos allowing them to conduct network trials before commercially launching the mobile services to the public. However, the test phase for such trials should be just 180 days. The Commission also decided to ask the telecom regulator to prescribe a framework for testing of fixed-line services. "Now these decisions (Trai's recommendations) were accepted,... Read More
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