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Rudradeep Biswas March 14th, 2017 2:29 PM 26 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Offers Privileges to its Prepaid and Postpaid Customers Under New Idea Select Scheme

Idea Cellular, India's third-largest telecom network has come up with a new scheme called as 'Idea Select' for both prepaid and postpaid customers offering special privileges for the consumers who enrol themselves under the scheme. The service is available for both prepaid and postpaid users and comes with four plans: Idea Select Titanium, Idea Select Platinum, Idea Select Gold, and Idea Select Silver. Speaking more about the plans, the Idea Select... Read More

Chakri K March 14th, 2017 1:29 PM 20 COMMENTS

Airtel 4G services goes live in Jammu and Kashmir; now offers pan-India 4G coverage

India's largest telecommunications services provider, Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its 4G service in Jammu & Kashmir. With this roll out, Airtel becomes the first network in India to offer 4G services in all the 22 telecom circles of India. In contrast, Vodafone has 4G services in 17 telecom circles of India and Idea is offering 4G services in 10 circles of India. Airtel 4G is currently available... Read More

Chakri K March 14th, 2017 12:52 PM 4 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel and Viavi Solutions Releases the Study on Impact of Smartphone Quality on User’s Network Experience

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecommunications services provider, and Viavi Solutions announced they have jointly conducted measurement and analysis of 4G and 3G smartphone performance—representing over 8,000 smartphone models—crowdsourced using big data approach from the live Airtel network, with the help of location intelligence platform. The analysis was intended to evaluate variation in the key performance indicators (KPIs) impacting user experience in various smartphone models, to develop a process for smartphone... Read More

Chakri K March 14th, 2017 12:21 PM 21 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio, Google Come Together to Launch Affordable 4G Smartphone by the End of 2017: Report

Reliance Jio, the high-flying telecom network in India is long-rumored to launch an affordable 4G handset, and some rumors were claiming that the company will launch a feature phone with VoLTE support priced under Rs. 1500. However, a new report claims that the firm is working closely with search giant Google to deliver a cheapest 4G Android smartphone. According to a report coming from The Hindu Business Line, both the Reliance... Read More

Chakri K March 13th, 2017 7:10 PM 11 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel and BSNL are Targeting Users With Data-Centric Offers this Holi

Indian telecom operators are concentrating on providing better data-centric offers for their users this Holi season. What started with RCom was soon followed by Aircel with attractive data plan offers, but their offerings were limited to just new users. On the flip side, we have BSNL offering an insane amount of data at a very low price, whereas Bharti Airtel is giving away data for all its postpaid consumers this... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 13th, 2017 1:26 PM 13 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel is a step ahead of Idea Cellular in International Roaming

Following the footsteps of Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular had earlier announced that the telco is doing away with the domestic roaming charges. As a result, Idea subscribers will be able to receive unlimited voice calls while on roaming for, i.e., without paying any extra roaming charges for the incoming calls starting April 1st. Idea had also announced a set of International Roaming value packs which more or less are quite... Read More

Chakri K March 13th, 2017 7:48 AM 304 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Started Gifting Free Data for its Postpaid Customers

As promised at the start of this month, Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecom network began offering free data for all its postpaid users as a token of gratitude for being rated as the fastest mobile by speed test organization, Ookla. To recall, Gopal Vittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel on March 3 sent out an email to all the postpaid users of Airtel saying that a surprise in coming their way... Read More

Srikapardhi March 13th, 2017 6:00 AM 2 COMMENTS

BSNL partnering with cable operators to offer broadband services

In a bid to reach out to maximum households, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is partnering with cable network operators to provide broadband services to its customers. The state-run telecom operator has already inked some initial partnerships with some of the local cable operators in Warangal district of Telangana, and it will soon be tying up other private local cable network operators in the state to provide broadband services to... Read More

Srikapardhi March 12th, 2017 7:21 PM 46 COMMENTS

Vodafone Group close to finalise Idea merger deal worth £21 billion: Report

Vodafone Group may announce its final agreement to merge its Indian operation with rival mobile operator Idea Cellular in a £21 billion deal in a few days, UK's Telegraph reported. The publication's sources said that Vodafone and Aditya Birla Group talks had reached an advanced stage and that an agreement "could be announced this week." They, however, said that the deal negotiation has proven to be complicated and delicate for... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 12th, 2017 2:11 PM 52 COMMENTS

BSNL replacing 28,000 2G sites to offer 3G and 4G services: Report

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the state-run telecom operator, is reportedly replacing its 2G cell sites with modern cell sites that will allow it to offer 3G and 4G services at select locations. According to a PTI report, the telecom operator has a plan to install around 28,000 new mobile base stations across the country under the phase-8 expansion. BSNL is currently mulling over using its 3G spectrum for 4G LTE... Read More

Srikapardhi March 12th, 2017 1:51 PM 46 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular to Offer Free Incoming Calls on Roaming in India Starting 1st April; New IR Value Packs Launched

After Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular now joins the free incoming calls while on domestic roaming bandwagon in the country. Idea, with over 200 million subscribers is the third largest telecom operator in India. And the latest move from the telco comes as a radical change to its subscribers who tend to travel a lot. Speaking of traveling, Idea has also unveiled a range of International Roaming value packs for folks... Read More

Chakri K March 12th, 2017 5:18 AM 61 COMMENTS

RCom vs Aircel: Which Operator is Offering the Best New User Benefits?

The telecom industry in India is witnessing some massive changes from the past five months or so, thanks to Reliance Jio and its free services. With the Reliance Jio's free services set to expire on March 31, 2017, the entire focus in now slowly shifting towards the JioPrime subscription scheme. To compete with Reliance Jio's new user benefits, the Anil Ambani-led RCom yesterday came out with probably the best new... Read More