Voice & Data

January 28th, 2017 2:21 PM 3 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel’s weak operating results for Q3 are credit negative; impacted by Jio’s free services: Moody’s

India's newest mobile operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm continued to drive intense price competition through its promotional all services free of charge, which led to a decline in Bharti Airtel’s third quarter ARPUs across mobile services - voice and data - and as well as a 12.4% drop in data customers sequentially, Annalisa Di Chiara, a Moody's Vice President and Senior Credit Officer said in a note. The slowdown in Bharti's... Read More

January 28th, 2017 12:35 PM 15 COMMENTS

India’s top telcos seeks Trai intervention to stop BSNL’s app app-based limited fixed mobile telephony service

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents India’s three-largest telecom companies, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular among others, has again approached the Trai seeking the latter’s immediate intervention to direct Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) to stop its app-based limited fixed mobile telephony (LFMT) service. The COAI claims that the LFMT service by the state-run telecom operator flouts licence norms and evades interconnect charges. The body also... Read More

January 28th, 2017 5:39 AM 85 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Approaches TRAI to Impose Penalty on Airtel for ‘Misleading’ Free Services Ads: Report

Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has approached the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) asking to impose a heavy fine on the India’s largest telecom operator, Airtel for misleading customers with their free services. The new entrant has sent out a letter to the TRAI saying that the representation of Airtel’s advertisements regarding their free calls and data services are ‘gross violation of extant telecommunication laws.' Jio has further urged that... Read More

January 27th, 2017 7:41 PM 29 COMMENTS

Jio has become primary data connection on mobiles in India, claims Smartapp study

Data tracking app Smartapp said that the 4G entrant Reliance Jio has become the primary data connection on most of the mobile devices in India, with 42 per cent users having activated Jio in their 4G-enabled slot. The report said that 17.54 per cent Bharti Airtel users have activated the 4G data connection, followed by Vodafone at 12.26 per cent and Idea Cellular at 11.50 per cent, the report revealed... Read More

January 27th, 2017 6:25 PM 24 COMMENTS

Nokia Signed a Massive 4G Deployment Deal Worth Rs. 3650 Crores with Vodafone India

Vodafone India, in what might be considered as a huge move has given a whopping Rs. 3,650 crores deal to Finnish company, Nokia to deploy 4G network is some circles of India. According to an Economic Times report, a person familiar with the matter said that Nokia would deploy the 4G network in 10 out of 22 circles and the list includes Kolkata, Mumbai, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu/Chennai, Haryana, UP East,... Read More

January 27th, 2017 3:25 PM 24 COMMENTS

RCom’s tower assets sale, merger with Aircel to take another 6-9 months to close; gets negative outlook from Moody’s

Reliance Communication’s sale telecom tower assets and the merger of its core wireless operations with Aircel Limited (unrated) in a new joint venture are expected to take another 6-9 months to close, according to ratings agency Moody’s. Moody's Investors Service has also downgraded Reliance Communications Limited's (RCOM) corporate family rating and senior secured bond rating to B2 from B1. The agency said that the rating outlook is negative, which primarily... Read More

January 27th, 2017 11:57 AM 3 COMMENTS

Idea set to foray into digital space next week with “Digital Idea” to counter Jio, Airtel

Idea Cellular is all set to foray into the digital services space by launching a slew of application across segment such as movies, TV, music, games and others on December 30. With this move, the company is transforming itself into a full-fledged digital solutions company, which will be called, “Digital Idea”. The latest move is aimed at countering 4G entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm, which already offers a gamut of digital... Read More

January 26th, 2017 4:11 PM 32 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel says “free offers” will impact telcos, lenders government revenue

Bharti Airtel, in an investor call post the announcement of quarterly results, said that free offers by telcos would hit all stakeholders, including lenders, and government revenue in the short to medium term with debt exposure of over Rs 400,000 crore to the industry. The country’s leading telecom operator also alleged that this predatory pricing has led to unprecedented drop in the industry revenue table for the first time since... Read More

January 26th, 2017 1:45 PM 33 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel to move to VoLTE for voice service in key markets soon: CEO Gopal Vittal tells investors

India’s leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, said that it will launch voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology in key markets in the next 12-18 months. The move will be aimed at countering Reliance Jio, which is currently the only telco that is offering VoLTE-based calling service in India to its over 72 million customers in India. It is using Nokia’s IMS solution to offer the technology. The 4G entrant’s voice service,... Read More

January 26th, 2017 12:51 PM 13 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel to offer double data on purchasing a new 4G Dongle/Hotspot for new customers: Sources

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom network in terms of more number of subscribers, has come up with yet another offer, but this time not in the mobile network space, instead the company is offering extra data for people who purchases a new 4G Dongle/Hotspot. However, this offer is available only for new users. According to our sources, the plans are as follows: While purchasing a new 4G Dongle, users will... Read More

January 26th, 2017 7:32 AM 2 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular ties up with Retailers to make digital transactions convenient for customers

With a focus on encouraging its mobile customers to conduct digital transactions conveniently, and to support the government’s vision of a cashless economy, Idea Money, has launched its ‘Retailer Assisted Model’ to drive usage of several value added products with retail outlets for its wallet customers, both digital and non-digital, bringing them into the fold of digital payments. The new Retailer Assisted Model is designed to bring less tech savvy... Read More

January 25th, 2017 5:05 PM 8 COMMENTS

Now, Idea Cellular moves to Delhi High Court challenging Trai’s penalty on Jio PoI issue

Idea Cellular, the country’s third largest telecom operator, has now approached the Delhi High Court against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s recommendation to impose Rs 950 crore penalty on it for not providing adequate interconnection to 4G entrant Reliance Jio. Idea Cellular, in its plea, claimed that it has complied with all requirements of providing interconnectivity as per the quality of service (QoS) rules and as such is not... Read More

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