Idea Cellular has said that the company is not looking at the 700 MHz spectrum band for mobile broadband. “We have seen how the 2300 MHz spectrum which was auctioned in 2010 still remains unused as services are yet to be launched on this band. This should, therefore, discourage us from looking at the 700 MHz band for the immediate present,” said Rajat Mukarji, chief corporate affairs officer at Idea... Read More
Idea Cellular has recently announced that it has achieved an unprecedented milestone in the history of the circle by recording a total of over 2 crore subscribers, recently. Idea also became the only operator to grow its Revenue Market Share (RMS) in the circle, by over 2 percentage points in a year to 31.4%, in Q1FY15. To mark the... Read More
Operators have been offering free daily and monthly roaming incoming packs for approximately Rs 5 and Rs 75 . Later packs with 7 days validity were introduced for the convenience of customers. Now Idea has slowly revamped the existing free incoming strategy and started offering Rs 5 roaming pack with 1p/6sec incoming charges. This accounts to 10p/min along with Rs 5 pack charges. Also Read : Does the NEW IDEA... Read More
Idea Cellular has offered to swap spectrum with Airtel and Vodafone so as to help avoid 20 million subscribers in Delhi from getting their services disrupted. The licences of Airtel and Vodafone are expiring in Delhi on November 29. In the recently concluded spectrum auction, Idea Cellular has won a total of 65.2 MHz under the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. With this Idea now has the ability to... Read More
Idea Cellular posted a net profit after tax of Rs. 7558.80 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2014 as compared to Rs. 4476.10 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. Total Income has increased from Rs. 63859.10 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2013 to Rs. 76864.80 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. Below are the highlights from the quarterly report: - The company has... Read More
Operators are trying hard to promote 3G in India, let it be by hiking 2G data prices and by simultaneously lowering 3G prices in less variations. In a bid to promote and increase 3G data usage, Idea Cellular has started offering 3G Internet Rate Cutters. These rate cutters when activated allows users to use 3G data at comparatively less price/MB than base tariff. Now let us check what these Rate... Read More
We at TelecomTalk have always been emphasizing on the importance of Self Care Portals and the Quality of Self Care Services Operators are providing to their customers. We have also covered a very detailed and tabulated everything about Web based Self care services for Prepaid users and also the Operators who are not providing it at the time of writing the article. We have also highlighted in our post on May 2,... Read More
BlackBerry in association with Idea Cellular has today announced a special offer on 1GB data plan for its customers using Idea postpaid connections. Idea users with BlackBerry OS 7 devices can now avail BIS 1GB 2G plan at just Rs. 83 per month, with an annual rental plan of Rs. 999 taxes extra. To activate the plan, Idea user just needs to SMS ‘ACT999ARP’ to 12345. The offer is available... Read More
Over the past few days we at TelecomTALK had been reviewing Idea Cellular's 3G network. We assessed Idea's 3G on Idea's own 3G network in Andhra Pradesh circle (in Hyderabad) and in Coastal Karnataka where Idea 3G is offered through ICRA. The Internet speeds were measured using Speedtest application installed on Samsung Galaxy Y Duos with network mode configured to 'Auto' - GSM/WCDMA. Idea's 3G network was present in major... Read More
Idea has just introduced 4 new unlimited prepaid 3G packs for its Tamil Nadu circle. These 3G packs offer unlimited data consumption with reduced speeds post exceeding the fair usage policy limit. All these are valid for 28 days. Let us tell you what is on offer: Idea 3G plan Details : Rs 649 will get you 4GB of 3G data usage with the speed getting reduced to 40 kbps... Read More
Idea has introduced 2 new 3G smartphones Idea Ultra+ and Idea FAB 3G smartphone . Both the devices will be sold through Idea’s retail channel spread across its key 3G markets including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra & Goa, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), and Punjab. Idea Ultra+ is a dual-SIM with 1.3 GHz Quad core processor and 1GB RAM and comes with 8MP... Read More
Idea today announced the launch of its new company retail Stores in a completely new avatar all across the country. The first of these stores has been launched in Ahmedabad offering 24* 7 services Apart from a completely new store design, the new Company Retail Stores boasts of various customer friendly features such as a Fixed Service Terminal enabling 24x7 bill payments and recharges, Queue Management Systems, Express Service Desks,... Read More
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