Fastest Break-even: Uninor Registers Positive in first circle, UP East

Telenor got a good news as Uninor has announced that the company has achieved break-even in Uttar Pradesh East, first in India and fastest break-even by any mobile operator in any circle in India.

Uninor has estimated to break-even in calendar year 2013, and this milestone is achieved ahead of the estimated time period.

Now Uninor’s operations in UP East are on positive note – revenues are higher than operating costs (EBITDA break-even). In UP East Uninor has 7.2 million customers.

In a company press release Uninor said that in UP East Uninor incurs a cost of 18 paisa per minute, lowest in the circle. And spectrum usage is 40% more efficient than any operators.

Telenor is very positive about Indian operations, as the company founded a new Indian subsidiary called Telewings Communications with Lakshdeep Investments and secured 5 MHz spectrum in 6 circles – UP East, UP West, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

These circles count for more than 50% of India’s population and mobile penetration is as low as 40%. Telenor is expecting break-even in remaining circles in coming months.

This Article Was Written By: Rudradeep Biswas

Rudradeep Biswas - Senior Telecom Analyst

The happy guy RDB (stands for Rudradeep Biswas) has been writing for Telecomtalk since 2009, covering mobile operators, 3G, broadband, WiFi, 4G, LTE, telecom policies and what-not related to Indian telecom. He is by profession a doctor, did his MBBS from R.G.Kar Medical College, Kolkata.

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  • Ashish February 25, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    i use Reliance 3G in Bihar the exprience be come very bad most of time net is not connect and many times net functoning very swoly.

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  • prakash December 3, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    Bengal ko swpna dekhakar ja raha hai…………… chi-tar UNINOR

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  • Kaushik Roy December 2, 2012 at 11:20 am

    Uninor making profit since they did not participated in 3G auction
    all other big operators won 3G licence by paying a huge amount which even Government not estimated
    If 3G auction did not happen i think mobile operators pictures in India will be different
    Airtel/Idea/Vodafone now crying because they can not amend the mistake they made by participating in 3G auction

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  • sapattu raman December 1, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    Last one year my kid is using Rs 39 sms pack/100 sms a day/30 days + Rs 21-3000 local seconds pack .older kid is using rs 158/30,000 seconds local pack -30 days.
    Both are pre paid but used in dual sim phones along with other sim (Reliance GSM in both phones)Andhra pradesh no problem at all.

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  • Knuckles December 1, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    i hope uninor also bid for punjab in the second auction which is due by march next year. this time nobody bid for punjab.

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  • MUTHU December 1, 2012 at 8:11 am

    tamilnadu circle UNINOR is shutdown….Dont trust this cheating players….

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  • Gagan kumar jain December 1, 2012 at 12:11 am

    One of the best operator till ever….. With an affordable call rates for all….. Baat main dum hain!!!!!

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  • techfrick November 30, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    hmm. But its very sad for Mumbai students :(

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  • Mayur November 30, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    Next circle will be Maharashtra… There service is too good compare to tata docomo and aircel…also getting loyal customer…specially famous among students…

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  • Mahesh Chander November 30, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    If Uninor with its cheapest fare and freebies can achieve breakeven ,the other major players would have achieved it long back but maybe just dont disclose, because of various reasons…….

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  • Rishi Menon November 30, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Iam using uninor for last 2 years
    I never ever faced any issues

    Mnp option is still live Akhilesh
    U may port to some other network
    if u r not satisfied with uninor

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  • Dhiraj November 30, 2012 at 11:13 am

    I have applied to port in To Uninor from Idea. After 7 days no response from both operators. My UPC has been expired today. Any suggestions?

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  • Ashish kumar November 30, 2012 at 7:19 am

    Akhilesh shukla :
    I have tested Uninor only 2 times ..in my city…
    its network is fully Unreachable to indoor
    while m in main city aria…
    & 2nd its call conectivity try 100 time it will connect only 30 times
    SO fully useless when u talk to some one its droping Voice..
    So its Lowest Prize in UP E
    mostly new student (which have no more pocket money) is using uninor

    i am not agree wid u, here me also using uninor by porting out my num from BSNL and iam 200% satisfied with uninor services… :)

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  • Ravi November 30, 2012 at 6:40 am

    I have been using Uninor from last one year with no problems as such. Used it indoors, shopping malls etc no problems.. Uninor provides with many offers which others are unable to provide.

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  • Akhilesh shukla November 30, 2012 at 2:28 am

    I have tested Uninor only 2 times ..in my city…
    its network is fully Unreachable to indoor
    while m in main city aria…

    & 2nd its call conectivity try 100 time it will connect only 30 times
    SO fully useless when u talk to some one its droping Voice..

    So its Lowest Prize in UP E
    mostly new student (which have no more pocket money) is using uninor

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