Telenor India, a smaller GSM telecom operator, is reportedly looking at merging its data business with Goldman Sachs-owned Tikona Digital, which offers broadband services to home and business customers and had lately started providing 4G services in a few cities such as Varanasi. According to an ET Now report, the … Read More
Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal assured Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio that the ongoing Point of Interconnect (PoIs) issue will be resolved within few weeks, even as the 4G entrant claimed “all talk- no action on augmentation in operational interconnection capacity in last 15 days. Mittal’s comments comes after the … Read More
Idea Cellular, has announced the roll out of ‘electronic – Know Your Customer (e-KYC)’ based activations for both Prepaid and Postpaid customers across its service centers in 22 circles. The pan-India roll-out of e-KYC has been enabled after the successful pilot by Idea in Delhi circle, in association with UIDAI, … Read More
Idea Cellular, the country’s third largest telecom operator, will launch a slew of app-based digital services like Idea Games, Idea Videos, Idea Music starting the third quarter of the ongoing fiscal year, and plans to launch Idea TV, Idea News and Magazines, Idea Chat and Idea Storage during next financial … Read More
Airtel, today said that it plans to soon launch 4G services in over 100 towns/locations* across Himachal Pradesh. Customers can now upgrade their existing 2G/3G SIMs with 4G ready USIMs completely free of cost at any Airtel retail store. With the USIM upgrade, customers can continue enjoying their existing 2G/3G … Read More
More than 2 years back I discussed about MVNO in India – their challenges and how they can be successful in this country despite the telecom space is crowded and tariff is overall lower than other countries. It’s 2016 now and Indian telecom players are consolidating – Airtel bought Loop, … Read More
Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have kicked off a war of words on Sunday accusing each other over the ongoing interconnection points and mobile number portability (MNP) issue. Jio on Sunday has again alleged that Airtel was abusing its market dominance for not providing sufficient interconnection points, besides restricting mobile … Read More
UK-based telecoms Group Vodafone is reportedly preparing to pump equity infusion worth over $3 billion in its India unit to replace debt, even as continues to work on India unit’s initial public offering (IPO). Vodafone India’s standalone net debt for 2015-16 was about Rs 81,500 crore. “Overseas market conditions make … Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom operator on Saturday said that it is providing additional points of interconnections (PoIs) to Jio 4G following bilateral discussions earlier this week. With the latest augmentation, the total number of PoIs provided will become three times the present number of PoIs with capacity sufficient to … Read More
The merged RCom-Aircel entity will give strong competition to its rival private telecom operators like Vodafone India and Idea Cellular in the backdrop of the disruption caused by the launch of operations by Reliance Jio Infocomm, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said. “The merged entity will offer strong competition to … Read More
After the interconnect points issue, mobile number portability (MNP) could be the next big contentious issue between Reliance Jio and top telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular. Reliance Jio has reached out to the country’s regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), seeking an intervention into the … Read More
Reliance Communications (RCom) on Wednesday reported net profit of Rs 54 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2016, an increase of 6.3 percent from Rs 51 crore in an year earlier period. The Anil Ambani-led telco’s consolidated first quarter revenue declined 3.8 percent at Rs. 5,361 crore from Rs … Read More
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