Passionately following the Indian #Telecom Industry for over a decade from Business, Consumer and a Technical perspective. My primary focus area is Consumer & Digital Experience.
Bharti Airtel, on Monday informed the stock exchanges that it has successfully concluded the transaction for the acquisition of rights to use 20 MHz of 2300 Band spectrum from Aircel in 6 out of 8 circles, following the receipt of all necessary approvals and satisfying all the conditions, including conditions … Read More
Brookfield Asset Management, a US-based private equity firm, has reportedly emerged as a serious bidder to buy Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications’ stake in its tower unit, Reliance Infratel, following Sanjiv Ahuja-led Tillman Global Holdings’ failure to find a suitable financier for the telco’s tower assets, Economic Times reported citing multiple … Read More
Manoj Sinha, who has just taken over as the new telecom minister from Ravi Shankar Prasad, has said that the spectrum auction will be held by September this year. The Indian government is expecting to raise around Rs 5.66 lakh crore from the forthcoming auctions if all the spectrum is … Read More
Vodafone and Ericsson have jointly demonstrated a new 5G Proof of Concept following their mutual commitment to 5G innovation. The commitment to 5G innovation was announced during Mobile World Congress in February this year in Barcelona, Spain. A joint statement said that both the companies have created a 5G Smart Network … Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom operator will extend its 4G footprint to 19 circles in next 3-4 months with the launch of services in six circles using spectrum acquired from Videocon Telecommunications, Business Standard reported on Friday. Bharti Airtel, which was the first operator to launch 4G network in Kolkata in … Read More
Srini Gopalan, Bharti Airtel’s Consumer Director India, is set to leave the company to join Deutsche Telekom on October 1, and after an onboarding period, will assume the duties of Claudia Nemat – who will head the new Technology and Innovation Board department and relinquish responsibility for the Europe segment … Read More
As part of its efforts to inculcate positive digital habits among its employees, Telenor India has introduced an innovative way to improve engagement and promote collaboration among teams. In March this year, the company became the first telecom operator to launch Facebook at Work. And within 60 days of introducing … Read More
Vodafone India is reportedly in talks with Norway-based Telenor for acquisition of the latter’s operations in country in a bid to increase its 4G spectrum holdings to compete with bigger 4G players like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, and the new telco Reliance Jio. An Economic Times report said that Telenor’s … Read More
Airtel, India’s largest telecommunications services provider, today said that customers can switch their existing 2G/3G SIMs with 4G ready USIMs completely free of cost at Airtel retail stores across the state. Airtel plans to launch 4G services in Gujarat soon. With the USIM upgrade, customers can continue enjoying their existing 2G/3G … Read More
Indian telecom regulator Trai would start the process within a month to frame new service quality norms for wireless data services in a bid to fix quality of service benchmark and to make telcos offer better surfing speeds on mobile phones. The regulator will float a consultation paper on new … Read More
Manoj Sinha has been named by the Indian government as the new Telecom Minster, taking over charge from Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is now handling IT and electronics manufacturing, and law ministries. Sinha, who is currently the Minister of State for Railways, has been given the mandate for the telecom sector … Read More
India’s telecom operators may spend around Rs 1 lakh crore to acquire 3G and 4G spectrum in the forthcoming auction expected in the next 2-3 months, according to ratings agency Crisil, which said that a healthy participation is likely from incumbent telcos as they may look at ramping up their … Read More
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