Srikapardhi

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.

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Government should do away with USOF: Vodafone MD and CEO

Government should do away with USOF: Vodafone MD and CEO

Vodafone India MD and CEO, Marten Pieters has stated that telecom service providers face “financial burdens” and other charges like USO Fund fee and spectrum usage charge (SUC) in Indian market. According to him, all these charges are limiting their investment capacity in domestic market. He said that the government … Read More

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Airtel’s network down in Delhi-NCR, Customers irked

Airtel’s network down in Delhi-NCR, Customers irked

Airtel users are facing issues with connectivity as the services of the telecom giant were disrupted in national capital and its neighbouring cities like Gurgaon and Noida. Since morning, several users have been complaining of being unable to send messages, access GPRS from their Airtel networks. “We are working on … Read More

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Court orders Micromax to pay royalty to Ericsson

Court orders Micromax to pay royalty to Ericsson

Delhi High Court has asked domestic handset maker Micromax to pay a royalty that amounts up to 1% of the selling price of its devices to Ericsson for using the Swedish equipment maker’s patents on technologies that are essential to manufacture the products. The interim order holds until December 31, … Read More

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TDSAT asks Vodafone India to accept fresh permits

TDSAT asks Vodafone India to accept fresh permits

The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has asked telecom major Vodafone India, which had opposed DoT’s guidelines on new licences, to accept the fresh permits pending the final verdict in the matter. Vodafone says that instead of signing and executing Unified Licences, DoT has declined the company’s request … Read More

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JAINHITS launches Viewers Choice Packs for its viewers

JAINHITS launches Viewers Choice Packs for its viewers

JAINHITS, India’s first and only HITS based Direct to Network (DTN) service has launched its new packages titled ‘Viewers Choice Packs’. These packs are in sync with the ‘a-la-carte’ mood of country’s Cable TV digitization mandate, where viewer gets to pay only the chosen content. As per the digitization mandate, … Read More

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Reliance Communications sees decline in net profit

Reliance Communications sees decline in net profit

The net profit of India’s fourth-biggest mobile service provider, Reliance Communications (RCom) has fallen by 77%, to Rs 153 crore for the quarter ending September. The company’s revenue fell 7.4% from last year to Rs 5,403 crore. The company has added fewer new customers. RCom, controlled by Anil Ambani, said … Read More

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Idea hikes tariff of daily free roaming pack silently

Idea hikes tariff of daily free roaming pack silently

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 … Read More

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