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Tharun G February 18th, 2015 3:41 AM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduce Easy Conference Audio Conference service

Airtel has introduced Easy Conference, an audio conferencing service for its subscribers. The service offers audio conference at the rate of a single local call. How Airtel Easy conference works: Unlike traditional audio conference, in Easy conference you don't have to call each member to join the conference and pay the cost for calls in the conference. Easy conference is initiated by calling your own number and generating a secure pin which can... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 10th, 2015 6:02 PM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel starts 3G services in Lachen

Airtel has started offering 3G services in Lachen – a town in North Sikkim district. Even Vodafone India today announced its expansion of its 3G services in Lachen. Airtel has enabled seamless connectivity in Lachen enabling customers to easily stay connected to their dear and near ones. The services were launched in the presence of Pepan - Head of Lachen apart from the Heads of the Lama Community; Lachen Gram... Read More

Tharun G February 7th, 2015 7:13 PM 44 COMMENTS

Airtel asks TRAI to protect telcos from free VoIP service, What is Airtel upto?

Airtel wants TRAI to put forward guidelines to protect telecom operators voice revenues from hyper-competition of free internet VoIP services like Skype and Viber. "We believe there should be some kind of framework where we are not disadvantaged in terms of our core source of revenue and that is the context in which consultation will hopefully take place". Airtel said during its quarterly results announcement. In last December, Airtel made a failed attempt... Read More

Apurva February 5th, 2015 2:48 AM 7 COMMENTS

Airtel in Q3-FY15: Mobile data connection at 42.25M, 3G data connections increase by 92% YoY

Airtel has reported consolidated mobile data revenue of Rs 2,114 crore, up by 74.3% YoY in India, for the quarter ended December 31, 2014. The company has disclosed that the mobile data revenues now contribute more than 85% of the incremental revenues of the company. Consolidated revenues for the quarter were at Rs 23,217 crore, up by 5.8% YoY. Net Income was at Rs 1,436 crore, up by 135.4% YoY. India revenues... Read More

Srikapardhi February 4th, 2015 10:46 PM 0 COMMENTS

Manoj Kohli quits as non-executive director Bharti Airtel

Manoj Kohli the Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises Limited has put down his paper from the board of Bharti Airtel. Bharti Airtel said that Kohli has resigned as non-executive director to BSE. Kohli joined Escotel, which he led for over 5 years as Executive Director and CEO, before coming on board at Bharti Airtel. It is believed that this is Kohli’s formal exit from... Read More

Asif Iqbal February 2nd, 2015 6:56 PM 136 COMMENTS

Airtel asks customers in Hyderabad to upgrade to 4G SIM cards, official launch evident?

Earlier today, a number of Airtel customers in Hyderabad (including me), have received a message from Airtel requesting to upgrade their SIM cards to avail 4G services on their devices. This means that Airtel is officially stating that it has launched 4G services in Hyderabad? Last month, we had reported that Airtel might soon launch 4G LTE services in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana circles. The report also stated that Airtel's 4G... Read More

Srikapardhi January 29th, 2015 6:01 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel to apply for Payments Bank License

Airtel today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Airtel M Commerce Services Limited (AMSL) is seeking to convert its existing Prepaid Payment Instrument license into a Payments Bank license to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India. It also announced that subject to grant of a Payments Bank license to AMSL by the RBI and all regulatory approvals, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (Kotak) will acquire 19.90% stake in AMSL... Read More

Ritij January 24th, 2015 1:30 PM 70 COMMENTS

Update: Airtel’s services disrupted in Hyderabad : Report

Airtel, the country’s largest private operator has been in the middle of quite a lot of controversy since it announced it plans on charging for VoIP services. But it took back the move after that and resumed providing regular services after that. Now the company has been struck by a systemic failure of its network in Hyderabad and, as a result, its cellular services have not been available since 6... Read More

Mahit January 21st, 2015 4:04 PM 55 COMMENTS

Airtel 3G Vs. 4G: Is 4G service in India hyped up or is it really any good?

Airtel has been pitching the 4G services quite aggressively and even the Indian smartphone market is inundated with entry-level handsets that support 4G LTE. I have been using 4G connection in Bangalore for almost 8 months and there is also considerable progress when it comes to 4G speeds over the period of time. Let's check out if Airtel is just trying to create a hoopla or 4G connection really makes... Read More

Srikapardhi January 21st, 2015 12:32 AM 1 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel inks Rs 12.40 billion 4G network deal with Nokia Networks

Bharti Airtel has selected Nokia Networks for its 4G network deployment in the 1800 MHz band in six telecom circles, the contract is worth around USD 200 million (approximately Rs 12.40 billion). Interestingly the National Stock Exchange (NSE) has sought clarification from Bharti Airtel Limited with respect to recent news saying that Nokia Networks Bags Rs 12.40 billion (Rs.1240-cr) Airtel 4G Deal. Three months ago, Ericsson joined hands with Bharti Airtel... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 16th, 2015 6:15 PM 3 COMMENTS

Airtel might have to cough up Rs 436 crore penalty

Bharti Airtel may have to pay Rs 436 crore for merging its subsidiary Airtel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (ABSPL) with itself, according to a source. The telecom department (DoT) had sought legal opinion whether the company was liable to pay differential spectrum cost and migration fee for merging ABSPL with itself. ABSPL had an internet service provider's ( ISP) licence to provide wireless broadband but merging it with a unified... Read More

Srikapardhi January 14th, 2015 11:14 AM 4 COMMENTS

Now just walk-in to an Airtel store near you to buy a Redmi Note 4G

Airtel today announced that coming Friday, January 16, 2015 will be celebrated as ‘Mi Day’ across its 133 stores in 6 cities - Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR and Kolkata. Starting 3:00PM on Friday Mi India fans will be able to simply walk-in to the nearest Airtel store and walk-out with a Redmi Note 4G without any pre-booking. The devices will be sold on first-come-first-serve basis till stocks last. The Mi... Read More