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Rudradeep Biswas September 2nd, 2013 1:38 PM 49 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel in Talks to Acquire Mumbai’s Oldest Loop Mobile

Mumbai's oldest mobile operator Loop Mobile is in talks with Bharti Airtel for possible merger, as Loop's main promotor Dubai based Khaitan Holdings Group looks to exit the telecom sector. Earlier Loop was in talks with Telenor, Aircel and Idea Cellular. Loop Mobile, earlier known as BPL Mobile is serving the metro since 1995 and currently serves nearly 3 million subscribers with 4th spot. Loop generated a gross revenue of... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 27th, 2013 4:02 PM 34 COMMENTS

4G India: Reliance Jio, TranSwitch, Rancore, Airtel, Tikona, Google, Videocon, Nokia

This week's biggest 4G news is Reliance Jio Infocomm has applied for unified license to offer any type of communications over its 4G/BWA spectrum won in 2010. That means Reliance Jio can offer voice and messaging services as well as data services over its 20MHz of 2300MHz spectrum. Govt recently has come up with unified license policy to open up new opportunities to telecom sector of the country. The new... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 21st, 2013 11:27 AM 116 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Airtel to Offer 3G Speed at 2G Price

Country's largest cellular carrier Bharti Airtel has joined the 3G tariff war, as the company started to offer 3G speed on 2G packs. As far as we know, Airtel is testing this in Delhi circle with selected customers, and with user feedback Airtel may go in the similar way. It seems Reliance Communications has taken the charge of changing the 3G market dynamics. Rcom's try to bring data revolution by offering... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 16th, 2013 5:21 PM 6 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches Virtual ‘Rs 1 Entertainment Store’

Airtel has today announced the launch of its virtual ‘Re 1 Entertainment Store’ which offers a wide range of exciting mobile content (including music, videos, games and photos) and internet browsing offers all at Rs 1. The launch of the ‘Rs 1 Entertainment Store’ by Airtel follows the tremendous success seen by its ‘Rs 1 video downloads’ campaign rolled out by the company earlier in April this year. With these... Read More

Sanjay August 14th, 2013 12:28 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Ties up with IRCTC For Rail Ticket Bookings through ‘airtel Money’

India's largest mobile service provider Bharti Airtel today announced that it has partnered with IRCTC - Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation to offer rail ticket bookings through airtel Money. IRCTC mobile ticket bookings through "airtel Money" service works across all mobile devices (basic phone to smartphones), does not involve any mobile Internet / data or SMS charges. It uses a simple USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) technology that prompts... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 10th, 2013 1:16 AM 46 COMMENTS

4G India: News Round-up – Reliance Jio, Airtel and Aircel

Reliance Jio Infocomm's 4G project gets a green signal in Kolkata metro areas following Mukesh Ambani met West Bengal's CM Mamta Banerjee in Bengal Indistry Summit held in Mumbai few days back. RJIL asked for permission to Kolkata Municipal Corporation to lay optic fibers across the metro last year and had metro KMC officials at least four times but it did not work. However it seems now the roadblock has... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 26th, 2013 12:11 PM 1 COMMENTS

Connect Bangladesh Faster: Bharti Airtel’s Terrestrial OFC Network Goes Live

Continuing its effort to bring world class of communications Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel has lit up operations of its high capacity terrestrial optical fiber link between India and Bangladesh. The link, which extends from Bongaon in West Bengal (India) to the Petrapole-Benapole border, will enhance voice and data connectivity between the two countries as well as transit traffic between Bangladesh and the rest of the world. The link will... Read More

Chhavi July 22nd, 2013 3:44 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces Special Offers for Ramzan

Airtel today announced the launch of exciting products for the Holy season of Ramzan. Airtel prepaid customers across West Bengal will now be able to use their mobile phones to listen to holy recitals of Namaz, Naad, Hidayat and much more and experience LIVE Namaz from the shrineat Mecca by just dialing 552786 on a one time activation charge of Rs.5 which will be chargeable at Rs.3 per day thereafter.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 21st, 2013 11:04 AM 4 COMMENTS

4G Round-up: Reliance Jio, Airtel, ZTE & More

Reliance Jio Gets 6 Months Extension of Mobile Numbers to Keep Testing VoLTE Voice over 4G or LTE becomes more and more important to Reliance Jio Infocomm, as they asked for extension of another 6 months to keep testing VoLTE over its networks. The telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries asked for allocation of 10,000 mobile numbers to test voice calls on its LTE-TD/4G network in October last... Read More

Chhavi July 19th, 2013 9:58 AM 220 COMMENTS

Airtel Slashes 3G Data Rates ; Offers 1 GB 3G Data for Rs.124

Just a day after Reliance reduced its 3G data rates for prepaid and postpaid customers, Bharti Airtel seem to have followed suit by slashing its 3G rates, thus bringing it on a par with 2G data tariffs. Under the new 3G plan by airtel, users can enjoy 1 GB 3G data at Rs.124 for 1 month. Although the plan has not been officially revealed by operator yet, it is expected... Read More

Chhavi July 19th, 2013 2:33 AM 10 COMMENTS

Airtel Completes 9 Years of its Hello Tune Service

Introduced by Airtel in India, the popular Hello tune services complete 9 years of their presence in the country. Over the years they have become more personalized and successfully acquired 50 million users in the Indian market thereby registering 20% growth year on year. The service behind the popular Hello Tunes is the Caller ring back tone service (CRBT), first deployed by South Korean Telecom, which made a use of... Read More

Sanjay July 5th, 2013 5:39 PM 7 COMMENTS

Huawei and Airtel offer Free 3G Internet Access to EasyCabs Passengers in Delhi

Bharti Airtel and leading 3G data card maker Huawei join hands and announced a new exciting FREE high speed 3G Internet offer for the people of Delhi - NCR circle using EasyCabs radio taxi service. As part of the joint offer, the passengers of EasyCabs in Delhi and NCR circle can enjoy a high-speed on-line Airtel 3G experience while on-the-move at FREE of cost. At present, the passengers in Delhi... Read More