The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gave approval for 11 entities, including telecoms like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone to set up payment banks. These banks can accept deposits and remittances, but will not advance loans. Vodafone India finds this as an opportunity to accelerate India’s journey into cashless economy. “We are grateful to the RBI for giving us the license for setting up a payment bank. With over 90,000 ‘M-Pesa’... Read More
Bharti Airtel the largest operator by subscriber base and Idea cellular the third largest operator have both been allotted a new set of MSC codes by DOT for meeting the 1 million subscriber prerequisite in some circles. The details of MSC codes allotted to the two operators are given below. Sr. No. Name of Licensee Name of service area MSC codes allotted 1 M/s Idea cellular Ltd. Maharashtra 91460-91469 2... Read More
Vodafone and Idea have recently hiked the prices of mobile data packs for its customers in Delhi NCR, following the footsteps of Aircel and Airtel. Now, they have repeated the price hike for their subscribers in Tamil Nadu and Chennai. Vodafone has increased 3G charges by over 27 percent for 1GB plans, whereas 2G is dearer by over 25 percent. The country’s second largest telecom operator has increased the price... Read More
Bharti Airtel Limited (“Bharti Airtel”), the 3rd largest mobile service provider globally with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced a partnership with ErosNow, the cutting edge OTT (Over-the-top) Bollywood entertainment network of Eros International Plc, the NYSE-Listed leading global company in the Indian filmed entertainment sector, for its carrier agnostic mobile application – Wynk Movies. Kartik Sheth, CEO - Wynk said, “We always partner with the... Read More
Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in Agartala (Tripura). Commenting on the launch of Airtel 4G in the city, Saurabh Goel, CEO – Assam and North East, Bharti Airtel said, “As customers in India show an increasing propensity for consuming data services, we at Airtel are excited to take the lead in introducing the market to the power... Read More
Airtel today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in Pondicherry. Airtel has led the 4G story in India, having launched India’s first 4G network in Kolkata in April 2012. On 6th August 2015, Airtel announced that its 4G services were available in 296 towns across India. Prior to that, Airtel had successfully conducted trials of its 4G services in select cities and leveraged... Read More
To promote "4G at 3G rates", Airtel has silently revised data plans for its prepaid users in Kolkata circle. Prior to this, Airtel was offering separate denominations for 4G and 3G data plans in Kolkata, but in the recent revision they have unified the data plans for 3G & 4G speeds. Check out the revised unified data rates in the table below. Airtel Unified Data Plans with details Price 4G/3G... Read More
Bharti Airtel hinted a hike in tariff of the voice calls, saying that there was a big opportunity in reducing discounts and freebies on voice calls. “Voice realization is 30-33 paise per minute whereas our rack rates are almost about 90 paise, so there is huge headroom to reduce discounts,” Bharti Airtel (India & South Asia) MD & CEO Gopal Vittal said. Airtel already increased its data prices in last... Read More
Bharti Airtel has announced for a 4G Challenge, a test of download speed using Airtel 4G/LTE mobile connection against the speed of mobile internet services offered by other operators. The challenge, open in four cities -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata asks people to try the speed at designated centres, using the mobile devices offered at the centres. The challenge will be entirely conducted by an external agency to ensure... Read More
Bharti Airtel Limited, today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in 296 towns across India. This follows the successful trial of services in select cities and the feedback received from customers. Airtel also announced the launch of a new carrier agnostic mobile app – ‘Wynk Movies’ – a first of its kind movie mall that will offer a specially curated library of thousands... Read More
Bharti Airtel has increased mobile internet tariffs for 2G and 3G services for prepaid users in Chennai and Tamil Nadu. The company has increased 3G charges by over 35 percent and 2G charges by over 25 percent for 1GB plans. The country’s largest telecom operator has increased the price for 1GB of 3G data to Rs 255 with a validity of 28 days against the earlier price of Rs 197.... Read More
Bharti Airtel Limited today announced its audited consolidated IFRS results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2015. The consolidated revenues for Q1 16 at Rs 23,671 crore grew by 3.1% over the corresponding quarter last year. Consolidated Mobile data revenues at Rs 3,459 crore grew by 56.9% Y-o-Y, uplifted by data traffic growth of 86.5%. India revenues reported a growth of 10.0% Y-o-Y, led by 22.2% in „airtel business? (B2B)... Read More
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