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Rudradeep Biswas September 20th, 2016 7:12 PM 11 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular readies its own Video, Music, TV, Chat and Storage service to counter Airtel, Jio

Idea Cellular, the country's third largest telecom operator, will launch a slew of app-based digital services like Idea Games, Idea Videos, Idea Music starting the third quarter of the ongoing fiscal year, and plans to launch Idea TV, Idea News and Magazines, Idea Chat and Idea Storage during next financial year, the company said in an investor presentation. The move will be aimed at overcoming threat from the likes of... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 20th, 2016 3:08 PM 34 COMMENTS

Airtel soon to launch 4G services in over 100 towns across Himachal Pradesh

Airtel, today said that it plans to soon launch 4G services in over 100 towns/locations* across Himachal Pradesh. Customers can now upgrade their existing 2G/3G SIMs with 4G ready USIMs completely free of cost at any Airtel retail store. With the USIM upgrade, customers can continue enjoying their existing 2G/3G services, while staying ready to experience Airtel 4G from the day of its launch. Airtel 4G is currently available to... Read More

Imon September 20th, 2016 11:32 AM 50 COMMENTS

Rcom-Aircel merger and its impact on the Indian telecom sector- Analysis

After several attempts to merge wireless operations, Aircel and RCom finally led the consolidation in telecom space to create a Rs 65,000 crore telecom behemoth, no doubt fierce competition because of Jio's entry was a key factor in uniting these two companies. Though, RCom already sealed another deal with pure play CDMA operator MTS which is yet to receive regulatory approvals is the another part of the biggest consolidation. As,... Read More

Imon September 19th, 2016 7:44 PM 25 COMMENTS

Update: Airtel ends 3G ICRA with Idea in Karnataka, Idea picks Vodafone as next ICRA partner: Sources

After offering 3G services through ICR to Idea customers in Karnataka for quite some time, Bharti Airtel has finally scrapped the ICR deal says sources. In this situation, Idea Cellular has partnered with another 3G operator Vodafone India to use their 3G network under new ICR agreement, to make sure none of their customers suffer with 3G connectivity issue in the circle. From last few years, top three operators were... Read More

Imon September 19th, 2016 11:02 AM 17 COMMENTS

Following in the wake of Jio, Idea cellular launches own movie streaming app

Considering the huge revenue opportunity from content, Idea Cellular has finally stepped up to launch its own movie and video streaming service 'Idea Movie Club' for their customers. Other operators are offering similar services from quite some time but latest move by Idea Cellular indicates that they don’t want to be limited to being a connectivity provider anymore. Jio has built own app ecosystem which is much more mature than other... Read More

Imon September 19th, 2016 6:12 AM 71 COMMENTS

Airtel and Idea increase upfront data offered on annual data rate cutter STV Pan India

After receiving lots of criticism for high priced data packs with an upfront fee to cut down data rates, both Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have increased the one-time free data limit in the pack for every circle. Last month, Airtel first launched the data pack at a denomination of Rs 1498 which came with upfront 1 GB one-time data then brought down the cost of 1 GB data at... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 18th, 2016 7:04 PM 177 COMMENTS

War of words: Jio claims daily 2 crore call failures; Airtel says correct your VoLTE

Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have kicked off a war of words on Sunday accusing each other over the ongoing interconnection points and mobile number portability (MNP) issue. Jio on Sunday has again alleged that Airtel was abusing its market dominance for not providing sufficient interconnection points, besides restricting mobile number portability (MNP) requests. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco further said that more than two crore calls are failing everyday between... Read More

Srikapardhi September 18th, 2016 11:18 AM 14 COMMENTS

Airtel rolls out 20,000 units of Aadhaar based e-KYC solution, plans to have over 500,000 stores across India

Airtel, today said that it has successfully rolled out over 20,000 units of Aadhaar based e-KYC solutions across India. Over 50,000 customers, including those in rural India, are being on-boarded daily by Airtel using this digital solution. The Company expects the number of customers getting digitally on-boarded using Aadhaar based e-KYC to grow multifold as it ramps up the rollout of devices. In the first phase of deployment, Airtel has... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 18th, 2016 10:13 AM 6 COMMENTS

Vodafone to invest $3 billion ahead of auctions in India: Report

UK-based telecoms Group Vodafone is reportedly preparing to pump equity infusion worth over $3 billion in its India unit to replace debt, even as continues to work on India unit’s initial public offering (IPO). Vodafone India's standalone net debt for 2015-16 was about Rs 81,500 crore. "Overseas market conditions make it favorable to replace the debt here with equity as the return on equity is higher here and it will... Read More

Ria Lakshman September 18th, 2016 6:10 AM 26 COMMENTS

BSNL has emerged as the fifth largest operator in the country

State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) said that it has achieved a monthly growth rate of 1.48% beating all major private operators in the month of June this year. It has also surpassed all major private operators in net addition of new customers in the same month to become the fifth largest mobile operator, as per data from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). As per the latest... Read More

Imon September 17th, 2016 7:17 PM 27 COMMENTS

Vodafone introduces ‘Flex’ prepaid plans across india

After launching 'Flex' postpaid plan, second largest operator, Vodafone has now come up with prepaid Flex packs across the country. Flex is the recent addition from the British telecom giant’s Indian unit which is facing tough competition from rival networks these days. The Flex prepaid packs are a concept for a simplified prepaid plan which is originally Vodafone Group's global strategy for offering easy to use prepaid plans. The similar 'Flex'... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 17th, 2016 5:29 PM 46 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel to provide more PoIs following payments from Jio, to jointly conduct tests

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom operator on Saturday said that it is providing additional points of interconnections (PoIs) to Jio 4G following bilateral discussions earlier this week. With the latest augmentation, the total number of PoIs provided will become three times the present number of PoIs with capacity sufficient to serve over 15 million customers, which is much more than Jio’s total subscriber base. The telco said that both the... Read More