January 21st, 2013 10:35 PM 4 COMMENTS

Vodafone Intros 8-in-1 VAS Card at Just Rs 29

In an attempt to boost value added service adoption among subscribers, India's second largest mobile operator Vodafone India has introduced a new super value offer - "All In One VAS Card" for Delhi-NCR region. Priced at just Rs 29, the VAS card includes 8 value added services in one recharge for prepaid customers. With VAS card 29 you will get a bundle of flash alerts like News, Cricket, Love, Movie,... Read More

January 21st, 2013 12:45 PM 22 COMMENTS

Voice of the Customer – Aircel

Dear Readers, you might be aware of our Voice of the Customer initiative which i have started few days back with BSNL/MTNL - state owned Operators and have also planned to continue the same with other Operators as well. It's Aircel's turn now and for your information there is no priority given to any operator and the only thing i'm following is alphabetical order of the Operator Names. So you can expect... Read More

January 21st, 2013 10:31 AM 0 COMMENTS

Greenpeace Impressed by Airtel’s Sustainability Report

Environmental organization Greenpeace likes the recently-published sustainability report (SR) of country's largest cellco Bharti Airtel. Greenpeace India thinks that it is a forward move towards corporate sustainability as it wanted Airtel to take up the leadership in 'Clean Talk' for last two years. Airtel also opened the conversation with Greenpeace to make a concrete action plan regarding this. Greenpeace likes to see Airtel to set up progressive emission reduction targets... Read More

January 21st, 2013 3:12 AM 17 COMMENTS

Videocon Targeting July-2013 to Launch 4G-LTE Services

Videocon Mobile Services are looking for a within-six-month launch plans for its 4G services over 1800MHz band which the company has secured in November auction in Jharkhand & Bihar, West and East Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. As per the report by Telegraph India, Videocon is quite sure to roll out its 4G services by July this year. Videocon won liberalized spectrum in the recently-ended auction and... Read More

January 20th, 2013 5:40 PM 3 COMMENTS

Nokia to Cut Workforce Globally, Appoints TCS to Manage IT Services

India's leading IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is appointed as Nokia's long-term global IT partner with a target to transform and modernize Nokia's IT landscape. Under this partnership TCS' Nordic and Baltic sub-division will manage Nokia's core applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise information management (EIM) and corporate functions (COF) across the world. TCS will also... Read More

January 19th, 2013 10:32 PM 3 COMMENTS

Airtel Offers Free 3G Data on Karbonn Smartphones for 6 Months

In an attempt of promoting 3G services to Indian subscribers, Karbonn Mobiles and Airtel entered into a partnership which will provider exciting data offer from Airtel bundled with purchase of selected Karbonn smartphones. As a part of New Year Offer, when customers buy any Karbonn Smart devices like A9+, A15, A21 and A30 will get 500 MB of 3G data and unlimited 2G on Airtel, totally free of cost for... Read More

January 18th, 2013 4:53 PM 4 COMMENTS

GSM Subscribers Base Continues to Shrink, 1% Fall in December 2012

India's GSM subscriber base continues to fall down, 1% down from November's data it is now 657.16 million by the end of December 2012, with GSM subscribers lost 6.62 million customers last month as per the data published by GSM operators' representative Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). The trend of shrinking subscriber base continues, due to several factors are working in the sector. Operators are disconnecting inactive SIMs, reduce... Read More

January 17th, 2013 4:21 PM 12 COMMENTS

SSTL Likes 50% Cut in CDMA Spectrum Pricing by EGoM

Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) which operates under MTS India brand name and offers CDMA based mobile and data services today released a statement which reflects company's satisfaction with recent price cut on CDMA spectrum. SSTL earlier in November, 2012 did not participate in CDMA spectrum auction citing the price is too high. Ultimately Tata Tele and Videocon withdrew from the auction with no taker of 800MHz spectrum. Now as cabinet... Read More

January 17th, 2013 4:00 PM 4 COMMENTS

Sanjay Kapoor to Quit Bharti Airtel, Gopal Vittal to Become CEO at Airtel India

Sanjay Kapoor, the CEO of Bharti Airtel's India and South Asia unit is going to leave his position by 28th February, 2013 ending a 15 year long relation with Airtel. As per company statement Mr. Kapoor will be available to assist on key matters for another a month. He is going to move to the Board of Indus Towers Ltd and Bharti Global Ltd. Gopal Vittal, currently Group Director of... Read More

January 17th, 2013 3:56 PM 3 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Still Has the Charm: Batelco

Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco), which has left Indian telecom following the cancellation of STel's permits in February 2012 is looking for a re-entry in India's telecom market. As per the report by middle east's daily 'The National' Batelco CEO Sheikh Mohamed bin Isa Al Khalifa is planning to invest in existing mobile operator in India. Batelco is not interested in participating in upcoming 2G auction. In 2009 Batelco invested $225... Read More

January 17th, 2013 12:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

MTNL Launches Landline Video Telephony Service in Mumbai and Delhi

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL)  today launched it’s Voice and Video Telephony service on Broadband - VVoBB in Mumbai and Delhi telecom circle. MTNL's Video Telephony service dubbed as  “VFone” launched in an event in Mumbai with inaugural video call by Mr. Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communication. The MTNL VVOIP service plans starts from Rs.699 per month with 1000 free minutes (700+300) While Unlimited Plan will costs Rs.1999 per month.... Read More

January 17th, 2013 11:03 AM 9 COMMENTS

RCom Partners Alcatel-Lucent for Superior Network Management for $1Billion

India's leading telecommunications service provider Reliance Communications has inked a contract with Alcatel-Lucent with the target to deliver superior network management and customer experience in Eastern and Southern India upto 2020. The deal, first-of-its-kind comes in the form that Alcatel-Lucent will integrate RCom's operations -both wireless and wireline to create world's leading network management organization. The optimized resources integrated will help to deliver world class services to RCom's customers in... Read More

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