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February 1st, 2017 7:19 AM 2 COMMENTS

Oppo’s Latest A57 is Aimed to Take on Selfie Enthusiasts with its 16MP Front-Facing Camera

Oppo, the Chinese smartphone vendor, has been focusing on selfie-centric smartphones for quite some time. As yet another addition to the lineup - Oppo has launched the Oppo A57 smartphone. The main feature of the Oppo A57 that is highly touted by the company is its 16MP front-facing camera. To recap, the Oppo A57 was first unveiled in China, back in November 2016. Priced at Rs. 14,990, the Oppo A57 will... Read More

January 31st, 2017 5:06 PM 40 COMMENTS

Ensure Vodafone-Idea merger not an outcome of a forced situation created by unfair playing field: Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal

India’s top telco Bharti Airtel’s managing director and CEO Gopal Vittal welcomed the proposed alliance between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, which are the country’s second and third largest telcos. “We welcome the news of the proposed alliance between Vodafone and Idea Cellular. Consolidation is always good, especially for any capital intensive sector with multiple players,” Vittal said on Tuesday. According to him, a few solid and profitable players are... Read More

January 31st, 2017 2:13 PM 83 COMMENTS

Data war: Bharti Airtel is now offering 4GB of 4G Data at Rs. 149 as part of segmented offer

Bharti Airtel has been on a roll ever since the inception of Reliance Jio. The company has been aggressively offering new benefits for their consumers. Already, the operator is offering several goodies for the customers and now here’s another offer from Airtel, which is much better than any other operator, as of now. Airtel is offering 4GB of the 3G/4G internet for selected customers at just Rs. 149 with a... Read More

January 31st, 2017 1:44 PM 5 COMMENTS

All-India subscriber base increases by 8.18 Million, Idea added maximum number of subscribers : COAI

Continuing its upward journey, the Indian telecom industry posted another month of growth by adding 8.18 million mobile subscribers in the mobile telephony market in December 2016. In the data released by COAI, the association of mobile telephony service providers in the country, the number of mobile phone subscribers grew to a total increase of 809.99 million in December. It is noteworthy here that from the month of August 2016,... Read More

January 30th, 2017 7:07 PM 35 COMMENTS

Vodafone moves to Delhi High Court against Trai for permitting Jio’s free offer

Vodafone on Monday approached the Delhi High Court against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for allegedly failing to stop violation of tariff orders and regulations by Reliance Jio. The country’s second largest telecom operator has also claimed that the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator, in the garb of preview offer, garnered millions of subscribers by offering them free services, due to the regulator’s “arbitrary and irregular action/inaction.” The telecom operator... Read More

January 30th, 2017 5:50 PM 19 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular to launch VoLTE in all 4G circles this year, says managing director

Idea Cellular, the country’s third largest telecom operator, will launch voice over LTE services for customers in all of its 4G circles within this calendar year, according to the company’s managing director Himanshu Kapania. The Aditya Birla Group Company also said that it is now gearing to launch its 4G services in its 9 new 4G telecom service areas and 3G services in Bihar and Rajasthan, by March 2017, thereby... Read More

January 30th, 2017 4:20 PM 7 COMMENTS

Idea transforms from a pure play telco to an integrated digital solutions provider with new services to take on Jio, Airtel

Idea Cellular on Monday launched Idea Music Lounge, Idea Movie Club, and Idea Game Spark, kicking off its transformation from a pure play mobile operator to an integrated digital services and solutions provider to compete with the likes of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel that are already offering digital content services to their respective customers. These digital content applications will serve as a one-stop entertainment destination initially for Idea subscribers,... Read More

January 30th, 2017 3:13 PM 31 COMMENTS

Vodafone, Idea Cellular confirm preliminary all-share merger discussion

Vodafone Group on Monday said that is in its discussions with the Aditya Birla Group about an all share merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, confirming the recent media speculation regarding a potential combination of its Indian business with the third largest telco by users, Idea Cellular. “Vodafone confirms that it is in discussions with the Aditya Birla Group about an all share merger of Vodafone India (excluding Vodafone's... Read More

January 28th, 2017 2:21 PM 3 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel’s weak operating results for Q3 are credit negative; impacted by Jio’s free services: Moody’s

India's newest mobile operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm continued to drive intense price competition through its promotional all services free of charge, which led to a decline in Bharti Airtel’s third quarter ARPUs across mobile services - voice and data - and as well as a 12.4% drop in data customers sequentially, Annalisa Di Chiara, a Moody's Vice President and Senior Credit Officer said in a note. The slowdown in Bharti's... Read More

January 28th, 2017 12:35 PM 15 COMMENTS

India’s top telcos seeks Trai intervention to stop BSNL’s app app-based limited fixed mobile telephony service

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents India’s three-largest telecom companies, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular among others, has again approached the Trai seeking the latter’s immediate intervention to direct Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) to stop its app-based limited fixed mobile telephony (LFMT) service. The COAI claims that the LFMT service by the state-run telecom operator flouts licence norms and evades interconnect charges. The body also... Read More

January 28th, 2017 5:39 AM 85 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Approaches TRAI to Impose Penalty on Airtel for ‘Misleading’ Free Services Ads: Report

Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has approached the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) asking to impose a heavy fine on the India’s largest telecom operator, Airtel for misleading customers with their free services. The new entrant has sent out a letter to the TRAI saying that the representation of Airtel’s advertisements regarding their free calls and data services are ‘gross violation of extant telecommunication laws.' Jio has further urged that... Read More

January 27th, 2017 6:25 PM 24 COMMENTS

Nokia Signed a Massive 4G Deployment Deal Worth Rs. 3650 Crores with Vodafone India

Vodafone India, in what might be considered as a huge move has given a whopping Rs. 3,650 crores deal to Finnish company, Nokia to deploy 4G network is some circles of India. According to an Economic Times report, a person familiar with the matter said that Nokia would deploy the 4G network in 10 out of 22 circles and the list includes Kolkata, Mumbai, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu/Chennai, Haryana, UP East,... Read More

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