In an interesting turn of events, UK-based Telecoms Group Vodafone has recorded non-cash impairment charge of 5.0 billion euros during the first half of the fiscal ended September 30 in respect for its Indian unit. An increased competition due to the entry of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm has resulted … Read More
Aircel, today launched A!LIVE, a mobile marketing service by Celltick’s LiveScreen platform. The service is aimed to provide easy to discover localized Value Added Services (VAS) to Aircel customers, resulting in strong incremental revenue. Aircel subscribers will be able to easily access relevant VAS products and services based on their … Read More
As expected, Vivo finally unveiled its camera-centric phone – Vivo V5, in India. At an event held in Delhi, Vivo made the V5 official at a price of Rs. 17,980. It will be up for pre-ordering from November 16; the standard sale will begin from November 26. The V5 will … Read More
Reliance Jio, the Mukesh Ambani-led 4G telecom operator, decided against attending the Cellular Operators Association of India’s (COAI) quarterly executive committee meeting held on November 11, amid ongoing interconnection capacity issue. COAI represents GSM telcos like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Telenor and Aircel. Reliance Jio is also a … Read More
Indian telecom companies have urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), to continue with current practice of using network statistics to calculate call drop rates, rejecting the sector regulator’s suggestion of calculating call drop rates through a meta data analysis of call detail records (CDRs), according to an Economic … Read More
Reliance Communications (RCom) on Monday reported a net profit of Rs 39 crore for the second quarter, down 28 percent sequentially. RCom said that its consolidated revenue in the second quarter stood at Rs 5,142 crore, down 4% from Rs 5,361 crore in the first quarter. The telco’s EBITDA stood … Read More
The recent international summit “Accelerating Broadband in India: Complementing Fiber Optics with Wireless Fiber” held in New Delhi discussed the various possibilities of rolling out the Wireless Fiber technologies in the E&V band. This method can take broadband to remote areas where the extension of the optical fiber is difficult. … Read More
According to the latest edition of India Sustainability Report released by Airtel, the company has achieved by 74% reduction in emissions per terabyte on its network. Accordingly, the company claimed to have saved 10.36 million liters of diesel in network infrastructure, data center, and facilities operations. Airtel has also operationalized … Read More
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India, the country’s top two telecom operators, said that they are providing small credits or talk time loan to help their respective prepaid customers who may find it hard to get their connections recharged due to the government’s move to take Rs 500 and Rs 1000 … Read More
India’s telecom ministry has formed a committee to look into the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) recent penalty recommendation worth Rs 3,050 crore on top telcos, according to a report in Business Standard. “A committee is formed to look at the proposal sent by TRAI. The committee will give … Read More
HTC has come up with another smartphone for a US-based carrier – Sprint – the HTC Bolt. The new phone is up for sale from Sprint in Gunmetal and Glacier Silver color options on a 24-month contract including $25 EMI per month. The HTC Bolt features a 5.5-inch Quad HD … Read More
Around 8.5 crore out of over 30 crore call attempts by Reliance Jio subscribers to networks of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular’s respective networks failed on November 7 due to the ongoing points of interconnection (PoI) congestion, according to the latest data released by the 4G telco on its … Read More
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