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Chakri K September 28th, 2021 7:27 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Rating Upgraded to AA+ By Crisil for Long-Term

Crisil, a ratings agency has upgraded the long-term rating of Bharti Airtel Ltd to AA+. The agency pointed out that the business outlook is stable and cited continued improvement in the operating metrics of the company. The ratings agency also reaffirmed the short-term rating of Airtel. It is expected that the company will show further improvement in the overall credit risk profile over the near to medium term with support... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur September 15th, 2021 10:21 AM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Might See Govt Get a Stake In the Company

Vodafone Idea, the third-largest telecom operator in India might see the government stepping in and getting a stake in the company. A person aware of the matter told ET Telecom that the government is considering getting a token stake in Vodafone Idea. But the government will not infuse any capital into the company. It will only look to convert a part of the telco’s dues as equity for itself. This... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur September 9th, 2021 7:02 AM 10 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Should Be Satisfied With Current Market Scenario: Opinion

Bharti Airtel is not in as good a position as Reliance Jio, but it is not in as bad a position as Vodafone Idea (Vi). It is fair to say that Bharti Airtel is in a position that it won’t mind whether the relief package comes or not. Airtel has booked profits in consecutive quarters and has also said that it will be raising capital soon. The company’s board has... Read More

Bala Yogesh August 27th, 2021 7:23 PM 18 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Survival Crucial for India, Collapse Could Overburden Airtel, Jio

The telecom market in India will be “falling into duopoly” with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio “sharing the subscriber market share among themselves” if Vodafone Idea does collapse, says Kantipudi Pradeepthi, research analyst at GlobalData. Pradeepthi said that the country till now has the “lower and cheapest mobile data plans around the globe” largely “due to the launch of Jio in 2016.” The research analyst at GlobalData believes that “there... Read More

Shrijan Soni August 16th, 2021 1:54 PM 24 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Survival on Stake Without Funds

The survival of Vodafone Idea is slowly on the verge of the cliff because of heave financial liabilities and losing customer base. As per various reports by analysts, Vodafone Idea is staring at a slow death if it fails to acquire around Rs 26,000 crore to Rs 37,000 crore from fundings. The raised amount will be used to clear AGR dues, payment obligations and more. Vodafone Idea reported the lowest... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 13th, 2021 1:57 PM 6 COMMENTS

Telecom Relief Package Should Not Include Floor Pricing Regime

The concept of floor pricing might sound good to the ailing telecom operators, but it isn’t in the best interests of the country. A floor price would restrict the entry of low-income customers to the 4G networks in India. Further, it would make the competition very stale since the operators won’t be inclined to put efforts into getting high average revenue per user (ARPU) customers by enhancing their networks. In... Read More

Bala Yogesh August 4th, 2021 5:59 PM 2 COMMENTS

JioPhone Next With Native Snapchat Lenses an Interesting Integration Says Analyst

Native Snapchat lenses on the upcoming JioPhone Next is an “interesting integration,” says Ygal Arounian, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. Arounian told TelecomTalk that such native integrations could “help” Snap to welcome “more international audiences into Snapchat’s ecosystem.” JioPhone Next, the smartphone “jointly developed” by Jio Platforms, a majority-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries and Google, was unveiled by Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries chairman, at the company’s annual general meeting in... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 3rd, 2021 11:14 AM 43 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Stock Dips 10%, Know Why

Vodafone Idea stock has dipped by as much as 10% in the early market session on Tuesday. If you are wondering why this is because of Kumar Mangalam Birla’s willingness to sell his group’s stake in the company. According to a Business Standard report that surfaced yesterday, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group, wrote a letter to the Union Cabinet Secretary, Rajiv Gauba, on June 7 that his... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 3rd, 2021 7:04 AM 0 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vi 30 Days Plans With No Daily Data Limit

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea all came out with a new kind of prepaid offering a few days back. These prepaid plans changed the way people looked at 4G data plans in India. Further, the new plans sort of gave us a hint about what the telcos are thinking in terms of pricing the data in the future. While nothing is confirmed, the new ‘no daily data limit’... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 30th, 2021 6:51 PM 1 COMMENTS

Vodafone Group Providing Practical Support to Vodafone Idea, No Additional Funds

Vodafone Group, a leading telecommunications company in Europe and Africa is only offering “practical support” to Vodafone Idea, says Nick Read, chief executive officer at Vodafone Group. Read in the first-quarter earnings call on July 23, 2021, said that Vodafone Idea, the third-largest wireless operator in India, is in a “difficult situation that they are trying to navigate.” However, Read said that the parent Vodafone Group will “not” be “putting... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur July 24th, 2021 7:15 AM 2 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Is the Only Company That Offers This Plan

Reliance Jio is the number one ranked telecom operator in India. The telco has changed the way Indians look at 4G data and mobile networks. Jio is known for providing cheaper prepaid plans than its competitors namely Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel. For the unaware, there is also a prepaid plan that Reliance Jio offers which no other company does. The plan that I am talking about is a newly... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur July 8th, 2021 8:30 AM 12 COMMENTS

Telecom Watchdog Wants Government to Reject VIL’s Request to Defer Rs 8,292 Crore Due Payment

Telecom Watchdog, a consumer forum and a non-governmental organisation, has urged the Government to reject beleaguered operator Vodafone Idea Ltd’s (VIL) request for more time to pay dues of Rs 8,292 crore. The not-for-profit organisation has termed VIL’s request for one-year deferment to pay the dues as “illegal”, even as it called for a forensic audit of the firm’s last 10 years’ accounts. On its part, VIL had sought to... Read More