December 13th, 2018 7:46 PM 13 COMMENTS

TDSAT Overthrows Previous Order by Trai on Predatory and Competitive Pricing by Airtel and Vodafone Idea

According to a new report, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, the two of the top three telecom operators will now be able to take a sigh of a relief thanks to the new the order passed by Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT). This new order by TDSAT quashes the provisions pertaining to predatory pricing and discounted tariffs which were enforced earlier by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India... Read More

December 12th, 2018 12:04 PM 38 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Debuts New Open Market Prepaid Plan Worth Rs 419, Ships 1.4GB Daily Data for 75 Days

Sunil Bharti Mittal led Bharti Airtel recently decided to do away with the talk time recharges and introduced minimum recharges for their subscribers and the move was not at all well received by the customers of Airtel. However, the telco has lately been on the task of simplifying its recharge portfolio. The former market leader seems to be carrying out this task by removing the not so popular recharges from... Read More

December 10th, 2018 4:18 PM 35 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Planning to Introduce 4G VoLTE Enabled Affordable Smartphone to Boost ARPU

According to a new report spotted online, Sunil Bharti Mittal led telco, Bharti Airtel might be on to new plans to convert its already existing 2G subscriber base into 4G subscribers with the help of a new 4G smartphone. This move is similar and in line to what Reliance Jio did in its bid to increase the number of subscribers. To recall, Reliance Jio had launched a very affordably priced... Read More

December 8th, 2018 2:13 PM 215 COMMENTS

Who Will Be the Telecom Market Leader: Ruthless Jio or Mammoths Like Vodafone Idea and Airtel

Bharti Airtel, the former telecom market leader slipped down from its top spot after the two major telecom operators, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular merged to form the largest telecom entity of India, Vodafone Idea. Now, the industry is headed towards an unprecedented stage of stagnation with no clear winner in sight. With the entry of Reliance Jio two years back, the telecom industry saw an erosion of substantial revenues,... Read More

December 6th, 2018 7:03 PM 107 COMMENTS

Jio Ships 182GB of 4G Data With Rs 498 Prepaid Plan: What Do Other Telcos Offer?

Reliance Jio did not revise its tariff plans for nearly 11 months now, but the telco is still providing the best prepaid tariffs in the industry. Telcos such as BSNL, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea came close to Jio in the benefits aspect, but never outsmarted Jio. With some plans such as the Rs 558 from Airtel, Rs 569 from Vodafone, they managed to beat Jio with better data benefit... Read More

December 6th, 2018 2:19 PM 38 COMMENTS

SC Dismisses Reliance Jio and CCI Plea Against Cartelisation by Airtel and Vodafone Idea

In an industry-wide legal move, Reliance Jio Infocomm, the Mukesh Ambani led telco, and the Competition Commissions of India (CCI) pleaded the Supreme Court against the newly merged telco, Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel to probe cartelisation charges. However, as per the latest report, the apex court has dismissed the plea made by the newest telco entrant. Before reaching out to the Supreme Court, the Competition Commission had approached Bombay... Read More

December 5th, 2018 9:07 AM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel Ready for Joint Venture to Own Fibre Network

Bharti Airtel, the former market leader, has shown interest in forging a partnership with Vodafone Idea in a joint venture for owning fibre network to focus on expansion. As per an ET Telecom report, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, both competitors are ready to bow down for forging a joint venture entity which would own the fibre network and would help drive bolstering growth and better influx for both the... Read More

December 4th, 2018 10:53 AM 45 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Will Not Go After Jio GigaFiber as Part of its New Broadband Strategy

Sunil Bharti Mittal led telco, Bharti Airtel has come up with new strategies and plans for its broadband wing in the run-up to launch of Reliance Jio’s GigaFiber FTTH service. Now Airtel is expected to focus on premium customers in the top 100 cities of India instead of laying out an enormous fibre network in the country like Reliance Jio plans to do. Reliance Jio has announced that it would... Read More

December 4th, 2018 10:09 AM 3 COMMENTS

Google Pixel 3 Devices in India Now Support eSIM Service on Jio, Airtel Networks

Google on Tuesday announced eSIM wireless service on its Pixel 3 smartphone with Reliance Jio and Airtel telecom carriers in India. Google was the first smartphone vendor to support built-in eSIMs with its Project Fi -- now called Google Fi -- network last year. "Sprint in the US, EE in the UK, Airtel and Reliance Jio in India, and Truphone and Gigsky in various countries will also roll out eSIM... Read More

December 2nd, 2018 2:44 PM 123 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Rs 23 Prepaid Recharge Extends Your Account Validity by 28 Days

To simplify their prepaid portfolio, telecom operators made a significant move last month. The private telecom operators except for Reliance Jio, notably including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Tata Docomo officially resorted to removing certain recharges from their portfolio, and introduced minimum recharges which would keep the subscribers’ incoming and outgoing calls on when they ran out of a prepaid plan. The telcos made this move in an attempt to... Read More

November 30th, 2018 11:18 AM 125 COMMENTS

Trai Directs Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel to Not Disconnect Services Despite Minimum Balance

The Telecom Regulator Trai in its latest move has directed the telecom operators not to disconnect subscribers from their incoming and outgoing calls and other network services in case they have “sufficient” prepaid account balance. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had shown disappointment over telcos previously and had urged them to inform the subscribers well in advance, along with listing the available options before they are disconnected from the... Read More

November 29th, 2018 9:43 PM 61 COMMENTS

Telecom Watchdog Questions Minimum Monthly Recharge Plans of Airtel and Vodafone Idea

Non-profit group Telecom Watchdog on Thursday questioned new minimum monthly recharge plans of Airtel and Vodafone Idea and charged the operators of indulging in "anti-consumer activities", but the firms asserted that the plans are fully compliant with rules. In a letter to Trai, Telecom Watchdog flagged concerns over the manner in which the two companies had allegedly fixed similar tariffs at the same time. It claimed that forcing users to... Read More

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