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March 16th, 2017 2:46 PM 23 COMMENTS

Telecom tribunal asks TRAI to re-examine nod to Jio’s free promo offers

The telecom disputes settlement appellate and Tribunal (TDSAT), the telecom tribunal on Thursday asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to re-examine its nod to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio’s free promotional services offer. On January 31, the TRAI held that Jio's free voice calling and data plan was not a violation of the regulatory guidelines. The tribunal has also asked the regulator to inform it about the outcome and findings... Read More

March 15th, 2017 5:58 PM 106 COMMENTS

Airtel Girl Sasha Chettri is Back Again With Another Campaign Asking Which is the Fastest Mobile Network in India?

There's no denying the fact that Airtel is the best network in the country and the same was rated by Ookla, a couple of weeks ago. Do you remember the Airtel Girl, Sasha Chettri, who used to appear in several Airtel TV campaigns? Yes, the same girl is back with yet another campaign along with her friends, but this time around, they are trying to figure out which mobile network... Read More

March 14th, 2017 1:29 PM 20 COMMENTS

Airtel 4G services goes live in Jammu and Kashmir; now offers pan-India 4G coverage

India's largest telecommunications services provider, Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its 4G service in Jammu & Kashmir. With this roll out, Airtel becomes the first network in India to offer 4G services in all the 22 telecom circles of India. In contrast, Vodafone has 4G services in 17 telecom circles of India and Idea is offering 4G services in 10 circles of India. Airtel 4G is currently available... Read More

March 13th, 2017 1:26 PM 13 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel is a step ahead of Idea Cellular in International Roaming

Following the footsteps of Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular had earlier announced that the telco is doing away with the domestic roaming charges. As a result, Idea subscribers will be able to receive unlimited voice calls while on roaming for, i.e., without paying any extra roaming charges for the incoming calls starting April 1st. Idea had also announced a set of International Roaming value packs which more or less are quite... Read More

March 10th, 2017 6:33 AM 4 COMMENTS

Telecom tribunal reserves order on Airtel & Idea’s appeal for stay on Reliance Jio’s free promo offer

The telecom disputes settlement appellate and tribunal (TDSAT), the telecom tribunal on Thursday reserved its order on incumbent telcos Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular’s interim appeal which sought a stay on Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio's free promotional offer, various media reports said. The tribunal reportedly reserved its order after hearing stances of top telcos, Reliance Jio and the regulator TRAI. Bharti Airtel, in its appeal, had sought a stay on... Read More

February 28th, 2017 12:03 PM 116 COMMENTS

Airtel counters Jio Prime offer with new bundled packs with aggressive pricing

Bharti Airtel, the country’s leading telecom operator, has reportedly launched two aggressive bundled plans at Rs 145 and Rs 349 to counter Reliance Jio’s Prime offer, which will offer unlimited voice calls and 1 GB data per day at just Rs 303 starting April 1. Jio Prime subscription offer will be limited only to the existing 100 Million subscribers, and new users coming before... Read More

February 18th, 2017 12:41 PM 8 COMMENTS

Following a war between Reliance Jio and top telcos, Trai to review tariff orders

Following a war between Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India over predatory pricing and promotional offers by the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has floated a 32-page consultation paper to review tariff orders within a bid to develop a new framework for the telecom sector. With this new paper, the regulator aims to address certain ambiguities in rules around issues... Read More

February 18th, 2017 5:44 AM 3 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Announces Completion of Augere Wireless Acquisition

Bharti Airtel, India's top telecom operator, has completed the acquisition of Augere Wireless India Private Limited, which holds 20 MHz of spectrum in 2,300 Mhz band spectrum in Madhya Pradesh circle. The Sunil Mittal-led telecom operator had last year inked a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent equity stake in Augere Wireless. Various media reports valued the deal at around Rs 150 crore. In a BSE filing on Thursday,... Read More

February 7th, 2017 11:01 PM 41 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Lodges Complaint Against Misleading Campaign On The Internet

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom network today lodged a complaint against a person in Gurgaon police station saying as the person is allegedly claiming that the telecom network is running a ‘malicious’ campaign, which in return is benefitting another incumbent operator in the country. In the same complaint, Airtel said that they had received more than 3000 emails from the sender with the subject as ‘Oppose Airtel from Misleading Consumers.'... 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 13th, 2017 7:16 PM 110 COMMENTS

Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal calls Reliance Jio’s free offer as “unfair”: Report

During the launch of Airtel Payments Bank, Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal reportedly blamed Reliance Jio for creating an ‘unfair competition’ in the Indian telecom market, according to a report by Financial Express. According to Mr. Mittal, the services that are priced too low or free are always difficult to compete with. Also, there should be at least four to five companies in the market for competition. Airtel has... Read More

January 1st, 2017 12:00 AM 13 COMMENTS

2017 Could Turn Out be the Best Year for Indian Telecom Consumers; Indeed, a Much Better One

2016 started on a promising note for all the Indian telecom consumers. When the year started, Reliance Jio was under testing phases, no Indian knows the meaning of combo offers, none of us expected that operators would star offering free unlimited calling offers, not even in our dream, that was the scenario of Indian telecom sector twelve months ago. But, things changed quickly. Indeed, very quickly. Reliance Jio came out... Read More

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