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Tanay Singh Thakur June 4th, 2022 5:33 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Took These Green Initiatives in FY22

Vodafone Idea (Vi), the third-largest telecom operator in India, recently shared its green business practices. ‘Green’ here implies good for nature. In FY22, the telco continued to adopt environmentally sustainable practices laid down by the company’s Energy and Carbon Management Policy. In FY22, VIL (Vodafone Idea Limited) was able to achieve a 25% reduction in energy consumption in outdoor BTS compared to indoor BTS – over 75% of the telco’s... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur May 19th, 2022 12:59 PM 3 COMMENTS

Vi Onboards Shailendra Singh, Former Airtel CEO UP & West as Operations Director

Vodafone Idea, the third-largest telecom operator has hired Shailendra Singh as the new ‘Operations Director’ for the company. The company said that Singh has extensive experience in “business strategy, driving successful P/L outcomes, Product marketing and leading large teams across varied geographies”. From the LinkedIn profile of Shailendra Singh, it can be noted that he has worked quite extensively in Bharti Airtel. Singh started in Airtel back in November 1997... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 26th, 2022 1:49 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Chief Digital Officer, Reema Jain Steps Down

Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) Chief Digital Officer, Reema Jain has stepped down from the position at the company. Jain played a significant role in setting up the digital function in the company and has led it to a certain level of functional maturity, said Vodafone Idea, in an internal company email. Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) said that it is a good time to re-align and streamline Consumer Digital resources so that... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 25th, 2022 8:54 AM 3 COMMENTS

Vodafone Successfully Raises Rs 1443 Crore by Selling Stake in Indus Towers

Vodafone Group Plc, a major British telco was eyeing to sell a 2.4% stake in the Indian tower company, Indus Towers through a block deal. The move was successful and the telco has raised Rs 1443 crore by selling 63.3 million shares at Rs 226.84 a share. Vodafone’s stake in Indus Towers has come down from 28.1% to 25.7%. The investors who purchased the stake were unnamed. According to an... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur September 16th, 2021 3:26 PM 7 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Limited Position as Going Concern Cemented

Vodafone Idea Limited’s (VIL) future, until yesterday, was mixed in dark clouds. Things weren’t clear, and the company had failed to secure any new investors. However, with the announcement of the relief package, one thing’s fixed, Vodafone Idea (Vi) is not going to go out of the market, even in the long-term, at least that’s what the evidence suggests. The company’s visibility as a “going concern” has increased with the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 19th, 2021 12:48 PM 8 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Leading the Industry: Motilal Oswal

The industry kept adding new subscribers at a steady pace last year even though Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) kept losing subscribers. This was due to the steady growth of Jio’s and Airtel’s subscribers base. According to a report from Motilal Oswal dissecting the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) report, the subscriber base for the whole industry was just 1.4% lesser (December 2020) that what it used to be in... Read More

Chakri K December 26th, 2020 5:48 PM 36 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Has Successfully Migrated 3G Spectrum to 4G Across All Cell Sites in Mumbai

Vodafone Idea Limited has successfully refarmed 3G spectrum to 4G across all sites in Mumbai, thereby substantially enhancing GIGAnet 4G capacity in the city. The integration of erstwhile Vodafone and Idea networks, combined with the latest 3G to 4G spectrum refarming gives Vodafone Idea the edge of optimum availability and utilization of spectrum to serve the needs of tech-savvy individual customers as well as Enterprises in Mumbai. Vi customers in... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 11th, 2020 2:05 PM 19 COMMENTS

Tariff Hike to help Telcos Get About 20% Higher APRU: ICICI Securities

ICICI Securities through a report said that the next round of tariff hikes for the telecom industry could come as early as March 2021. In the same report, ICICI Securities also mentioned that it would help telcos such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) grow their average revenue per user (ARPU) by up to 20% in the FY22. Last year, during the same time as now, tariff hikes by... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur September 4th, 2020 2:02 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Given Extended Time by Trai to Respond to Show Cause Notice

The tussle between Trai and Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) is still going on. Back on August 25, Trai had issued a show-cause notice to the telco in regards to its RedX premium tariff plan. Now Trai has extended the date for Vodafone Idea Limited for responding to the show cause notice till September 8. This is not the first time the date has been extended though. Initially, the date set... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 26th, 2020 5:36 PM 56 COMMENTS

Telcos Lose Out on 5.6 Million Wireless Subscribers in May 2020: Trai Report

It has been a tough time for the telecom sector of India. With the pandemic and several lockdowns, telcos have been operating in losses. But it is not the same with Reliance Jio. While major telcos such as Vodafone Idea Limited and Bharti Airtel lost wireless subscribers, Reliance Jio gained a lot of them and surprisingly with it, BSNL also saw an increase in the number of subscribers on the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 6th, 2020 6:36 PM 27 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Reports Decreased ARPU and Loss of 11.3 Million Customers in Q1 FY21

Vodafone Idea Limited released its reports for the Q1 of Financial Year 2021. Looking at the report, it seems like things didn’t go VIL’s way as much as the telco would have wanted. In its report, VIL highlighted that they have provided uninterrupted services to both their enterprise and retail customers despite the unprecedented times. But the telco had to pay the cost of slow down of the economy due... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 3rd, 2020 4:47 PM 16 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel and VIL Questioned by Trai Over Differential Network Speeds

Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) and Bharti Airtel are both being questioned by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) over their differential broadband speed plans. Both the telcos were earlier questioned on their Priority 4G Network offer which claimed to give customers a priority in speed than any normal customer . Now the regulatory has further questioned both Bharti Airtel and VIL about their differential broadband speed plans. It has... Read More