Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or BSNL, the state-owned telecom operator, said it has cancelled its order to stop unlimited free calls on its landlines on all Sundays. The order was issued two weeks ago and had said that the facility of unlimited free calling on Sundays would be abolished from February. On Saturday, the company […]
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra, the listed arm of Tata Teleservices that provides telecom services in Maharashtra and Goa, reported better pretax profit margins for the December quarter thanks to lower depreciation charges. Pretax losses narrowed to Rs 385 cr in Q3 from Rs 392 cr in the Q2 and Rs 489 in the year-ago period. Depreciation […]
Info Edge India, which runs websites like jeevansathi.com and naukri.com, reported a 22% year-on-year increase in revenue and but the top line remained flattish on a sequential basis. Margins suffered due to higher advertising costs. Total billing during the third quarter increased 19% on year to Rs 228.3 cr, the company said. Net sales rose […]
US search giant Google has expanded its public wifi hotspot venture outside railway stations for the first time. The company said it took the first such move in Pune, setting up 150 wifi hotspots for people to access. The hotspots have been operational in many of India’s big railway stations for nearly three years, including […]
Telecom companies in India have been caught by surprise by the increase in voice calls made by their subscribers in recent months, telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan said on Tuesday after attending a meeting with industry officials. “They have been surprised by the two-times growth of voice traffic (since unlimited plans were introduced),” Sundararajan said after […]
Kotak Institutional Equities has withdrawn its rating on Bharti Airtel, expressing concern about what exactly new entrant Reliance Jio is trying to achieve in the market with its relentless price cuts. “What does Jio want,” asked analyst Rohit Chordia in his note withdrawing his rating on Bharti Airtel. “Even as the company’s actions thus far […]
An analysis of search data from Google has reveals that Bharti Airtel’s 4G service has overtaken Reliance Jio in terms of creating online buzz, as reflected by the number of searches on Google. Bharti’s LTE service, called Airtel 4G, had been totally eclipsed by the launch of Jio in 2016 and was nowhere in the […]
Reliance Jio, which generates about 70% of India’s mobile Internet traffic, is likely to introduce four data top-up packs today, according to a company source. The company will introduce recharges in four denominations — Rs 11, 21, 51 and 101, which prices data at between Rs 16.83 per GB and Rs 28.16 per GB. The […]
Idea Cellular and Vodafone India will gear their network heavily towards 4G after merger and will also shut down over 60,000 cell sites as part of network optimization, going by the presentation being made by Idea in front of investors. The companies had earlier announced that they would surrender around 6,300 cell sites that are […]
Reliance Jio Infocomm said it will provide unlimited free calls and 1 GB of data per day for just Rs 49 per month. It also restarted taking bookings for Jiophone. “This Republic Day will mark the launch of yet another unprecedented plan exclusively for JioPhone users that will ensure affordable services for every Indian. JioPhone […]
Balaji Telefilms, the television content producer header by Ekta Kapoor, said it has decided to make its digital content available on various content applications of Reliance Jio. So far, the most of the content was exclusive to Balaji Telefilm’s own app, ALTBalaji, which also competes with Jio’s apps. According to Google’s Play Store, the Android […]
Idea Cellular CEO Himanshu Kapania sounded a note of caution and urged Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio to stop trying to beat each other by cutting prices. “We don’t want to participate in the present level of price drops,” Kapania said, in the context of the company’s quarterly results. “We are hoping that the volatility […]
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel said it received the approval of the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority for its acquisition of Tigo Rwanda Limited, a subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular S.A. The deal was announced a month ago. “The merged entity will have the largest customer base in Rwanda with 5.9 million subscribers,” it said. It will […]
Idea Cellular reported a 12.8% sequential decline in gross revenue in the third quarter, while average revenue per user or ARPU fell by 13.6% to 114 rupees. However, the decline was less than that reported by bigger peer Airtel. Against the 13.6% fall in ARPU reported by Idea, Airtel’s ARPU had declined by 15% during […]
The stocks of Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular were down around 4% in early trade on Wednesday after Reliance Jio indicated that it would cut tariffs by about 25% as part of a new Republic Day offer. Airtel shares were trading down 21 rupees at Rs 471, while those of Idea were down 4.35 rupees […]
Reliance Jio has slashed its prices again, offering unlimited calls at a starting price of Rs 98 per month and increasing data allocation on its existing plans. The move comes after Bharti Airtel started offering up to 90 GB at a price of Rs 193. The price of the entry-level pack has been cut from […]
In a sign that it is willing to go all the way in taking on Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel has slashed its 4G price to an all-time low of Rs 2.14 per GB. With its new tariff line-up, Bharti Airtel is now the cheapest operator by some distance for those who require 2.0 to 2.5 […]
Reliance Jio said it hosted the first ever India Digital Open Summit at its corporate park in Navi Mumbai. Despite having a lot of users, India has very few regular open source events, and the most prominent of them, FOSS.IN, was last held in 2012. Reliance Jio’s support comes in the context of the company […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd or BSNL, which is scheduled to start its 4G services this month, has overhauled its tariff plans in circles such as Kerala, the first state in line for LTE launch. As part of the tariff overhaul, it has withdrawn its most jaw-dropping plans, and replaced them with newer ones. The impact […]
Lost in the details of the financial and technical data disclosed by Reliance Jio on its third-quarter performance was a tiny bullet point announcing that the company had broadcast a pan-India stream over eMBMS. eMBMS or enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service is a hybrid technology that tries to marry the traditional one-to-many broadcasting architecture used […]
