Idea Cellular said it was “not aware of” any move by Bharti Infratel, a unit of Bharti Airtel, to takeover telecom towers owned by Vodafone and Idea Cellular. The Business Standard yesterday reported that the three companies were in talks over such a possibility. The three companies have already pooled most of their telecom towers […]
The fight over preserving net neutrality (the right to use data as and how a consumer wants) is restarting and the first shot has been fired by NGO Telecom Watchdog. Echoing widespread sentiment, the NGO attacked the recommendations of an internal Department of Telecom Committee that said that calls between WhatsApp users and others should […]
Department of Telecom’s Committee on Net Neutrality said the use of data packs by consumers to make voice calls amounted to bypassing “existing licensing and regulatory regime”. The committee therefore said that such a state of affairs must be rectified. It did not specify how consumers were “bypassing regulations” by using their data packs for […]
Bharti Enterprises — parent of Bharti Airtel, appointed PespsiCo veteran Rahul Bhatnagar as Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer, and said Manoj Kohli will step down. Bhatnagar will report to Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Enterprises. Rahul takes over from Manoj Kohli, who has assumed the role of Executive Chairman, SBG Cleantech – a JV […]
Tata Trusts and Google India today announced the launch of a special program called “Internet Saathi” to help rural women use the Internet and benefit from it in their daily lives. “The joint initiative is aimed at bridging the technology gender divide, which currently puts women in rural India at further risk of getting […]
Aircel, the challenger among telecom operators in India, said it has implemented pan-India mobile number portability on its network with effect from today. With this, all major operators in India have put in place the system required for pan-India mobile number portability. The procedure and process for pan India MNP remains the same as that […]
Vodafone India has become the second operator to announce the full implementation of pan-India number portability. The operator said it has launched National Mobile Number Portability (NMNP) in accordance with the Government’s mandate to roll-out pan-India Mobile Number Portability services from July 3, 2015. Competitor Reliance Communications also announced its readiness to implement nationwide MNP. […]
Bharti Airtel announced that it is fully ready to launch National Mobile Number Portability, making it the first operator to make such an announcement. Pan-India mobile number portability will be implemented from tomorrow (Friday.) “Extending its spirit of Customer First, the company also introduced many firsts including faster processing of porting requests, free incoming on […]
Reliance Industries’ chairman Mukesh Ambani has said that the group will invest Rs 2.5 lakh crore in projects related to Digital India, the government’s vision to boost growth of information technology in India, and will set up a network of 1.5 lakh retailers who will sell and service mobile phones and other smart devices. Most […]
India is likely to have pan-India mobile number portability from Friday, according to telecom industry sources. “Most of the glitches have been overcome, and all operators have implemented the technical changes,” said an industry source. The Department of Telecom had given a two month extension from May 3 — the last deadline — for the […]
The National Consumer Rights Redressal Commission, India’s top consumer court, has reversed orders by lower foras that had awarded damages in lieu of a registered post that was lost in transit by India Post. Presiding member Justice JM Malik set aside the orders of district and Chhatisgarh state consumer commission after holding that India Post […]
Magicbricks, one of the players fighting it out in the highly competitive online real estate classifieds business, said it had implemented a full-fledged map search feature on its website. Map search, in which users can visually search for apartment complexes and photo-view are the two features that helped disruptive start-up housing.com to corner a large […]
Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, in its continued endeavour to boost adoption of 3G data has launched an exclusive free 3G DATA offer in Mumbai. The offer is exclusive for customers who buy the any of the following phones — Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A7, Galaxy Note III, Note EDGE, […]
Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, said it has received a provisional license from the government of India to conduct cable TV operations across India. The license will enable the company to launch its brand of Jio boxes, which work over LTE as well as over regular cable. Jio boxes will enable users […]
The Department of Telecom is unlikely to allow all telecom operators to conduct spectrum swapping, and permit only those players who hold only auctioned spectrum to do so. This move is likely to severely restrict the benefits and applicability of spectrum swapping as ‘subsidized spectrum’ allocated in earlier years is lying co-mingled with newer auctioned […]
Cisco announced new investments in India of up to USD 20 million over the next five years into the Cisco Networking Academy, with an additional USD 40 million for the next phase of expansion in India. NETWORKING ACADEMY The Cisco Networking Academy in India is one of the largest programs for Cisco worldwide. Across 198 […]
Bharti Airtel said its deal with Helios Towers Africa to sell telecom towers in Tanzania and Tchad has fallen through. “…the agreements for sale of tower assets in Tanzania and Tchad between the respective subsidiaries of Bharti Airtel Limited and have lapsed and therefore stands terminated,” said the company. In July last year, Bharti Airtel […]
MTNL’s chairman and managing director PK Purwar has resigned, the company said. MTNL gave no reason for the development, but only said that Purwar had “relinquished the charge of CMD.” NK Yadav has been appointed in his stead as the new MTNL head, it said. Purwar, a long-serving director of finance at MTNL, was appointed […]
Reliance Communications and Sistema Shyam Teleservices (MTS) announced that they were in exclusive discussions to merge their operations. While this was seen as being in the works, especially after a recent statement by Sistema’s Dmitry Shukov, analysts are saying that this merger will be a win-win for both parties. “If they can merge, then it […]
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani today made several key announcements about the launch of the company’s telecom, Internet and media services under its Reliance Jio brand. The details set forth in his speech give an idea of how Reliance Jio can totally disrupt the existing telecom and Internet scenario in the country. Here is a […]
