Bharti Infratel, the tower arm of Bharti Airtel, said it has decided to explore the possibility of buying out the stakes of Idea Cellular and Vodafone in rival tower company Indus. Bharti and Vodafone currently own about 42% each in Indus, while Idea holds about 11%. As a result, anyone who buys the stakes of […]
After Karbonn, Bharti Airtel has now tied up with Celkon to offer a full touchscreen 4G smartphone at an effective price of Rs 1,349 and an upfront cost of Rs 2,849. The partnership is part of Airtel’s ‘Mera Pehla Smartphone’ initiative. It had announced a similar offer in association with Karbonn two weeks ago. The […]
The stock of Bharti Airtel is at a two-year high, not far from its life-highs of late 2007, but going by the latest tariffs unveiled by Reliance Jio, investors will do well to hold off on the bubbly for a while longer. Airtel closed at Rs 461.30 on Tuesday, buoyed by two factors — the […]
Bharti Airtel announced that it will sell high-end smartphones online with instant financing. The phones, including the iPhone 8, will be available at low downpayment and bundled monthly packages, which will make them more or less free of charge. The model was first tried by Reliance Communications several years ago. The company had, at the […]
Bharti Airtel said it is merging its operations in the African nation of Ghana with the local unit of Millicom International Cellular. “Under the joint agreement, Airtel and Millicom will have equal ownership (50:50) and governance rights in the combined entity, which will have revenues of approximately USD 300 million,” the companies said. Both Airtel […]
Reliance Jio has unveiled a set of new plans that will come into effect from tomorrow, effecting a price increase of about 15% to existing tariff. The phrasing of the new plans also suggests that these are ‘regular’ plans, and not promotional offers that will disappear after three months. 15% ON AVERAGE Most scheme has […]
Bharti Airtel Limited’s (BBB-/Stable) announcement that it plans to acquire the consumer mobile operations of Tata Teleservices and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd (Tata Telecom business) is positive for the deal participants as well as the industry, Fitch Ratings said. Bharti’s credit profile will improve slightly as it is paying no consideration for the operations, which […]
Bharti Airtel Limited, India’s largest telecommunications services provider and Tata, India’s leading conglomerate, today announced that they have entered into an understanding to merge Consumer Mobile Businesses (CMB) of TTSL and TTML into Bharti Airtel. The move is likely to give Airtel access to sub-GHz spectrum for expanding its 4G network, while preventing Tata Teleservices […]
Reliance Jio, India’s most popular wireless data provider, said it will introduce new plans from Oct 19, and that it was offering “100%” cashback on its popular recharge of Rs 399 that gives three months of services. In a promotion put up on its website, the company said the 100% cashback was a Diwali offer, […]
Bharti Airtel has announced a scheme to offer a 4-inch smartphone at an effective price of Rs 1,399 — after cash backs — to take on the challenge posed by Reliance Jio’s Jiophone. The customer needs to make a down payment of Rs 2899 for the 4G smartphone. He will get a cash refund of […]
Reliance Communications, which announced it was abandoning plans to merge with Aircel Cellular, indicated that it would focus on two segments – 4G and wired. Within wired, it would focus on enterprise services. The disclosure indicates that the company, — which recently shut down its GSM network in Gujarat — could close more and more […]
The average data consumed by wireless users in India has increased five fold in the last year one year, even as prices crashed by 97% due to the launch of Reliance Jio. For India as a whole, the total consumption of wireless data touched 4.3 bln GB in the three months from April to June […]
All three of India’s top mobile networks — Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Jio — are currently conducting trials of a key 5G technology that makes use of a very high number of antennas to increase the capacity of the network, David An, the technology head of ZTE said today. “Today we are very glad […]
As expected, incumbent telecom operators have expressed their disappointment with the regulator going ahead with cutting the interconnect charges paid by one operator to another at the time of handing off internetwork calls. The operators are likely to approach the government and the court against the move to reduce interconnect charges to 6 paise per […]
Even as Reliance Jio continues its slow move towards ‘full pricing’ of its services, rival Idea Cellular has taken a step towards increasing promotional 4G pack prices across its tariff cards. While the operator was offering 1GB data per day for 84 days at around Rs 400 in key 4G states, it has now increased […]
Bharti Airtel launched its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services today, starting in Mumbai, and said call charges will remain the same. Airtel VoLTE, which works over 4G, will offer customers HD quality voice calls along with faster call set up time. “Airtel VoLTE will be available on popular 4G/LTE enabled mobile devices, which must have […]
Bharti Airtel has become the first operator in India to break the 2GB-per-day cap under its daily data plans, offering up to 5GB per day under its various plans. Under the new plans, customers can recharge for various denominations that allow them to get 1 GB, 2 GB, 2.5 GB, 3.5 GB, 4 GB or […]
With Reliance Jio not showing any signs of unveiling yet another ‘surprise’ offer, telecom tariffs in India seems set to rise, particularly for data. Vodafone today announced an new tariff pack that offers 1 GB of 3G or 4G data and free calls for Rs 392. However, unlike similar priced offerings by the company in […]
New telecom operator Reliance Jio is estimated to have notched up a market share of around 10.5% in terms of total telecom revenue in India, broker Credit Suisse said. However, after deducting interconnect payments made to rivals, Jio’s share is likely at around 9%, it said. “We conclude Bharti and Vodafone+Idea may have lost at […]
The Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator is likely to start prebooking for its JioPhone device at 5:30 PM today, according to sources. Booking can done in four ways — using the company’s website Jio.com, using the MyJio app and by going to a either a Jio Store or any multi-brand store that sells the device. Customers […]
