The Telecom Comission, a panel set up within the Department of Telecom with external representatives, has suggested that the ministry of communications should send back for ‘reconsideration’ the recommendation by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for it to impose a fine of Rs 3,050 cr on Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India. The […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecommunications services provider, said it sold 10.3% of its tower unit Bharti Infratel to funds advised by US private equity firm KKR and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board at Rs 325 per share. The transaction has been done at a premium of around 3% to the stock’s opening price of Rs […]
Bharti Airtel said it has agreed to buy 4G spectrum from Tikona Digital Networks in five telecom circles, giving the company a pan-India footprint in the crucial capacity band and helping it compete on an even footing with Reliance Jio. Airtel plans to roll-out high speed 4G services on the newly acquired spectrum in the […]
Some may call it a storm in a tea cup, but the Ookla-Jio-Airtel controversy has turned out to be a one with an unexpectedly long life. After coming up with a half-hearted defence two days ago, Ookla — the provider of the world’s most popular mobile and broadband speed testing service — today gave a […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state-owned telecom services provider, has launched India’s cheapest daily-data pack at Rs 339 per month. For the amount, users will get 2 GB of 3G data plus 25 minutes of free calls per day. The closest tariff plan to this offer is from Reliance Jio, which gives 2 GB per […]
Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd is about to announce a deal under which it will offer 3GB of 4G or 3G data for Rs 149 as well as unlimited on-net calls. It will also announce a competitor to others’ daily limit plans. Its unlimited daily plan will be applicable to 3G users as well. The […]
Reliance Jio, the telecom operator from Reliance Industries, made a presentation before investors in Mumbai yesterday in which it claimed that it has a headstart of 3-4 years in its core network roll-out compared to rivals and sought to allay concerns on its pricing strategy. The company, which hosted an investor meet in Mumbai yesterday, […]
Vodafone, India’s second largest telecom operator by revenue, has more or less matched newcomer Reliance Jio’s aggressive tariff plan by offering 1 GB per day for one month at Rs 346, in addiition to unlimited voice calling. The plan is almost exactly similar to what Reliance Jio last week, though the pricing — at Rs 346 […]
As expected, Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom operator led by Mukesh Ambani, has totally overhauled its 4G tariffs ahead of ‘going commercial’. The firm had unveiled one set of tariffs in September, and said that these would apply when it started charging for its services several months later. However, many had said that the tariffs […]
Bharti Airtel has abolished roaming charges for its subscribers within India, after new rival Reliance Jio adopted a similar policy. The move will come into effect on April 1, the date on which Jio will start its services on a commercial basis. With this, incoming calls will be free and outgoing calls and SMS will […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator by revenue, has increased the data allocation on its unlimited plan to 0.5 GB per day from 4 GB per month. First noted by Credit Suisse, the schemes have been rolled out since Reliance Jio unveiled a 1 GB/day scheme last week. Airtel had, a couple of months ago, […]
In a surprise announcement, Bharti Airtel said it was taking over Telenor India, marking the first such transaction since Idea took over Spice Telecom several years ago. Typically, companies in Indian telecom sector sell only assets, such as spectrum, and never the whole unit, due to the high debts on telecom companies’ balance sheets in […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company, is likely to match Reliance Jio’s one-year promotional 4G tariff of Rs 303 per month, according to industry and analyst sources. “They have been maintaining that they will match once Jio starts charging for customers,” said a stock analyst based in Mumbai. “That time has come. If they don’t […]
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm will be giving an update on the performance of India’s largest data services provider at 1:30 PM today. You can watch the live broadcast of Mukesh Ambani’s speech below. https://youtu.be/2XGyUGM1rXY He is widely expected to announce that his company has crossed the 100 mln subscriber mark. He […]
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, will make a statement today, 21 February, at 1:30 PM. The statement will be streamed via Youtube and other channels. The link to the live stream will be shared by around 12 PM. Though the company has no revealed what the subject of the announcement will be, it is […]
Incumbents like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular are far behind newcomer Reliance Jio in terms of both data coverage and 4G coverage, a report by financial services company Credit Suisse said. “Among the cities we surveyed, Airtel/Vodafone/Idea had good coverage in 10–30% of the cities, while Jio fared well in 80% of cities,” Credit […]
It’s common knowledge that Reliance Jio’s free data service has massively increased Internet usage in India, but a new report throws light on what categories have been benefited and which have not. The biggest beneficiary of the free data offer from Reliance Jio is — yes, you guessed it right — social media, which technically […]
Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom network by number of subscribers, has shifted its focus from counting how much money it is getting from each GB of data sold to how much money it is able to get from each subscriber irrespective of data consumed. Traditionally, companies such as Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone have […]
The market is abuzz with rumors of the impending launch of a 1000-rupee ‘feature phone’ by Reliance Jio, but comments by Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal suggests that the Mukesh Ambani firm will not be able to launch such a phone without providing a big subsidies. However, doing so would in turn require locking the device […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company, reported a loss of around 7.7 mln data users in the three months between October and December, due to the free services offered by Reliance Jio. Jio, on its part, had picked up around 50 mln free data and voice users on its nationwide 4G network by the end […]
