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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
ICICI Prudential, India’s fifth biggest mutual fund by equity holdings, increased its cash holdings in May by selling most of its holdings in Bharti Airtel and much of its holdings in ONGC, Crompton Greaves, Cairn India, Hindalco and SJVN, publicly available numbers revealed. Mutual funds typically increase cash holdings when they expect share prices to […]
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 […]
Bharti Airtel is likely to clearly beat Vodafone in India in terms of growth as it has increased its spectrum lead over the No. 2 player after the recent auctions, broker CLSA said. According to CLSA, Bharti now has 18% of the total operator spectrum in India, while Vodafone has only about 11%. In the […]
Reliance Communications, one of India’s largest telecom companies, is offering India’s cheapest call rate – 25 paise per minute – for both STD and local calls for subscribers of its CDMA service. The offer, called ‘Diwali Dhamaka’ is available in most circles. In certain circles, however, the call rate is 30 paise per minute. In […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s biggest telecom company, will raise funds by issuing ten-year, dollar-denominated bonds, the company said in a statement. The bonds are expected to be listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, it said. They will be senior debt, but will be unsecured against the company’s assets. Bharti Airtel recently completed a long-drawn spectrum auction […]
Uninor beat bigger peers by adding a total of 1.17 mln subscribers, translating to a month-on-month growth of 2.6%, in April. In terms of the absolute number, however, Uninor was third, after Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular, in the month. In all, a total of 6.35 mln subscribers were added during April, a slight decline […]
Idea Cellular has warned that companies like itself will have to raise data prices to 108-250 paise/MB (Rs 1,105-2,560 per GB) if government imposes net neutrality on wireless providers. This would required as voice call rates will fall to 7.5 paise per minute if net neutrality is allowed in the current situation, Idea Cellular said. […]
Qualcomm Inc and Bharti Airtel Africa have launched a cheap 3G smartphone meant for Africa costing just $53 (Rs 3,275) before taxes. “The device will start selling from $53 subject to various governments levies and will be available at local retail outlets,” Airtel said. The 3G new enabled phone has a memory of 4GB ROM […]
Bharti Airtel Limited today announced its audited consolidated IFRS results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2014. The consolidated revenues for Q3’15 at Rs 23,217 crore grew by 5.8% over the corresponding quarter last year. Consolidated Mobile data revenues at Rs 2,872 crore grew by 61.9% Y-o-Y, uplifted by higher data usage. Mobile Data […]
Bharti Airtel said it will sell over 1100 telecoms towers across 2 countries in Africa to IHS Holding Limited, the largest mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Africa. The sale in Zambia and Rwanda will be followed by a 10-year leaseback contract. “The agreements will allow Airtel to focus on its core business and customers, enable […]
A district forum in Karnataka faulted Bharti Airtel Ltd for failing to convert a corporate mobile connection into a personal connection despite the ex-employee producing a no-objection certificate from his ex-employer. The Tumkur forum also dismissed Bharti Airtel’s contention that it represented the ‘Telegraph Authority of India’ and it cannot be subjected to the proceedings […]
Vodafone has become the first operator in India to offer 3G services across the country, the company said in a statement. Its latest launch has been Orissa, where it will give a 40% discount on 3G data packs for the next ten days. In Orissa, Vodafone’s postpaid plans start from monthly rentals of INR 150 […]
Vodafone and Bharti Airtel have been told to compensate a customer after Vodafone disconnected a customer who ported from Airtel saying that the customer did not pay Airtel’s bills. The North 24 Parganas district consumer forum found that Bharti Airtel guilty of issuing ‘vague bills’ to a customer who had already ported out of the […]
Years after Videocon first tried it, Samsung and Airtel Digital TV are giving the integrated DTH TV concept another shot. The two launched Integrated Digital TV (iDTV), under which Samsung’s range of SmartDirect TVs will come designed with an in-built Airtel digital satellite tuner which will enable DTH signal reception without the need for customers […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked Loop Mobile to inform its subscribers that it would stop its services in its only circle, Mumbai, permanently on November 28. Loop Mobile did not participate in the Mumbai spectrum auction and therefore has no spectrum to continue its services once its license expires on November 28. […]
