Bharti Airtel, India’s top telco is extending its free data offer, namely Airtel Surprises, for three more months, the company’s chief executive Gopal Vittal said in a mail to postpaid customers. Under this offer, the Sunil Mittal-led telco has been offering free 10GB 4G data every month to post-paid users. The new extension can be […]
Read More →The inter-ministerial group (IMG) looking into financial difficulties of the telecom sector is expected to submit its policy prescription to the Telecom Commission next month. “The (IMG) recommendations will be submitted within a month,” an official told PTI. The IMG was set up on May 16 to examine issues that are affecting viability and repayment […]
Read More →Telecom minister Manoj Sinha on Thursday assured the telecom industry bigwigs that the government would take corrective steps to ensure orderly growth in the sector. “The report of the inter-ministerial group (IMG) will come soon. Corrective steps will be taken by the government for ensuring orderly growth in this sector in terms of services to […]
Read More →Aruna Sundararajan, secretary of IT and electronics will now be taking full charge of the department of telecom (DoT), which till now was an additional charge given to her in May. A notification to this effect was issued by the department of personnel, Wednesday, according to which Sundararajan will be at the helm of telecom […]
Read More →The growth of Reliance Jio subscriber base and its free offering till 2016-17 fourth quarter has led to a 11.7 per cent year-on-year decline (8.5 per cent quarter-on-quarter decline) in industry revenues, a report by Jefferies said here on Wednesday. “The growth of Reliance Jio subscriber base and its free offering till the end of […]
Read More →Idea Cellular’s revenue and Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation & amortisation) estimates for FY18 and FY19 have been cut following a sharp 27% fall in the company’s incremental revenue market share in FY17, high contingent liabilities and a hefty repayment burden over the next three years, brokerage CLSA said in a note seen by […]
Read More →Vodafone, on Monday, launched a special offer for its prepaid customers in which one can gets unlimited 3G/4G data usage and download for five hours, for Rs.29. Called the Vodafone, SuperNight, it can be activated any time of the day but will be applicable only during the subsequent five hours between 1 am to 6 […]
Read More →At the moment, all the telecom operators in India are offering insane offers for prepaid users, which is making the postpaid users go crazy. Already, most of the postpaid customers across all the operators started converting as prepaid users to enjoy the benefits. For prepaid users, almost all the telecom operators are offering 1GB data […]
Read More →India’s largest telcos – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular – have rejected Reliance Jio’s charge that the financial stress in their businesses was due to their dependence on debt, and blamed high government fees as well as the newcomer’s free offers for their woes. In a presentation to a panel of officials from […]
Read More →Reliance Jio has begun to witness a slowdown in active subscriber additions. For the first time since September, when Jio stormed into the market, Bharti Airtel has added more active subscribers than Jio. As per reports by Goldman Sachs and ICICI Securities, Jio added 0.4 million active subscribers in April as compared to 2.6 million […]
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