Bulk of these customers use 2G phones and are still focused on voice services and might prove useful for both Bharti Airtel and the Idea-Vodafone combine.
Just an hour or so from the ones we commonly throng to, they promise a lot more for a lot less.
Those involved in the discussions say the guidelines for selection of bidders in insolvency cases need to be transparent, otherwise anyone who loses out could take legal recourse, leading to wastage of time and derailing the whole process.
In effect, companies which put their money in telecom in India would have done much better to keep the cash in bank and earn interest.
Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck.
Can the Bajaj-Triumph tie up overtake the beloved Royal Enfield?
The freebies are now over, but Jio will need to notch up subscriber numbers and margins to prove its sceptics wrong.
Customers won't shift to electric cars until there is countrywide infrastructure for charging stations, which should be as spread out as petrol pumps now. Two, the price of the lithium ion battery, which constitutes 30 to 40 per cent of the cost of an electric car, has to fall substantially, so that the vehicle is as affordable as a gasoline one.
The failure of big-budget Bollywood movies show that mega stars such as Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma are struggling to impress the audience.
McDonald's problems couldn't have surfaced at a worse time. Cut-throat competition, rapid expansion and a slowdown in consumer spending in the wake of demonetisation have seriously dented the overall quick-service restaurant business.
Samsung makes the largest number of non-4G feature phones in India
The region constituted more than 31percent of the segment's total sales volume in 2016.
As many as 26 of 50 urban hubs across the country have shown a moderate upturn in housing prices between December 2016 and March 2017
Here's how India's most successful film star goes about his work.
Bajaj talks about the tribulations in following 'Make in India' call
Companies are playing the price game to woo customers.
We have cleared all dues to our employees, says Ajay Singh
Reliance Jio bought spectrum in the 1800 MHz band last February.
Each dept could handle a designated area.
Of the two big players, while Bharti Airtel can leverage its existing subscriber base, newcomer Reliance Jio will have to wean away subscribers from the incumbents
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