Experts argue that the cost savings both in terms of capex as well as operating costs can be substantial in the next one to two years.
Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel has become the world's third largest mobile operator with 303 million subscribers.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has given its recommendations on the much-awaited issue of spectrum sharing.
India's 140 million mobile subscribers make missed calls to convey a pre-agreed message.
Bharat Snachar Nigam is mainly responsible for the increasing congestion between networks of cellular operators on points of interconnection
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Infocomm has been chosen the 'Telecom Man of the Year 2004
They want 'tainted' ministers dropped, Veer Savarkar's plaque restored at Cellular Jail and Karnataka government to drop the case against Uma Bharti.
Leading cellular operators Idea and Hutch on Wednesday launched Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution or EDGE services offering their customers higher speed for Internet connections, downloads and multimedia mobile services like video streaming.\n\n\n\n
The merged entity would lead with a revenue market share of about 37 per cent against Airtel's 31.2 per cent and Jio's 14.5 per cent
Market leader Bharti Airtel added the maximum 17.22 lakh (1.72 million) new users during the month to take its base to 19.65 crore (196.5 million) at the end of November.
The new service can be accessed by Airtel users on 686 via SMS where the user registration happens via SMS or the web interface.
Most public sector banks, flush with deposits now, offer 3-4% interest on savings deposits, while a few private sector banks go up to 6%.
The freebies are now over, but Jio will need to notch up subscriber numbers and margins to prove its sceptics wrong.
VIL pegs dues at Rs 21,533 cr, less than half of DoT estimate. During a meeting with Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad made it clear that the government is against a monopoly in the telecom sector, and wants Vodafone Idea to survive and remain invested in India.
Under another plan, it will offer unlimited voice calling along with 100 SMS per day, 5GB 3G/4G data and free subscription to Wynk Music and Wynk Movies for Rs 1,599
Telecom tribunal on Monday fixed April 2 as the date for hearing of petitions by Association of Basic Telecom Operators, Cellular Operators Association of India, Data Access and Bharti Telesonic against telecom regulator's IUC regime.
After Airtel and Hutch, cellular operator Idea, an Aditya Birla Group Company, has lowered ISD rates by 80 paise per minute.
The Cellular Operators Association of India on Tuesday announced the appointment of Dilip Modi as its chairman for a period of one year.
Analysts at rating agency ICRA say the debt level of the telecom companies is very high and the ecosystem for the premium band is not in place.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that there were 31 complaints of call drops against the company in 2015
As if alarmed by the spate of tariff cuts being offered by telecom players, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked leading companies including Bharti, IDEA and Hutch to hold on till it evaluated their tariff packages
The cellular phone industry will be able to lower the tariffs if the access deficit charge is brought down, according to Sunil Mittal, the CMD of telecom major Bharti.
In a bid to resolve the row between cellular and basic players, Communication and IT Minister Arun Shourie constituted on Friday a 7-member committee including Reliance's Mukesh Ambani and Bharti's Sunil Mittal
Spectrum auction ends, brings Rs 1.09 tln to govt kitty.
Small cells improve coverage in areas where traffic is high.
Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL increase subscriber share while Idea manages to retain
After initial success, data use is stagnating and getting consumers to spend additional money for high-speed internet is proving to be difficult for telcos.
Currently, MNP is only available within a state/circle.
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