India's largest cellular services provider Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd's customer base in Delhi has touched one million, an industry official said on Monday.
Indian telecommunications companies are ringing louder. Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications are among the big league of gloal telecom companies.
The income tax department has moved the Supreme Court stating that private telecom service providers are liable to deduct tax at source for the payments made to state-owned BSNL and MTNL for inter-connectivity.
Arbitrary decisions may have helped Bharti airtel and Idea Cellular get spectrum.
The companies are being probed into for alleged corruption in spectrum allocation during NDA regime.
Sunil Mittal promoted Bharti Group garnered the largest subscriber base of 37.50 lakh (3.75 million), followed by BSNL and Hutchison Group.\n
In a major setback to Bharti Group which offers telecom services under AirTel brand, the Supreme Court has turned down its plea seeking refund of Rs 135 crore (Rs 1.35 billion) for surrendering five basic licences.
Airtel operates as Airtel-Vodafone in Jersey and Guernsey to offer Vodafone trademarks in the British Channel Islands.
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Operators have invested billions of dollars in licence and spectrum.
Bharti Teletech on Tuesday launched an SMS phone that enables sending and receiving short messaging service (SMS) from fixed-line phones.\n\n
Market concentration in the country's telecom sector continues to scale new heights despite government bailouts of public-sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), and private-sector Vodafone Idea. The combined revenue (or net sales) share of the country's top two telecom operators - Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio - in the sector's total reached an all-time high of nearly 72 per cent in FY23 from 70.4 per cent in FY22 and around 60 per cent in FY20. The net sales of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel India were Rs 1.67 trillion in FY23, up 18.6 per cent from the Rs 1.4 trillion a year earlier.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Wednesday issued another directive to Bharti, Spice and Hutchison-Essar following blocking of calls originating from the basic telecom players offering limited mobile services.
Bharti Airtel, India's largest private cellular operator, on Thursday announced an investment of over $2 billion (Rs 9,000 crore) in 2007-08 to expand network.
The company has purchased the rights to use the 1,800 MHz spectrum in 6 circles.
India's largest cellular service company Bharti Airtel will invest $600 million in Nigeria's mobile market following its take over of Zain Telecom's African business for around SUD 10.7 billion.
Sunil Mittal-owned Bharti group on Friday announced it would buy 27.5 per cent stake of Telesystem International Wireless of Canada in Hexacom, a cellular telecom operator in Rajasthan.
Admitting a report of MRTPC's investigative unit DGIR, a Bench of the quasi-judicial body, headed by Justice O P Dwivedi, issued 'notice of enquiry' and started judicial inquiry against these operators for cartelising and increasing prices of telecom services simultaneously. Admitting a report of MRTPC's investigative unit DGIR, a Bench of the quasi-judicial body, headed by Justice O P Dwivedi, issued 'notice of enquiry' and started judicial inquiry against these operators.
Telecom services providers have urged the Ministry of Finance to suspend the universal service obligation (USOF) till the existing corpus is exhausted. In their Budget recommendations, they have also pressed for an exemption from the service tax on "assignment of right to use natural resources" and the slashing of Customs duty on telecom equipment to zero. The Cellular Operators Association of India (Coai), which represents private sector telecom operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea, called for abolishment of USOF levy.
Bharti Airtel, India's largest cellular operator, is planning to raise its offer to about $22.63 per share to acquire control of South African mobile player MTN, according to a media report. Quoting a person familiar with the 'deal,' the Wall Street Journal said on Monday that Bharti is considering raising the offer to about 175 South African rand (or $22.63) per share for control of MTN.
Telco moves Delhi High Court against order; Vodafone expected to get notice too
Now, it cannot offer 3G services in pact with other telcos.
The apex court had on December 4 last year, reserved the verdict after hearing counsel for corporate honchos and the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has urged the government not to change existing spectrum allocation criteria and to continue with the additional 2G spectrum allocation policy based on subscriber figures.
In an effort to provide better connectivity and ease network congestion for its cellular subscribers even at peak hours, Bharti launched India's first dual band network in Delhi to leverage the benefits of 1800 MHz and 900 MHz frequency bands.
India's largest private sector cellular service provider Bharti Televenutures on Monday witnessed two block deals totaling 11.20 crore (112 million) shares for a consideration of Rs 2467 crore (Rs 24.67 billion), constituting six per cent of the comp
Within a week of the government announcing plans to auction spectrum for 3G mobile services, India's largest private cellular operator Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it will launch the service by October next year.
The GSM-based mobile subscriber base has gone up by 15.08 lakh
An application by MTN to the Johannesburg Securities Exchange to suspend trading in its shares just 20 minutes before it put out a short statement which said Bharti and MTN had agreed mutually not to proceed with the transaction also surprised analysts.
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