Hutch and Aircel jointly lead the customer expectations ranking, ahead of Reliance, Tatas and Bharti as per the latest survey by TNS Celltrack, while MTNL has the dubious distinction of being the last on this overall list covering 13 circles.
In less than 24 hours of issuance of guidelines on unified licence, Reliance Infocomm on Wednesday paid about Rs 1542.5 crore to government to migrate to new single licence regime in 16 circles, but opted to stay out of unification in West Bengal.
State-owned telecom major BSNL has awarded a major chunk of its international traffic to UK and Europe to Sunil Mittal-owned Bharti, virtually eliminating incumbent carrier VSNL.\n
R World tariff structure has been devised keeping in mind customer convenience, affordability and flexibility of use.
Reliance Infocomm has launched an e-recharge facility for its prepaid subscribers offering them with the flexibility to opt for denominations ranging from Rs 55 to Rs 1,100.
A meeting of the board is being convened on December 27 to consider the "proposal for purchase of company's own equity shares, that is buyback of shares," RIL said in a communiqué to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Friday slammed the government for not cancelling the licence of Reliance Infocomm for illegally tapping the telephone of politician Amar Singh on the basis of forged orders. "Why didn't you cancel the licence of the service provider? It's gross negligence. Either the service provider was doing this deliberately or because of its incompetence on the basis of a letter full of errors," said the apex court.
China Telecom has selected Reliance-owned Flag Telecom to provide international bandwidth capacity between China and US West Coast, under a multi-million dollar contract.
Reliance Infocomm occupies the top place among private operators with maximum number of phone connections at over 1.33 crore (Rs 13.3 million), Communication and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd on Friday reported a 46 per cent jump in net profit for the three months ended June on the back of bumper earnings from oil and telecom businesses. The oil-to-retail-to-telecom conglomerate's consolidated net profit rose to Rs 17,955 crore during April-June period -- the first quarter of 2022-23 fiscal year -- from Rs 12,273 crore in the year-ago period, it said a stock exchange filing.
Reliance Infocomm will roll out its enterprise and convergence business in the US by 2005, after they become operational in India by the first quarter of 2004.
'Slim Ultra', which the company claims to be the world's slimmest CDMA phone, is priced at Rs 2,999.
Mobile user base, both GSM and CDMA, went up to 3.4 crore during April this year with GSM based cellular operators capturing 2.71 crore subscribers and CDMA based operators like Reliance and Tatas 74.16 lakh.
Reliance Infocomm on Tuesday claimed that it has earned Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) within two days of making its R World service paid and pegged the monthly revenue at Rs 25 crore (Rs 250 million).
For national long distance calling, the government had proposed 'One-India' in a bid to create uniform call rate across the country and for this it had invited four telecom players.
Four former Indian CEOs - three of them with telecom companies and one from soft drinks major Coca-Cola - have come together to start an angel partner firm, the Phi Group. Interestingly, the group has roped in two former bosses of global telecom companies for its international foray.
The booming real estate markets in the National Capital Region, Mumbai and Bangalore registered the highest global yields in 2003, according to the latest updates by Chesterton Meghraj, a global real estate consulting group.
Debunking a government charge about forming a cartel, India's top three private telecom players - Bharti, Reliance Infocomm and Videsh Sanchar Nigam
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