As Mumbai's real estate and electric vehicle penetration grows, two of the city's private power distribution companies, Adani Electricity and Tata Power, are eyeing a bigger business pie, particularly betting on high-value customers. Adani Electricity Mumbai (AEML), the subsidiary which houses Adani Energy Solutions' Mumbai distribution business, recorded a six per cent growth in total units sold in the financial year 2023-24 (FY24), the company's presentation shows. This gain came at over 13 per cent growth in the year-ago period.
Reliance Infocomm said on Tuesday that it will expand its CDMA mobile services to 3600 more towns within four months and expects its subscriber base to touch one crore (10 million) by early next year.
Gross refining margins may decline sequentially but improving petro-chem margins will boost earnings
The company has also entered into alliances with laptop manufacturers to bundle Reliance NetConnect Data Cards, its President (Personal Business) S P Shukla told a press conference in Bangalore.
NXP (Next eXPerience) Semiconductors, the new semiconductor company founded by Philips, is partnering with mobile communication service provider Reliance Communications to bring out low cost handsets in India
Reliance Infocomm said on Tuesday that it will expand its CDMA mobile services to 3,600 more towns within four months and expects its subscriber base to touch 10 million by early next year.
The plan, first initiative by the company to roll out its 3G services, will allow customers access to social networking sites, instant messaging applications, chat services and email accounts like yahoo, gmail and hotmail.
Reliance Jio had proposed that besides satellite connectivity, In-Flight Connectivity can be provided using cellular network as well.
Telecom major Bharti Airtel led the growth in segment with net addition of 1.31 million subscribers.
Bangalore-based Healthcare Magic, a first-of-its-kind, real-time, medical consultation portal, will soon tie up with Reliance Communications, the country's second-largest mobile service provider, to launch a Doc On Call service by December this year. Any call made to Healthcare Magic will be attended by a doctor on duty at the the company's Bangalore office.
Reliance Infocomm Ltd, which is building a $5 nationwide fibre-optic network, will on Friday launch its limited radius mobility service which analysts say will intensify a tariff war and expand the market.
Trai on Monday recommended imposing penalty on India's largest private sector basic telephony service provider, Reliance Infocomm, for offering mobility services almost similar to cellular phones, to its wireless phone subscribers.
The unit of Reliance Communications may raise debt, equity
According to documents accessed by Business Standard, RIL increased its direct stake in Jio to 98.9 per cent as on March this year by pumping more capital into the company.
Reliance will launch Jio, pan-India 4G service, for its employees on December 27, marking Dhirubhai Ambani's birth anniversary.
The setting up of STEAG is part of the Army's efforts to develop technologies considering the future battlefield, they said.
Reliance Communications on Thursday applied to the department of telecommuications for radio frequencies in the 1800 MHz band for operating mobile networks in 14 circles all over the country.
Even before the real 3G mobile services takes off, competition at the trial level is hotting up with Reliance Communications applying for the radio waves for testing of interface for both GSM and CDMA based services.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni retained No 1 position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen after West Indies' big guns Chris Gayle and Shivnarine Chanderpaul failed to make an impression in the series against England, which ended on Tuesday. Gayle went into the series trailing Dhoni by 33 points but after aggregating just 42 runs from it, the Jamaican dropped one place to third while team mate Chanderpaul moved to second after a series contribution of 95 runs.
These phones are SIM-enabled, allowing consumers to move from one CDMA service to another, a flexibility hitherto available only on GSM handsets.
The Maoists have already blown up as many as 16 telecom towers in different places of these districts, thereby disrupting the mobile telephone services.
3G technology is the latest in mobile communications. 3G stands for 'third generation'. It is the next big revolution in the Indian telecom arena, with all big mobile firms -- Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance Communications -- in the fray to get a portion of the lucrative pie.
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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has regained the number-one batting position while his side has returned to second spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship after its two matches in the Asia Cup in Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
California-based telecommunications equipment provider UTStarcom Inc is making major inroads into the Indian market with an unannounced sales deal worth more than $100 million with Reliance Infocomm
Private telecom company Reliance Infocomm on Wednesday launched an 'incoming only' recharge voucher for subscribers, who do not have much outgoing call needs.
Australia remain on top in the Rediff Test Rankings after thrashing both West Indies and Pakistan at home. India share the second place with South Africa after only managing to draw the recent home series.
England's James Anderson has displaced India's Zaheer Khan to claim third place in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers.
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has regained the top spot from India's Sachin Tendulkar in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after the top order batsman scored an impressive 150 against the West Indies in his side's drawn match at R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo.
Rail tickets can now be booked on mobile phone, with the Railways on Thursday launching a new cellphone-based ticketing service.
India's iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar has jumped to third position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen after belting a record-breaking double-century in the second One-Day International against South Africa in Gwalior on Wednesday.
India's mobile subscriber base, both CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), went up by 17.97 lakh