The decision of the Telecom Commission to approve in-flight connectivity won't just bring cheer to the chat-friendly passengers, but even more to the telecom industry facing severe financial stress, says Nivedita Mookerji.
Reliance has around 90,000 telecom towers now, half of which are operational and owned by the RIL and rest on lease.
Loop Mobile has debt of Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion), which is likely to be included in final deal size.
Naresh Goyal, after being ousted with his wife from the board last week, and with his shareholding halved to 25 per cent, can still make a comeback by partnering a new investor and win back majority control.
There are 29 licences in 18 service areas which will expire in 2015-16.
43 rounds of bidding has taken place.
Companies are playing the price game to woo customers.
Upfront payment of Rs 32,000 cr just half of Budget estimate; no takers for 700 & 900 megahertz bands
'Almost 75 per cent of our total sales come from the top 50 cities in India.'
Jio makes data on call drops public, says 121 mn calls failed in a day
Investors have turned cautious ahead of the policy meetings of central banks in Japan and the US
The BSE Midcap and the BSE Smallcap indices pared all intraday gains to end 0.3% and 0.5% lower
After their merger Vodafone Group CEO, Vittorio Colao says India is not a Jio market alone. Aditya Birla Group CEO, Kumar Mangalam Birla says Vodafone is dominant in metro cities, while Idea is a big player in urban, semi-urban markets.
Bharti'suarterly revenue run rate continues to be hover around the $1.2 billion mar
The company is keen on creating 'a differentiated e-commerce model'.
Revenues of Airtel and Idea have been hit by falling realisation and analysts said margins would be affected by higher costs.
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Government's resolution on the contentious issue of spectrum usage fee seems to have found favour with telecom operators with none of them withdrawing their application from airways auction on the last day on Monday.
Most Asian stock markets steadied on Wednesday.
Samsung makes the largest number of non-4G feature phones in India
The auction will help operators augment expansion of high-speed 4G voice and data services in the world's second largest mobile phone market.
Will the warning shots from giants like Unilever and P&G break digital growth?
Telecom operators continued to place bids for 800 MHz and 1800 MHz bands.
Airtel's 4G service runs on 2,300 MHz long-term evolution (LTE) spectrum in all nine circles, which is difficult to access while indoors.
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
The much-awaited iPhone XS, the iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR are finally here.
With 8.5 per cent market share in the quarter ended September 2017, Nokia makes it to the top four bestselling feature phones in India.
Govt's revenue estimates may take hit on spectrum sharing, trading deals
iPhone will have to break Android's domination to make India the next China for Apple
The numbers hidden behind the results tell a story of zero-return businesses and lower prospects for the core units
In the broader market, the S&P BSE Midcap and the S&P BSE Smallcap indices added 0.6% and 1.3%, respectively to touch their fresh lifetime highs.
Telecom department says spectrum can't be used as collateral because it's government property
The telecom spectrum auction entered the 33rd round of bidding today after starting off from the Rs 52,689 crore (Rs 526. 89 billion) mark this morning.
As the nation woke up to images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi splashed across the front page of newspapers by Reliance Industries to announce the launch of its 4G services, Shiv Sena's Member of Parliament from South Mumbai, Arvind Sawant, was not impressed.
Turbocharged with technology is becoming the Holy Grail of retail.
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RIL is also set to file its tariff plans, which will mark the company's intent to commercialise Jio's operations, with the regulator this week
Tata Motors was the top gainer on better-than-expected June quarter revenues
The new executive director of Reliance Capital has big shoes to fill in every way.
Yes. While the Indian variant launched August 11 comes with 4GB RAM, Samsung is all charged up to release the 6GB variant in China on August 26.
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