After making its network EDGE-enabled, cellular major Hutch has joined hands with NDTV, allowing its subscribers to download TV content on their cell phones.
Oriental Bank of Commerce on Thursday announced a tie up with Oriental Insurance Company for selling general insurance products through its branches.
Eyeing a share in the growing value-added services market in India's telecom sector, US-based communications company Telenity will set up an R&D centre in New Delhi with an initial investment of Rs 30 crore (Rs 300 million).\n\n
Four cellular operators -- BPL Mobile, Escotel, RPG Cellular and Spice Telecom -- have formed an alliance, MobileFrist, with a target to rope in a minimum of six million subscribers, paving way for more tariff war.
While existing players are expected to first drop prices, acquisition of smaller firms by larger ones is likely in future
Telecom company Hutch-Essar on Tuesday said it is planning to invest about Rs 1,656 crore ($360 million) this year for expansion of its network and building capacity.
Barely a month before its scheduled Rs 200 crore IPO, UCO Bank on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Life Insurance Corporation of India to market the latter's insurance schemes from its branches.
Indian IT-enabled services companies can attain high profitability in the long term and growth of such services will be highly sustainable, according to report by CRIS INFAC, subsidiary of CRISIL.
Founded in 2010 by Sanjay Swamy, Valerie Rozycki, and Amiya Pathak, ZipDial is a cloud-based mobile and analytics platform, which help companies reach out their targeted audience and do marketing through 'missed calls'.
The Mumbai-based firm is on a cost optimisation drive through outsourcing of network management services and call centre operations.
Till now, Jio was primarily targeting the prepaid customer base, with only a few post-paid plans. Now, it is targeting post-paid customers, who usually spend over five times their prepaid counterparts and are more company-loyal.
It will compete with rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have communicated to the telecom department that they will not pay AGR dues of Rs 88,624 crore, the deadline for which ended on Thursday, and will wait for the outcome of modification petition listed for hearing before the Supreme Court next week, according to official sources. Reliance Jio on Thursday paid Rs 195 crore to the telecom department to clear all adjusted gross revenue dues accounted till January 31, 2020, according to an official source.
Engage, don't entice, advises advertising guru Sandeep Goyal.
Vistara has six Airbus A320s in a three class configuration.
BSNL, which was formed in 2000, was in the pink of financial health but lost to competition because of inadequate investment in infrastructure expansion that ought to have been provided during past few years, he told Rajya Sabha.
The cash crunch following demonetisation and transaction fees that do not cover costs are among the reasons why the sector is struggling.
Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel has become the world's third largest mobile operator with 303 million subscribers.
'You have to hand it to Mukesh for sheer daring.' 'Who else in India would have sunk a stupendous $30 billion in a business that was yet to get a single customer?' 'With that, the older of the Ambani siblings has shown that he is in a class of his own,' says T N Ninan.
Some of the sops being offered to rope in new clients and retain the existing ones are cashbacks, reduced fee, and customised consultancy for clients.
Formal announcement of venture into new segment on Thursday; group's entry timely, given the demand, say experts
Other private banks also planning to employ bots soon
The company plans to set up Wi-Fi spots in hotels, retail cafes, airports, stadiums, malls and government and education complexes.
Nine companies incubating at StartupVillage have made it to the second round of Nasscoms flagship programme to support 10,000 technology startups across India.
'Hardly any aqua centres exist in India though they are popular abroad.' 'Water is known for its buoyancy which reduces pressure on joints. So, you can exercise effectively underwater, provided you have the right experts guiding you,' Harsh Mariwala tells Viveat Susan Pinto.
The operating profit growth rate of mobile service providers is expected to double in next two years buoyed by increase in call rates and clarity in policy, credit rating agency CRISIL has said.
Theatres are finding innovative new ways to increase footfalls, discovers Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
State Bank of India partnered GE Capital in 1998 for its credit card business.
Prepaid one offered by HDFC Bank and Apollo Hospitals gives discounts but one needs to spend it at designated hospitals and pharmacies to avail benefits
Snapdeal and Flipkart to battle it out over Express Delivery
RIL's standalone net profit rose one per cent quarter-on-quarter