Bharti Airtel And Idea

India's Vodafone Idea is not in talks to tie up with billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet company Starlink, the telecom operator said on Tuesday, dashing hopes of a revival in the debt-ridden company that had sent its stock soaring.

Vi has announced the launch of its Rs. 3,199 prepaid recharge plan that brings with it a year's worth of Amazon Prime Mobile. This would allow Vi prepaid users to stream their favourite shows on the OTT platform without any additional charges. The new pack include other benefits including unlimited voice calling as well as 2GB data with 365 days va...

Telecom regulator TRAI has imposed a penalty of Rs 34.99 crore on service providers for failing to curb pesky calls and SMS on their network, Parliament was informed on Friday.

Telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added 19.8 lakh mobile subscribers month-on-month in February, even as Vodafone Idea lost 20 lakh customers, according to data released by TRAI on Thursday. India's largest telecom player Reliance Jio added the maximum number of mobile subscribers at about 10 lakh, taking its wireless subscriber tall...

Both Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have been rolling out a 5G network across the country. However, debt-ridden Vodafone Idea is awaiting fund raise post which it will infuse capital for rolling out 5G services.

The Department of Telecommunications has asked sector regulator TRAI to make quality of service norms stricter in order to curb call drops and improve call quality, an official source said on Tuesday. The move comes after the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) collected feedback from the public through an IVRS call around call drop, quality of...

5G services are available across 238 Indian cities at the end of January 2023, Union minister of state for communications, Devusinh Chauhan informed Parliament on Wednesday. The Government issued spectrum allocation letters to telecom service providers in August 2022, while asking them to prepare for the rollout of 5G services in the country.

Telecom regulator TRAI has called a meeting with telcos on February 17 to discuss measures and action plan for improving service quality, review of norms, benchmarks for 5G services, and unsolicited commercial communications. The meeting assumes significance as improvement in telecom service quality is bound to cheer mobile customers, irked by call...

The Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to make the implementation of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) for telecom operators. COAI has shared technical, privacy, and cost related concerns with the implementation of caller name display with the telecom regulator.

Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea met the telecom department on Wednesday to discuss rising instances of call drops and service quality related issues, as it deliberated on policy measures that can be considered for improving call quality. The meeting was chaired by Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman.

Telecom operators are likely to soon announce tariff hikes as they look to reduce pressure on the revenue and margins and improve their average revenue per user (ARPU). According to Jefferies, Airtel and Jio are reportedly expected to increase their tariffs in the last quarter of fiscal 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI)has urged the government for rationalisation of GST, reduce of licence fee to 1 percent from 3 percent and sought a waiver of customs duty on network equipment for the 5G rollout. During the pre-Budget discussions, the telecom operators' body also sought the removal of GST on the licence fee, spectrum ...

India's total mobile subscriber base fell by 3.6 million in September, with Vodafone Idea suffering subscriber count decline even as larger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added users month-on-month, according to telecom regulator's data.

The government is said to push Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, and other smartphone manufacturers to rapidly roll out software updates to their smartphones to support 5G connectivity in the country, weeks after the services were announced by operators Reliance Jio and Airtel. Apple's recent iPhone models, and Samsung's flagship smartphones do not com...

5G telecom services launched in India on Saturday. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Mobile Congress. Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea have revealed their plans to launch 5G services in India.

India's Vodafone Idea is not in talks to tie up with billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet company Starlink, the telecom operator said on Tuesday, dashing hopes of a revival in the debt-ridden company that had sent its stock soaring.

Vi has announced the launch of its Rs. 3,199 prepaid recharge plan that brings with it a year's worth of Amazon Prime Mobile. This would allow Vi prepaid users to stream their favourite shows on the OTT platform without any additional charges. The new pack include other benefits including unlimited voice calling as well as 2GB data with 365 days va...

Telecom regulator TRAI has imposed a penalty of Rs 34.99 crore on service providers for failing to curb pesky calls and SMS on their network, Parliament was informed on Friday.

Telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added 19.8 lakh mobile subscribers month-on-month in February, even as Vodafone Idea lost 20 lakh customers, according to data released by TRAI on Thursday. India's largest telecom player Reliance Jio added the maximum number of mobile subscribers at about 10 lakh, taking its wireless subscriber tall...

Both Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have been rolling out a 5G network across the country. However, debt-ridden Vodafone Idea is awaiting fund raise post which it will infuse capital for rolling out 5G services.

The Department of Telecommunications has asked sector regulator TRAI to make quality of service norms stricter in order to curb call drops and improve call quality, an official source said on Tuesday. The move comes after the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) collected feedback from the public through an IVRS call around call drop, quality of...

5G services are available across 238 Indian cities at the end of January 2023, Union minister of state for communications, Devusinh Chauhan informed Parliament on Wednesday. The Government issued spectrum allocation letters to telecom service providers in August 2022, while asking them to prepare for the rollout of 5G services in the country.

Telecom regulator TRAI has called a meeting with telcos on February 17 to discuss measures and action plan for improving service quality, review of norms, benchmarks for 5G services, and unsolicited commercial communications. The meeting assumes significance as improvement in telecom service quality is bound to cheer mobile customers, irked by call...

The Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to make the implementation of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) for telecom operators. COAI has shared technical, privacy, and cost related concerns with the implementation of caller name display with the telecom regulator.

Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea met the telecom department on Wednesday to discuss rising instances of call drops and service quality related issues, as it deliberated on policy measures that can be considered for improving call quality. The meeting was chaired by Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman.

Telecom operators are likely to soon announce tariff hikes as they look to reduce pressure on the revenue and margins and improve their average revenue per user (ARPU). According to Jefferies, Airtel and Jio are reportedly expected to increase their tariffs in the last quarter of fiscal 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI)has urged the government for rationalisation of GST, reduce of licence fee to 1 percent from 3 percent and sought a waiver of customs duty on network equipment for the 5G rollout. During the pre-Budget discussions, the telecom operators' body also sought the removal of GST on the licence fee, spectrum ...

India's total mobile subscriber base fell by 3.6 million in September, with Vodafone Idea suffering subscriber count decline even as larger rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel added users month-on-month, according to telecom regulator's data.

The government is said to push Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, and other smartphone manufacturers to rapidly roll out software updates to their smartphones to support 5G connectivity in the country, weeks after the services were announced by operators Reliance Jio and Airtel. Apple's recent iPhone models, and Samsung's flagship smartphones do not com...

5G telecom services launched in India on Saturday. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Mobile Congress. Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea have revealed their plans to launch 5G services in India.