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Airtel commences 3G services in J&K

Jun 13, 2011 at 12:23 pm in News by support · Leave a Comment »

Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Wednesday commenced 3G services in Jammu and Kashmir , starting with the summer capital Srinagar.

“Powered by 160 sites in Srinagar alone, Airtel 3G services will gradually be launched across the state in weeks to come,” Chief Executive Officer, Upper North, Mobile service, Shashi Arora told reporters.

He said with the launch of 3G service, customers in Kashmir will now be able to join the three million plus Airtel customers across  [read more →]

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Vodafone pays first tranche for $5 billion Ruia`s stake

Jun 6, 2011 at 9:36 am in News by LT Writer · Leave a Comment »

The Vodafone Group has paid its Indian partner Essar $1.9 billion, the first tranche of its $5 billion deal, to buy out Ruias`entire 33% stake in Vodafone Essar, an executive with direct knowledge of the development told ET.

The UK-headquartered telco will pay the next installment of $1.9 billion in November 2011, the executive quoted above added. In March 2011, Vodafone and Essar had agreed on an amicable divorce after a four-year marriage marred by bitter fighting, with the  [read more →]

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Bharti Airtel launches mobile wallet service in Delhi NCR

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Bharti Airtel, India`s largest telco by revenues and subscribers, launched its mobile wallet service Airtel Money in Delhi NCR on Wednesday, a company official said.

The service allows Airtel customers to make cashless payments from Rs 10 to Rs 5,000 a day for various services such as utility bills and movie tickets. The telco plans to raise the upper threshold to Rs 50,000 within two months, Airtel`s m-commerce services chief operating officer Sriram Jagannathan told! ET.

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Bharti Airtel inks $400-m pact with Huawei

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Bharti Airtel has signed a $400-million deal with Chinese vendor Huawei to modernize and expand Airtel`s mobile network infrastructure in Africa.

According to the agreement, Huawei will be responsible for designing, planning as well as managing operations and maintenance.

Ericsson and Nokia Siemens are also likely to get similar deals.

Announcing the agreement, Mr Manoj Kohli, CEO (International) and Joint Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, said “The partnership with Huawei takes us one step closer to realizing our vision of making affordable and world-class  [read more →]

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Tata Communications priority is to retire debt and reduce interest cost

May 30, 2011 at 10:45 pm in News by support · Leave a Comment »

Tata Communications, MD & CEO Vinod Kumar, who joined the company in April 2004 and took up the current position this February, has his task cut out. The company, which has a $1.4 billion debt on its books, is looking at borrowing more this year, and Kumar will have to look at retiring a part of it. In a conversation with FE`s Nikita Upadhyay, Kumar speaks about the company`s growth strategy and entry into new business segments. Excerpts:

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BSNL plans to open new exchanges, 100 cell sites

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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has planned to open three new exchanges and install 84 numbers of additional 2G cellular sites i.e., Base Transmission Stations (BTS) and 16 additional 3G cell sites.

Talking to reporters, the Principal General Manager of BSNL N. Hari Babu along with C. Sunitha – General Manager said that BSNL has the strongest cellular coverage.

To strengthen the coverage, 84 new 2G cell sites and 16 additional 3G sites are under installation.  [read more →]

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BSNL to be split like pvt sector

May 27, 2011 at 11:36 am in News by support · Leave a Comment »

Communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal wants the management of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to run the struggling state behemoth like a private company and has formulated a new structure in which frontline regional units will have heads with financial accountability. Under the new system to be implemented from June, the performance of all the circle heads of the company would be measured in terms of gross revenue earned by them.

The nationwide market has been divided into  [read more →]

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More than 60 percent of mobile workers sleep with their smartphone

May 26, 2011 at 1:21 pm in News by support · Leave a Comment »

The iPass Mobile Workforce Report is published quarterly and based on a survey of more than 3,700 mobile enterprise employees at 1,100 enterprises worldwide between April 1 and April 15, 2011. The iPass Mobile Workforce Report can be found at www.ipass.com/mwr

The survey also uncovered:

  • The average mobile worker works 240 hours a year longer than the general population.
  • 94 percent of mobile workers have a smartphone. 41 percent of mobile workers have a tablet, and  [read more →]
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S Tel offers international calls at 1 paisa per second

May 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm in News by LT Writer · Leave a Comment »

S Tel has launched international calls at the rate of 1 paisa per second for its subscribers in Bihar and Jharkhand as well as international tourists visiting Bihar during the festive week of Buddha Purnima.

“S Tel’s Passport Pack 99 is a gift to our valued subscribers across Bihar and Jharkhand market and to the huge inflow of international tourists expected to join Buddha Purnima celebrations this week,” the S Tel Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Mr Rajkumar, said  [read more →]

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11.1 mn GSM users added in April: COAI

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Indian GSM telecom operators added 11.10 million subscribers in April, taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 580.66 million, cellular operators` association COAI today said.

The GSM subscriber base stood at 569.55 million at the end of March, 2011, with an addition of 14.49 million.

Bharti Airtel, the largest GSM player, added 2.41 million users in April, taking its total subscriber base to 164.61 million, data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) showed. It had 28.35%  [read more →]