Bharti Airtel has reportedly purchased an additional 4.9 per cent stake in Bharti Infratel via open market block deals. The telco bought the aforementioned stake in the company for around Rs 31.5 billion- Rs 33 billion. Prior to...
Read MoreBharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) employees’ union, Sanchar Nigam Executives’ Association (SNEA), has sought an immediate intervention from the telecom minister in the matter of renewal of BSNL’s licence and allocation of 2G...
Read MoreVodafone Idea (Vi) has reportedly increased the prices of two of its Red postpaid plans by Rs 50 with immediate effect. The two plans are- Rs 598 and Rs 749. Consequently, now the plans cost Rs 649 and Rs 799, respectively. With...
Read MoreVi has unveiled a new proposition for prepaid and postpaid customers to address the changing requirements of today’s digital society. Through this new proposition, Vi will offer an array of digital products and services in the...
Read MoreBharti Airtel has called on the government to keep spectrum prices affordable to give telcos the financial headroom to invest meaningfully in 5G networks. Further, Airtel has also underlined the need for strong collaboration...
Read MoreAccording to recent data by TRAI, Reliance Jio and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) were the only telcos that registered a year-on-year growth in subscribers base in 2019. While Jio added 90.9 million customers in 2019 to...
Read MoreThe empowered technology group (ETG) has reportedly declined to consider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) views showing reluctance to use 4G core network from domestic companies. The group is headed by principal scientific...
Read MoreRoute Mobile Limited has announced a contract win with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to deploy its SMS firewall platform across the southern and western zones in India. With a large user base of mobile subscribers, BSNL...
Read MoreThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has imposed a penalty worth Rs 350 million on eight telecom operators for not preventing unsolicited commercial communications (UCC) over their networks between April 2020 to June...
Read MoreGoogle has reportedly paid Rs 337.37 billion to Jio Platforms for purchasing 7.73 per cent stake in the company. With this, Google has now joined the list of global investors such as Facebook to have infused capital in the...
Read MoreBharti Airtel has reportedly recommended the setting up of an optic fibre regulatory authority to ensure faster, transparent, and more economically sound fibre deployment in India. According to Airtel, the authority will ensure...
Read MoreAirtel Digital TV has partnered with online learning platform Vedantu to offer Maths and Science lessons to students from grade sixth to twelfth. As per the terms of the partnership, two dedicated DTH channels–Vedantu...
Read MoreVodafone Idea (Vi) has reportedly got an initial proposal worth $2 billion line of credit from a consortium led by US investment firm Oak Hill Advisors. Some of the global investors in the consortium that has given a non-binding...
Read MoreBharti Airtel has acquired a 5.2 per cent stake in Avaada MHBuldhana for Rs 45.5 million in an all-cash deal. Avaada MHBuldhana Private Limited, subsidiary of Avaada Energy Private Limited (AEPL), is a solar power company which...
Read MoreAs per industry sources, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has informed the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that the prices offered by domestic OEMs are around 89 per cent higher than the prices offered by global...
Read MoreThe merger of Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers to create a mega tower company has been completed....
Read MoreVodafone Idea is reportedly in discussion with a consortium backed by Oaktree Capital to raise $2 -$2.5billion. As per industry sources, the Oaktree Capital backed consortium consists of companies like Varde Partners. The...
Read MoreThe Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will reportedly finalise its decision on commercial launch of the 4G services by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). However, no specific timeline has been committed by the officials...
Read MoreReliance Jio has requested the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to set up a mandatory schedule for periodic spectrum auctions to ensure that telecom operators do not have to wait long for radiowaves to meet their...
Read MoreMavenir has appointed Vishant Vora as president, global customer operations and managed services. In his new role, Vora will lead Mavenir’s global end-to-end business operations including network design, rollout and deployments,...
Read MoreThe Centre has sought time from the Delhi High Court to respond to decide on appealing against the international arbitral award in Vodafone’s favour under the India-Netherland Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement (BIPA) in...
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