Now Make Use Of Mobile Payments To Pay Amount Upto Rs.50,000 – Reports RBI

by | posted: May 5, 2011
RBI (Reserve Bank of India) have decided to increase the limit of money loading from the existing limit of Rs.5,000 to Rs.50,000 allowing the customers to pay any type of service via mobile phone, m-wallet. RBI’s...
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Airtel Has Highest Number Of Active Subscribers, What About The Rest?

by | posted: February 11, 2011
Sometime back in July last year, we covered a story on the growth of mobile subscribers in India. Adding onto this, a recent TRAI report also said that there were 752.19 million subscribers in December...
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A Tale Of 2 Schemes: Aadhar And Rural Telephony

by | posted: February 7, 2011
2 schemes, both expected to benefit India’s myriad poor to a large extent, but with seemingly contrasting fortunes While Aadhar, which hasn’t quite picked up the steam necessary for covering...
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Bailout Alert – Govt. May Reduce Failing Telcos’ Pain

by | posted: September 27, 2010
Normally, you would associate ‘bailout’ with the painful recession of 2008. This one is not so much about that. Over the past 12 – 18 months, news has consistently flooded us with launches of mobile...
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DoCoMo Initiated 1 paisa/sec Goes International Via Videocon – Call US, Canada

by | posted: September 1, 2010
We are set to witness another tariff war after the 1 paisa/sec billing that Tata Docomo brought about roughing up quite a few established telecom operator feathers, Videocon has drawn first blood in the...
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Funding Updates: Ericsson – Novatium Solutions | Naspers – OLX

by | posted: August 31, 2010
Funding news can only mean one thing; the investors believe that a certain company has the potential to grow. So who is investing in whom? Let us find out. Ericsson Claims Minority Stake in Novatium Swedish...
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Financial Results Round Up – Bharti & 123greetings

by | posted: April 29, 2010
Bharti Q4 Profits Dip By 8% Things are not going very good for Airtel as it’s Fourth Quarter profits of the current financial year have gone down by 8%. Taking a look at the figures, Bharti Airtel’s...
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Telecom Roundup: RCom – GetJar, Bharti WorldSim & Uninor Prepaid GPRS

by | posted: April 28, 2010
The telecom scene is getting hotter day by day in India with both the 3G auctions reaching dizzying heights and also the telecom subscriber base for wireless subscribers inching towards the 600 million...
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Telecom Round-up: Bharti Inks Zain Deal, Tele-Subscriber Base Touches 600M

by | posted: April 1, 2010
Bharti Inks Zain Deal Last week we told you about Bharti securing funds for the Zain acquisition. And now we have reports that Bharti has finally acquired Kuwait based Zain Telecom’s African assets...
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Bharti Airtel Q2 Results : Top line higher by 9%,Profits up 13%

by | posted: October 31, 2009
Bharti Airtel  registered a 9% Y-o-Y growth in revenues to Rs.9,846 Crores. The net Profit was up by 13% Y-o-Y at Rs. 2,321 Crores. The company registered a sequential decline in both revenues and profitability...
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Should TRAI Interfere In Mobile Tariff Plans? – Bharti’s Mittal Thinks NOT!

by | posted: October 7, 2009
TRAI recently stated that it would make it mandatory for all operators to have a one second pulse for charging consumers. While this might be seen as a good move from the consumers point of view and we...
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GSM Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions

by | posted: September 12, 2009
After a brief pick up in the GSM subscribers in the month of July, August showed just a marginal dip over the previous months. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) data shows that the total...
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Bharti-MTN Merger-beneficial in the long run

by | posted: May 27, 2009
It was not so long ago when Bharti Airtel announced the acquisition of 100 millionth Subscriber in India. Now it has stunned everyone by announcing revival of merger talks with MTN Group,South African...
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Airtel Crosses 100 Million Subscribers – What Does That Say About the Mobile Industry?

by | posted: May 16, 2009
Airtel has become the first in India and the third worldwide behind China’s top players to cross 100 million subscribers. It has also become the sixth largest integrated operator in the world. And...
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Bharti Airtel launches A Windows-based Online Desktop on Airtel broadband

by | posted: February 19, 2009
Bharti Airtel just a few days ago announced the launch of the world’s first Windows based Online Desktop-powered by Microsoft and Nivio, giving access to a personal virtual desktop from any computer...
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Nokia Launches Mobile Ad Network. Adds Airtel, Sprint

by | posted: September 17, 2008
Nokia has taken a significant step in being a Mobile Ad Network, by adding Sprint and Bharti Airtel to the list of carriers, reports Reuters India. Last year Nokia acquired Enpocket to start building...
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