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“Mobile Number Portability Benefited Idea Cellular The Most”, Kapil Sibal

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of Communications Kapil Sibal divulged some interesting facts about the state of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) scheme launched in January last year. Sibal...
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TRAI Complains Against Loop Mobile For Rejecting MNP Requests

The apex body for Telecom companies, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has filed a law suite against Loop mobile for rejecting certain Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Requests. TRAI has alleged in...
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TRAI Warns TelCos About MNP Malpractice. No Written Requests To Be Entertained.

Taking note of the high number of MNP requesting being cancelled, TRAI has issued a stern directive to “Stop the cancellation or withdrawal of MNP Port Out request by ‘Donor’ operator“. Mobile...
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Airtel Profits Decline Rapidly: What’s The Cause Of Distress?

Airtel seems to have succumbed to pressures of high loan repayments costs and competitive pressure in the Indian market. This coupled with low Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) has resulted in 22 per cent...
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Indian Mobile Subscriber Base Touches 884.37Million, Says TRAI

According to data released by TRAI, Telecom companies added somewhere around 2.74 million new subscribers in last November. This brings the number of mobile users in the country to 917.33 million. The...
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TRAI Probes Into Alleged MNP Violations By Airtel & Vodafone

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has been available in India following TRAI’s directive since a year now. We earlier blogged about how the service has not become very popular among consumers. Besides,...
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MNP Seems To Be A No Go In India: Why The Lack Of Popularity?

Earlier we blogged about MNP and 1.5 crore customers who adopted it. The picture doesn’t look so rosy now. Mobile number portability was going to be the biggest change agent in the Indian Telecom segment...
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Ravience Comes Back Home To Netcore

Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd has bought back mobile marketing services provider – Ravience. It was Netcore’s former executive Mr. Veerchand Bothra who was the brains behind the incorporation of Ravience...
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1.5 Crore Indians Have Opted For MNP In Less Than A Year

It is safe to say that Mobile Number Portability shook up the Indian Telecom Sector. It has forced providers to cull exploitative practises, improve network reception and introduce more attractive rates....
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Vodafone Essar Hooks Up With Opera Software

The partnership between one of the largest GSM service provider in India and a web browser which is apparently popular among 3000 different mobile phone models sounds huge. It is true that Vodafone Essar...
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Idea Cellular Won Subcribers Whereas RCom Lost Them

Yesterday we blogged that 13 million subscribers in India changed their service provider by using Mobile Number Portability (MNP).  It is now reported that Idea Cellular, one of the telecom companies...
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Airtel, Vodafone Gain Market Share In The Indian Telecom Sector

2011 has been an extremely eventful year in the Indian Telecom Sector. Two factors have come into play that have forced most operators to pull up their socks and innovate. Firstly, Mobile Number Portability...
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MNP Requests Cross 38 Lakh – But Are Operators Cooperating?

So MNP is working when it comes to mobile subscribers asking for a shift. As per this article the number of such subscribers has hit 3.8 million which may be less than 1% of overall base but it still...
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BSNL Loses 1.3 Lakh Users To MNP

It has almost been a month since the pan-India rollout of Mobile Number Portability began and some Telecom operators have already started to face the heat from the churn created by the portability. And...
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Airtel Has Highest Number Of Active Subscribers, What About The Rest?

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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MNP : Over 11 Lakh Opt For Change, But How Many Will Get It?

It has just been a little over 2 weeks since Mobile Number Portability was made all available Pan India. Even when we wrote about Haryana specific stats which suggested that Reliance and BSNL lost the...
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