New Delhi: Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has forayed into Indai's mobile advertising segment, a company official said here Sunday. Airtel's m-Advertising platform is designed to meet demands of advertisers such as inventory management, campaign management, reporting and analytics. Airtel will equip advertisers to connect with their potential customers in a personalised way through their mobile phones. K. Srinivas, president-consumer business, Bharti Airtel, said. India's mobile advertising market currently is...
04:00 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile phone operator, added 2.01 million mobile users in April, taking its total subscribers in the country to 183.3 million, data from an industry body showed on Friday. Vodafone's Indian unit, which is the country's No. 3 mobile operator by subscribers, signed up 0.82 million mobile users in April to have a total of 151.3 million, the Cellular Operators Association of India said on...
12:47 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Airtel will roll out 4G services in Delhi and Mumbai in partnership with Qualcomm. The GSM service provider has inked a deal with the Qualcomm to roll out 4G services on its behalf. Qualcomm had bagged BWA (Broadband Wireless Access)spectrum or 4G licenses for Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala. Now it has signed an agreement with Bharti Airtel under which it has authorised the teleco to operate its...
06:24 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel today said it has acquired 49 per cent stake in Qualcomm's broadband wireless access (BWA) business in India for USD 165 million (about Rs 922 crore). Under the agreement, Bharti Airtel has made an initial investment of about USD 165 million to acquire 49 per cent interest in Qualcomm Asia Pacific's India entities that hold BWA licenses in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala, Bharti Airtel said...
04:48 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: In the BrandZ list of the Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 are two Indian companies - Airtel and ICICI Bank. India's leading private sector bank ICICI has made it to the annual list on previous ocassions but this is Airtel's maiden entry into the top 100. ICICI has dropped 10 places since 2011 in the list and according to Millward Brown ICICI Bank's brand value has...
02:41 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile phone operator, on Thursday cut prices of its third-generation (3G) mobile data services by about 70 percent under some plans, a company statement showed, in a move to boost usage of the premium services in the country. Bharti and its rivals in the country started 3G services last year after spending a total more than $12 billion to buy airwaves in an auction....
07:22 PM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Authorities are investigating top mobile phone carrier Bharti Airtel under provisions of the money laundering and foreign exchange rules, a minister said, sending its shares down as much as 5.1 per cent. The Directorate of Enforcement is investigating cases against Bharti, Minister of State for Finance SS Palanimanickam told Parliament on Tuesday, but declined to give further details. "It may not be in the interest of the ongoing investigations...
03:41 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: Nokia India announced partnerships with Bharti Airtel and Vodafone to offer solutions from Nokia Store to customers of these two telecom operators. "This will enable purchase of Nokia Store applications through an operator billing process. This would also offer significant monetisation opportunities to developers and galvanise local content development," Vodafone India's chief commercial officer Sanjoy Mukerji said. Vodafone and Airtel consumers can now download local and global paid content...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Mobile call rates would double in some circles if the recommendations of sectoral regulator TRAI on spectrum pricing are accepted, telecom CEOs who met Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal warned on Tuesday. "...there will be circles which will have more than a 100 per cent price rise (in tariffs) if they were to absorb the impact of what is being recommended," Bharti Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor told reporters. "In...
04:50 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has today launched its 4G services in India's IT hub - Bengaluru. Following the recent inaugural launch of Airtel 4G services in Kolkata, customers in Bengaluru have now become the second in India to have access to 4G LTE technology that is touted to deliver the most advanced wireless broadband experience across the globe. Airtel has also introduced 'Smartbytes' for 4G, thereby allowing customers to buy...
02:58 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Rankled by TRAI's recommendations for 2G spectrum auctions, telecom companies on Wednesday made a joint pitch to top government functionaries, including Home Minister P Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, for not accepting the "catastrophic" recipe of the industry watchdog. Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal, Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao, Idea Cellular Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas first made their case with Chidambram...
07:52 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Chiefs of top telecom firms, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, will meet Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday evening to discuss their concerns following the TRAI's recommendations on spectrum auction. According to a Telecom Department official, the meeting will take place at Sibal's residence. It will have Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and managing director, Bharti Airtel, Vittorio Colao, chief executive, Vodafone Group, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, chief executive...
04:57 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel India's biggest mobile phone carrier by subscribers, reported its ninth straight quarterly profit decline as intense price competition and losses on foreign exchange eroded earnings. Consolidated net profit fell to 10.06 billion rupees in the fourth quarter ended March from 14 billion rupees a year earlier, Bharti said on Wednesday. That missed the average estimate of 12.12 billion rupees in a survey of 19 analysts by...
10:34 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Commuters travelling on the Delhi Metro's Airport Express line managed by Reliance Infrastructure can now have uninterrupted mobile phone connectivity, a company official said here Monday. "Reliance Infrastructure constantly works towards enhancing commuter comfort and convenience. A complete bouquet of Reliance Commmunication, Vodafone, Airtel, Idea and Aircel services will now be available at all the stations of the Airport Express line," a Reliance Infrastructure spokesperson said. According to...
12:31 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Airtel's online shop offers products and services like mobile phones, mobile and broadband plans, Digital TV services etc. Airtel has launched its new e-commerce portal, called Airtel Shop, which will offer deals on mobile handsets, digital TV, and broadband connections at http://shop.airtel.com. Users will be able to buy Airtel plans for mobile, broadband and DTH service through the website. We expect that Airtel users will get special offers...
12:59 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The telecoms regulator's proposal for a near 10-fold increase in basic mobile phone spectrum prices and switching of radio spectrum given to older carriers knocked down shares of leading operators on fears that the big potential payouts will further hurt an already bleeding industry. Shares in top mobile operator Bharti Airtel fell as much as 7.5 per cent on Tuesday morning to their lowest level since July 2010,...
01:00 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom giant Vodafone on Tuesday sought more time to reply to the summons issued by Enforcement Directorate against the firm in connection with alleged irregularities in the grant of additional 2G spectrum during 2001-03. Authorised representatives of the telecom company on Tuesday met ED authorities in New Delhi and sought additional time to submit the information called by the agency like shareholding pattern of the company since 2003,...
09:07 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned top brass of Vodafone and Bharti Airtel in connection with alleged irregularities in the grant of additional 2G spectrum during 2001-03. Continuing its probe into telecom spectrum scam, the ED had registered case, pertaining to the allocation of spectrum during the NDA regime. It has named former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh, then deputy director general JR Gupta and few telecom companies for alleged...
03:39 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it will be ready to launch 4G service in Bangalore in the next 30 days. "We will be ready for launching it (4G service) in Bangalore in 30 days time. We have selected Huawei (as network equipment vendor) for Bangalore," Bharti Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor told reporters during a conference call. The company on Tuesday announced launch of fourth generation (4G)...
02:07 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Kolkata: Bharti Airtel has launched Broadband Wireless Access or BWA services in Kolkata, becoming the first company to offer 4G services in India. The services will also be available in Pune, Chandigarh and Bangalore soon. The services on offer include those which can be intercepted by and made available in the required format to the security agencies. Airtel had announced last week that it has roped in Chinese telecom equipment...
11:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
