New Delhi: The wait for Apple's iPhone 4S to hit Indian shores came to an end after leading telecom operators Airtel and Aircel on Friday launched the much-awaited iPhone 4S in the country at price starting from Rs 44,500. Both the telecom operators have priced the 16-GB model at Rs 44,500, while the 32-GB and 64-GB versions will be available for Rs 50,900 and Rs 57,500, respectively. The iPhone 4S...
07:17 AM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: The total revenue of telecom service providers was Rs 50,054 crore during the quarter ended September, according to TRAI data released in New Delhi on Wednesday. Bharti Airtel alone accounted for almost 26 per cent of total industry gross revenue at Rs 13,239 crore. It was followed by state-owned BSNL, with 18 per cent share at Rs 9,040 crore. Vodafone was next, with 17.8 per cent share at...
10:57 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: Major telecom firms Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have threatened to exit 3G services if the Government does not approve their pact to provide intra-circle roaming. Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal, Idea Cellular Chairman Kumar Birla and Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao have written a joint letter to the Prime Minister. In the letter, they said, "...in the event that 3G Intra-Circle Roaming (ICR) is now deemed impermissible, then, it...
03:40 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Mumbai: Shares in Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile phone carrier, fell as much as 3.6 per cent on Monday after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) searched its offices and those of Vodafone's Indian unit as part of an investigation into alleged irregularities in the allocation of the nation's airwaves. Bharti shares pared losses to trade 1.04 per cent lower at 0644 GMT in a Mumbai market down 1.2 per...
01:41 PM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: Even as the CBI Saturday raided the offices of telecom service providers Bharti Airtel and Vodafone for alleged irregularities in additional spectrum allocation, the firms said they are co-operating with the government and their documents are in compliance with the laws. Central Bureau of Investigation officials checked the Airtel office in Gurgaon and Vodafone office in Mumbai and Delhi, and the residences of former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh...
08:56 AM, Nov 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday decided to investigate about discrepancies in 2G spectrum allocation during the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government. Additional allocation of the 2G spectrum during the late BJP leader and the then telecom minister Pramod Mahajan's tenure will be investigated with the CBI registering a second FIR. After the FIR, the CBI conducted raids at Vodafone office in Mumbai and...
11:02 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Both Airtel and Airel, the two mobile service providers bringing the iPhone 4S to India, have revealed the price that Indian consumers will have to pay to acquire the latest object of desire from Apple. Airtel and Airtel on their respective iPhone 4S pre-order pages have listed the iPhone 4S 16GB at Rs 44,500 and the 32GB model for Rs 50,900. This pricing is substantially higher than the...
07:26 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Airtel, one of the two mobile service providers bringing the iPhone 4S to India, has revealed the price that Indian consumers will have to pay to acquire the latest object of desire from Apple. Airtel on its iPhone 4S pre-order page has listed the iPhone 4S 16GB at Rs 44,500 and the 32GB model for Rs 50,900. This pricing is substantially higher than the older models of the...
03:26 PM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: In the face of financial pressure, private sector telecom major Airtel has increased international call rate tariffs by up to 10 per cent for some destinations for all customers and reduced certain benefits on add-on services for its pre-paid subscribers. "Tariff rationalisation is a continuous process and a function of market dynamics. With the correction of tariffs for a few international destinations, we continue to remain competitive and...
05:46 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: It's official now! After Aircel announced that it will launch the much-awaited Apple's iPhone 4S on November 25, the company has now said that the pre-orders for the iPhone 4S will begin from November 18. The recent post related to the iPhone 4S announcement on the Facebook page of Aircel says, "Aircel is bringing iPhone 4S to India on Nov 25. PRE-ORDER from Nov 18. Get more details...
09:10 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Mumbai: In a pioneering move, CNBC-TV18, India's No 1 business news channel, has launched a new premium business news service, 'CNBC-TV18 Prime HD', focused on the needs of India's rapidly expanding investor and financial services community. Available in addition to the existing CNBC-TV18 channel, 'CNBC-TV18 PRIME HD' will be broadcast on India's leading DTH platforms in HD quality, in effect making CNBC-TV18 the first business news channel to foray into...
09:24 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Amid concerns of economic slowdown and policy paralysis, noted industrialist and telecom czar Sunil Mittal on Wednesday said "business is better than perception". Praising the government for its initiatives to deal with the current economic issues, Mittal said, "I have never seen in a long period of time, the finance ministry being so pro-active in looking up issues...informing us what is going on. I want to say business...
04:59 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Mumbai: India has the highest per centage share of family businesses in Asia, accounting for 67 per cent of total listed companies with market capitalisation of more than $ 50 million, Credit Suisse said in a research report on Thursday. The report said 663 out of 983 listed Indian firms were family businesses and they account for half of all corporate hirings. Family businesses in India account for 46.8 per...
10:57 PM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: India's top mobile phone carrier Bharti Airtel on Friday reported a bigger-than-expected 38 per cent fall in fiscal second-quarter profit, its seventh straight quarterly profit drop, hit by higher interest costs and foreign exchange losses. Bharti, nearly a third owned by Southeast Asia's biggest phone firm SingTel, said consolidated net profit fell to $ 210 million for its fiscal second quarter ended September from Rs 16.61 billion a...
01:18 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Mumbai: India has the highest percentage share of family businesses in Asia, accounting for 67 per cent of total listed companies with market capitalisation of more than $50 million, Credit Suisse said in a research report on Thursday. The report said 663 out of 983 listed Indian firms were family businesses and they account for half of all corporate hirings. Family businesses in India account for 46.8 per cent of...
07:51 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Sports' greatest travelling circus the Formula One has reached India and corporate India too has queued up for associating with this event. ...
08:55 AM, Oct 20, 2011
Kenya/New Delhi: Bharti Airtel Wednesday said that its African-arm has launched an online payment system - PayOnline that will allow its mobile subscribers to use handsets to make purchase online along with Standard Chartered Bank and MasterCard Worldwide. "While initially launched in Kenya, this product will soon be available across Africa," the company said in a statement. PayOnline will allow registered airtel consumers to make online purchases from any site...
11:54 AM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: Mobile phone subscriber base in India grew by just 0.78 per cent with addition of 6.67 million new connections in July taking the total number of wireless users to 858.27 million, according to telecom regulator TRAI. Tata Teleservices lost 2.67 million users in July, while Videocon lost 95,010 users, impacting the industry's performance. The total telecom subscriber base stood at 892.55 million at the end of July taking...
08:23 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: Within days of hiking mobile tariffs in some segments, Bharti Airtel on Tuesday hinted that charges may go up "significantly" in the near future in view of rising operating costs. "...The pressure on this industry will be acute as the operators will have to serve the rural markets, as well as low-end customers, who use only voice calls and SMSes," Bharti Group CEO and Managing Director Sunil Mittal...
01:25 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Telecom major Bharti Airtel said that the fourth generation (4G) technology for mobile communications could be launched in India alongside other countries. "Launch of 4G services in India will be almost aligned with the rest of the world," said Sanjay Kapoor, chief executive officer, India and South Asia, Bharti Airtel, at a Qualcomm event in New Delhi. However, he did not indicate when it would happen. 4G is...
07:32 PM, Aug 30, 2011
