New Delhi: Telecom giant Bharti Airtel on Monday proposed an annual pay package of up to Rs 70 crore for its chief Sunil Mittal, besides other benefits, while seeking its shareholders' nod for his remuneration. The proposed package would be more than double his last fiscal remuneration of Rs 27.5 crore, which is nearly three-fourth or about 76 per cent of the combined pay package of the company's all directors...
04:53 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Mumbai: Taking a leaf from telecom giant Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone also increased tariffs on their pre-paid plans in select regions while Bharti expanded its new tariffs to other circles, officials familiar with the development said Thursday. Idea has increased its tariff from 1 paisa per second to 1.2 paisa per second for calls made from Idea to other networks including both local and STD calls in the...
07:30 AM, Jul 29, 2011
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest telecom company by subscribers, on Friday announced 20 per cent increase in pre-paid tariff rates of its 'Advantage' and 'Freedom' pack for calls and SMSes sent within Airtel network. User of advantage pack, which is based on per minute billing, will now have to pay 60 paise instead of 50 per minute for local and STD calls and 90 paise for calls to...
04:52 PM, Jul 22, 2011
Bangalore: Call it the Saturday night fever, but all for a good cause when nine jet-setting CEOs from corporate India lent their voice to a charity event, suitably titled 'CEOs sing for their supper'. But for Biocon founder and MD, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the exercise was pure passion singing. "I don't think I'm singing for my supper as I'm on a diet but am singing for these kids who need ...
07:46 AM, Jul 17, 2011
Bangalore: Call it the Saturday night fever, but all for a good cause when nine jet-setting CEOs from corporate India lent their voice to a charity event, suitably titled 'CEOs sing for their supper'. But for Biocon founder and MD, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the exercise was pure passion singing. "I don't think I'm singing for my supper as I'm on a diet but am singing for these kids who need...
07:46 AM, Jul 17, 2011
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07:44 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Citizen Journalist Sarit Guha talks about the problem he has been facing with his Airtel IPTV connection. ...
07:36 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Citizen journalist Praveen Goel talks about how his internet banking was misused to transfer Rs 2 lakh to an unknown account. ...
08:17 PM, Jun 26, 2011
New Delhi: Ranjan Sharma is changing the way lakhs of farmers get credible information. In the process, his partners IFFCO and Airtel are increasing their reach in rural markets Why we did the story: Entrepreneurship and technology have often come together to give us exciting products, like Steve Jobs and the iPad or the Google founders' search engine. But there is a higher qualitative effect when entrepreneurs use technology to...
12:04 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: India's GSM subscriber base grew by 1.95 per cent in April with the addition of 11.11 million mobile phone users, of which Bharti Airtel alone signed up over 2.41 million customers. The total number of GSM subscribers in the country crossed 580.67 million as against 569.56 million in March, according to the data released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). Bharti Airtel now has a market share...
01:04 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: Singapore-based software applications developer U2opia Mobile has developed a new application for mobile phones that will allow them to access Facebook on all kind of handsets without paying for a data connection. "We are using USSD technology, which will enable users to access Facebook without having a GPRS connection on their phones," said Sumesh Menon, the co-founder and CEO of U2Opia Mobile. Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD) is the...
06:28 PM, May 17, 2011
New Delhi: Thousands of Bharti Airtel subscribers in the city faced disruption in services in several areas, especially Central and East Delhi, on Thursday. Airtel subscribers across the city were not able to make or receive calls on their handsets due to network failure in the evening. No official comments were available from the company and hence the reason for the network failure could not be ascertained. Customer helpline numbers...
09:35 PM, May 05, 2011
Mumbai: Shares of telecom operator Bharti airtel on Thursday fell by over 4 per cent on the bourses in morning trade after the company reported a dip of 31.48 per cent in net profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2011. The shares of the country's largest telecom player fell by 4.65 per cent to touch an early low of Rs 352.40 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). In a...
11:22 AM, May 05, 2011
Bangalore: Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top mobile phone carrier, said on Monday it would launch Apple's iPhone 4 in India in the coming months. The company did not give more details. Airtel's Chief Executive Officer for India and South Asia Sanjay Kapoor had earlier, in July 2010, announced that it was looking to launch Apple's iPhone 4 in September or October. But that launch didn't happen. Even Airtel competitor, and...
09:57 AM, Apr 11, 2011
New Delhi: Vodafone's India unit has so far gained the most following India's move allowing mobile users to retain their numbers even when they switch carriers, data from an industry body showed on Friday. But, mobile number portability (MNP), which was launched in Haryana in late November and nationwide from Jan. 20, was not a "game changer" for the industry, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a...
01:55 PM, Mar 19, 2011
New Delhi: Telecom giant Bharti Airtel is on top when it comes to receiving customer complaints regarding billing and service related issues with 3,571 complaints filed in the last three years, the Lok Sabha was informed Wednesday. "TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has been receiving complaints against telecom service providers, alleging various problems which include billing, metering and tariff related issues and activation of chargeable value added services without...
12:55 PM, Mar 10, 2011
New Delhi: The country's largest telecom player, Bharti Airtel launched 3G service in Delhi circle, enabling subscribers to access high speed internet and video telephony. The company launched its third Generation of Mobile services on the back of a robust network powered by over 1,800 3G sites in the National Capital Region spanning Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Noida. Bharti Airtel is the third private operator after Tata Teleservices and Reliance...
04:20 PM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: The MNP services, via which the customer can retain the number even after changing its service provider, was expected to shake up the telephony market, but now industry leaders are recognising that this may not happen, says a study. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the nation-wide mobile number portability (MNP) services on January 20. The service was first launched in Haryana in November last year. "With 0.75 per...
09:52 AM, Jan 26, 2011
New Delhi: A majority of consumers are unhappy with their current mobile service provider and want to switch, that's what the Swayam-numvar survey conducted by IBNLive discovered. Mobile number portability (MNP) was finally launched across the country after a long wait on January 21 and telecom companies have hit the top gear in their efforts to retain existing customers and to attract new ones from other networks. In Haryana where...
05:20 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: After years of delays, Mobile Number Portability (MNP) will finally be available all over India from January 20. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said, "We're very happy that we are going to launch it nationally tomorrow. It's a great step forward for the consumer. It enhances his choice." Dump your phone company. Move to a better one. But keep your present number. 700 million Indians use cell phones. With...
07:03 AM, Jan 20, 2011
