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 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
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: 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
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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and seven telecom firms including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone on a plea for cancellation of 2G spectrum beyond 2x4.5 MHz for metros and 2x4.4 MHz for other circles, allocated to the firms without additional fees. A bench of Justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay granted them four weeks times to file their replies on the petition, which pleaded...
05:44 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Barcelona: Indian mobile phone users will have to pay more if the service providers are charged for spectrum, which was earlier given free to the operators, Chairman of the country's largest telecom company Bharti Airtel Sunil Mittal has said. "We have been offering services with lower tariffs when we have not been charged for spectrum. Going ahead, if it (spectrum) will be charged, we will also have to charge the...
05:12 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: Bharti Airtel, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Airtel M Commerce Services Ltd (AMSL), today announced the pan-Indian launch of its mobile wallet service - airtel money. Available across 300 key cities in India, 'airtel money' is a fast, simple and secure service that allows its users to load cash on their mobile devices and spend it to pay utility bills and recharges, shop at 7,000-plus merchant outlets and transact online,...
04:45 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Mumbai: The Indian market ended February series on a weak note. The Nifty swung as a pendulum between negative and positive territories before closing with a 20-point cut. Today was a tough session that saw the Nifty lose its stronghold over the 5,500 mark. The NSE benchmark lost 22 points or 0.4 per cent to end at 5,483. The Sensex too closed in the red at 18,078.5, down 66 points...
09:06 AM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: In what comes as another shock for the telecom industry, the government is set to recommend that older players like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea be charged for excess spectrum that they hold. CNN-IBN has accessed a draft Cabinet note that is set to recommend the same. Sources say that the draft is expected to be finalised within a week and a decision on this is likely in...
06:24 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking clarity on pricing of spectrum and allocation, CEOs of five top telecom operators including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular will be meeting Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday. The high level government-industry interaction would take place for the second time within less than two months. The industry leaders, including Sunil Bharti Mittal, Anil Ambani and Kumar Mangalam Birla had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on...
08:17 AM, Jan 24, 2012
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