Mumbai: Telecom operator Reliance Communications today announced a roaming agreement with Aircel, under which both the companies will use each others' mobile towers to improve network coverage for 2G GSM services.
RCom is in talks with other operators as well to have similar arrangements and add total of around 10,000 base stations (mobile towers) in its network, it said in a statement.
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03:46 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Reliance Communications today said it has partnered with Twitter to launch a prepaid plan for GSM subscribers in the country. The promotional offer will be free for 90 days after which a fee will be charged for the plan. "Reliance Twitter Access Pack, is a promotional offer for a period of 90 days during this T20 cricketing season which comes bundled for all new GSM prepaid subscribers with...
04:44 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: In the proposed third round of spectrum auction, the government may put on block 2G GSM airwaves in Delhi and Mumbai circles and CDMA spectrum in 13 circles that remained unsold in the previous sale held last month, sources said. The government earlier had said that it would conduct the third round of auction putting on block all 2G spectrum freed from cancellation of 122 licences, after the...
09:48 PM, Apr 09, 2013
The second round of 2G spectrum sale is virtually set to be a flop show as there is no applicant for GSM band of radiowaves while Sistema Shyam is the only firm for CDMA band at close of deadline on Monday for applying to take part in the auction. While no application was received for the GSM band spectrum at the close of deadline, Russian Sistema's Indian joint venture, Sistema...
07:29 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Those expecting the hottest new phones to make their appearance at the show may be disappointed. ...
03:31 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Unsuccessful bidders and telecom companies which opted out of participating in the first round of fresh auction for 2G spectrum following cancellation of their licences by last year's order would not be allowed to continue their service, the Supreme Court said on February 11. ...
01:39 PM, Feb 12, 2013
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has recommended a cut of up to 50 per cent in the auction reserve price for airwaves used by phone carriers operating on the CDMA platform, raising the odds for the local unit of Russia's Sistema to continue operating in the world's second-biggest mobile phone market. ...
07:03 PM, Jan 07, 2013
GSM mobile operators, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, lost over 9 million subscribers in November, bringing down the user base to 663.78 million, industry body COAI said today. ...
04:34 PM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Department of Telecom on Tuesday issued an 'information memorandum' containing details of spectrum auction which will start from November 12. Earlier, the Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the time for completing the auction of spectrum by January 11, 2013, from earlier deadline of August 31. According to the information memorandum issued by the DoT, notices to invite application will be issued on September 28 for two different...
02:19 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: India's GSM subscriber base grew by 1.08 per cent in May, adding 7.27 million mobile phone users, with Bharti Airtel alone signing up over 2.01 million customers, according to data released by Cellular Operators Association of India. The total number of GSM subscribers in the country crossed 677.85 million as against 670.57 million in April. Airtel currently has 185 million subscribers. Idea Cellular followed Airtel by adding 1.8...
09:58 AM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: India's GSM subscriber base grew by 1.04 per cent in March with addition of 6.87 million mobile phone users, with Bharti Airtel alone signing up over 2.5 million customers, according to data released by Cellular Operators Association of India. The total number of GSM subscribers in the country crossed 664 million as against 657.22 million in February. Airtel currently has 181.28 million subscribers. Idea Cellular followed Airtel by...
11:33 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: The GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has announced that India will become the second largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years with 367 million mobile broadband connections by 2016. This will make it a larger market than the US, which will account for 337 million mobile broadband connections by 2016; but it will still be second to China, which will have...
03:47 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: New telecom operators, led by Uninor and Sistema Shyam (MTS India), continue to add new subscribers in February notwithstanding the uncertain environment after the Supreme Court judgement canceling 122 2G licences. Uninor, a joint venture between Unitech and Norway-based Telenor, registered the maximum growth of 6.04 per cent in additions as it added 2.34 million users in the month. Its total user base was at 41.14 million. According...
09:14 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: With service tax set to rise from 10 to 12 per cent, telecom companies on Saturday said tariffs for all telecom services will rise from the date the hike in tax is notified. "We are very disappointed with increase in service tax. Industry has been under attack for raising (tariff) but this time government itself has raised service tax which will take phone service charges up," GSM industry...
08:34 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday announced the new telecom policy (NTP) allowing operators to hold higher spectrum, pay uniform license fee across services besides permitting liberal merger and acquisition, with a view to provide quality services at affordable prices. Announcing a part of policy, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal told a press conference that "the prescribed limit on spectrum assigned to a service provider will be 2x8 MHz (paired spectrum)...
08:40 PM, Feb 15, 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
Berlin: A well-known expert on mobile phone security says a vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones, instructing them to send text messages or make calls. They could use the vulnerability in the GSM network technology, which is used by billions of people in about 80 per cent of the global mobile market, to make calls or send texts to expensive,...
02:29 PM, Dec 27, 2011
New Delhi: Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Communications has increased call charges by 20 per cent for both GSM and CDMA services in most of its operating circles. "We have increased tariffs in most of the circles over last couple of months in a phased manner, from 1 paisa to 1.2 paise per second," Syed Safawi, the head of RCom's wireless business, said. RCom said the hike in tariffs is...
01:48 PM, Aug 14, 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: 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
