New Delhi: India's federal police on Saturday conducted searches at Vodafone's Indian unit and Bharti Airtel's offices seeking details on spectrum allocation by the government to operators between 2001-02. The searches were in regard to possible irregularities in allotting spectrum during the previous government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), now in opposition, Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) spokeswoman, Dharini Mishra told Reuters. "All our documents are in complete...
10:04 AM, 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: The telecom tribunal TDSAT has directed telecom service provider Vodafone to pay Rs 25 crore penalty, 50 per cent of what the Department of Telecom (DoT) had earlier levied upon it for issuing bulk SIM cards without proper verification. "The petitioner (Vodafone) may, therefore, deposit a sum of Rs 25 crore, being 50 per cent of the amount, within two weeks from date subject to compliance of the...
10:37 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has noticed that Vodafone has rejected mobile number portability request of many of its subscribers for reasons that are not justified. "Majority of porting rejections have been primarily of the ground of contractual obligation; however, customers complained that they did not enter into such agreement with Vodafone," TRAI said in its direction issued today. Under MNP regulations, a mobile subscriber can...
02:13 PM, Nov 05, 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
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: Amid differences in the industry over major issues, including charges for extra spectrum held by incumbent operators and other related matters, the Telecom Commission, the decision-making arm of the DoT, will meet this week to consider the report of an internal committee. According to sources, the internal committee has accepted the various recommendations made by TRAI in its report on 'spectrum management and pricing', but on crucial matters...
12:29 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Mumbai: Vodafone is threatening a customer with a law suit after a spat over deficiency in service turned ugly. It became a full blown war after the customer Dhaval Valia posted the names and numbers of service executives who were unable to help him on Facebook. Promises on 3G service made Dhaval Valia switch to cellular operator Vodafone in April this year. Dhaval says he soon faced issues with the ...
09:18 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Mumbai: Vodafone is threatening a customer with a law suit after a spat over deficiency in service turned ugly. It became a full blown war after the customer Dhaval Valia posted the names and numbers of service executives who were unable to help him on Facebook. Promises on 3G service made Dhaval Valia switch to cellular operator Vodafone in April this year. Dhaval says he soon faced issues with the...
09:18 AM, Jun 04, 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
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: UK-based telecom major Vodafone Group today said it has exercised its option to acquire Essar's stake in their joint venture, Vodafone Essar, which will result in a cash flow of $5 billion for the Indian firm. "Vodafone Group announces that the Essar Group has exercised its underwritten put option over 22 per cent of Vodafone Essar Limited (VEL). Following the exercise by the Essar Group of its put...
02:57 PM, Mar 31, 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
London: Egyptian authorities forced Vodafone to broadcast government-scripted text messages during the protests that have rocked the North African nation, the UK-based mobile company said Thursday. Micro-blogging site Twitter has been buzzing with screen grabs from Vodafone's Egyptian customers showing pro-government text messages sent to them in the run-up to the violent clashes in central Cairo that broke out on Wednesday. Vodafone Group PLC said in a statement that Egyptian...
07:07 PM, Feb 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
Mumbai: Vodafone has won People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India's Glitterbox Award for its parrot advertisement. In Vodafone's latest series of advertisements promoting its offering of a bonus card of Rs 4, the company chose to create an animated parrot with actor Boman Irani's voice over. "Vodafone's talking 'parrot' ads are as kind as they are creative. It so great to see companies like Vodafone take advantage...
01:38 PM, Dec 29, 2010
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing in the tax case against Vodafone to November 15 after the telecom company sought time to go through the Rs 11,218 crore tax notice sent by the Income Tax department. Vodafone submitted before the court that it received the tax department order late Friday and hence needed time to pore over it. Considering the telecom giant's argument, a bench comprising Chief...
12:47 PM, Oct 25, 2010
