The company is also in talks with banks and investors for raising funds, an official said
CEO indicates a tariff hike may happen soon
Charlie Lee's firm True Balance leverages on its mobile phone balance checking business to assess and disburse loans with simple documentation in a matter of minutes
Telecom reforms to help preserve our cash flows and also drive industry investments, says Vittal
Telecom reforms to help preserve cash flows, drive industry investments, says Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal
Payments Bank turns profitable; Nil bank debt in India businesses
The company's consolidated revenue from operations was 283.26 billion rupees ($3.79 billion) for the quarter ended Sept. 30
Both Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have said they will avail the four-year moratorium on payment of dues
Telecom operators, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have asked the Department of Telecom to extend the 5G trial period by six months. In May, the government allocated spectrum to the telecom companies in 700 Mhz band, 3.3-3.6 Gigahertz (Ghz) band and 24.25-28.5 Ghz band for trials across various locations for six months. "All telecom companies have asked for extension of 5G trials by another six months," a senior government official told PTI. The current trial period ends in November. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has started the process for commercial roll out of 5G by seeking telecom regulator Trai's view on the pricing and methodology for the spectrum auction. While there is no clarity on the timeline of the spectrum auction, industry sources expect it to take place in April-June 2022 period. On May 4, DoT cleared applications from Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and MTNL for conducting 5G trials without using technologies from Chinese ...
The Department of Telecom has notified an amendment in rules to ease the rollout of communications networks by fixing a nominal one-time fee for overground cables at Rs 1,000 per kilometre
The company said Covid-19 impact in the previous quarter led to a churn of low-end subscribers and resulted in a fall of customer base.
Shares of Airtel on Thursday closed at Rs 697
In contrast, Vodafone Idea lost 833,000 subscribers
Space and telecom are "organically connected" sectors, especially with regard to managing spectrum, he observed
Electromagnetic field (EMF) signals emitted from mobile network towers do not cause any harm to health, experts said at a webinar held on Thursday.
The sliding voice tariffs, growing data tariffs indicate that the average revenue per user of the industry could grow even without tariff hikes, says India Ratings
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the reforms approved by the Union Cabinet in the telecom sector are a win-win situation for both the sector and the consumers
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal on Wednesday said the telecom sector reforms approved by the Cabinet will ensure that the industry is able to invest fearlessly
Telecom industry body COAI lauded telecom relief package approved by the Cabinet, which will be implemented prospectively and provide a breather to the sector that is reeling under heavy stress.
Earlier in the day, telecom stocks were on investors' radar, with a news report claiming the telecom department is devising measures to improve health of the debt-laden sector.