With Failed MTN Deal Behind Them, Bharti Looking to Expand
Economic Times
For Bharti, whose international operations include Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Jersey islands in Europe, expanding abroad is vital since urban India is close to reaching a saturation point.
Topics: India, telecommunications, MTN, Bharti, Airtel, Africa, telecom
Tata Acquires Mosaic from BT Group
TMC.Net
Mosaic business provides an on-demand digital media management platform that manages content and workflow from production to distribution across collaborative market ecosystems.
Topics: BT Group, India, telecommunications, telecom, British Telecom, TaTa
Bharti Airtel Buys Majority Stake In Warid Telecom
Business Standard
India’s largest wireless service provider, Bharti Airtel is expanding its international operations by buying a majority stake in Bangladesh’s fourth largest wireless telephony service provider, Warid Telecom. This is the second major geography Bharti Airtel has ventured into after Sri Lanka where it launched its 2G and 3G service a year ago.
Topics: Warid [...]
Free Texting in India Offered by Start-Up
Wall Street Journal
A service called SMS GupShup is winning the race to become India’s version of Twitter by promoting social networking through text messaging on cellphones. But it faces a challenge: It can’t afford to be too popular.
Topics: wireless, India, Airtel, telecommunications, PDA, Google, telecom, Bharti
Unitech India Adds 1.2M Subs In First Month
Interactive Investor
India’s Unitech Wireless, majority owned by Norway’s Telenor, added 1.2 million mobile users in December, its first month of operations, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
Topics: India, wireless, telecom, Unitech, telecommunications, PDA, phone
BSNL Offers 7mbps WiMax Broadband in Rajasthan
TelecomTalk
India’s National telecom backbone and state-owned telecom operator BSNL is launching the first commercial WiMAX, the 4th Generation Wireless Broadband Service, in the Indian state of Rajasthan with speeds of up to 7 mbps.
Topics: Rajasthan, tariff, telecommunications, India, BSNL, telecom, WiMax, broadband
Indian Market Crowded by New Telecom Entrants
AFP
Stein-Erik Vellan, head of Norway’s Uninor, the newest Indian mobile phone operator, insists his company will be one of the survivors in what has rapidly become a very crowded market. Uninor, controlled by Norwegian telecom company Telenor, is the 14th player to enter India’s cellular market, where subscriber numbers are rising so fast that in [...]
India’s 3G Auction Bidders Playing Blind?
MediaNama.com
A somewhat limited turnout for the pre-bid conference held by India’s Department of Telecom for offering clarifications prior to India’s much-awaited, much-delayed 3G Auctions.
Topics: 3G, TRAI, wireless, broadband, India, telecommunications, telecom, Google
India’s Essar May buy Dhabi Group’s African Telecom Assets
Reuters
India’s Essar Group has agreed to buy a majority stake in Dhabi Group’s telecommunication businesses in African nations Uganda and Congo, the Indian energy-to-steel conglomerate said in a statement on Sunday.
Topics: Dhabi Group, India, telecommunications, Essar Group, Africa, telecom
Bharti Airtel Seeks New Business in Africa
Wall Street Journal
After the collapse of a $24 billion merger deal with MTN Group Ltd. at the eleventh hour, Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s biggest wireless telecommunications company, remains interested in targets in Africa but will be more cautious in its pursuit of a partner and sees only limited options, the company’s chairman said.
Topics: Google, [...]
Pay Per Second Billing Plan In India
Thelatest News
Pay Per Second Billing Plan’ was created by India’s National Telecom Backbone and leading GSM Mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. It is offered with one year tariff validity for its 2G GSM Prepaid mobile customers of all telecom circles across India.
Topics: India, telecom, prepaid, Google, BSNL, 3G, telecommunications
India: Bharti, Airtel
Business Standard
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications could emerge stronger than other players in the fight to grab and retain customers.
Topics: Reliance Communications, India, Bharti, Airtel, telecommunications, wireless, telecom
Vodafone Group Profit Surges
MarketWatch
Wireless telecom giant Vodafone Group said Tuesday that its first-half net profit attributable to shareholders totaled 4.8 billion pounds ($8.0 billion), up from 2.14 billion pounds recorded last year.
Topics: Vodafone, Google, India, telecom, wireless, telecommunications
Citi’s Jagannathan is Latest Expat to Join Bharti Team
Economic Times
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator by subscribers and market value, has poached yet another high flying Indian expat as it seeks to build new revenue streams linked with its telecom business. The telco has hired Citibank’s e-commerce and m-commerce head in Japan, Sriram Jagannathan as the CEO of its mobile commerce venture.
Topics: [...]
Intel in Talks With India’s ITI for JV
Reuters India
It said Intel was interested in making the hardware and consumer premise equipment around WiMAX technology, which provides for wireless transmission of data up to 75 megabytes per second.
Topics: India, telecommunications, Joint Venture, WiMax, telecom, Intel, wireless
