India boasts of the biggest mobile customer base. But in a country where illiteracy is dormant innovative strategies are the key to reach out to those millions. And Bharati Airtel is breaking new ground with its matchless business model buffed Rural Airtel Service Centre.
The Bharati Airtel and MTN deal has been making waves. And why not! If the deal finalises we would have a telecom giant with over 200 million customers and $20 billion in revenue. Both telecom giants have revived talks after a failed attempt last year. But currently Bharati Airtel needs $4 billion to complete its [...]
In a time when majority of the corporates are wrestling the global credit crunch to raise funds our very own Indian telecom majors are adapting novel strategies. Idea cellular, a Aditya Birla Group company, is juxtaposing rupee debt and foreign currency to raise Rs 6000 crore. The larger portion of the funds would be diverted [...]
DigiMouth reported about Dr. Ashwin Mehta dragging Google India to court for posting defamatory blogs. But on the other part of the city technology favoured 24-year old content writer Sourabh Joshi. His SMS lead to the Central Railway (CR) replacing first class seats. After reading about the CR SMS feedback campaign Sourabh expressed his discomfort [...]
HTC launches India’s first smartphone run on Google’s Android operating system. The open-source platform is accessible to anybody and does not need Google’s formal involvement.
They say the best way to explore India is through its villages. Well, telecom operators believe in the same. In fact the operators are heavily marketing their products and services to rural India. But the most startling fact is that mobile subscriber base in the country is perceived to exceed 771 million by 2013 reports [...]
Spice Communications has reported a net loss. The teleom service provider suffered losses worth Rs 1, 015.2 crore for the last 15 months (ending March 2009). The net sales were at Rs 1,580.47 crore (period ended March 2009) compared to Rs 957.84 crore in the period ended December 2007.
GSM-based mobile operators have been celebrating as they have collectively added 8.3 million subscribers last month. The final count was 306.4 million GSM subscribers which was a significant growth compared to 298.1 million in April. Bharati Airtel tops the charts in the GSM listing with 32.48% of market share.
In January, this year, Bharati Airtel became the first private sector company to launch Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services in India and DigiMouth covered it. Now following suit is MTNL which launched Television over IP. The users get to enjoy this service using Intenet Protocol (IP). All they need is a broadband connection.
Two network giants have made a few extensions to their service. Here is a lowdown on the same.
It looks like our telecom sector is bursting with ideas. Today morning DigiMouth featured a news item wherein the Department of Telecom (DoT) had decided to offer IMEI numbers in turn saving over 25 million handsets from being dysfunctional. Well it seems like even Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has a basket full of [...]
A few months back the Department of Telecom (DoT) had announced the disconnection of Chinese phones without IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) numbers as per security measures by April 15th.
Underdogs Mumbai Indians have had a great spell at the IPL season this year. In fact even Idea is benefiting from the same. The Aditya Birla Group owned telecom giant had launched a campaign a few weeks ago wherein people could call and interact with Mumbai Indians team members. As per reports ace batsman Sachin [...]
Bharati Airtel is known for outsourcing its processes to varied companies but this time its decided to enter into a joint venture with Alcatel-Lucent wherein the latter will manage its landline and broadband business.
Tata Communications has just announced the launch of telepresence exchange services for Cisco Telepresence.
