Airtel cuts call rates to Re 1/m for all prepaid users

03Jan08

New Delhi: Airtel on Wednesday announced that it has reduced its local outgoing call tariffs to a flat charge of Re. 1 per minute for its pre-paid subscribers. With effect from January 3, all Airtel pre-paid mobile customers whose existing local call rates are more than Re 1 per minute will be migrated to the [...]

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RCom, Airtel wooing BSNL in tower business

24Dec07

Reliance Communications is looking to expand its tower business to take on the mega tower company created by the big three GSM players (Bharti, Vodafone and Idea) of the Indian mobile market.
For this purpose Anil Ambani’s tower company seems to be targeting an unlikely partner, the state owned telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
BSNL [...]

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Airtel Not decided yet on moving court

18Dec07

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone service operator, on Monday said it has not yet decided on approaching Delhi High Court over the radio spectrum allocation issue.
“No decision yet on approaching the (Delhi) High Court yet,” Rajan Mittal, Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises, said on the sidelines of a retail conference here organised by the [...]

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Auction of 2G spectrum again ruled out

12Dec07

NEW DELHI: The Communications Minister, Mr A Raja on Wednesday ruled out auctioning of 2G spectrum to the new players to maintain level playing field between new and existing service providers.
“We cannot adopt auctioning route for existing 2G spectrum due to legal barriers. But for the next generation mobile services (3G), the government has [...]

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Bharti Airtel offers Rs 2,650 cr for Indian mobile spectrum

12Dec07

NEW DELHI: In perhaps the most significant development since the spectrum war broke out five months ago, Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator, has offered Rs 2,650 crore as an initial bid for the allocation of 4.4 MHz of GSM spectrum. In a letter to DoT secretary, DS Mathur, Bharti adds, “Furthermore, we [...]

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