10.84 million new GSM subscribers last month in India
India continues to grow as a mobile market. And new records are made every now and then.
The GSM operators in the market managed to add around 10.84 million new subscribers last month which is a new record.
They had added 9.69 million new subscribers in January [...]
9.2 million new GSM customers in February in India
India gained around 9.2 million new GSM customers last month.
The number was around 9.7 million in the month of January.
The slight dip could be related to three less months in February compared to January.
Indian mobile market continues to grow at an impressive pace. Reliance [...]
Reliance GSM coming to Delhi soon!
Reliance Communications has announced that they would soon launch their GSM services in Delhi.
The company is already a major provider of CDMA based telephony services in the country.
They have won the rights to provide GSM services in several circles and they have chosen Delhi as one of the first new [...]
83 lakh new mobile service subscribers in India last month
83.20 lakh new mobile service subscribers were added in the Indian market last month.
This was an improvement from an addition of 80.05 lakh new subscribers in the previous month this year.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said in a statement announcing these figures: “The total [...]
IBM to manage IT work for Vodafone India
Vodafone India has announced that they are now transferring all of its information technology-related work to IBM Corp.
The two companies have signed on a five year long contract for this deal. Vodafone said that this deal would help reduce costs and improve services.
The financial aspects of this deal [...]
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular are the three major GSM mobile service providers in the Indian market and they face considerable challenge from the CDMA players.
These three companies have now announced the merger of their wireless infrastructure businesses.
They are collaborating in 16 circles and would now be sharing 70,000 tower units.
This merger [...]
Tata Indicom wants a piece of GSM Pie
Reliance Communications has already received the permissions to provide GSM services in the country.
Now, Tata wants a piece of the GSM pie which could intensify the competition in the mobile market in India.
A company spokesperson admitted that the company is evaluating the new guidelines issued by DoT.
The recently [...]
BSNL launches TV in mobile handset service
Government owned telecom company BSNL has now launched their ‘TV in mobile handset’ service in the market.
This service is currently available in the eastern and north-eastern regions of the country.
With this service BSNL’s GSM service customers would now be able to watch as many as 12 channels on [...]
CDMA service providers in India support favor number portability
It might come as a surprise but the CDMA mobile service providers in the country have shown their interest in implementing number portability.
In comparison, GSM operators are not in favor of the implementation of this system in the country.
Number portability enables the consumer to change the telecom [...]
Vodafone Essar extends lead over BSNL
Vodafone Essar continues to extend its lead on BSNL as the government owned telecom company still cannot decide on the GSM tender to expand their presence in the market.
Vodafone Essar is now 2.33 million subscribers ahead of BSNL. The gap was smaller at 1.3 million between the two in the [...]
