Idea Cellular launched in Orissa
Idea Cellular has launched its mobile services in the state of Orissa.
The company said that they are going to invest about Rs 1,000 crore in three years on its telecom operations in Orissa.
The aim is to provide coverage in around 15,000 towns and villages in all the 30 districts of the [...]
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 [...]
Idea Cellular all set to launch Blackberry in India
Idea Cellular would become the latest mobile service provider in the country to offer Blackberry smartphones to their customers.
The company has collaborated with Research In Motion to add the Blackberry devices to their offerings.
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications and BPL Mobile are already [...]
Airtel fails to meet TRAI benchmark for quality of services
Voice&Data has revealed the details on how the mobile service providers in the country are performing as per the TRAI benchmark for quality of services.
Only five telecom companies in the country have met the 90 percent mark required to satisfy the recommendations of TRAI.
Airtel, BPL, [...]
Idea Cellular now in Karnataka
Idea Cellular has now launched their services in Karnataka. They had acquired B K Modi promoted Spice Communications earlier this year.
The GSM based mobile service provider further announced that they are going to invest around Rs 300 crore for network upgrade in the state in the next 15 months.
Idea has [...]
HTC Touch Pro and HTC Touch Viva now on Idea Cellular
HTC and Idea Cellular are collaborating to launch some exciting new products in the Indian market.
HTC has announced the launch of HTC Touch Pro and the HTC Touch Viva in India through Idea.
Prices:
HTC Touch Pro: Rs 34,900
HTC Touch Viva: Rs 16,490
Jack Tong, vice president, [...]
7.7 million new mobile customers in India last month
Indian mobile market continues to see the boom it has been seeing since the last couple of years.
India saw addition of 7.7 million new mobile subscribers in the month of October.
This is a record of its kind.
With this the country now has 241.4 million GSM mobile [...]
Idea to expand presence in Bihar
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group has announced that they are giving a USD 100 million dollar loan to Indian mobile service provider Idea.
Idea would be using these funds to expand their presence in Bihar. They would also be working on rolling out their national long distance telephony [...]
Bharti, Idea, BSNL and Vodafone told to provide connectivity to Reliance GSM
TRAI has now directed the existing GSM companies in the country to provide interconnection to Reliance’s newly launched GSM services.
Bharti, Idea, BSNL and Vodafone are four of the biggest GSM service providers in the country. Spice Communications has also received similar directions from the [...]
Idea to acquire significant stake in Spice Communications
Idea Cellular has announced that they are now acquiring a 40.8 percent stake in the Spice Communications.
The deal would be conducted through cash and stock as they aim to expand their services to take on market leaders Airtel.
Idea is controlled by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla and they are [...]
