Bharti Airtel said it is refarming its GSM spectrum to launch 3G services on 900 MHz in six circles including Mumbai, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Assam. Mumbai was the first off the block, where it launched ‘premium 3G’ services a year ago. It is currently in the process of carving out 3G blocks from […]
TVS Motor Company has reported a revenue growth of 11% for the quarter ended December 2015. Total revenue grew from Rs 2,639 Crores in the quarter ended December 2014 to Rs. 2,940 Crores this year. “On account of the unseasonal heavy rains and floods, the Chennai city and neighboring districts were affected. The company reached […]
Dabur India Ltd reported a 2.4% growth in Consolidated Net Sales at Rs 2,122.4 Crore for the third quarter despite what it called a challenging business environment and continued softer consumption trend across the industry. The Company ended the third quarter of 2015-16 with a 12.6% rise in Consolidated Net Profit at Rs 318.5 Crore, […]
One of the most keenly fought battles during the Telecom Regulatory Authority’s consultation over upcoming spectrum auction has been won by Reliance Jio. On the losing side are India’s top two operators — Bharti Airtel and Vodafone. The battle was on the question of whether or not Reliance Jio should be allowed to top up […]
Following Star TV and Sony, Zee TV has also come out strongly against any move to allow telecom operators to charge websites for content viewed by their consumers over the Internet. At present, any person is free to start a website, app or any other content service on the Internet, and telecom providers like Bharti […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has rejected the request by three of India’s biggest 4G operators — Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Idea Cellular — to not sell any more 4G spectrum, especially in the strategic 700 MHz band. The move is likely to lead to a fast rollout of 4G services in rural […]
Confirming our earlier report that Reliance Jio is all set to launch its LYF handsets and bundled SIM cards early in February, Reliance Digital — the retail arm of the group — has listed the first four handsets on its website. As of now, the listing doesn’t really tell you much: It just asks you to fill […]
When I started using social media about 8-9 years ago, Facebook and Twitter were largely equal in their cool factor. In fact, while it was not obvious what Facebook was (a more intrusive form of Orkut, anyone?), the possibilities of Twitter seemed as limitless as the places where your ‘contacts’ lived. Over the next nine years, Facebook […]
TVS Motor Company today announced the launch of its new four stroke moped TVS XL 100, already available in the Tamil Nadu market. The TVS XL 100 comes at an ex-showroom price of Rs 29,539 in the state. South India, especially rural Tamil Nadu, is a hot market for mopeds due to their low price […]
HCL Technologies, one of India’s top IT services providers, announced a new IT Infrastructure partnership with Alstom, a railway equipment provider. HCL will offer workplace engineering services and roll out PC as a Service for 30,000 users worldwide and will enable local end-user support services across 360 locations in 62 countries. Additionally, HCL will establish […]
Reliance Communications Ltd, the telecom arm of the Anil Ambani group, has again started expanding the availability of its 3G network after a gap of five years. It was back in late 2010 — days after the company won 3G spectrum in the 2010 auctions, that it reached a milestone of 330 towns, making it […]
Reliance Jio will launch its LYF-branded phones by the first week of February in at least 13 cities and these handsets will come with the company’s own fully-functional SIM cards and 50 GB of free 4G data, according to retailing sources. According to these sources, the thirteen cities include the five metros — Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore, […]
Godrej Properties Ltd, the real estate development arm of the Godrej Group, today announced it has entered the Noida real estate market for the first time through a Development Management Agreement to develop a residential group housing project within Lotus Greens Sports City in Sector 150, Noida. “Spread over 36 acres, the project will offer […]
Last year, when Bharti Airtel tried to block voice calling apps, everyone thought it was aimed at WhatsApp. But as it turns out, the move could also have been aimed at a new feature from Reliance Jio that ensures that you can make calls using RJio’s phone number using rivals’ networks. The Mukesh Ambani-owned telecom […]
Idea Cellular said it does not expect a huge impact on data prices in 2016 due to the entry of Reliance Jio into the market, and said there will no battle of the corporates with the launch of latter’s 4G services. However, during the three months ended December, Idea saw its data pricing fall by […]
Mahindra & Mahindra announced the launch of its mHawk new 1.99 litre diesel engine, which could help the company overcome the impact of a recent Supreme Court decision on diesel car sales. The Supreme Court had, a month ago, banned the sale of cars and SUVs with engines bigger than 2 liters (2000 cc). Most […]
As Vodafone India enters the final stages of bringing the World’s largest 4G network to the country’s capital, it announced today, the availability of 4G SIMs for its customers at all of its Vodafone stores located at prominent locations across Delhi & NCR. Customers who are upgrading to 4G-Ready SIMs will be rewarded with free […]
A day after Flipkart gave discounts on many top mobile phones, Amazon India is offering price cuts on smartphones and mobiles as part of its Great Indian Sale today, including the open sale of Yu Yutopia. YU Yutopia OPEN SALE Surprisingly, the Great Indian Sale includes the open availability of Yu Yutopia, a quad-HD mobile […]
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications Ltd will continue to hold a spectrum edge over Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio in the 800 MHz band even after it sells chunks of 4G spectrum to the latter, according to sources. The Anil Ambani group said yesterday that it would sell unspecified amounts of 4G-capable 800 MHz spectrum to Reliance […]
OnMobile Global Limited, which provides ringback tone and other value added services for telecom, said Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has renewed a contract for the provision of ring back tones in South & East Zone with an option to extend for the 4th year. “As per this agreement OnMobile will continue to provide Ring back […]
