Articles tagged with: Bharti and GSM

Reliance Cellular - Gaining Market Share, but at a Price

Reliance ended Q1 with 72.7m mobile customers. This compares with 61.3m three months earlier and 45.8m at the end of the fiscal year 07/08, gains of 10.3m and 26.9m respectively. The company claims to be "India's largest integrated communications service provider" but the claim has something of a hollow ring when its numbers are set alongside those of bharti Airtel. Reliance may be integrated, for what that's worth, but it just isn't as big as bharti, either by revenues or customers. Its customer base of 77m (including Broadband) is less than bharti's 96.7m, while its revenues - INR61.2bn in this latest quarter – fall well short of bharti's INR98.2m.  more

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Record result in Q4 for India - but Q1 09 looks set to beat it

India is the world's second largest mobile market behind China and it has seen extraordinary levels of growth in recent quarters. The first three quarters of 2008 all saw net additions in excess of 25m, and Q4 08 went one better with a gain of 31.58m, an all-time Indian and world record. The number of connections in India stood at 346.77m at the end of 2008 with annual growth of 48.5%, compared to 60.8% in 2007.  more

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Fifth Mobile Network to Launch in Sri Lanka

India's bharti Airtel has announced that it will launch its new network in Sri Lanka on January 12th - offering both 3G and GSM services. The company has earmarked some US$200 million for its network rollout in the country.  more

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Tata Merges Towers Division with Quippo Telecom

As has been long anticipated, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) has announced the details of plans to merge its tower division, Wireless Tata Telecom Infrastructure (WTTI), with Srei group's Quippo Telecom Infrastructure (QTIL).  more

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