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Articles tagged with: Bharti and Mumbai
India's Aircel Reported to be in Talks to Buy Loop Mobile
India's Aircel Cellular is reported to be in talks to buy Mumbai based Loop Mobile (formerly BPL Mobile), which is owned by the Ruias of the Essar group. Both companies have been holding discussions for around seven months now, two people familiar with the discussions told the Economic Times. more
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Millons Lose Service After Fire Shuts Down GSM Network in Mumbai
bharti AirtelĂ's customers in India's Mumbai circle faced severe problems on their network last Friday after a fire took out the company's main switching centre in the city. more
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Bharti Airtel Adds 2.31 Million Mobile Phone Users in March
MUMBAI -(Dow Jones)- Indian telecommunications operator bharti Airtel added 2.31 million mobile phone subscribers in March, industry data showed Friday. more
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FOCUS: India Bet Becomes a Sure Thing for Global Mobile Operators
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- When Vodafone Group forked out $13 billion for a majority stake in India's No. 4 mobile operator, Hutchison Essar, a year ago, many feared the British giant had overpaid for an investment that would take years to yield a return. more
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Record Month in India for GSM Lessens Blow of CDMA Cull
On the 31st March 2007 the so-called "re-verification" programme of Indian mobile customers instituted by the Department of Telecommunications came to a close. The re-verification process involved India's mobile companies checking the records of each and every one of their customers to confirm identity and to ensure personal details were correct. Unverified customer accounts would have to be de-activated by the deadline if the operators were to avoid being penalised. Early indications from India's second largest cellular service operator Reliance were that almost 15% of its customer base had not been verified by the time the deadline passed - about 4.2m customers in absolute terms. Reliance was reported to be unconcerned about the impact on its financials as it claimed that the de-activated customers were, for the most part, not revenue-generating - in other words, inactive. Nevertheless, there was some concern that if the story at Reliance was to be repeated across the board then the Indian market as a whole would suffer a very material cull of customers. more
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India Telecom Regulator Recommends 3G Service Guidelines
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, Wednesday recommended guidelines for allocation and pricing of spectrum for third generation, or 3G, services in the country. more
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Call quality deteriorates in parts of India
India's cellular network operators are required to submit quarterly Performance Reports of their networks under their service area in the format prescribed by the telecoms regulator (TRAI). The Authority has laid down benchmarks for a number of QoS parameters, so as to monitor the Quality of Service being given by the operators to their customers. In this quarter, 82 number of the mobile service providers have reported their QoS performance. more
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