Articles tagged with: Bihar and Maharashtra

Idea Cellular Subscriber Base Passes 30 Million Mark

India's Idea Cellular has reported that it half year with a subscriber base of 30.38 million, adding 6.38 million subscribers during the half year, reflecting an improvement in national market share from 9.4% to 9.8% during the period.  more

Related Tags: mumbai, idea-cellular, spice, orissa, punjab, karnataka, spice-communications, India


Private Equity Group Invests in Indian Mobile Operator

The private equity group, Providence Equity Partners has taken a twenty percent stake in Aditya Birla Telecom (ABTL) - a wholly-owned subsidiary of India's Idea Cellular - for US$640 million. ABTL owns the telecom mobile license for the bihar service area and will hold a 16 per cent stake in Indus Towers, the company's tower subsidiary which is co-owned by Vodafone Essar and Bharti Airtel.  more

Related Tags: bharti, essar, vodafone-essar, idea-cellular, passive-infrastructure, jharkhand, towers, tower, orissa, providence-equity, India


Nokia Siemens Wins $900 Million Indian Contract

India's Bharti Airtel has signed a US$900 million network expansion contract across it's mobile and fixed networks with Nokia Siemens Networks. In the first multi platform network contract of its kind to be awarded in India, Nokia Siemens Networks will expand Airtel?s GSM network in eight circles; its National Long Distance and International Long Distance network with 1.8 million Next Generation Network (NGN) ports ? the largest ever NGN contract in the country ? and its International Calling Card prepaid service capacity by 4.5 million news users. more

Related Tags: nokia-siemens-networks, bharti, bharti-airtel, next-generation-network, kolkata, calling-cards, airtel


Nokia Wins Indian GSM Contract

India's Bharti Airtel has awarded Nokia an estimated US$400 million contract to expand its managed GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks in eight Airtel circles and deploy a pan-Indian WAP solution across its networks. more

Related Tags: core-network, bharti, bharti-airtel, chennai, west-bengal, wap, research-and-development, packet-core, managed-services, airtel


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