Articles tagged with: Idea Cellular and Mumbai
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
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India's Idea Cellular Doubles 9 Month Net Profit
India's Idea Cellular has reported that it ended the third quarter of its financial year (last quarter of 2007) with a subscriber base of 21.05 million, adding 2.38 million subscribers during the quarter. In its current 11 service areas of operation, Idea increased its subscriber market share from 15.6% at the end of Sep 07, to 15.8% at the end of Dec 07. more
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Indian Government Close to Releasing Withheld 2G Spectrum
India's Department of Telecom (DoT) has given an in principle clearance for Idea Cellular, Vodafone Essar and Aircel to be granted the outstanding 2G spectrum where they currently hold licences, a DoT source told The Economic Times. Currently the operators all hold licenses in some circles, but have not been able to launch their services until the spectrum was released to them. more
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MTNL - Customer Registration Impacts Delhi Base, but ARPU up
The number of mobile customers reported by state-controlled Indian telco MTNL declined between March and June 2007 as the effect of the customer registration programme impacted growth. The operator provides mobile service on the GSM and CDMA standards in India's largest and third largest cities, Mumbai and Delhi. In both markets, MTNL benefited from a market share gain in March due to disconnections by CDMA operator Reliance in relation to the registration programme, but in April the operator's Delhi business suffered a 21% loss of customers of its own, reducing the size of the overall customer base from 2.87m to 2.60m. more
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India Idea Cellular To Invest INR6.50 Billion In Mumbai
MUMBAI -(Dow Jones)- Idea Cellular, Monday said it is likely to invest 27% of the proceeds from its planned initial public offering in Mumbai to launch its mobile telecom services by the end of 2007, said a senior company executive. more
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