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Articles tagged with: Idea Cellular and Spice
India's Idea Cellular - Pressure in Many Markets as Churn Balloons
Net additions at India's fifth largest mobile player, IDEA Cellular, declined in Q2 09 compared to the first three months of the year by more than 17%, despite the launch of two new circles. Services got under way in Orissa in April and then in Tamil Nadu in May, bringing the total coverage to 15 of India's 23 telecoms circles after launches in Mumbai and Bihar in the second half of last year. The two new operations contributed 0.22m new customers in the quarter, but a crash in net adds in Mumbai from 427k in Q1 09 to 189k in Q2 limited the overall increase in the four new circles to 1.00m, down from 1.02m three months ago. Yet IDEA's 11 established circles performed worse, with net additions off in all but two circles, and by 21% in aggregate. more
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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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Talks Stall Over Spice India Buyout
Plans by India's Idea Cellular to take a controlling stake in rival operator, Spice Communications are reported to have stalled over a dispute about the price being offered. Investment banking sources told the Business Standard newspaper that B K Modi had asked for Rs 70 a share - but India is reluctant to pay over Rs 60 per share. more
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Merger Talks Between Spice and Idea Collapse
Merger talks between India's Idea Cellular and Spice Telecom are reported to have broken down due to differences about the price, a person close to the negotiations has said. The Economic Times reported that Idea was keen to expand its coverage, but baulked at the price being demanded by Spice Telecom. more
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India Subscriber Growth Outstrips China in Q3
For the first time ever quarterly net additions in India exceeded those in China in Q3 2006, even though the Chinese figure itself reached a record high in the period. A total of 17.065m new customers adopted mobile services in India in the three months to 30th September compared to 16.807m in China. Total customer numbers in India reached almost 123m by the end of Q3 2006, and penetration climbed 1.5 percentage points in the quarter to 11.2%. more
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Four Indian GSM networks, BPL Mobile, Escotel, RPG Cellular and Spice Telecom, have joined together to form the MobileFirst alliance. With a contiguous pan-India footprint, the MobileFirst alliance will offer enhanced value across tariffs, roaming, long distance calling and new generation technology and services to its 3 million subscribers across 700 towns in the country. The alliance will also deliver a common customer relationship management platform to provide home network experience anywhere/anytime to its subscribers across the alliance member networks. more
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