Articles tagged with: Maharashtra and Bharti

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: essar, vodafone-essar, idea-cellular, passive-infrastructure, jharkhand, bihar, towers, 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

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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

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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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