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Articles tagged with: Reliance and Bharti
Reliance Cellular - Gaining Market Share, but at a Price
reliance ended Q1 with 72.7m mobile customers. This compares with 61.3m three months earlier and 45.8m at the end of the fiscal year 07/08, gains of 10.3m and 26.9m respectively. The company claims to be "India's largest integrated communications service provider" but the claim has something of a hollow ring when its numbers are set alongside those of Bharti Airtel. reliance may be integrated, for what that's worth, but it just isn't as big as Bharti, either by revenues or customers. Its customer base of 77m (including Broadband) is less than Bharti's 96.7m, while its revenues - INR61.2bn in this latest quarter – fall well short of Bharti's INR98.2m. more
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Record result in Q4 for India - but Q1 09 looks set to beat it
India is the world's second largest mobile market behind China and it has seen extraordinary levels of growth in recent quarters. The first three quarters of 2008 all saw net additions in excess of 25m, and Q4 08 went one better with a gain of 31.58m, an all-time Indian and world record. The number of connections in India stood at 346.77m at the end of 2008 with annual growth of 48.5%, compared to 60.8% in 2007. more
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Tata Merges Towers Division with Quippo Telecom
As has been long anticipated, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) has announced the details of plans to merge its tower division, Wireless Tata Telecom Infrastructure (WTTI), with Srei group's Quippo Telecom Infrastructure (QTIL). more
Related Tags: vodafone, docomo, cdma, compete, tata-teleservices, gsm, essar, vodafone-essar, reliance-infratel, towers, India
India's RCom - Higher than average usage fails to produce premium ARPU
reliance Communications has recorded a record quarter, in terms of new connections, adding 5.3m to its base to take the total to 56.0m. Proportionately, it grew by 10.35% over the quarter and 54.3% over the year. These are impressive numbers, but they are also little better than average - the Indian market as a whole grew by 10.03% and 51.2% respectively, while the market leader, Bharti, managed 11.7% and 58.5%. more
Related Tags: sms, arpu, vodafone, reliance-communications, cdma, India
India Added a Record 7.7 Million GSM Subcribers in October
India's GSM networks added a record breaking 7.7 million net customers in October - reports the Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI). The total GSM base now stands at 241.4 million as at the end of last month. more
Related Tags: vodafone, cdma, bharti-airtel, essar, vodafone-essar, India
Ten new connections in India by the time you've read this headline
The Indian set a new world record for organic monthly net additions in September with an uplift of 9.99m, beating its own previous best of 9.90m. This is equivalent to 3.9 new connections every second in September. The total market reached 310.62m with a penetration rate of 27.5%, which should mean that there is plenty of potential for further growth. more
Related Tags: world-record, vodafone, personal, bsnl, aircel, India
Who are the Fastest Growing Operators in Asia-Pacific?
The ten fastest growing companies in the Asia Pacific region added a total of just over 65m new customers between them, or two thirds of the regional total and more than one third of the global total. This total compares with just 52m for the prior quarter. All ten added more than three million new connections and the 20 fastest growing businesses all added more than one million, this emphasising both the size of the market and its diversity. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, indosat, china-unicom, china-mobile, xl, vodafone, seven, viettel
MTN 1st Half Net Profit Rises 12%, Seeks Expansion
JOHANNESBURG -(Dow Jones)- MTN Group, the African cellphone operator twice thwarted this year from expanding into the densely-populated Indian market, continues to scout for acquisitions in emerging markets. more
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MTN - Hasn't Approached Bharti Airtel to Restart Talks
JOHANNESBURG -(Dow Jones)- MTN Group, Africa's largest cellphone network operator, Tuesday denied it had approached India's largest mobile operator about possibly restarting tie-up talks. more
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MTN Extends Exclusive Talks With Reliance Communications
JOHANNESBURG -(Dow Jones)- South Africa's MTN Group said it has agreed to extend a period of exclusive negotiations with India's reliance Communications until July 21. more
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