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Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said Indian Govt will help Bharti to seal Zain deal.
“We will be happy to pitch in to compete with the best in the world,” Khurshid said.
Asked about the regulatory roadblocks that the company may face, Khurshid said: “Nothing has been brought to our notice yet. As in the [...]
February 17th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
Bharti-Zain deal news updates from Economictimes and many sources.
The board of Kuwait’s Zain Telecom has accepted a $10.7-billion (Rs 49,700 crore) offer from Bharti Airtel for the bulk of
its African assets, breathing new life into the Indian company’s cherished ambition of transforming itself into an emerging-market multinational. Sources said that Bharti would acquire 100% [...]
February 15th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | 2 Comments
Ericsson trying for Rs.10000 crore Bharti AIRTEL order
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has emerged as the leading contender to win a $2-billion contract to increase the capacity of Bharti Airtel’s network in 15 circles. India’s largest telco, which awarded a $700-million network outsourcing contract to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) on Thursday, will announce the deal [...]
February 13th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
ESSAR has put its tower arm for sale.
The group plans to announce the sale of Essar Telecom Infrastructure, India’s second-biggest independent operator of mobile-phone towers, by as early as February 15, the person said, asking not to be identified before a public disclosure.
Manisha Awasthi, a spokeswoman at Mumbai-based Essar Group, didn’t respond to an [...]
February 13th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | 1 Comment
4G Mobile Networks in India
February 11th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
ORG Informatics , an once shining company has got an order from BSNL after a long time. Order is worth 14 crores Rupees
Order is for supply, installation, integration and commissioning of satcom Network for IAF.
Share price has recently gone up and this may be the reason .
Probably insiders are playing ? Who knows ?
January 18th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
GTL Infrastructure gets Aircel’s towers for Rs.8400 crores
Indian mobile infrastructure firm GTL Infrastructure on Thursday said it would buy the tower assets of Aircel in deal valued at 84 billion rupees ($1.8 billion).
GTL Infra said it would buy 17,500 towers owned by Aircel, a unit of Malaysia’s Maxis Communications through a slump sale of assets.
GTL [...]
January 14th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
Airtel is going to build its brand “AIRTEL” in Bangladesh.
Bharti has got 70% stake in Warid Telecom.
January 12th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
Uninor logs in 1.2 mn subscribers in first month of operation
It operates in GSM Space in India with 8 circles under operation.
January 12th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | 7 Comments
Russian likely to delay investment in MTS India
January 12th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
Bharti Airtel on Monday said it has signed a multi-year network management services contract with state-run Rural
Electrification Corporation.
Under the agreement, Bharti Airtel will manage REC’s complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) backbone, including data centre and entire network connecting Delhi Corporate Office and 18 project/zonal offices across the country, Bharti Airtel said in [...]
January 11th, 2010 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments
Aircel sells tower infrastructure business and broadband infrastructure to GTL infrastructure. Each tower is valued at Rs.48.5 lakh .
Aircel is owned by Maxis Telecom Malayasia. Aircel is the 7th largest Telco in India by subscribers .
December 24th, 2009 | Posted in Telecom | 3 Comments
Uninor GPRS Tariff Setting Plans
Uninor has just now commenced its GSM Services in India.
Soon it will be launching value added services.
GPRS / EDGE will be the main stay for the company as it does not have 3G spectrum .
Uninor is a JV between Unitech wireless and Telenor.
November 30th, 2009 | Posted in Telecom | 73 Comments
UNINOR is going to start its GSM Service from Chennai and Tamilnadu ( TN ) from friday .
Uninor is the 8 th GSM operator in TN , Chennai circle. Competition is hotting up and imcumbents are going to suffer.
Aircel is going to be the worst affected as the company gets 75% of revenue from Chennai [...]
November 16th, 2009 | Posted in Telecom | 217 Comments
India 4G Intel Telecom Spectrum Foray
Indian telecom companies like Tata Communications (formerly VSNL), Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications that could bid for broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum to be auctioned by the government in January 2010.
Talks are currently centred on Intel offering Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMAX (which provides for wireless transmission of [...]
October 29th, 2009 | Posted in Telecom | No Comments