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Bharti Airtel tariffs hiked, family postpaid plan spiked for new customers

Postpaid business contributes 25 per cent to the company's overall business, of which a lion's share comes from corporate plans.

Bharti Airtel gains 4% on rolling out new postpaid plans

Airtel said it has simplified its Postpaid plans to offer industry leading data benefits backed by a 5G ready network and superior digital-first customer care

Bharti Airtel rolls out new postpaid plans, offers competitive data packs

Company says customers can bundle add-on connections with enhanced data benefits to their existing plans

Telecom firms staring at possibility of excess backhaul spectrum fee

Currently, DoT allocates airwaves by administered price mechanism

Bharti Airtel-Intel network deal to speed up 5G service roll-out

Airtel and other telecommunications (telecom) operators are conducting 5G trials in select cities across India

Airtel, Intel announce collaboration to accelerate 5G rollout in India

Bharti Airtel is collaborating with Intel for 5G network development by leveraging vRAN/O-RAN technologies.

Rivals turn the heat on Sunil Mittal's stand on satellite spectrum

Mittal had said, with Airtel setting up only two ground stations for uplinking in rural areas, the requirement for spectrum was minimal and different from terrestrial mobile services

In a breather to telcos, DoT may lighten debt burden by relaxing timelines

The effort would be to firm up measures so that the telecom sector does not go down any further, an official said

Banks, RIL lift Sensex 397 pts; broader indices underperform

ICICI Bank (up 2.7 per cent), HDFC, Axis Bank, Sun Pharma, and NTPC were the top gainers on the frontline S&P BSE Sensex

Jio tops subscriber race in April, Vodafone Idea user base erodes

Bharti Airtel added over 5.17 lakh users during the month under review, taking its subscriber base to over 35.29 crore

Pricing spectrum

Airwaves for satellite-based services should be allocated judiciously

Bharti rolls out all-in-one bundle plan 'Airtel Black' to take on Jio

Bharti Airtel said it will provide dedicated relationship managers with a 60-seconds call pick-up facility.

Airtel, Voda Idea, BSNL and MTNL's debt zooms to Rs 3.85 trillion in FY21

Their debt-to-equity ratio shot up to 6.83 times from 2.3 times at the end of March 2020

Won't hesitate to raise tariffs but can't be done unilaterally: Mittal

The latest tariff hike by the three operators happened in December 2019.

'Telecom industry in trouble' is an understatement: Airtel's Sunil Mittal

Mittal acknowledged that telecom tariffs need to go up and that Airtel would 'not hesitate' in this regard, but was quick to add that it cannot be done 'unilaterally'

Sky-high battle between satellite service providers and telcos for spectrum

Satellite companies are demanding spectrum free or at a nominal administered price as is done in other parts of the world. The move is being vehemently opposed by telcos through the COAI

Telcos sustain growth but FY21 revenue still far from FY16 peak

Report combined net sales of Rs 1.87 trn as against Rs 2.24 trn posted 5 years ago

From Times Group to Zee, Indian media business in the post-pandemic world

The post-pandemic list tells just one story - that of utter devastation

Bharti Group to invest $500 million to be OneWeb's largest shareholder

This will make Bharti Group the largest shareholder in the satellite communications company

Just 2 players in telecom mkt will be tragic: Bharti Airtel's Sunil Mittal

According to DoT estimates, Vodafone Idea owes Rs 58,400 crore as AGR dues