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As per MediaNama report, Flipkart has joined Airtel Zero platform, and this is some bad news for advocates of Net Neutrality principle in India. Basically, Flipkart and Airtel (and some other unnamed ecommerce portals and online…

At a time when Indian telecom companies are sweating it out to purchase expensive spectrum bands in India, and betting thousands of crores of rupees to clinch maximum frequencies for maximum profits, battle line is being drawn against…

Airtel has quickly withdrawn the VOIP charges that they were going to levy (see news report we wrote earlier). Airtel has seen universal backlash from consumers and strong reaction can be seen on Online/Social Media channels in this…

India’s first integrated digital television has just been jointly launched by Airtel and Samsung. The USP of this high definition digital TV is that there would be no requirement of installing a separate set-up box to access the broadcast…

Airtel has launched their own messaging and VoIP app: Airtel Talk. Bharti Airtel Hong Kong launched this app, with a focus on overseas Indians looking for economical options of calling back to India. Using WiFi or 3G connection, users of…

Mobile internet usage in India is continuously rising and with that its speed as well. While 3G adoption is going on throughout the country, the telecom companies are gearing towards the next generation of internet- 4G. It is a long way…

WhatsApp, the uber popular instant messaging app, have now crossed 50 million subscribers in India and from the looks of it the speed of their growth is only accelerating. They have now forged a tie-up with India’s largest mobile service…

Reliance communication today announced increase of their mobile tariffs for all its pre-paid customers. This comes close to heels of Airtel increasing their mobile and internet tariffs on select pre-paid packs. While the latter increased…

Airtel, India’s biggest telecom company had outsourced some of it’s telecom management tasks to IBM in 2004. The deal was worth more than $2.5 billion for 10 years, which made it $300 million every year outsourcing deal. But recent…

Top management exits are now no news at Airtel. There is clearly some HR problem in the company. It started with the exit of Amrita Gangotra, Director - Information Technology in November last year. This was followed by Shankar Halder,…