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The race for launching India’s first payments bank has been won by a joint venture between Airtel and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allocated the license to Bharti Airtel-Kotak JV yesterday; and this means that Paytm…

Last month, TRAI had asked all telecom operators to ensure that they provide a minimum speed of 512 kbps for all fixed line and mobile broadband customers. After a consultation paper was launched in this regard, TRAI came up with…

Bharti Airtel is the largest mobile operator in India and also the first to launch its its 4G services in the country. However, things have not gone exactly as planned and many subscribers have complained of poor coverage and…

Last month, Vodafone rolled out WiFi offload app to shift data traffic to decongest the cellular network. The rising number of mobile subscribers in the country by the day is complicating operations for the telecom giants. There have…

Airtel has surpassed China Unicom to become World’s 3rd largest telecom company in the world, as per total number of subscribers & revenues. Compared to China Unicom’s 299.09 million users, Airtel has now 303 million customers.…

Bharti Airtel, World’s 4 largest telecom company having 324 million customers, has invested in OneWeb, thereby owning a minority stake in this massive mission. In a recent round of funding, OneWeb received $500 million from a…

The evolution of fast speed internet will see another raise with Nokia Siemens Networks being selected by Bharti Airtel to build the country’s first 4G network on 1800 MHz band. The deal is pegged at a price of $200 million (INR 1,240 cr).…

In February this year, Airtel announced that they will be acquiring Loop Mobile and their subscribers for roughly Rs. 700 Crore (according to media reports). However, 8 months  into the announcement, the deal has gone south and Airtel seems…

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…

This will come as a big relief to 3 of largest telecom operators in India, The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has cleared the 3G intra-circle roaming pacts that were signed between Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and…