telecom operators

Vodafone was first to slash their 2G data rates 4 days back, Bharti Airtel soon followed and now Idea has slashed its Data Tariffs across eight circles. Idea Cellular subscribers will now be able to access 2G data at 2 paise per 10 KB –…

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has laid down stringent quality guidelines for Wireless Data Services that Telecom Operators will have to abide by. This is going to come as much relief to Mobile and Internet users in India who have…

TRAI has taken a serious note of Telecom Operators presenting convoluted ways of  presenting the Tariff advertisements, which essentially are not understood clearly by a average mobile user and hence gets fleeced by the mobile…

Ever since I have started using my blackberry my mobile bill seems have to dropped significantly. It is down by more than 40%. When I analyzed this month’s bill I suddenly realized that I had much fewer calls and the number of SMS’s has…

It’s almost a year now, that the mobile number portability has become a part of the Great Indian Telecom Tamasha. However, the new regulation received a cold shoulder from the telecom subscribers, if statistical history is anything to go…

An excellent directive from consumer perspective for sure - TRAI yesterday came out with a directive that stating Every  service provider shall, within  forty-five days of coming into  force of these regulations, establish a…

While you may be enjoying free incoming calls on your BSNL land line network, the state-run service provider actually charges other private operators for termination of mobile calls on their network. Mobile termination and telecom carrier…

Bharti Airtel was quick enough to spot the rising clutter of service providers in the Indian telecom industry and diversify into untapped African markets. However, questions have been raised whether the company has compromised on the…

The game of poaching has already started, but hasn’t kicked off at its fullest yet - when it comes to grabbing maximum number of telecom subscribers from the opposite camp. This can be gauged from the fact that only 5 million subscribers…

Its really amazing to see the Mobile subscriber growth month on month – I have been covering these TRAI figures for past 3 years now, and there is hardly any month which has seen less than 10 million mobile subscribers added. Infact, last…