May 25, 2013
Telecom Lead Asia: Uninor has revealed its plans to set up additional 100 telecom sites in Andhra Pradesh. The mobile major will also add 1500 additional points of sale in the Andhra Pradesh state. Uninor will add 130 new towns and villages to its network coverage as part of the expansion. It ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Presence of Chinese telecom equipment vendors and security issues have taken a center seat in the fight between the U.S.-based Dish Network and Japanese SoftBank for Sprint. Better cash to shareholders of Sprint seems to have taken the secondary position in the entire ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Portugal Telecom’s Capex (capital expenditure) increased 10.7 percent to €287 million in Q1 2013. The Capex of $287 million is equivalent to 18.5% of revenues. Out of the total Capex, investment in Portugal telecom business was €115 million, registering a decline of 13.7 ...
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Telecom Lead India: Reliance Communications on Thursday revealed that it is ready to offer Aadhar authentication process. The mobile operator has already conducted testing of the services in both company owned and non company owned retail outlets. Aadhar online authentication process is a ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Warid Telecom says its customers can use one SIM card for two separate Warid numbers without using two handsets or a dual SIM handset. Pakistan’s mobile service provider says the offer is valid for Warid’s Prepaid and Postpaid customers. Warid is offering attractive features ...
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Telecom Lead India: BSNL is set to invest Rs 300 crore to switch over from existing IPv4 to IPv6. The investment is primarily for changing equipment and training personnel while adopting the new Internet Protocol IPv6. This new protocol is based on 128 bits architecture as against the current ...
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Telecom Lead America: Sprint has increased its offer by 14 percent to $3.40 per share to buy 50 percent stake in Clearwire. Sprint’s previous offer was $2.97 per share. The new offer would value Clearwire at $10.7 billion. This increased offer represents a 162 percent premium to ...
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Telecom Lead India: Tata Docomo is set to offer free Wi-Fi services at international airports in Delhi and Hyderabad. The telecom operator has signed an exclusive agreement with GMR Airports for offering Wi-Fi services at Indira Gandhi International Airport – Terminal 3 in Delhi and Rajiv ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Vodafone Group plc is planning a Capex (capital expenditure) of around £6.26 billion in FY 2014. This means, Vodafone’s global Capex will be almost steady in constant currency for the current financial year. Vodafone’s Capex decreased marginally to £6.26 billion in FY 2013 ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Vodafone India has posted 10.7 percent increase in FY 2013 service revenue to £4.29 billion. Vodafone India’s data revenue increased to £369 million. Messaging revenue was £156 million. Vodafone India’s fixed line revenue was £19 million. The mobile operator’s voice revenue ...
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Telecom Lead India: Bharti Airtel may be inflating its telecom user figures, according to an audit by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The report says DoT had to ensure all telecom operators strictly adhered to the license agreement conditions in maintaining the quality of service ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Uninor is set to expand in Gujarat by setting up an additional 500 network sites by June 2013. The telecom operator will also go for one more round of expansion in the second half of this year. Uninor, which has reduced its presence in India, after the November 2012 spectrum ...
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Telecom Lead America: Sprint has completed its transaction with U.S. Cellular to buy 20MHz of PCS spectrum. Sprint will gain from spectrum in Midwest markets including Chicago, South Bend, Ind., and Champaign, Ill., and 10MHz of PCS spectrum in the St. Louis market. The mobile operator says the ...
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Telecom Lead India: Uninor, a subsidiary of Telenor, has become the first mobile operator in the world to be certified for its workplace practices. Uninor, which serves 31.6 million customers in six telecom circles of UP (West), UP (East), Bihar (including Jharkhand), Andhra Pradesh, ...
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Telecom Lead India: BSNL is set to launch 4G / Y-Max 4G in Indore on World Telecommunication Day on Friday. The speed of the 4G internet services vary from 512 KB to 2MB. The cost of various plans in 4G internet service varies from Rs 220 to Rs 7000 per month. The connection to the... Read More
Telecom Lead Europe: Deutsche Telekom has drafted new business models and strategies to transform to telco plus by focusing on new business areas. Deutsche Telekom focuses on growth areas such as mobile Internet, connected home, intelligent networks, and cloud services to combat revenue losses ...
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