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Vodafone India hikes stake

Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao on Project Spring investment update

Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao on Thursday shared the company’s Q3 update on Project Spring, its investment program to boost coverage and customer experience. Vodafone...
Vodafone India pitches women to head 25 out of 95 operational zones

Vodafone India revenue up 2% to $1,608 million in Q3

Vodafone India revenue rose 0.5 percent (reported) and 2.3 percent (organic) to £1,103 million or $1,608 million in the third quarter ended December 31,...
Telenor

Ingeborg Ofsthus is the new CEO of Telenor Serbia

Ingeborg Ofsthus is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Telenor Serbia. Ingeborg Ofsthus will succeed Ove Fredheim who will take on new responsibilities within...
Dollar2

Mobile operators face zero revenue growth in core services in 2016

Mobile operators are expected to face the reality of zero revenue growth in their core connectivity services in 2016, said Strategy Analytics. The year 2016...
Telefonica

Telefonica migrates user traffic over SDN IP+Optical trial network

Huawei today said telecom network operator Telefonica has migrated commercial user traffic over an SDN IP+Optical trial network in Peru. This is the first SDN...
Tata Communications India

Tata Communications revenue up 3.8% to $774 million in Q3

Tata Communications today said its revenue rose 3.8 percent to $774 million with a profit of $3 million in Q3 fiscal 2016. Enterprise business of Tata...
A staff member poses with a mock oversized Vodafone Secure SIM card at the Vodafone booth at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, March, 5, 2012. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/Files

Vodafone in talks with Liberty to combine Netherlands biz

Vodafone Group on Tuesday confirmed its talks with Liberty Global to combine their businesses in the Netherlands. “Following recent media speculation, Vodafone confirms it is...
Telenor Capex

Telenor achieves 20% increase in data throughput

Telenor India has deployed Huawei’s Lean GSM solution in 28 cities and achieved 85 percent dip in congestion and 20 percent increase in data throughput. The...
BT business

BT explains its investments in fiber and other areas in Q3

Telecom network operator BT Group today said it made an investment of £587 million (-2 percent) during the third quarter ended December 31, 2015. BT...
Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke

Telenor to acquire marketing technology start-up Tapad for $360 mn

Telecom network operator Telenor announced its deal to acquire approximately 95 percent stake in Tapad, a US-based marketing technology start-up, for $360 million. Telenor aims...
Bharti Airtel office

Bharti Foundation’s sanitation facilities benefit 50,000 individuals in Ludhiana

Bharti Foundation today said its Satya Bharti Abhiyan, an initiative to improve sanitation facilities in rural areas, now benefits over 50,000 individuals across 405 villages of Ludhiana...
DoT Secretary JS Deepak

JS Deepak is the new secretary of DoT

JS Deepak is the new secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). JS Deepak is joining as the DoT secretary at a time when the...
LTE Tower in India

Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, RCOM may not bid for 700 MHz spectrum

India telecom network operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Reliance Communications may not bid for 700MHz spectrum during the 2016 spectrum auction. The main...
TeliaSonera telecom operator

TeliaSonera to invest $1.76 billion in 2016 in telecom networks

TeliaSonera today said it will be making an investment of $1.76 billion or SEK 14-15 billion in 2016 towards Capex in telecom networks. The investment...
Globe Telecom Philippines

Globe Telecom achieves Capex to revenue ratio of 28% in 2015

Globe Telecom today said it has achieved Capex to revenue ratio of 28 percent in 2015 and 27 percent in 2014. The Capex of the...
Robi Axiata Bangladesh

Axiata and Airtel finalize their merger deal in Bangladesh

Rival telecom network operators Axiata Group and Bharti Airtel have finalized their merger plan to combine their business in Bangladesh. The new entity Robi will...

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