Per Apple's CEO Tim Cook, the company's iPhone sales in India for the fiscal ending September 2016, grew by over 50 percent as compared to the same period last year. He attributed the reason for this jump in sales to Apple's partnership with India's Reliance Jio. Cook said that Reliance...
India's Telecoms React to Reliance Jio's Market Entry
To increase their user base to 10 million, Reliance Jio announced offered free voice calls, and low cost data plans for customers in India. To counter this offering, other telecom players such as Airtel, Vodafone, and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) have announced similar plans to retain their own...
In India, 7 Telecom Firms Will Participate in Spectrum Auction
Seven telecom firms have applied to India's Department of Telecommunications to participate in the upcoming spectrum auction beginning October 1, and they have made a total earnest money deposit of over $2.3 billion to acquire rights to use spectrum in a number of frequencies. According to the amount of earnest...
India's Telecom Operators Collaborate to Curb Call Drops
Last month, as part of a 100-day commitment to the government, telecom operators in India -- Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance Communications, Aircel, Telenor, Tata Docomo and Reliance Jio -- set up 48,000 new telecom sites across the country to curb call drops. Another 12,000 base transceiver stations will...
Vodafone Poised to Buy Out Telenor India
Vodafone India is expected to acquire Telenor India's spectrum holdings and operations in a deal that could be worth over $1 billion. Sources differ over whether the deal would involve only acquiring Telenor's Indian spectrum holdings or the company as well. Spectrum is the main draw of the acquisition, but if Vodafone does...