October 13th, 2018With the increasing need for the safety of women in India, Vodafone Idea has launched a new mobile-based safety service called ‘Vodafone Sakhi’ for women. This service will include features such as emergency alerts, emergency balance and private number recharge.
These features will be available for the women customers...
June 14th, 2018While the most awaited sporting event in the world, FIFA World Cup is going live today, it has sparked a new telecom battle for mobile operators Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Vodafone India trying to outdo each other to get a share of more than 100 million viewers.
Airtel subscribers can view the live broadcast of the...
June 8th, 2018The telecom industry organization COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India) on Thursday announced the appointment of Sunil Sood as the chairman of the company who was the Managing Director & CEO of Vodafone India since 2015. Ajai Puri, who has been the Chief Operating Officer of Bharti Airtel will be the vice chairman of the...
June 8th, 2018Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm has reported a considerable growth in profits in the March-ended financial year. Reliance Jio saw a net profit of Rs 510 crore in the quarter ended March compared with Rs 504 crore in the previous three months. Jio’s operating revenue increased 3.6 percent reaching to Rs 7,128 crore.
The...
June 2nd, 2018Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular, the Indian telecom service providers have together added over one crore mobile subscribers in April 2018 according to the information provided by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). On the other hand, Vodafone suffered a loss of over 6.64 lakh customers in the same time period.
A...
May 4th, 2018Since Jio’s entry in the Indian telecom market, the competition for the best data plan has been fierce; with ever dropping prices and better data plan deals. Vodafone and BSNL, two major competitors of Mukesh Ambani’s telecom company have announced a new prepaid plan, priced at Rs 349 each.
Vodafone subscribers will benefit from...
May 20th, 2016Telenor Financial Services, IDFC Bank and Sun Pharma's Dilip Shanghvi have decided to withdraw their licence to set up a payments bank.
They are the second applicant to withdraw from the licence after Cholamandalam group pulled out of payments banks race a couple of months back.
In a joint press statement, the partners said: "Dilip...
May 14th, 2016Wading into the Vodafone tax dispute debate, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today said the British telecom giant has not paid "a single naya paisa" as yet on the demands made on it, but this case always comes in when India talks about creating a predictable tax regime.
In an interaction here at Chicago Booth School, Rajan said...
October 31st, 2015LONDON- Vodafone UK said on Saturday hackers had accessed the accounts of 1,827 of its customers this week, the second cyber attack on a British telecoms company this month.
The attackers had potentially gained access to the victims' bank sort codes and the last four numbers of their bank accounts, along with their names and...
September 25th, 2015Music streaming service Saavn, which recently raised a $100-million round of funding, has roped in former Vodafone global CEO Arun Sarin as an investor and strategic advisor.
The move comes as the company is stepping up focus on monetisation and looking to tie up with telcos for bundled packs where Sarin's experience and network is...
