No hike for intra-network rates

TRAI has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) not to issue directives disallowing differential tariff for intra-network calls.
DoT had earlier planned to issue a directive asking all the telecom operators to withdraw tariff schemes discriminating between calls terminating within the same network and calls terminating in other networks.
Reliance Infocomm, for example, under some of its [...]

China Mobile offers to buy Reliance Telecom

World’s largest mobile phone company by subscriber base, China Mobile has offered to buy ADAE group company Reliance Telecom. It becomes the second company after Russia’s AFK Sistema to evince interest in GSM-based Reliance Telecom (not to be confused with Reliance Infocomm).
RTL’s advantage is that it is completely debt-free and most of its subscribers are [...]

mChq

Airtel, in collaboration with ICICI Bank and VISA has launched mChq in Mumbai and Delhi NCR, which enables Airtel customers and ICICI Bank VISA cardholders to pay for their purchases using Airtel mobile phones.
The transaction process is one where the retailer/merchant sends an SMS mentioning the amount to the customer. The customer enters his/her personalized [...]