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Idea-Spice marriage to happen post IPO

ET reports that talks of merger or acquisition between Idea Cellular and Spice Telecom will continue only after Spice’s IPO.
A possible reason for this is that the listing will ensure a robust price discovery process for the company, which is currently believed to be valued at about $1 billion. Besides, any merger post-IPO will also [...]

Idea signs $500m deal with Nokia Siemens

Idea Cellular, India’s sixth largest operator, has signed a $500 million network expansion contract with Nokia Siemens.
The two-year deal will double Idea’s capacity in six of its eleven existing circles - Delhi, Haryana, UP (East), UP (West), Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. It will allow Idea to expand reach to 6,000 new centres besides the existing [...]

Hutch closes in on BSNL’s No 2 spot

GSM mobile operators added 4.13 million new subscribers in the month of April, as against addition of 6.13 million users in March. The total number of GSM subscribers is at 125.57 million, up from 121.43 million in March, showing a growth of 3.4 per cent aginst the previous month’s 5.32 per cent.
The April GSM data [...]

Record 6.1 mn new GSM users in March

GSM mobile operators added a record 6.1 million customers in March, taking total GSM users to 121.4 million.

Bharti Airtel = 1.7 million new, 37.1 million total
BSNL = 2.0 million new, 27.4 million total
Hutchison Essar = 1.1 million new, 26.4 million total

COAI (GSM body) has released the data for March. Since AUSPI (CDMA body) releases its [...]

Top management exit at Aircel

ET reports that India’s fifth largest GSM service provider Aircel Cellular has lost its top management brass. Aircel CEO Jagdish Kini and its CFO Ganapathy Subramaniam have tendered their resignations while the company’s legal council head Rajinder Singh is also set to leave.
The article speculates that the exits are related to Hutch-Essar’s former deputy managing [...]

India 3rd largest telecom market

India has become the third largest telecommunication network in the world after China and USA.
The total number of telephone subscribers have reached 202.74 million, with overall tele-density rising to 18.26 in February 2007.
The total wireless subscriber (GSM, CDMA & WLL-F) base is 162.53 million now.
The total wireline subscribers are now 40.39 million.
The wireless segment added [...]

Its a good Idea

Idea Cellular has won the GSM Association’s Global Mobile Awards award under the “Best Billing or Customer Care Solution” category.
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Essar Telecom Retail

Essar Telecom Retail, an Essar group company, is all set to enter mobile retailing in India with the launch of its “The MobileStore

Mobile user base touches 156.3 mn

India added 6.8 million new mobile users in January to take the total mobile user base to 156.3 million. GSM subscriber base increased by more than 5 million, while CDMA operators added 1.8 million (including WLL-fixed) users.
Within the Category C circles, the highest growth was recorded by Assam (8.3%) followed by North East at (6.8%).
Within [...]

Do-Not-Call registry from April

Irritation level of mobile owners is set to reduce drastically. Subscribers harassed by telemarketing calls can expect some relief from the proposed do-not-call (DNC) registry that will come into effect this April.
ET reports that Trai, in its guidelines on the DNC registry, will specify that subscribers will only have to inform their service provider to [...]

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