| Tata docomo extends per second billing to roaming | 23-NOV-09 |
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| Tata Docomo, the GSM mobile service of Tata Teleservices, has extended its per-second billing plan to roaming services. Its subscribers would be charged one paisa per second for outgoing and incoming calls while roaming, effective tomorrow. |
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| Five of top-10 cos lose Rs 24k cr; RIL on top slot | 22-NOV-09 |
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| As many as five companies among the elite club of top-10 Sensex firms have witnessed an erosion of over Rs 24,000 crore from their market capitalisation previous week, while Reliance Industries (RIL) maintained the top position with a valuation of Rs 3.49 lakh crore. |
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| Airtel slashes roaming rates by 60% | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Mobile services provider, Bharti Airtel, reduced its roaming rates by nearly 60 per cent. Customers who enroll into the Airtel Turbo plan will now be charged at 60 paise per minute for all incoming calls while on roaming. The new plan is available for both existing and new customers effective Friday. |
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| Airtel cuts mobile roaming rates by 60% | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Telecom major Bharti Airtel today cut mobile roaming rates by 60 per cent for its 115 million users, opening a new turf in the ongoing tariff war. |
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| AT&T, Intel join telcos in pre-bid meet for 3G spectrum auction | 17-NOV-09 |
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| US telecom major AT&T and the world’s largest chip maker, Intel, were among the foreign players that showed interest today in the pre-bid conference for third generation (3G) spectrum, which kick-started the process for the 3G auction in the country. |
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| Bharti Airtel's share in SingTel profit rises 26% | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Singapore’s leading telecom firm SingTel today said contribution of Bharti Airtel, in which the company holds nearly 32 per cent stake, to its profit rose by 26 per cent to S$236 million (around $170 million) for the July-September quarter. |
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| Bharti's share in Singtel Q2 profit rises 26% | 11-NOV-09 |
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| Singapore's leading telecom firm SingTel today said contribution of Bharti Airtel, in which the company holds nearly 32 per cent stake, to its profit rose by 26 per cent to 236 million Singapore dollars (around $170 million) for the July-September quarter. |
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| We did not start the tariff war: Airtel | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal today said the company had not initiated any tariff war with the launch of per-second billing and was merely responding to the market needs. |
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| Two-in-one phones catch on | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Users are increasingly taking to dual-SIM handsets, which enable two connections on a single device. |
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| Go long | 09-NOV-09 |
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| The increased competitive intensity between wireless telephony service providers has not only had a dampening effect on the stock prices but is also reflecting in their September 2009 quarter results. India’s largest wireless telecom companies by subscribers—Bharti Airtel (Bharti) and Reliance Communications (Rcom)---have seen their revenues and net profits register a drop in growth for the first time in the last three quarters. |
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