Reliance has increased 35% this year, compared with BP's 1.2% gain as it works on cutting high debt levels
Tariff hikes may not be across the board but in a few key segments, say experts
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone-Idea have announced plans to increase tariffs for customers from December 1
The decision of Vodafone Idea and Airtel to raise tariffs is being seen as a step to encourage the government to offer a relief package to the industry
Jio is waiting for the tariffs numbers announcement by the telcos duo and will react after that
SBICap Securities said VIL reported a net loss of Rs 50,921 crore on the back of provisioning for the liability arising from the Supreme Court ruling on the AGR issue
Traffic symmetry indicates that a telecom operator will not have any outstanding balance of interconnect usage charges (IUC) against other networks
Strategic errors - acts of omission and commission - have hurt many companies
Reliance Jio said that delaying implementation of zero call connect charges beyond January 2020 will hurt affordability of telecom services
Airtel said that IUC should not come down to zero and the BAK regime should be postponed by at least three years
The DoT has given option to telecom operators to clear all the dues on self-assessment basis
It is believed that apart from Bharti Airtel and Bharti Infratel, there are four players that have made a bid
Airtel has placed a conditional bid to buy RCom's spectrum, and Bharti Infratel has submitted bids for the Anil Ambani company's mobile towers
The government's stand about the health of the industry mirrors comments made by billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., which has said it has a 'divergent view' from its rivals
India's top court had last month ordered Bharti and Vodafone Idea to pay Rs 499.9 billion
The Supreme Court on October 24 upheld the government's position on including revenue from non-telecommunication businesses in calculating the annual gross revenues of telecom companies
High fees, frequent policy flip-flops, endless tax demands from an unsympathetic bureaucracy that treated carriers as cash cows have driven most telecom operators aground.
Govt should address some fundamental issues
The company rapped the Cellular Operators' Association of India for writing to the government on financial distress in the sector
It also slammed the Cellular Operators Association of India for writing ex-parte to the government on the financial distress in the sector