Tag: Idea

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The launch of Jio by Reliance has indeed raised the competition among the telecom service providers in the country with other companies coming up with new plans and benefits to woo more telecom subscribers. Now, Idea has jumped into the pool of competition by launching a new plan providing 1GB data per day […]

Mumbai: Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla will be the Non-Executive Chairman of the merged company which will combine the business of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. According to a BSE filing by Idea Cellular on Thursday, the current Chief Operating Officer of Vodafone India Balesh Sharma will become the Chief Executive of the […]

Mumbai: Majority shareholders of Idea Cellular have approved the merger of its mobile business with Vodafone India, a regulatory filing said here on Friday. The Aditya Birla Group company got the majority shareholders’ nod for the merger approval in a meeting on October 12. The shareholders meeting was convened following an order by the National Company […]

New Delhi: Reliance Jio continued to increase its subscriber base in December as other major telecom operators Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel lost users during the period, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) showed on Wednesday. Reliance Jio added 85.6 lakh subscribers during the month under review, taking its total subscriber […]

New Delhi: With 22.2 Mbps (megabits per second) average download speed, Reliance Jio topped the 4G download speed chart of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for March. For Jio, its an improvement over 20.9 Mbps achieved in February. Reliance Jio was the fastest 4G operator in 2018 with the highest average download speed […]

Bhubaneswar: Telecom major Vodafone Idea on Wednesday said that it has revived nearly 90 per cent of its network in 10 districts of Odisha which were impacted by cyclone Fani. According to the company, over 2,600 sites are now operational and connecting people in these areas. “The company has managed to simultaneously restore 85 per […]

New Delhi: Reliance Jio continued to be the only operator to add new subscribers, as the telecom major added 84.45 lakh users in August, taking its customer base to 34.82 crore, while its competitors Airtel and Vodafone Idea kept losing their subscriber base. According to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), […]

Bengaluru: Open source solutions provider Red Hat on Monday announced a partnership with telecom major Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) to transform its distributed network data centres to open standards, open interfaces based “Universal Cloud”. VIL will be rapidly transforming its over 100 data centres across a “Universal Cloud,” where a shared software platform is capable […]

New Delhi: Vodafone Idea on Thursday paid Rs 1,000 crore more to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) towards its statutory dues, a senior official said. The company had paid Rs 2,500 crore to the government towards adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues on Monday. In all, it owes Rs 53,000 crore to the telecom department. The […]