Reliance Communications said it has disconnected from its network a mobile phone joint venture between UAE’s Etisalat and India’s DB Group over non-payment of fees for using its towers. The joint venture, Etisalat DB, said separately that it has been facing network disruption across India since last Friday due to a technical issue beyond its [...]

Customers of Bharti Airtel in the western part of Maharashtra are experiencing a service outage due to a technical glitch in the service provider’s systems that cropped up. “A technical outage has affected our network in the western region, resulting in disruption of some services. We are working toward rectifying the outage at the earliest. [...]

Vodafone India, on Monday said it would disconnect prepaid subscribers who don’t use their cellphones for 60 days at a stretch. The decision stems from the sheer paucity of phone numbers after the telecoms department tightened the number allocation criteria recently by linking it to a mobile phone company’s active subscribers. Vodafone India said it [...]

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries plans to offer high speed data services on attractively priced tablets by 2012-end, which will coincide with the worldwide deployment of an advanced technology that it plans to use, two people familiar with the development told ET. The company had earlier planned to launch services by mid next year on data [...]

The plan, called Airtel Super 950, is available for Airtel’s 3G USB dongle customers only. So far operators offering 3G services have shied away from introducing unlimited plans. Airtel, however, has now introduced a new unlimited plan priced at Rs 950. The plan is meant for USB data card users in Rajasthan only, and will [...]

Bharti Airtel has announced that its 170 million plus mobile customers in India will now potentially be able to access Twitter on their mobile phones for free till 1st March 2012. What’s more, even without activating GPRS — Airtel mobile customers can sign up for Twitter or subscribe to SMS updates of specific users (via [...]

Tata DOCOMO, the unified telecom brand of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTL), today launched one of the largest SMS-based contests in the country, ever, titled ‘Jeet Ki Ghanti Kabhi Bhi Baj Sakti Hai’. This campaign will gives customers across all Circles (except Delhi & J&K) a chance to win a Chevrolet Beat Car every day, a [...]

Blyk on Aircel, India’s first mobile messaging media company, has completed first year of its operations in India. Since the time of its launch in November 2010, Blyk has expanded its subscriber base to over 1.68 million opt-in members in the country with successful campaigns for more than 40 leading brands across different industries. Blyk [...]

Vodafone India and HDFC Bank have announced plans to launch a mobile banking service across the country next year after a successful trial period. The service, which is called ‘M-Paisa’ (named after its monetary unit, the paisa), enables selected retailers to offer banking services to Vodafone customers, who are able to withdraw from or deposit [...]

Canada-based smartphone maker Research In Motion will provide free aptitude test application on its BlackBerry phones for students in India in partnership with content providers Ipomo and mobile operator Vodafone. \”We are looking at the way a student can utilise his time for productive work on mobile phones. Hence, we have decided to give students [...]