With no operator bagging pan-India 3G spectrum, which enable services such as video calling, interactive gaming and highspeed internet on phones, all mobile phone companies are sewing up roaming agreements with each other to retain high-end users. The country\’s top two mobile firms, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications (RCOM), each won 13 of the 22 [...]

Tata Teleservices and Aircel have bagged Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Limited\’s (MTNL) 3G spectrum in Delhi and Mumbai metros. MTNL had set 1,400 crore as the base price per operator when inviting bids and it has also enabled services such as video calling and high-speed internet on phones. Aircel had won 3G airwaves in 13 circles [...]

Reliance Communications, India\’s second-biggest mobile operator, has marked its entry in the 3G market in the country. The company has launched 3G services in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta and Chandigarh. Moving up the ladder, in an all India bid for 3G spectrum, the company has won 13 circles including the metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata [...]

Having bagged the 3G spectrum license for 11 circles including Gujarat, Idea Cellular, the pan-India mobile operator and one of the oldest telecom service providers in the state, is bullish about rolling out the new services by March 2011. With already 6 million subscribers in Gujarat, the telecom operator is banking on the new 3G [...]

Reliance Communications (RCOM), India’s leading telecom service provider today announced that it will rolls out the next generation 3G Mobile and Data services by the end of this year i.e December-2010. Moving up the ladder, in an all India bid for 3G spectrum, the company has won 13 circles including the metros of Delhi, Mumbai [...]

Bharti Airtel, said that it will launch its  3G services before the end of 2010, to usher in broadband data revolution in the country. Airtel, the largest mobile services provider in India, will offer customers the widest 3G network in India.  Airtel successfully bid for 3G spectrum in 13 telecom circles across India and is [...]

Vodafone Essar, which won the third-generation mobile spectrum auction in 9 circles, today announced that 3G services in Mumbai and Delhi circles will be rolled out in the first quarter of 2011. “The world is moving fast and it is time for us to change to fast technology that will come with 3G,” said Sanjoy [...]

Bharti Airtel is in talks with other mobile operators, including Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular, to form a strategic alliance to offer third generation services on a pan-India level. The alliance has been made necessary because none of the operators has won 3G spectrum in all the circles. While Bharti has won spectrum in 13 [...]

Telecom minister A Raja on Wednesday expressed happiness over the successful completion of auction for 3G spectrum and said the government would earn revenues beyond what it had expected. The 3G auction, which got over on the 34th day today, assures the government of Rs 67,710 crore in revenue with the pan-India licence (sum of [...]