The merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular will create India’s largest telecom company, eclipsing Airtel, and pose a formidable challenge to Reliance Jio Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
In a country with few smartphone users and low internet penetration, Reliance Jio’s latest offering JioPhone seeks to capture a huge untapped market Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
Indian telecom have traditionally steered clear of bundling phone and tariff plans, but Reliance Jio’s 4G feature phone can change that strategy Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
Amtek Auto has not objected to the admission of its bankruptcy case and requested NCLT to also consider its bad loan resolution plan Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
SBI’s petition for insolvency proceedings against Essar Steel is incomplete as it isn’t authorized by the bank’s chairman, says the steelmaker’s counsel Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
Airtel boss Sunil Mittal, in a letter to Trai chairman R.S. Sharma, says ‘at a loss as to why Trai should be considering bill and keep model’ and break away…
Unless there is an independent app store on JioPhone, which will have pre-installed Reliance Jio apps, net neutrality purists won’t be happy Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
Reliance Jio wants a Bill-and-Keep model and abolish interconnect user charges, but Vodafone, Idea and Airtel want IUC raised to 30p/call from 14p/call now Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
As of Friday, 7.95 million applicants has sought GST registration under GSTN, which is 99.3% of the 8 million taxpayers under VAT, service tax and excise duty Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)
Mint profiles five feature phone users from across India, and it emerges that Reliance Jio’s JioPhone could very well become the centre of their lives Source: Livemint.com (http://www.livemint.com/rss/industry)