Sunil Mittal, founder Chairman of Bharti Airtel Ltd had an impeccable record in the industry until 2007. Like many other Indian Businessmen, his decision to move away from his Core Business of Telecommunication Services by diverting Funds and Energy with unrelated venture into Retailing [which was another bad marriage withContinue Reading
Today we’d like to enlighten on the Backhaul Connectivity of Indian Wireless Networks [2G / 3G / 4G-LTE]. For now, read Backhaul as the connectivity between the tower (site) and the inner parts of the network through which the aggregate of all traffic from mobile terminals served by a towerContinue Reading
It comes to me as a Rude Shock that Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have not stopped unauthorized deductions from Pre-Paid Customers by activating Value Added Services explicitly not authorized by the customer. I had reported this fraudulent practice by Airtel 3 years ago after having experienced it myself butContinue Reading
India’s leading integrated Teleco Bharti Airtel reported numbers for June-12 quarter indicating pressure on all fronts. You name it and every parameter was looking down ARPU down to Rs 154 from Rs 158, Voice RPM down to Rs 35.7 from Rs 36.7, Data ARPU down to Rs 40 from RsContinue Reading
Lately, there have been increasing number of complaints against Bharti Airtel for unauthorized activation of value added services [Unlimited SMS, Caller Tunes, etc]. Well, I normally don’t resort to writing about pennies, but having had first hand experience myself and two other instances in front of my eyes, I amContinue Reading
If you have been tracking corporate India’s moves in the past 18 months [Tata Corus + Jaguar, Hindalco Novellis, etc] our businessmen are in a hurry to fulfill their global ambitions. Bharti Airtel‘s Mittal is also running on a similar track and this I believe is going to be reallyContinue Reading
Mr. Sunil Mittal is the most determined soul for Wireless African Safari 🙂 After having paid a premium in acquiring Warid Telecom, Bangladesh, this time his company is paying similar hefty premium [even RoE, RoCE are all low and not comparable to Airtel] to acquire the Wireless operations of ZainContinue Reading
First, my apologies that I couldn’t cover neither Idea Cellular nor Bharti Airtel Results & Analyst Call as I am stuck in Mumbai for some personal work. However, going through the data, I find it interesting to note that Idea Cellular has punched straight into the face of Bharti AirtelContinue Reading
The Abu Dhabi group led by Sheikh Mabarak Al Nahayan is liquidating its holding in Warid Telecom to stabilize the new Epicenter of financial crisis, Dubai. Warid Telecom is a JV with SingTel and has services in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well. However, only the stake of Bangladesh operations isContinue Reading
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