As part of its initiative to drive mobile internet adoption in the country, telecom giant Vodafone today partnered with Twitter to offer subscribers free access to the microblogging website for three months. Under the partnership, Vodafone subs…

Now Aircel operators can browse Wikipedia site with free of cost. Telecom operator Aircel today announced its partnership with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access to its customers. The alliance is aimed at making knowle…

Country's second largest telecom player Vodafone launched Rs 5 per day scheme offering free incoming calls, cheaper outgoing calls and SMS rates during national roaming. The announcement by Vodafone follows the launch of similar schemes by …

Two GSM operators Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have launched free roaming packs in the country. Bharti Airtel announced free incoming calls on roaming at a charge of Rs 5 per day. The New Delhi-based company’s pre-paid users can also opt for…

Tata DoCoMo has slashed 2G and 3G data access browsing prices by 90 per cent, joining three other operators in cutting mobile Internet tariffs. Tata DoCoMo has slashed 2G and 3G data tariffs by 90 per cent for its GSM customers, effective July …

Bharti Airtel customers can now avail its 4G data plans starting from Rs 450, down 31 per cent from Rs 650 earlier in Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune and Chandigarh circles. The company, which recently reduced 2G data tariffs by 90 per cent in Punjab …

Reliance Communications said on Monday it has hiked mobile call rates for both its GSM and CDMA pre-paid customers by up to 30 per cent to improve the profits. "We have now corrected all Commitment Plans across the country and have increas…

Restaurants and washrooms may have provided the ambience for some brilliant ideas, but for telecom operator Uninor, the flicker of inspiration came when a top executive was on his way home in an autorickshaw. Uninor Maharashtra circle head Ritesh…

With an aim to increase the uptake of mobile Internet on its network, mobile operator Aircel has introduced a low cost data plan, Pocket Internet 24 (PI-24). The plan, priced at Rs. 24 offers 100 MB of data usage and offers a validity of 30 days.…

Bharti Airtel, a leading telecom service provider in India, on Wednesday launched a much-awaited free roaming service for its prepaid customers of Delhi. These customers would avail this facility while visiting the five states- Bihar, Jharkhand, …

Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said the government will try to start national free roaming for customers before October this year. "Trai has floated a consultation paper on it (national free roaming). So when Trai's recommendations come …

Norway's Telenor on Sunday said it has started the process to refund money to its Mumbai customers and help them shift to alternate mobile operators in the wake of its network shutdown. It shut operations a week ago, affecting 1.8 million c…

Telecom regulator Trai started pre-consultation process for nationwide mobile number portability services that will allow users to retain their numbers even after they shift from one service area to another. At present, mobile number portabilit…

Telecom operator Aircel's competitors have shrugged off potential threat from its recently-launched plan offering free calling with data usage which was touted as a market transforming scheme that Reliance Industries would unveil with its 4G …

Vodafone and Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei have completed the world’s first successful field trials of 2Tbps optical fibre transmission technologies on Vodafone’s live network in Germany. The field trial achieved 2Tbps transmission capa…

Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top mobile phone carrier, said it has raised voice call prices to account for rising costs, sending shares of telecommunication companies higher as investors bet that rivals will follow the market leader. Idea Cel…

Airtel launches free Facebook access for prepaid customers Bharti Airtel has announced that its prepaid mobile customers can enjoy free access to the mobile application of Facebook. As part of this limited period offer, prepaid Airtel mobile …

More than 20 crore prepaid mobile phone connections which are either inactive or hardly being used are likely to be disconnected in the near future as telecom companies are short of numbers for new connections, according to sources. At least 5.…

Indian telco Bharti Airtel has launched a range of affordable mobile education services, dubbed mEducation, allowing customers access to services such as English lessons, exam preparation and career advice over their handsets. In a report by th…

Airtel mCarbon together introduce 'Call-me-back' service for prepaid subscribers  Leading mobile Value Added Service (VAS) provider mCarbon has signed another service delivery deal with Airtel by unveiling its ‘Call-me-back' service…