BSNL rebrands its products under a single name

28 sep 2007

India’s biggest telecom company, Government owned BSNL is going in for a uniform brand much like other telecom brands such as Airtel and Tata Indicom. This would mean that seven services of BSNL catering to 5 crore subscribers nationally would be changed.

Vodafone brand to dominate media in coming days

18 sep 2007

The coming days could witness a huge wave of advertising blitz on television, newspapers, internet and outdoor media as brand ‘Vodafone’ replaces the ‘Hutch’ brand. As a result of this transition, Hutch’s three deep pink stars logo would be phased out to pave way for Vodafone’s trademark deep red speech mark logo.

Reliance Communications interested in Aircel to expand GSM footprint

20 aug 2007

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications is looking at acquiring a controlling stake in Aircel Cellular Ltd. by buying out stake from Malaysian company Maxis Communications, who hold 74% stake and possibly from promoters of Apollo Hospitals who hold remaining 26%.

Vodafone brand may come as early as in September

01 aug 2007

The Hutch brand may be totally replaced by the Vodafone brand as opposed to the earlier idea of dual branding where Hutch and Vodafone co-existed for some time. Also Vodafone Essar is expected to source low-cost Vodafone-only brand handsets from Chinese company ZTE.

Bharti Group increases stake in Airtel

18 jul 2007

Bharti Group has raised its stake in India’s top mobile operator, Bharti Airtel to over 50% by buying back 4.99% direct stake from UK’s Vodafone at an estimated $1.4 billion dollar.

Now an Arab telecom company enters Indian market

26 jun 2007

Saudi Telecom, the largest phone company in Saudi Arabia, has acquired 25% stakes in Malaysia’s Maxis Communications for $3 billion to access the emerging markets of India, Malaysia and Indonesia. Maxis has a 74% stake in India’s mobile operator Aircel which has its services in 8 circles in Tamil Nadu and North-East.