The Delhi High Court’s decision has been challenged about the license renewal process of Vodafone the U.K. based Mobile Service provider in some major circles like Kolkata, Mumbai & Delhi beyond November 2014.

As per statement released from the company “The DoT arbitrarily rejected Vodafone’s applications for extension… Accordingly, Vodafone is constrained to take the legal recourse by challenging DoT’s arbitrary rejection of its extension applications as this matter can potentially cause grave inconvenience to millions of customers in these 3 circles.”

Recently Trai has issued a notice about the telecom operators percentage contribution to the billing disputes by Aircel, Vodafone, Idea, BSNL and MTS which varies between 0.11 percent and 2.42 percent. Of which lowest score is 2.42 percent scored by Aircel’s Maharashtra.

Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Kolkata, Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan were most of the disputed regions where Aircel postpaid bill has dropped from 0.11 to 0.25 percent.

Jammu and Kashmir, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa also face the same billing dispute but only to the prepaid segment customers. In terms of percentage Aircel has contributed almost 0.11 to 2.42 percent in the above following circles.

Gujarat, Haryana and Karnataka were facing off the same problem i.e. non-compliant billing benchmark for Idea postpaid subscribers.

As per Trai’s new report, Aircel & Idea were the two telco operators could not resolve  the billing benchmark issue.

Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh (East) were some circles where Vodafone does not meet Trai’s billing benchmark expectation not fulfilled by the company in terms of postpaid segment. In prepaid segment company faces 0.24 percent bill disputes in Bihar circle.

Recently as per news launched by the regulator lot of customers is saying that a call is being answered nowadays in more than one minute from the so-called operators like Aircel, BSNL, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices, Uninor and Vodafone.

Mobile Tariff hike has been announced by Reliance Communication by 20 percent. Again there is 65 percent reduction in the promotional and concessional offers from the company end. All the existing & new customers will enjoy the new tariff plan which will soon put into immediate effect. Reliance Communication will put 20-30 percent hike in tariff mostly in Commitment Plans where larger portion of company’s user base use this plan.

The different Commitment Plans offered by the company were as follows: Commitment Plan 21, Commitment Plan 45, Commitment Plan 48 and Commitment Plan 46. 1.2 paisa per second is the hiked tariff rate from 1 paisa per second in case of plans like Commitment Plan 21 and Commitment Plan 45.

Reliance Communications, Chief Executive Officer, Gurdeep Singh commented “Our headline tariff increase from 1.2 to 1.5 paisa per second in October last year did not see any traffic elasticity and there has been no fall in customer demand or change in usage patterns, as we successfully migrated our entire base to the Headline Tariff. With the Indian telecom industry now heading for a phase of consolidation, with smaller operators shutting down or scaling down their operations and easing off hyper-competitive pressures, this will help pricing power move back to serious, long-term and pan-India scale operators and positively impact profitability. We have now corrected all Commitment Plans across the country and have increased tariffs by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent.”

Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan were some of the special categorized falls under those 15 circles where revenue generation is up to medium range, so World’s renowned smart phone maker Blackberry has announced a special plan for Rs 129 which will provide 1 GB data usage for the users.

Hitesh Shah,Commercial Relationship Director for Blackberry announced that this new innovative plan will be for those users who possess the SIM of Aircel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone.

Blackberry Messenger is the only choice left for those users falling under this plan residing in  metros and top four telecom circles of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.

 Email, BlackBerry Messenger, instant messaging, social networking, Internet browsing, as well as access to the BlackBerry World application store were some of the unique services offered from company’s end. Few smart phones like BlackBerry Curve 9220 & BlackBerry Curve 9320 with Blackberry OS comes under this plan.

Hitesh Shah quoted that “We are trying to get deeper into market with affordable plans. For 15 telecom circles which excludes metros and category A circles, BlackBerry will offer consumer access to all BlackBerry Services for Rs 129 limited up to 1GB,”

A new exclusive plan has been launched by Vodafone India for the newly launched flagship phone named as Samsung Galaxy S4. All-In-One tariff plan has been introduced especially both for prepaid & postpaid customers which will offer voice,data as well as SMS to all users of Galaxy S4.

Depends on the validity the recharge option for prepaid customers can be classified into two parts i.e. Rs 678 STV offers 1000 local and STD voice minutes and 500 local and national SMS together with 1 GB Unlimited Fair Usage only for 30 days period & another Rs 345 STV offers  500 local and STD voice minutes and 250 local and national SMS together with 512 MB Unlimited Fair Usage only for 15 days period.

Same but little different in type of facilities is also available for postpaid customers at Rs 1199 STV where customers can enjoy 3000 local and STD voice minutes and 750 local and national SMS together with Unlimited 3 GB fair usage. Missed Call Intimation service are some of the special benefits available only to postpaid customers.

 Vodafone stores is also featuring some exclusive contest for buyers of Samsung Galaxy S4. Other benefits for first four buyers will be like new IPL match tickets & other four buyers will get Samsung Galaxy Note II & lastly free leather flip cover worth Rs 1799 only for early buyers.

A group of advisers has been hired by Verizon Communications Inc to take full control of Verizon Wireless where Vodafone Group Plc is the joint partner, as per quoted by two known people.

Already of 55 percent stake in Verizon Wireless has been captured by Verizon & also not yet put a proposal forward to Vodafone. But again for an upcoming bid legal & financial advisers has been hired by the Vodafone.

As per sources Verizon wants to start a discussion with Vodafone about a friendly deal, if the British Company does not wish to talk then Verizon will take the bid public-ally.

Vodafone may not show any kind of interests in this deal as per news came from sources.

Actually Verizon’s has a secret wish to buy out U.S. No. 1 wireless carrier Vodafone or the so called joint British partner & as per recent sources Verizon is pushing aggressively for a deal.

Verizon is facing record based low interest rates & high in terms of stock prices & the company is confident to raise $50 billion from bank financing.

A free roaming plan has been put forwarded by Vodafone to the mobile customers in Kerala who are frequently travelling towards the neighboring states like Tamil Nadu & Karnataka.

This plan can be regarded as operator’s first plan to make the incoming calls free while the customers from Kerala where on roaming, so they can rejoice the plan.

To enjoy the free roaming option Vodafone India has launched a 21 rs bonus card for Kerala’s customers when they are visit to states like Karnataka & Tamil Nadu, this card will make their incoming call free but their outgoing calls will be charged at 1.2 p/sec. 30 days is the estimated time for this tariff plan.

There is a simple activation procedure for this new tariff plan for Vodafone’s customer in Kerala i.e. by sending sms to “BONUS R21″ to 144.

One & only reason behind the introduction of such plan is to keep the Kerala’s customer hassle free since they move to this states like Tamil Nadu & Kerala for daily business purposes.

Extension of permits means Unified License to be obtained by the telecom operators to continue their services & also to buy new spectrum in their respective circles.

Kapil Sibal the telco minister commented when the operators like Vodafone, Airtel & Loop attempt to extend their licenses in certain circles ”Today the regime has changed licences and spectrum are two separate things. Previously, the spectrum was with the licence at cost of Rs. 1,658 crore. The licence can continue but spectrum on terms of Supreme Court judgement you have to buy.”

Already DoT has told Vodafone & Loop that their licenses could not be widespread since their licenses will be renewed again in 2014. Again the companies wants to continue their services in those circles then they have to bid for the respective airwaves by saying it to the Bharti Airtel.

8-10 days is the minimum time required to start the process of obtaining Unified License for the companies as per comment came from Kapil Sibal.

8 Mhz held by Bharti Airtel and Vodafone each in Delhi circle; 8 Mhz each of Loop Mobile and Vodafone in Mumbai; and in Kolkata 6.2 Mhz spectrum of Bharti Airtel and 7.8 Mhz of Vodafone that is due for renewal in 2014 were the 900 MHz spectrum identified for auction.

Vodafone’s telecom license in major circles like Delhi, Mumbai & Kolkata has been rejected from DoT as a plea to extend their licenses.

The company commented that “deeply disappointed with the summary rejection of its request for extension of its licenses in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata service areas by DoT”, adding that the decision “is against the interests of our several million customers in these cities/circles”.

Similar request from Bharti Airtel has been rejected as well confirmed by the top level ministry.

Vodafone said in a statement that there is no such acknowledgement from DoT’s end of full & faithful operation ib this 18 years license & also being the pioneer to enter into this market where there was no concept of mobile telephony in India by spending around thousands of crores to create such network.

 Meanwhile the application of extending the telco licenses were pending & at the same time Airtel, Loop & Vodafone challenged the Govt.’s decision to auction the 900 MHz spectrum.

As per clause 4.1 the govt. can extend the validity of license by 10 years at one time  only if the request arose from the operator end in the 19th year of the license period.

 Govt. was planning to sold the remaining blocks of 1800 MHz airwaves but none of the companies take part in the auction happened in March 11 & also the renewal process of 900 MHz band airwaves to be take place from 2014 onwards.

655.59 million is  the 2G mobile subscriber base &  1.97 million is the figure by which user base has fall & 8 millions users get decreased by the Uninor operator as per data released by the industrial body COAI.

657.56 million is the subcriber figure released in the last month i.e. Jan’2013.

 Again after closing down operations in several circles like Mumbai our new operator named as Uninor which is currently operating in six circles & have currently subscriber base of 31.77 million after losing 8.34 million subcribers.

 As per statement released by Uninor “The loss of subscription in February also reflects the scale Uninor was able to build within three years in the circles it was compelled to close down.”

Currently 1.2 lakh new subscribers has been added by Uninor in their recent operating circles.

Besides Aircel having 60.87 million subscriber figure after losing 0.69 million users, Videocon having 2.06 million subscriber base after letting off 0.19 million users, state-owned BSNL-MTNL having 4.91 million user base after losing 0.20 million.

 Vodafone has surprisingly added 2.18 million new users & puuting their user base to 149.88 million, Bharti Airtel also following the same path by including 2.42 million pushing the base to 186.62 million, Idea Cellular also added 2.85 million users & taking their base to 119.25 million.