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RCom inks deal with Brookfield to sell nationwide tower assets

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Reliance Communications (RCOM) Friday inked a non-binding Term Sheet with Brookfield Infrastructure Group to sell its nationwide tower assets and related infrastructure. As per the agreement, the telco will receive an upfront cash payment of Rs 11,000 crore from the proposed transaction, involving 45,000 mobile towers.</div>
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RCom said that it intends to utilize the proceeds of the proposed transaction solely to reduce its debt. RCom will also enjoy 49% future economic upside from the towers business, based on certain conditions, it said in a statement.</div>
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Under the Term Sheet, the specified assets are intended to be transferred from Reliance Infratel Ltd. (RITL) on a going concern basis into a separate SPV, to be owned by Brookfield.</div>
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RCom will continue as an anchor tenant on the tower assets, under a long term MSA, for its integrated telecommunications business.</div>
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Both the parties expect considerable growth in tenancies based on increasing 4G offerings by all telecom operators, and the fast accelerating trends in data consumption, which are expected to contribute to significant growth in revenues and profitability for the towers business in the future.</div>
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RCom and Brookfield also see several opportunities for consolidation in the towers industry in India that will further enhance growth and value creation in the future.</div>
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The Anil Ambani-led telecom operator is finalizing its acquisition of Sistema’s Indian unit Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited (SSTL) that operates under the MTS brand. It has already received nods from Bombay and Rajasthan High Courts, and is now awaiting a final nod from the telecom department (DoT).</div>
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Media reports said that the SSTL acquisition is expected to be closed by November 2016.</div>
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Furthermore, the telco is in the process of merging its wireless operations with Maxis-owned Aircel to create a new merged entity.</div>
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TECHNICAL NEWS RCom inks deal with Brookfield to sell nationwide tower assets

Reliance Communications (RCOM) Friday inked a non-binding Term Sheet with Brookfield Infrastructure Group to sell its nationwide tower ass...

34% customers might not buy another Samsung smartphone: Branding Brand Survey

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Following the <a href="https://telecomtalk.info/galaxy-note7-debacle-costs-samsung-17-billion-company-plans-to-boost-galaxy-s7-production-report/157834/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">recall of Galaxy Note7</strong></a>, the customers have lost the confidence on Samsung, <a href="http://blog.brandingbrand.com/news/bgr-survey-says-40-of-users-wont-buy-another-samsung-phone" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">a survey reveals</a>. According to a survey conducted by Branding Brand, 34% of existing customers said that they will not buy another smartphone from Samsung. Among the 34% of the customers, 81% own a Samsung or an Android smartphone.</div>
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Among the loyal customers who wish to stay with <a href="https://telecomtalk.info/tag/samsung" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Samsung</strong></a>, 77% said that they prefer not to learn another phone. They also cited style, options to customise the experience, battery life, cost, and dislike of other brands as the reasons to stay with Samsung.</div>
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To analyze the count, around 52% of the people chose Style as a reason to stay back with Samsung. 44% people find the customization and 39% find battery life as the reason to stay. The cost and dislike of other brands count 35% and 28% respectively.</div>
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Commenting on the survey result, Chris Mason, Co-founder, and CEO of Branding Brand said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">“Samsung consumers say battery life is a key to their loyalty to the brand. However, it is the same reason for the drop in the confidence. Battery power is, and will continue to be, a big deciding factor in smartphone technology development.”</em></div>
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Around 57% expressed interest to switch to another Android brand. Around 34% prefer iPhone as an alternative. Among the current Samsung owners, 21% previously used iPhones. The survey was conducted by Branding Brand, a leading mobile e-commerce platform. It surveyed around 1000 Samsung smartphone customers for the purpose.</div>
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Well, the survey unleashes the backlash that we all have been expecting for Samsung. However, there are chances that consumers might give Samsung another chance when it comes out with the Galaxy S8 smartphone. We cannot overlook the fact that Samsung is among the top smartphone manufacturers in the world and people have been buying its products for many years. If Samsung successfully comes up with a flawless Galaxy device next year then there are chances that buyers might give it a second shot.</div>
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Google smartwatches ‘Angelfish’ and ‘Swordfish’ to arrive in Q1 2017

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In July 2016, reports surfaced online that <a href="https://telecomtalk.info/tag/google" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Google</strong></a> is working on a new series of Android smartwatches codenamed ‘Angelfish’ and ‘Swordfish’. The latest leak by the Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/786665339652157440" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">@evleaks </a>confirms this rumor, saying they are expected to arrive in the first quarter of 2017.</div>
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The forte of the new Google Android watches would be ‘Google Assistant”. They would be running Android Wear 2.0. Among the two, Google smartwatch with Angelfish as codename will be the larger device, featuring a 43.5mm diameter screen, 14mm thick and support LTE, GPS and heart rate tracking. There will be three buttons as seen in LG smartwatch Urbane LTE.</div>
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The smaller variant Swordfish will be similar to Pebble Time Round and will feature a single button on the right-side of the device’s body. The diameter is expected to be 42mm and the thickness may come around 10.6mm. It may not come with LTE, GPS, or heart-rate monitor supports. The renders appeared showed the smartwatches to feature curved bezel.</div>
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Google Angelfish smartwatch is expected to be launched in matte Dark Grey color, while the Swordfish may come in Silver, Titanium, and Rose gold color variants. There is still no information about the branding these watches would carry. It would be interesting to see how Google’s first smartwatch turns out to be. Unlike the Pixel phones, we hope Google prices its smartwatches reasonably.</div>
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Airtel launches unlimited on-net voice calling STV for Rs 148

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Facing the heat in the voice market after Jio’s arrival and their free voice calling strategy, Bharti Airtel has been forced to offer unlimited calling at dirt cheap rates.</div>
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The Mittal lead telecom operator which has more than 25 crore customers in India, has started offering on net unlimited calls at a low rate of Rs 148 as special offer to most of the circles for prepaid subscribers.</div>
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The new unlimited calling STV is priced relatively low if we compare the new pack with unlimited on net offering from another low cost operator like Aircel. But this is still no match to Jio’s Rs 149 plan which offers unlimited on net as well as off net, local as well as STD, mobile as well as land line calls and free incoming in roaming.</div>
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Though Airtel is offering the unlimited on net voice offer as a special offer to select prepaid customers, we can expect that the operator would launch similar rates for all customers soon.</div>
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As voice business contributes more than 70% of the total revenues for incumbent operators like Airtel, there’s a possibility that all these operators cut down on-net voice rates further and introduce similar unlimited packs to counter Jio’s unlimited calling strategy to protect their turf in the voice market.</div>
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Exclusive: Airtel starts offering 1.5 GB 3G/4G data at Rs.100 for select postpaid subscribers

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After offering <a href="https://telecomtalk.info/airtel-extends-handset-bundled-offer-to-all-4g-devices/157678/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;">15 GB data at the cost of 1 GB</a>, Bharti Airtel is now offering 1.5 GB of 3G/4G data at only Rs 100 to few of its postpaid customers as ‘Surprise’ offer.</div>
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After, Reliance Jio’s service launch, Airtel has cut down the data tariffs for prepaid customers to almost half. The company even launched a data pack where one can get 1 GB data for as low as Rs 50. But all those benefits were for prepaid customers while postpaid customers got some high end new combo packs.</div>
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This time the company is offering more data at dirt cheap rates to its loyal customers as a part of Airtel Surprises, where select customers can get 1.5 GB of data at only Rs 100. Currently, postpaid customers are paying almost Rs 300 to get similar amount of data to their main plans. So, there’s no doubt the new surprise pack really is a cost saver.</div>
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Though, the promotional pack is limited to some postpaid customers as of now, we expect the company to extend the offer to more postpaid customers to keep them bound to its network. As Jio has started offering postpaid connection with an option to keep existing number on their network along with unlimited data and calling, this kind of offer would help Airtel to reduce its subscriber churn rate in this competitive condition.</div>
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TECHNICAL NEWS Exclusive: Airtel starts offering 1.5 GB 3G/4G data at Rs.100 for select postpaid subscribers

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Ex-Jio MD, Indus CEO join Sterlite in advisory roles

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Former Reliance Jio managing director Sandip Das and former Indus Tower CEO BS Shantharaju have joined Sterlite Technologies’ newly formed advisory board, the company said on Wednesday.</div>
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The company said that both the executives have experience in creating large customer and service oriented companies, and they will provide strategic guidance and direction on the company’s growth roadmap and focused capabilities in the highly evolving digital communications industry.</div>
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Sterlite is the maker of optical communication products, network and system integration services, and software solutions.</div>
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Anand Agarwal, CEO, Sterlite Tech, said, “It is an absolute delight to seek industry insights and validation of our strategic direction. Both Sandip and Shantharaju are advising us on technology and governance systems to make the business future ready. We will continue to leverage their expertise on strategic approach, customer propositions and talent building.”</div>
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Das is currently associated with Analysys Mason as a senior adviser. Prior to Jio, he served Maxis Communications and Hutchison Essar Telecom (now Vodafone), and was one of the founding members of private telephony in India and was part of the group of individuals that founded Hutchison Max Telecom in 1994.</div>
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Shantharaju’s CEO experience , spans over 15 years with Indus Towers, GMR Group, Delhi International Airport and Managing Director, Gujarat Gas Company.</div>
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Both are committed to work closely with Sterlite Tech in creating a smarter broadband infrastructure in the country, the company said.</div>
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“With the telecom space fast transforming, Sandip and Shantharaju will provide us insights and direction to achieve our purpose of transforming everyday living by delivering smarter networks,” Pravin Agarwal, Vice Chairman, Sterlite Tech, said in a statement.</div>
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Huawei Honor 8 with 12MP dual cameras launched in India for Rs. 29,999

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As expected, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://telecomtalk.info/tag/huawei" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Huawei’s</a></strong> sub-brand – <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://telecomtalk.info/tag/honor" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Honor</a></strong> has come up with yet another device for the Indian market. The new device is dubbed as the Honor 8, which was first launched in China, back in July this year. The Honor 8 is priced at Rs. 29,999. At the launch event, the company also showcased the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Honor Holly 3</strong>, which will be a part of the “Make in India” initiative and would cost Rs. 9,999. Another variant of the Honor 8, dubbed as the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Honor 8 Smart</strong> will retail at Rs. 20,000.</div>
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The key feature of the Honor 8 smartphone is its dual-camera setup, something that we have already seen on <a href="https://telecomtalk.info/huawei-p9-goes-official-in-india/156165/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3984c3; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-in-out; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Huawei’s P9</strong></a>. On Honor 8, there are two 12-megapixel rear cameras, placed side by side. The primary lens of the dual camera is integrated with dual-tone LED flash, f/2.2 aperture, BSI CMOS sensor, laser autofocus, and 1080p video recording capability. The second lens is responsible for capturing in-depth information of the subject, to re-focus on the scene, and absorb better lighting for perfect clicks. There is an 8-megapixel selfie camera on board with a f/2.4 aperture.</div>
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For other specifications, the Honor 8 features an all-metal design with a fingerprint scanner placed on the rear of the device. The device features a 5.2-inch full HD 1080p display with 2.5D glass on front screen and back. It is powered by Huawei’s exclusive HiSilicon Kirin 950 octa-core chipset. The phone runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow and is backed by a 3000mAh battery with fast-charging technology that charges the device to 47 percent  (from zero percent) in just 30 minutes.. It comes in two RAM and storage variants – 3GB RAM/32GB storage and 4GB RAM/64GB storage. The fingerprint sensor on the device is touted to unlock the device in just 0.4 seconds and can also be used for customisable app launcher.</div>
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For connectivity, Honor 8 supports 4G with VoLTE and Smart dual-band Wi-Fi switching that supports 2.4 GHz/5 GHz bands and conveniently switches to the faster 5 GHz band when the 2.4 GHz signal goes weak. Other connectivity features include Hybrid dual-SIM, GPRS/ EDGE, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC, and Infrared sensor.</div>
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TECHNICAL NEWS Huawei Honor 8 with 12MP dual cameras launched in India for Rs. 29,999

As expected, Huawei’s sub-brand – Honor has come up with yet another device for the Indian market. The new device is dubbed as the Hon...