Bharti Airtel in 5-year pact with Manchester United

Bharti Airtel has announced a five-year partnership with Manchester United Football Club. Airtel customers across India, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles will get exclusive access to football content of Manchester United on Airtel mobile phones.

‘Three-fourths of new (telecom) users will be rural ones’

Airtel expects the next wave of consumption from rural India.

”We have partnered with IFFCO, a fertiliser company, to help us go rural and that is working very well. Since there are 400 different languages/dialects, we’ve developed the Airtel Service Centre concept — we have around 18,000 of these up already, in villages, trying to serve the local community in their dialect; we have a local face serving them instead of someone from urban areas.”

DoT panel against 3-year equity lock-in for existing players

Department of Telecom is likely to suggest that the proposed three-year lock-in period on the equity stake held by promoters of a telecom company should be imposed only on new licences issued in future

CDMA players against altering spectrum policy

AUSPI said all licence holders should be given 6.2 Mhz based on subscriber base criteria after which it can be given through an auction. The DoT panel, in a draft report, had suggested a cap on the initial start up spectrum at 4.4 Mhz.

WSG may rake in $100 m from IPL global rights

World Sports Group (WSG), which holds the international broadcast rights, as much as $100 million from five-year broadcast rights in international markets from the television rights.

Warren Buffett firm loses $1.5 bn

Berkshire Hathaway said it lost $1.5 billion in the first quarter amid market turmoil as the value of its assets fell by $6.1 billion (first loss since 2001).

NComputing launches computing seats for as low as Rs 3750

California-based NComputing, a provider of ultra low-cost computing, today announced a special education pricing scheme to encourage private educational institutions throughout the country to experience its low cost and high performance solutions.

Also see:

• Google’s Shailesh Rao appointed to the US-India Business Council Board
• L&T to sell its 11.5% stake in UltraTech
• RPL-RIL merger opposed in High Court
• BSNL launches netPC in UP

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