{"id":57877,"date":"2012-02-09T16:46:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=57877"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:16:46","slug":"airteldropped-calls-come-back-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/airteldropped-calls-come-back-to-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel&ndash;dropped calls come back to bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 1em;width: 176px;float: left;height: 91px\" class=\"zemanta-img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bharti_Airtel_logo.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-top: medium none;border-right: medium none\" alt=\"English: Logo of Airtel\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/91\/Bharti_Airtel_logo.svg\/300px-Bharti_Airtel_logo.svg.png\" width=\"156\" height=\"54\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em\" class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bharti_Airtel_logo.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The carnage in <a title=\"Airtel\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/StockDive.aspx?TICKER=BHARTIARTL\">Airtel<\/a> stock continues \u2013 down close to 10% since their results were announced. Their Revenue Per Minute (the amount they charged you) increased by 3.2% while minutes rose only 0.8% And the worst part is that <a title=\"Idea Cellular\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/StockDive.aspx?TICKER=IDEA\">Idea<\/a>\u2019s minutes grew 7.3% during the same period, in spite of those annoying Abhishek Bachan ads.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure which network traders are on, but having suffered through Airtel\u2019s network for the better part of three years: no signal, dropped calls, annoying ring-tones, having to pay to talk to a customer service rep, being told that I had to buy a Rs. 20,000 \u201cbooster\u201d to fix the lack of network around my house; it comes as no shock to me that people \u201cused\u201d less minutes. I have lost track of the number of times I\u2019ve carried the rest of a conversation on Skype because Airtel dropped the call.<\/p>\n<p>I guess all of those dropped calls finally translated to a disappointing quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The stock is hovering around Rs. 350 now. It was around Rs. 320 in early Jan so I\u2019m tempted to say that a correction was overdue and I\u2019m actually warming up to a bull case here.<\/p>\n<p>You can read all the news stories about Airtel <a title=\"Airtel News\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/tag\/BHARTIARTL\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none;border-left-style: none;border-top-style: none;float: right;border-right-style: none\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=61aee5db-9747-4ccb-ab8e-ed57f282a397\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia The carnage in Airtel stock continues \u2013 down close to 10% since their results were announced. Their Revenue Per Minute (the amount they charged you) increased by 3.2% while minutes rose only 0.8% And the worst part is that Idea\u2019s minutes grew 7.3% during the same period, in spite of those annoying &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-57877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-money","tag-bhartiartl","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}