Sunday, August 30
Bharti Airtel has joined forces with Google, after a year of keeping a distance with the US technology company over offering rich communication services (RCS) messaging on the Indian telecom operator’s network.Both companies have signed a pact that would see Airtel soon start offering RCS – positioned as a successor to traditional SMS – using Google’s platform.Airtel will charge Rs 0.11 per message, under an 80:20 revenue share arrangement with Google, industry executives told ET."We are closely working with Google on stringent guidelines for the RCS messages to ensure that these go through our spam-based AI filter,” said a spokesperson for Airtel, responding to ET’s mail queries. “Only once this is implemented, we would be pleased to be on board RCS with Google." Unlike Reli
Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu on Monday said the government will curtail IndiGo's winter flight schedule and allocate them to other operators following the airline's recent large-scale operational disruptions."We will curtail IndiGo's routes. They are currently operating 2,200 flights. We will definitely curtail them," Naidu told Doordarshan news channel.The minister also said that refunds worth Rs 745 crore have been given for 7,30,655 cancelled PNRs from December 1 to 8 (as of 5 pm).Besides this, he said that 6,000 of the 9,000 passenger bags have already been delivered, and the remaining ones are scheduled to be delivered by either tonight or Tuesday morning.
