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Top 10 stories of the week: May 15th to May 21st 2017

In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 21st May 2017 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E for their support. Idea’s Mobile Internet subscriber base down by 6.35M, as it reports its first loss for a financial year in FY17 Idea Cellular lost a total of 6.35 million mobile Internet connections for the quarter ended 31st March 2017, down to 42.23 million from 48.58 million last quarter. This is even lower than the 44.02 million it reported for the same quarter last year. Read it here NDTV reports Rs 8 crore profits for its digital business for Q4-FY17 NDTV’s digital profits were greater than their overall profits for the quarter ended 31st March 2017: Digital profits doubled year on year to Rs 8 crores, from Rs 4 crore last year, while the overall profits of the NDTV group were Rs 5 crore. Last quarter, the digital business had reported profits of Rs 7 crore. Read it here Vodafone added 1.9M data connections in Q4FY17, while ARPU falls Vodafone India added 1.9 million data connections during the quarter ended March 31st, 2016 (Q4FY17), taking the total to 66.9 million connections, up from 65 million data connections in Q3FY17. Post launch of Jio and due to competitive pressure in the industry the telco had lost 4.6 million data connections in the previous quarter. However, Vodafone India seems to be recovering: its 3G/4G subscriber base increased to 37.7 million connections during the quarter, up from…

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