- The Vodafone pug in its famous ad “wherever you go our network follows” is named Cheeka!
- The credit of being the country's oldest telecom service provider is taken by Loop Mobile (earlier BPL) which boasts of being the first operator in the country to offer services of MMS, GPRS and Caller Ring Tunes.
- Airtel is the first mobile phone company in the world to outsource everything except marketing and sales and finance.
- In Jersey and Guernsey, Airtel and Vodafone operate under a joint venture company called Airtel-Vodafone and marks the partnership of two of the world’s most important telecommunications companies. http://www.airtel-vodafone.je/
- Idea Cellular was earlier known as Batata, as it was formed by a collaboration of Birla-Tata-AT&T
- Aircel placed an actual dinghy lifeboat to a downtown billboard in Mumbai. A rope with a sign reading, “In case of emergency, cut rope”, held up the branded raft. July 15, 2009 the monsoon arrived with flooded streets and so did Aircel customer service. The dinghy was cut down and pedestrians were safely transported.
- The logo of Uninor is same as that of its parent company Telenor.
- On 11 June 2010, the broadband wireless access (BWA) or 4G spectrum auction in India ended. Infotel Broadband, a subsidary of Reliance Industries, won pan-India licence in the auction across 22 circles, the only telecom operator other than state-owned BSNL/MTNL to do so.
- DOCOMO name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network”
- Vodafone used to have a 10% stake in Airtel till Feb 2007 when it acquired Hutch. It still has a 4.4% stake in Airtel.
