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Bharti Airtel has sealed a deal with BWA Spectrum Owner – Qualcomm & Tulip Telecom. According to the Deal, Airtel will have 49% interest in the Venture which has BWA 4G LTE spectrum in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala Circles. Airtel will shell out mere $165 Mn [Rs 908 CrContinue Reading
As you may have read earlier, I normally don’t take extreme opinion like “Google Search Experience Sucks”, but it has gotten to a point where users including me are desperately looking for an alternative and hence the extreme wordings. Google Search Core is increasingly targeted by Spammers and Google CrawlersContinue Reading
Traditional media is Gung Ho about whatever Mukesh Ambani does and in the process doesn’t weigh the Business / Model and just paints a shangri-la picture irrespective of what the outcome is. It is well known fact that 3G hasn’t gained much traction despite eco-system in place as affordability isContinue Reading
In response to Spectrum Auction questions raised by the DoT, TRAI defends its position of High Reserve Price for Telecom Spectrum as well as its recommendations on re-farming etc. Analysts had expected TRAI to soften its stand a bit, but the regulator put its foot forward and had defended theContinue Reading
Telenor has written down the remaining Book Value of its Indian operations. Post the write-down, the company has no further accounting exposure related to India. It is reliably learnt that Uninor may bid selectively to counter the high reserve price for 2G spectrum in the upcoming auction. Why just 6Continue Reading
Last month TRAI recommended astounding Reserve Price for Telecom Spectrum Auction. DoT has sought clarification on the same before coming with the final proposal. Meanwhile, Telecom Operators are sparing no efforts to bring down the Reserve Price of Spectrum and threatening that a call tariff hike upto 100% maybe requiredContinue Reading
Airtel Mobile Operations in India positively surprised with Minutes of Usage growth of 5.1% qoq, though was partially offset by qoq RPM decline of 1.6%. This Growth in Wireless MoU of Indian business suggests that Bharti’s strategy of realigning tariffs is yielding positive elasticity. Mobile ARPU was Rs 189 perContinue Reading
Here is the take on remaining parts of the Recommendations of TRAI [Read Part 1 here] and its impact on Incumbent and New Telecom Operators in India. For supra-1 GHz band: 33% of the bid amount to be paid initially then a moratorium of two years will be allowed andContinue Reading
Idea Cellular, PAN India GSM Mobile Service Provider has 2.6 Mn Active 3G Customers including those with Roaming Arrangements. Idea now has 12,825 towers serving 3G out of the total 83,190 it uses for serving Wireless customers i.e about 15% of 3G roll-out completed in a year. Idea’s share ofContinue Reading
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