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Idea Cellular has launched Idea Blade 3G Android SmartPhone in India for a retail price of Rs 7992. It is a Highly responsive touch screen Phone. This phone comes with most useful features for 3G usage like – Live TV – Watch your favorite programme anytime anywhere. Facebook is InbuiltContinue Reading
3G Service providers are struggling to survive with poor take-off and adding to their woes is Headless Government’s stand to cancel Roaming arrangements. From media reports and letters from CEOs of Telcos to the Government gives us a sense that Government is determined to cancel 3G ICR arrangements. What doesContinue Reading
The Prime Minister should have intervened 3 years ago in the Telecom Sector when 2G Spectrum Scam was happening, sit across the table with various stake holder and sort out the the issue without a Scam. [Well, this is how things are currently done in India, in my limited handsContinue Reading
My apologies that I couldn’t write about the Airtel Conference Call Post Q2 results. However, here is an interesting piece of data which has caught everybody by surprise. Airtel gets 14.5% revenues from VAS of which 9.5% is from SMS. This means the remaining 5% includes VAS like CRBT, IVR,Continue Reading
Indians have given a Thumbs Down to CDMA based Mobile Voice Service as they increasingly embrace the GSM Platform due to the friendly eco-system for consumers. India has 851 Mn Wireless Connections at the end of June-2011. In June-2009 CDMA Mobile Connections commanded a 23% market-share which dropped to 17%Continue Reading
Google backed IndiaGetOnline is a Platform for SMEs to establish their Web Identity – Domain, Company e-mail id, Website, Google Apps [ Online Documents, Spreadsheets, etc]. Google has partnered with Hostgator for Hosting Solutions and ICICI Bank / FISME to probably get SME database and channel to reach potential customers.Continue Reading
Here is a very interesting development on the 4G LTE-Broadband front. Mukesh Ambani’s RIL had invited bids for Telecom Infrastructure [Fiber and Tower] and Economic Times journalists who spoke to insiders in the deal send feelers that Reliance Communications [RCom ]is probably the choice for RIL’s 4G LTE Broadband Rollout. Continue Reading
This is an update from the Idea Cellular conference call with CEO Himanshu Kapadia over the weekend [Forgive me, for being late, but time is a big constraint]. First, let me update you on my favorite subject – Broadband. Idea Cellular has 2.5Mn 3G Data Subscribers. However, Himanshu clearly statedContinue Reading
The past few months have been the toughest on personal front in life with some serious health issues to immediate family members and hence was completely out of sync. Trying to get back now 🙂 Earlier this week, the Government under attack for 2G Scam and for not taking theContinue Reading
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