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The management of Bharti Airtel hosted Analyst call this afternoon and continued to reaffirm their stand that Tariff cut is uncalled for by them. Mr. Akhil Gupta said, As seen time and again, STRONGER Player do emerge winner even though they suffer in short term. Lost to new operators willContinue Reading
India’s leading integrated telco, Bharti Airtel’s winning streak of QoQ growth in Revenue / Net profit, Market share etc has come to an end – Courtesy: Disruptive Telecom Tariffs by New GSM Operators 🙂 Quarterly Net profit is down 7.5% on a QoQ basis from Rs25,646 mn to Rs 23,716mn.Continue Reading
Business Standard set fire the speculation that Google may bid for Wireless Broadband Access / WiMax Spectrum in India. The reason why Google is considering this bid is that it does not want to be an ISP for sure. Google is more concerned about delivering Data Services / Apps onContinue Reading
To bridge the digital / wired life divide, BSNL is planning a massive WiMax rural network. Affordable computing device – Nettop will be provided by HCL Infosystems powered by Intel’s Atom processor [ as a consumer, they’ll have no choice of Geode processor by AMD ]. This is not it,Continue Reading
Late this afternoon, I decided to be present in the Idea Cellular Analyst Call, this is my first time since I wanted to know their underlying tone on 3G and nothing else. Here is an exceprt from the call and my comments if any appear in [brackets]. Mr. Sanjeev AgaContinue Reading
I was curious to know if various Government agencies consider the RTI really seriously. As expected, I filed one with the Ministry of Communications and indeed they responded very accurately 🙂 Here is my experience about filing RTI through an online facilitator – RTINation.Com . I filed my application withContinue Reading
Business Technology Summit 2009 a conference on SOA, Cloud Computing, Virtualisation, Information Security and Business Intelligence will be held @ Bangalore Nov-3rd and 4th [Technical Edition for Developers] and Mumbai Nov-5th [Executive Edition]. Since I occasionally do some web development as well, I got registered myself for the conference lastContinue Reading
In a Analyst Call, the management of Reliance Communications first confirmed that Simply Reliance Tariff was an outcome of market research which the company had been doing [I told you even before this call was hosted]. Here is what the management had to say on various issues, Time was ripeContinue Reading
Internet Services in India is still a small market – 2039.51 cr / USD430 mn in Q1-2009 [June-30]. Here is the break up under various offerings as published by TRAI. Dial-up is still in vogue – 138.52 cr 🙂 Leased Lines – 454.09 cr Broadband – 1221.06 cr VoIP whichContinue Reading
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