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The Bharti Airtel Analyst call is on and here is a quick share of management views on various topics. Many Questions on decline in MoU – The management is of the view that as 52% of its customers are now coming from rural India where MoU is significantly lower, theContinue Reading
I have just received the results of Bharti Airtel Ltd for the FY ending March-31st 2009. Here is a quick look into the results. Revenues touched an all time high of 36,961 cr [+37% YoY] and a Net Profit of Rs 8,469 [+26% YoY] The company for the first timeContinue Reading
Aggressive marketing tactics has worked at RCom as the company is all set to take-off in adding more GSM subscribers to its platform. At the end of March-09 [FY 09] Reliance Communications wireless subscribers market share went up to 18.8% from 17.9% in Dec-08. Airtel lost its subscriber market shareContinue Reading
According to figures released by the COAI, the Indian GSM Wireless Subscribers base has touched 288 mn [ 288,363,482] excluding Reliance GSM. GSM operators added a record 10.8 mn subscribers in the month of March-09, the highest ever addition since they began operations in India. Vodafone Essar India added 2.84Continue Reading
Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal [popularly known as SBM within Airtel] surely thought out of the Box and outsourced the IT + Infrastructure of Airtel to IBM, the first kind of its deal which others copied 🙂 ET reports that IBM has bagged another contract from Bharti Infratel and other businessContinue Reading
I had always wanted to write about Online Advertising in India and the next couple of posts are related to the same. WebChutney which claims itself to be India’s No 1 Digital agency had some poorly implemented Ad network system. Their network was infected by Malware and Google flagged theContinue Reading
The Telecom Disputes and Appellate Tribunal – TDSAT hearing the case of Reliance Communications Vs COAI [Airtel, Vodafone, Idea] challenging the licensing of dual technology [GSM + CDMA] to RCom has upheld the license. The more interesting part of the judegement was TDSAT questioning TRAI’s recommendation for subscriber based spectrumContinue Reading
Silicon Valley startup company Pixazza has raised cash from Google selling its Product of monetizing Photo Inventory by Advertisements. Late 2005 and early 2006 seeing the Google Stock hitting a new peak I decided to innovate a competing product for Text based Google’s AdSense. Influenced by the Software King inContinue Reading
What applies to a common Indian’s lifestyle about amassing and hoarding [property, jewelery, etc] also applies to most Telecom operators in the country. After Spectrum hoarding, these companies have also amassed Mobile numbers sending the planners in TRAI and DoT back to the Design board. In the first place, theContinue Reading
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