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All the decks are now clear for BSNL’s rapid wireless expansion with Ericsson accepting the terms of the revised BSNL GSM 2G / 3G tender. Ericsson has also submitted a bank guarantee accepting the offer. We all know that, BSNL’s mega  GSM tender was in a mess with change of guard inContinue Reading

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At the end of quarter ending June-2007, India has mere 2.52 million broadband subscribers [256 Kbps speed, it hasn’t changed yet :-)] A QoQ growth of just 8%. If we grow at this pace [8% QoQ growth] then we will have mere 10.06 million by 2010 half way through DoT’s Broadband PolicyContinue Reading

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What is common between Microsoft and Guruji ? Both are struggling to better their market share in “Search” and have resorted to rewarding their users for using their search engines. Microsoft unveiled Live Search Club in June which offers gifts for playing and winning on the website where you will beContinue Reading

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Here is a peek into Bharti Airtel’s performance for Q1 2008. It has 42.7 million wireless subscribers [up from 37 Million a quarter ago]. Bharti Airtel has the highest wireless market share in India at 23.5% Bharti has 1.9 Million Broadband and Telephony[Wireline] customers Airtel Broadband Subscriber number now stands atContinue Reading

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Few days ago I had couple of questions on my mind about throwing away money to read SMS as offered by mGinger, mGarlic, adMad, m-earn etc. We had a response from 160By2 team which is successfully  running SMSCountry a Free SMS website for the past 4 years which lead them to found 160By2. TheContinue Reading

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I normally don’t track this company nor their web properties for some reason. However, in a research report published by Citigroup analysts just a while ago, they expect the company to beat their estimates for Q1FY2008 of Rs 405m (+45% YoY) and net profit of Rs 69m (+31% YoY). Naukri continues toContinue Reading

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The National Do Not Call Registry of India, an initiative by TRAI is Up and Running now. TRAI in a notification in early June had promised to take the registry live in 3 months. The NDNC Registry is hosted here. The registry has an issue. If you subscribe to BSNLContinue Reading

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Reliance Communications acquired Yipes Enterprise Services on Monday in an all cash $300 Million deal. Yesterday, it dumped 5% stake in its subsidiary, Reliance Telecom Infrastructure Ltd [RTIL] company to strategic investors [VCs,PE Funds and FIIs] at a whopping $337.5 Million thus valuing RTIL at whopping $6.75 Billion. This is a very intelligentContinue Reading