Broadband in India
The 3G Momentum has just picked up in China. China Mobile [CM] has continued to expand its TD-LTE trial network, and targets to have 200K BTS by the end of 2013. In 2012, the company expanded the trial to a total of 13 cities. CM’s pre-commercial TD-LTE trials were conductedContinue Reading
China has only 3 Major Operators – China Mobile, Telecom and Unicom. Across the board, all the three operators are witnessing decline in plain vanilla 2G users. The continued decline in smartphone prices and recent reduction in data price from China Unicom will further accelerate the migration of mid andContinue Reading
India’s third Largest Cellular operator, Idea Cellular just a while ago has launched Wi-Fi based Wireless Broadband services in Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Cochin and Vizag. This comes as as surprise as until the recent conference call, management didn’t speak a word about the same. However, looking at the launch IContinue Reading
Data from Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) suggests that one third of today’s 96 commercial LTE operators have deployed 4G / LTE using the 1800MHz spectrum in their networks. The benefits are many, as the coverage area is 1.5x – 2x compared with deploying the 2.6 GHz band and thereContinue Reading
China Unicom believes 3G growth will accelerate in 2013 given major improvements in handsets / smartphones, product offerings, network coverage and branding. The company expects 3G net adds in 2013 to be higher than 2012’s level. Management will focus on increasing mobile scale and quality of customers, and expects high-endContinue Reading
TRAI has released its recommendations on advanced wireless broadband services in the 700MHz band. Key recommendations are, FDD to be used in 700Mhz. Spectrum available is 698-806Mhz. A 45x2MHz configuration recommended in the 700MHz band. This effectively implies that only one operator (new/old) can win the spectrum.Continue Reading
Idea Cellular, third Largest Wireless Service Provider in India on the basis of Revenue Market share has some interesting insights to share. The company has a gap between current (34 paise) and headline (43 paise) voice RPM will continue to narrow as promotional offers keep declining at a faster clipContinue Reading
There is a strong industry collaboration between operators, handset vendors and component makers to accelerate TD-LTE momentum. One must note that the focus is on multi-mode solutions, given the majority of operators will launch TD-LTE as an adjunct to another service. LG Electronics noted that it has worked closely withContinue Reading
Over the past 12 months, Indian Telecom Operators have started disclosing Data Revenues and metrics separately to give a sense of the performance of Data Networks in India. Currently, data revenue is being driven by 2G data, as 3G smartphone penetration is still low and 90% of data subscribers areContinue Reading
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