Broadband in India
Analysts do give a company sometime before they react on recommending a stock and the amount of time Tata Communications got was more than anybody expected. What is really commendable is the report released by HSBC Telecom Analysts – Sharma and Grinnan who have openly expressed their views against TataContinue Reading
TRAI has released recommendations [DoT is likely to accept them with some modifications] permitting ISPs to offer unrestricted internet telephony [permitting them to terminate calls on PSTN/PLMN networks]. Until now only international VoIP telephony was legal. NLD operators shall be permitted to connect to public internet and shall have mutualContinue Reading
We have reliably learnt from our sources that the Government of India has made mockery of itself demanding WiMax spectrum alloted to ISPs for broadband services. The government had earlier allocated 2.5GHz spectrum to a number of players including Tata, Bharti, Reliance, Sify and Spectranet. It has now asked theContinue Reading
DoT has also released yet another set of guidelines for the auction of Browdband Wirless Access [BWA] Spectrum. Key points are as follows, [Our comments in Italics] Spectrum in 2.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz band allocated for BWA. [ Once again Foreign ISPs would have to tie-up with Indian entitiesContinue Reading
After the initial hype and pilot runs, Bangalore Unwired has come to a grinding halt. Delhi planned to WiFi enable the city and looks like the project has taken a backseat for now. Then came the turn of Pune / Pimpri and now South Asia’s Financial Capital, Mumbai wants toContinue Reading
In a report released by Springboard Research, the analyst forecasts a whopping 15.8 million WiMax subscribers in India by 2012. I am a little bit skeptical about this forecast. At the end of May-2008, India had 4.15 mn broadband subscribers [most of them Wired / DSL] DoT’s target for 2010Continue Reading
Bharti Airtel’s CEO, Mr. Mittal is in London seeking finance for MTN Wireless bid. However, his Enterprise Services, President – David is busy connecting India to Europe. David announced the building of 15,000 km 3.84 Terrabit OFC sub-marince cable system connecting Europe [London] to India via the Middle East. The project is knownContinue Reading
I just got off the Reliance Communications conference call and would like to share some of the key points from the same. They have announced real good results for FY2008, though with a caveat on Debt and others [See the balance sheet, I hardly know accounts] Mr. Anil Ambani said,Continue Reading
A year after then IT Minister, Mr. Maran declared 2007 as the year of broadband, BSNL DataOne and Bharti Airtel have quietly launched a tariff war and are ready to serve customers’ higher bandwidth needs. It was BSNL DataOne which announced the launch of 512Kbps unlimited data transfer plan atContinue Reading
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