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While BSNL is planning to use the WiMax network for its ambitious 50,000 kiosk project, Motorola is planning to make a comeback as wirless giant in the US. BSNL is a truly government organization with several layers of fat making it difficult to move briskly. BSNL has the largest networkContinue Reading

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As web applications get more and more bandwidth intensive, Google can’t afford to sit quiet and dance to the tune of Telcos. Last week Om wrote about Google’s Trans-oceanic bandwidth needs. Latest reports suggest, Google is reportedly in talks with Reliance Communication’s Flag Telecom to lease 500Gb of dark fibre at around $100 million.Continue Reading

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TRAI has initiated a consultation paper [PDF] on how to accelerate the growth of broadband services in India. At the end of June-2007, there were 2.52 Million broadband subscribers in India. TRAI’s target for 2007 is 9 million and is is likely that we will not even touch the half way mark 🙂Continue Reading

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Their is good news to Airtel Broadband subscribers if you like Google and its web services.  Google will power Airtel Broadband subscribers E-mail, Search, Chat and Personalized homepage. [Not very clear if the entire Google Apps will be made available to Airtel Broadband subscribers] Google will readily get 0.63 Million GmailContinue Reading

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For the financial year ended March-2007, the Wireless/Mobile services revenue grew 56% YoY in India. Mobile service providers recorded revenues of 56,183 crore [~ $14 Billion] while the Wireline segment witnessed a 11.6% decline in revenues to Rs 30,190 crore [~ $7.5 Billion]. Indian consumers and corporates made more calls overseas recordingContinue 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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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