Broadband in India
Telecom Carriers need to continue to focus on improving performance and capacity to improve retention and drive down the cost per bit. We see VoLTE as a critical tool for carriers to significantly improve voice performance and capacity while reducing cost. For mature markets, we believe wireless carriers will lookContinue Reading
LTE subscribers formed 4% of global wireless subs and 12% of mobile broadband (3G or LTE) subs globally at end of Mar 2014. At the end of Mar 2014, 74% of LTE subs were in three markets (US, Japan and South Korea). Each of these three markets ranks high onContinue Reading
Based on thousands of complaints of pathetic 3G / Mobile Broadband Speed, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had invited consultation on prescribing Minimum Speed on Wireless Broadband using either 3G / 4G LTE or EVDO services. Till date, in the history of existence TRAI, this paper had got theContinue Reading
On a day when the TRAI revised the Minimum Speed on an Internet Connection to qualify it as Broadband to 512 kbps in India, the Executive team at Airtel set a target for Mobile Data Vertical to garner 10 Crore Mobile Data [3G /4G] Subscribers and achieve revenue of RsContinue Reading
Indian Telecom Tower companies indicated a perceptible pick-up in 3G and 4G tenancies after the spectrum auctions in February 2014. Besides, rentals have been steady and there has been no discount offered to Reliance Jio Infocomm. The pace of 3G site additions have picked up and monthly demand was upContinue Reading
Plain Vanilla Wireless Operator, Idea Cellular is bullish on data growth and data revenue growth. Its current 3G utilization rates stand at 20% to 40% across circles. Idea’s focus is to increase the utilization rate by driving up the volumes. Realization will be the focus when utilization is ~60% toContinue Reading
Mukesh Ambani managed Reliance Jio Infocomm’s network roll-out is clearing the air that this will not be a small-scale, niche network but a geographically spread, large-scale rollout. Though media reports indicated RJio roll out to happen with 45,000 towers connected, our sources inside Reliance have indicated a definite 30,000 towersContinue Reading
According to Network Gear Manufacturer Cisco, global mobile data traffic may continue to grow at a CAGR of 61% over the next 5 years (67% for Asia Pacific region). This is despite considering that an increasing number of operators are moving away from unlimited data plans to tiered data packages.Continue Reading
China Mobile plans to roll out LTE coverage in over 200 cities with over 500,000 LTE base stations in 2014, well above that of China Telecom (CT) and China Unicom (CU) with 134,000 and 40,000 base stations, respectively to become the Largest 4G LTE Network in the World.Continue Reading
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