Mobile in India
Airtel today announced the results for quarter ending Sept-2012 and also disclosed lot of details on the company’s strategy and 3G / 2G Data and other metrics. Without getting into the financials lets straight away get into Data / Broadband, which is of prime importance to us. Airtel DSL BroadbandContinue Reading
The so called Indian Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) who slept over the 2G Spectrum Scam now have decided on partial re-farming of the 900MHz spectrum, wherein incumbent operators [Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance Telecom(GSM), Idea] can retain up to 2.5MHz of spectrum and have to surrender the remaining spectrum for auction.Continue Reading
Reliance Infotel Broadband licensees of BWA Spectrum in 2300MHz band have written to the DoT seeking permission to conduct Voice Services over its 40 LTE/ 4G enabled Locations across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. They have also sought for Blocks of Phone Numbers for the same. However, one is skeptical aboutContinue Reading
One of the surprise bidders at this exuberant price of Spectrum is Videocon Telecommunications. Videocon on its website lists as a $5Bn conglomerate but if you see the market capitalization of its flagship Videocon Industries, it is mere $1Bn and add another $1Bn for its unlisted energy ventures, that’s it.Continue Reading
Once upon a time Indian Telecom / Wireless space was one of the most lucrative market that even companies in Real Estate, Industrial Metals to IT – such as Parsvnath, Allianz Infratech, Tuplip IT, JSW, Sterlite, etc dreamt of becoming Bharti Airtel. However, with A. Raja engineering a massive multi-billionContinue Reading
The 900MHz Telecom Spectrum Refarming in India has been on a Flip Flop for over a year now. Now that the Telecom Commission has recommended that entire spectrum in the 900MHz band should be re-farmed, existing holders like BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone, etc will have to relinquish their spectrum allotted inContinue Reading
The Indian Wireless Industry went into turbulent times with the entry of new players leading to massive Price aggression in 2G Voice Business. To satiate Data / Internet demand Government auctioned the 3G & BWA spectrum and we had new operators entering the sector with investments though have not yieldedContinue Reading
Idea has the highest proportion (of its total subscribers) of rural subscribers at 54% followed by Airtel and Vodafone at 42%. BSNL Cellone, on the other hand, has a much lower percentage at just 35%. Well some of you may not agree, so let us consider it on an absoluteContinue Reading
With Spectrum Reserve price for the Top 6 Circles being High and Extremely High for the Top 2 circles, Spectrum Auction may fail in Delhi and Mumbai Circles. Prospective bidders posed a question to the DoT that in case the Government objectives for auction as highlighted viz. to obtain aContinue Reading
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