Mobile in India
The Indian DoT has released the guidelines for Telecom Spectrum auction in 1800 MHz band and 800 MHz band as required by the recent Supreme Court Order which had cancelled 122 Telecom Licenses in India. Here are the main guidelines of the DoT’s Order No 3-12/2012-Fin/Auction, Spectrum in Both 800Continue Reading
As Reliance Communications fights everyday to service huge debt amidst challenges on Accounting practices and the paid media at work hyping Mukesh Ambani’s virtual Reliance Infotel 4G, Airtel is quietly connecting over 1,000 towers a month with 4G LTE and hopes to reach a whopping 20,000 towers by next year.Continue Reading
At the end of the 2G Voice Tariff war, the cut has been deeper at Anil Ambani managed(mis-managed) Reliance Communications while the gainers have been Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. RCom has significant gap between subscriber and revenue market share compared to Tata DoCoMo / Indicom. Airtel though has managedContinue Reading
The Indian Telecommunications sector headed by Mr. Kapil Sibal came out and boldly announced that the goal of the government is to make India as one Circle and abolish the roaming charges. I’d like to point out two implications of this move by the government which they may have thoughtContinue Reading
Mr Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, India and South Asia, Bharti Airtel Ltd explained Airtel’s strategy of Data especially 4G when 3G is yet to take off. 2G is here to Stay Five years from now, a large number of Indians would still be using 2G feature phones (probably even 50% ofContinue Reading
In response to Spectrum Auction questions raised by the DoT, TRAI defends its position of High Reserve Price for Telecom Spectrum as well as its recommendations on re-farming etc. Analysts had expected TRAI to soften its stand a bit, but the regulator put its foot forward and had defended theContinue Reading
Telenor has written down the remaining Book Value of its Indian operations. Post the write-down, the company has no further accounting exposure related to India. It is reliably learnt that Uninor may bid selectively to counter the high reserve price for 2G spectrum in the upcoming auction. Why just 6Continue Reading
Last month TRAI recommended astounding Reserve Price for Telecom Spectrum Auction. DoT has sought clarification on the same before coming with the final proposal. Meanwhile, Telecom Operators are sparing no efforts to bring down the Reserve Price of Spectrum and threatening that a call tariff hike upto 100% maybe requiredContinue Reading
Airtel Mobile Operations in India positively surprised with Minutes of Usage growth of 5.1% qoq, though was partially offset by qoq RPM decline of 1.6%. This Growth in Wireless MoU of Indian business suggests that Bharti’s strategy of realigning tariffs is yielding positive elasticity. Mobile ARPU was Rs 189 perContinue Reading
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