Mobile in India
Bharti Airtel’s intention to takeover Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom is finally confirmed. Time for some self-praise – I was very close in valuing Warid Telecom setting aside the hype created by India’s leading financial daily and all other Web 2.0 folks 🙂 Bharti Airtel has informed, Bharti will invest ~USD 300Continue Reading
Dismissing the myth that new wireless operators will bleed and will be forced to merge with incumbent, Tata DoCoMO has caught every analyst on the wrong foot as it came out public for the first time that it will break even in 12 months. However, it is a bit tooContinue Reading
Insiders are confirming that the 3G auctions are likely to be held before the end of the current financial year, March-2010 even though there is no clarity on 2G license and spectrum for foreign bidders and the issue of incremental spectrum allocation. It is a bit surprising to me thatContinue Reading
If you are from the Advertising & Marketing background, then you’ve gotta to love how Tata DoCoMo changed the entire marketing strategies of all the Wireless Operators in the second largest Market in the world [in terms of subscriber numbers] Tata DoCoMo continues to lead the number of Wireless ConnectionsContinue Reading
I happen to get access to BSNL Wireless Usage Data, of course 5 months old, its that of June-09 quarter. I just wanted to get the numbers on how Post-Paid customers usage compared to pre-paid and then with the National Average. 7% of the subscribers are post-paid while the remainingContinue Reading
The Abu Dhabi group led by Sheikh Mabarak Al Nahayan is liquidating its holding in Warid Telecom to stabilize the new Epicenter of financial crisis, Dubai. Warid Telecom is a JV with SingTel and has services in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well. However, only the stake of Bangladesh operations isContinue Reading
In an interview to IT Magazine in Jan-08, I had said that Triple Play in India was more of Hype as it was mostly restricted to selected few. However, Tata Photo+ TV powered by EVDO based Wireless Broadband network and Apalya / Mimobi TV is worth looking at, though it’llContinue Reading
At the beginning of this quarter, Reliance Communications took a daredevil step from the incumbent pack and introduced the Simple Reliance Tariffs forcing others to have a re-look at their Tariff plans and thus began a full fledged Mobile Tariff War. I then told that Simple Reliance is a greatContinue Reading
The day 2 of Wireless Spectrum Policy, Open House by TRAI saw discussion on M&A, Spectrum Trading and allo9tment of further spectrum for new entrants. You can read proceedings of Day-1 here. Here is an excerpt from the same. Telecom M & A procedure likely to get diluted – ThereContinue Reading
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