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Am I Fu**ing insane asking to penalize the DoT / TRAI ? Well, you’ve read that right. The TRAI in its recommendation has proposed to fine the Telco carrying the unsolicited call. Telcos have no role to play as they are merely completing the call. [It is hard to believeContinue Reading

The Tata house which boats to be the oldest and one of the ethical business houses [unfortunately it is not] in India should be ashamed of its management at Tata Communications [erstwhile VSNL] , Tata Indicom and Tata Teleservices. You are already aware of the poor QoS its broadband divisionContinue Reading

GSM party continues to rock in India as they collectively added 5.9 million subscribers in Feb-08 taking the total tally to 184.67 million [excludes Reliance Communications subscribers] Bharti Airtel continued to gain market share with addition of 2.3 mn subs. The company had an impressiveGSM net adds’ market share ofContinue Reading

Finally, the executives in the Tata boardroom have woken up and took a bold step to let UK’s Virgin Mobile operate on their CDMA network without waiting for any MVNO license from DoT 🙂 Tata Teleservices will benefit from the deal as their mobile network is currently underutilized. Exactly aContinue Reading

According to DoT, Videocon’s Datacom is at the front of spectrum priority list. Yes, Idea Cellular, Swan by RCom are all trailing Datacom. [Yes this is how Indian Government works] In the chart above it is very clear that Datacom leads in 19 circles and Unitech in 12 circles atContinue Reading

Mr. Sunil Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel, speaking at the mobile world congress in Barcelona, echoed our words about the business viability of new GSM players in India. Mr. Mittal said, All new players will collapse within 36 months. These firms will take at least 12 months to build theirContinue Reading

If there is one sector in India that is unlikely to witness slowdown in the next few quarters, it should be Mobile services. As usual GSM subscribers have released their numbers and Bharti Airtel continued to top the charts with 57.41 mn subscribers. Bharti Airtel added 2.25 mn subscribers inContinue Reading

This article should have been posted long time ago, sorry for the procrastination. India already has close to 250 million wireless subscribers. At a growth rate of mere 26% YoY by 2010 we will have 500 million subscribers. I really fail to understand the entry of new Telecom operators –Continue Reading