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In what we can call the reversal fo trend, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Vodafone Essar have quietly hiked the tariffs by 20%. All pre-paid and post-paid subscribers using lower end tariff pack with rentals les than Rs 150 / month will now have to pay Rs 1.20 per minute for calls betweenContinue Reading

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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is Voice and Data’s Telecom Person of the Year 2007. Anil Ambani assumed charge of Reliance Infocomm [subsequently name changed to Reliance Communications] in June-2005 after the division of Reliance empire with elder brother Mukesh Ambani. [Photo: Anil Ambani entering DAKC after assuming charge as the Chairman ofContinue Reading

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For the financial year ended March-2007, the Wireless/Mobile services revenue grew 56% YoY in India. Mobile service providers recorded revenues of 56,183 crore [~ $14 Billion] while the Wireline segment witnessed a 11.6% decline in revenues to Rs 30,190 crore [~ $7.5 Billion]. Indian consumers and corporates made more calls overseas recordingContinue Reading

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All the decks are now clear for BSNL’s rapid wireless expansion with Ericsson accepting the terms of the revised BSNL GSM 2G / 3G tender. Ericsson has also submitted a bank guarantee accepting the offer. We all know that, BSNL’s mega  GSM tender was in a mess with change of guard inContinue Reading

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Here is a peek into Bharti Airtel’s performance for Q1 2008. It has 42.7 million wireless subscribers [up from 37 Million a quarter ago]. Bharti Airtel has the highest wireless market share in India at 23.5% Bharti has 1.9 Million Broadband and Telephony[Wireline] customers Airtel Broadband Subscriber number now stands atContinue Reading

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Few days ago I had couple of questions on my mind about throwing away money to read SMS as offered by mGinger, mGarlic, adMad, m-earn etc. We had a response from 160By2 team which is successfully  running SMSCountry a Free SMS website for the past 4 years which lead them to found 160By2. TheContinue Reading

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Reliance Communications acquired Yipes Enterprise Services on Monday in an all cash $300 Million deal. Yesterday, it dumped 5% stake in its subsidiary, Reliance Telecom Infrastructure Ltd [RTIL] company to strategic investors [VCs,PE Funds and FIIs] at a whopping $337.5 Million thus valuing RTIL at whopping $6.75 Billion. This is a very intelligentContinue Reading

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Bharti Airtel Ltd in association with Wayfinder Systems has launched GPS navigation for select few cities in India[Bangalore, Chennai, Chandigrah Delhi NCR, Kolkatta, Mumbai and Pune] and for almost the entire US and Europe. Few months ago I had seen a GPS navigation system in Bangalore and didn’t find it good and compelling enough toContinue Reading

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BSNL’s Mega GSM Tender for PAN India expansion is very likely to face further delays due to questions raised by IT and Communications Minister, A.Raja. Capacity shortfall has led to BSNL’s share of net adds declining sharply to ~13% in the last 12 months from a peak of 21% in FY05,Continue Reading