Mobile in India
Vodafone CEO, Arun Sarin said – Losers Club tried to derail the Hutch-Vodafone Deal earlier this year. I really did not expect people — the ‘good and great’ of India — to be calling cabinet secretaries, ministers, to say, ‘You have to unwind this deal, because we want a piece ofContinue Reading
A year ago, Qualcomm and Reliance talks over CDMA royalty issues were deadlocked. Qualcomm didn’t budge despite repeated pleas from then IT Minister, Dayanidhi Maran. Immediately, Anil Ambani announced massive GSM expansion and applied for PAN India licenses which he also secured after few months. Meanwhile, Hucth’s stake in Hutchison-Essar was forContinue Reading
The Indian Mobile Value Added Services [VAS] market is expected to touch $2 Billion this FY ending March-08 a healthy 65% growth over last year. VAS include SMS, MMS, GPRS Enabled WAP Browsing, Ringtones, Caller Tones, Games etc. According to ASSOCHAM, The ringtone market is estimated to touch Rs 270Continue Reading
We have two mobile advertising startups in India – mGinger and adMad which use the internet as medium, lets users sign up to receive mobile advertisements as SMS and pay the user to read those advertisements. Recall AllAdvantage.Com, a which startup had raised $200 million and was liberally paying web surfers to surf theContinue Reading
TRAI, DoT and Ministry of IT have a unique spectrum allocation policy. Call it the upper hand of early GSM mobile operators or the short sightedness of TRAI and its associates. We have a subscriber-linked spectrum allocation criteria which is far from perfect as it does not factor in subscriber densityContinue Reading
Just last week, Maxis Communications went private with T Anand Krishnan’s firm Binariang GSM Sdn Bhd buying 99.44% stake in the company. Yesterday their were rumors that Anand Krishnan sold 51% of Maxis to Saudi Telecom. However, in a news flash to Tadawul – Saudi Stock Exchange, Saudi Telecom saidContinue Reading
India’s Number One, Mobile service provider, Bharti Airtel in association with Affle has introduced SMS 2.0 in India. Currently the service is available only in Airtel’s Delhi circle. What is SMS 2.0 ? SMS 2.0 is an enhancment to existing SMS features directly borrowing ideas from PC based Instant messagingContinue Reading
What’s driving the new economy ? Innovation. I don’t see or hear about “Innovation” from many Indian companies. A small company from Erode – AirVoice Infocomm is sitting on a pretty good patent that will let users make free call after listening to an Advertisement. I had written about my experienceContinue Reading
In view of GSM spectrum scarcity, Bharti Airtel a member of Fixed Mobile Convergence Alliance [FMCA] is exploring options of deploying the dual use network in India. Airtel is already testing Fixed Mobile Convergence service with limited number of its employees. So what is Fixed Mobile Convergence Phone ? You will have a singleContinue Reading
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