Mobile in India
I have been covering the IPTV Hype in India since July. Questionnaire sent to IOL Broadband Limited(Partners for MTNL’s TriBand IPTV) and Bharti Airtel Limited were unanswered even after months of following up. Maybe they are not ready yet ? Cable TV guys who operated in a secured environment for over aContinue Reading
The retail segment of the fastest growing Mobile market in the world has touched USD 16 Billion(Rs75,000 Crores) and rising 20% YoY. What does Mobile retailing include ? Mobile retailing is not just selling fancy handsets and accessories. The big chunk of it is selling pre-paid currency. Approximately 80% of theContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel India’s best GSM service provider is all set to operate globally. Bharti bagged the 2G and 3G license in the channel island nation of Guernsey. Guernsey is roughly 78 Sq Kms in area and has a small population of just 66,000 people. Sure the deal won’t benefit theContinue Reading
MobileNXT, mobile retailer which started operations in April this year with initial funding of $5 Million is now planning to raise another $10 Million in Venture Capital funding. Mobile NXT CEO, Vijay Menon said that, At present, the firm’s exclusive outlets are located in Gurgaon, Mangalore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, HubliContinue Reading
Earlier I reporetd the popularity of mobile retailing in India. The story doesn’t end with MobileNxt, ConvergeM & M Bazaar or Essar Telecom. This time we have Mr. Vijay Singh a NOKIA dealer from Mahrashtra who has grown his business organically and had a choice to expand in assocation with NOKIA or venture on his own. VijayContinue Reading
On one hand the GSM operators are lobbying hard for cheaper 3G entry. On th other hand, Reliance a CDMA operator which feels humiliated by Qualcomm’s indifferent treatment on tax issues has thrown its bid for 3G space in both GSM and CDMA. Enter, third player, the Cable TV OperatorsContinue Reading
With the opening of telecom sector and the Government of India allowing 74% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the same, we are now hearing of companies from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong which have have high interest in the Indian telecom business, especially the mobile business. SingTel (Singapore Telecom )Continue Reading
Earlier this year, I had reporetd on the unique business model adopted by Airtel for network expansion, upgradation and management – outsource the entire networking operation to GSM equipment manufacturer, Ericsson. Airtel has done it again. It has outsourced a Billion dollar(Rs4,600 crores) contract to Ericsson for the next 3Continue Reading
TRAI and the telecom ministry together had put a hefty demand of $2Billion for all India 3G license. COAI represnting the GSM assoication have offered just Rs300 crores($66 Million) for all India 3G license. Recall that the government wanetd to price the 3G spectrum on the European model of TelecomContinue Reading
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