Mobile in India
Anyuser Telecom has reduced ISD tariffs again. It now costs just Rs0.99/Minute to call the US and Canada 🙂 Another lesser known Indian firm is at the heart of innovation and leading the bleeding edge of VoIP technology – GeoDesic. GeoDesic has an IM client – Mundu for enterprises, portalsContinue Reading
I was determiend to find out what were the 4th cellular operators license costs in India that were auctioned of in 2001. I first looked at DOT & TRAI but I couldn’t expect more from them being government managed websites. Then I landed up on Hindu. I found two reportsContinue Reading
Idea Cellular is planning all India footprint. Idea plans to apply for licenses in the remaining 12 circles, which are Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkatta amongst the Metros. Karnataka and Tamilnadu in Circle A. Punjab & West Bengal in Circle B. Bihar, Orissa, Assam, North East India and Jammu and KashmirContinue Reading
Hutch along with Radio Mirchi – India’s leading FM Radio provider, HP and Nokia has launched Visual Radio service in India. What is Visual Radio anyway ? It lets the user receive the local FM broadcast on his cell phone along with video being fed into it for users viewingContinue Reading
Reliance with support from IT minister Mr Maran is still insisting on lower royalties while the recently concluded board meeting of Qualcomm at San Deigo has affirmed that their will be no cut in royalties. The company release said that, Qualcomm is committed to help the industry drive handset pricesContinue Reading
FIPB has finally cleared the indirect holding of Orascom in Hutchinson Whampoa. Orascom after the FIPB clearance now controls 10% in Hutch India. Orascom controls around 60% of Pakistan cell phone market. Ahead of Qualcomm’s July-19th board meeting to decide on the handset roylaty issue for Indian cellcos, HFCL, aContinue Reading
Is India the fastest growing mobile subscribers market in the world ? The total number of cellular subscribers base at the end of Q2-2006 is 105,279,394 compared to 89,346,559 a quarter ago. GSM operators still control more than 60% of the market. Bharti-Airtel is India’s number one mobile service providerContinue Reading
Indian GSM cellular operators grew by just 13.6% QoQ at the end of Q2-2006(June 30th) compared to CDMA subscribers growth of 32% during the same period. You cannot compare QoQ growth directly as GSM operators have 3 times the subscribers base than that of CDMA. At the end of Q2-2006,Continue Reading
The CDMA standard mobile subscriber base in India at the end of Q2-2006(June30th) stands at 26,794,545. Their are only two major operators based on this technology – Reliance Infocomm and Tata Indicom. Reliance Infocomm now has 20,205,558 mobile subscribers compared to 15,407,211 at the end of Q1-2006(March-31st) reperesenting a QoQContinue Reading
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