India Telecom
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended re-farming of the 900MHz spectrum, as current licences will start to expire from 2014. In circles where operators migrate from 900MHz to 1,800MHz, they will have to increase the number of their sites by 1.6x to maintain existing coverage, according toContinue Reading
India’s Largest Wireless Carrier, Airtel has announced a Special Pack for its Customers in Delhi circle where in they can recharge for Rs 21 and avail Free Roaming and Home Plan Benefits [Incoming, Outgoing and SMS] while they are in the States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jarkhand and West BengalContinue Reading
India’s largest Wireless Carrier Airtel dismissed any near term threat from the launch of Reliance Jio 4G LTE Infocomm Services. DoT recently gave the Green Signal for 4G / BWA Operators to offer Voice Services by acquiring the Unified Access Services License in addition to the ISP License they holdContinue Reading
OnMobile Global the Mobile VAS Products Company recently embroiled into a series of Corporate Governance issues is looking forward to address investor concerns and shift focus to core business. The management in a meeting told that, greater than 50% sales come from caller ring back tunes (CRBT) but ample scopeContinue Reading
Juts got of the Analysts call of RCom and here are some interesting numbers. First, lets start with Broadband and Data Services. Reliance Communications at the end of DEC 2012 had 27.6 Mn Data Subscribers which include 2G, 3G and CDMA based EVDO Dongle Customers as well. RCom reported 6.1Continue Reading
In the August of 2008, I then made the case, for Reliance Communications it made more sense to switch Voice / 2G Customers to GSM Network when it acquired 1800MHz Spectrum. However, the Anil Ambani managed company after 4 years has realized this and in its new strategy, CEO ofContinue Reading
Google has never done things traditionally and has always had the Out of the Box Approach be it their Core Search, Advertising, IPO, Mobile OS, etc. The engineering giant recruits highest quality product engineers that fit the founders DNA which propagates down the hierarchy. I’d like to quickly demonstrate howContinue Reading
The Indian Government [Read Politicians and Bureaucrats] despite being recommended several times to come up with a Blueprint / Roadmap for the Indian Telecommunications sector lack the will to do it, and the reasons are obvious, to please some businessmen within the Oligarchic setup and of course get their cutContinue Reading
Telenor which was embroiled in the 2G Spectrum scam for choosing a wrong partner – Unitech Ltd managed to win 6 Circles in the recently concluded auctions. These 6 circles cover ~600m people and almost 40% of Indian GDP. Penetration rates are lower than average, with Telenor estimating real penetrationContinue Reading
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