India Telecom
Once upon a time Indian Telecom / Wireless space was one of the most lucrative market that even companies in Real Estate, Industrial Metals to IT – such as Parsvnath, Allianz Infratech, Tuplip IT, JSW, Sterlite, etc dreamt of becoming Bharti Airtel. However, with A. Raja engineering a massive multi-billionContinue Reading
The 900MHz Telecom Spectrum Refarming in India has been on a Flip Flop for over a year now. Now that the Telecom Commission has recommended that entire spectrum in the 900MHz band should be re-farmed, existing holders like BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone, etc will have to relinquish their spectrum allotted inContinue Reading
The Indian Cabinet Ministers [eGOM ] finalized a set of recommendations to impose a one-time fee on the incumbent operators on spectrum in excess of 4.4MHz in the GSM segment and 2.5 MHz in the CDMA segment. The cut-off is lower than the earlier-anticipated 6.2Mhz. While the charge is largelyContinue Reading
The Indian Wireless Industry went into turbulent times with the entry of new players leading to massive Price aggression in 2G Voice Business. To satiate Data / Internet demand Government auctioned the 3G & BWA spectrum and we had new operators entering the sector with investments though have not yieldedContinue Reading
Idea has the highest proportion (of its total subscribers) of rural subscribers at 54% followed by Airtel and Vodafone at 42%. BSNL Cellone, on the other hand, has a much lower percentage at just 35%. Well some of you may not agree, so let us consider it on an absoluteContinue Reading
With Spectrum Reserve price for the Top 6 Circles being High and Extremely High for the Top 2 circles, Spectrum Auction may fail in Delhi and Mumbai Circles. Prospective bidders posed a question to the DoT that in case the Government objectives for auction as highlighted viz. to obtain aContinue Reading
Continuing our coverage on Spectrum Auction Pre-Bid Conference Outcome – Read Part-1 and Part-2. As covered in Part-1, bidders with cancelled license have no Guarantee that they will end up getting the same frequency slot in auction. DoT clarifies that Frequency reconfiguration within the same band may be carried out,Continue Reading
DoT in the Pre-Bid Q&A clarifies that any Spectrum Won in an Auction is Truly Liberalized. What does DoT mean by Spectrum in 1800Mhz & 800Mhz being Liberalized ? Telecom Operators may use the allocated spectrum bands for deploying services in the following technologies GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE and WiMAXContinue Reading
The Scam tainted DoT has finally published Responses to stakeholder Queries on the upcoming Telecom Spectrum Auction in India. This time however, the DoT has been careful not to make this Responses a legally binding document as it was caught on the wrong foot during 3G Spectrum Auction. Here isContinue Reading
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