India Telecom
Reliance Communications and Reliance Jio Infocomm Telecom Tower Sharing Deal was expected to happen but the amount at which the deal has happened and the unanswered questions comes as a surprise to many of us. Like in the previous RCom-Reliance Jio Inter City OFC Sharing Deal which happened at 50%Continue Reading
Himanshu Kapnia, CEO Idea Cellular was at the Morgan Stanley 15th India Summit and he shared his perspectives on the Indian Telecom – Voice and Data Markets. On Indian Telecommunications Voice Market Over the last 2-3 years Indian Telecom sector witnessed huge battle on the competition front as result ofContinue Reading
Idea Cellular continues to execute strongly in this market, as seen by its operational trends. Idea is reducing promotional minutes in the system. It estimates that if all promotional minutes were removed, this could result in around 8-10 paisa improvement in voice yields – although it would be hard toContinue Reading
Indian Telecom Operators followed a “bill and keep” regime for SMS (zero SMS termination rates, in practical terms) for a long time. The incumbents, led by Airtel, decided to impose a 10 paise / SMS termination charge on incoming SMS at various times in the past couple of years. TheContinue Reading
Few Days ago, when I wrote about 80% of Indian Mobile Telephony being supported by Microwave backhaul and just 20% of Optical Fiber backhaul, I had told will come back with the deployments of microwave elements in Indian Sky.Continue Reading
The Indian Government’s Telecom Ministry headed by Mr. Kapil Sibal has reportedly refused, to extend Telecom licences that expire in Nov 2014. Those seeking extension include Airtel (in Delhi & Kolkata circles), and Vodafone (in Delhi, Mumbai & Kolkata circles). Their license extension implies the use of Spectrum that theyContinue Reading
The Multi-Billion Dollar Scam Scarred Congress Government and its Lawyer turned Politician, Minister of Communications, Kapil Sibal is in Trouble again. Mr. Sibal will enter books of Modern History covering the Massive Corruption for his famous Zero Loss Theory in 2G Spectrum Scam. Mr. Sibal is in trouble yet againContinue Reading
Indian GSM subscriber numbers continued its upward trajectory after few months of decline amidst cleanup of inactive and low end consumers by the Telecom Companies. Top 3 GSM operators gained a total of 6.5mn subscribers (ex Uninor) in Feb-13 vs. a gain of 0.4mn in Jan-13. All of the netContinue Reading
In this Article I’d like to quickly summarize the trends in Indian Telecom Network Deployments after brief interactions with CTOs of Telcos and otehr High Level Technical Staff. In the short term, Industry tower addition is likely to be weak and most towers will be added by Indus and BhartiContinue Reading
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