Reliance Vs Qualcomm – Royalties, Spectrum, Network Independence, etc..
I would like to summarize the entire Convergence.In coverage on the issue involving Reliance, Tata, Qualcomm, GSM or CDMA and Spectrum. It started in the first week of June when Anil Ambani’s Reliance Telecom applied for GSM license. Then I got an insight about Reliance’s call to switch to GSMContinue Reading
National Long Distance(NLD/STD) Wars breaks out in India
MTNL is planning to launch NLD/STD service between Mumbai and Delhi at the rate of Rs0.40/Minute(less than a cent). Reliance Communications, didn’t take long time to react and immediately announced that its fixed wireless phone customers can avail of similar benefit and call between any state capitals at the sameContinue Reading
Weekend – India Telecom Updates
Hindujas who exited out of Hutch in a shady deal, have said that they see a great potential in Indian GSM based mobile market and want to re-enter if they good stake at the right price – right price ? I doubt if Hindujas know what the right price is,Continue Reading
Mobile internet users in India at 3%
Mobile phone consumers using internet in India is at mere 3% of the total subscriber base. Most of these users use the GPRS based services and bulk of them are on Bharti-Airtel network. Hutch and Reliance have also announced big plans to offer Blackberry and mobile internet services. Meanwhile inContinue Reading
COAI clarifies – CDMA real beneficiary
Countering allegations of Qualcomm about India’s mobile spectrum policy, COAI issued a notification that it does not favor either GSM or CDMA but has set a level playing field and encourages both the technologies to co-exist for the benefit of consumers and FreeMarkets. COAI, clarified its stand in a letterContinue Reading
Royalty is the issue, not spectrum policy – Maran
Dayanidhi Maran has made it clear that their is no fault in India’s spectrum policy. Qualcomm chief also offered to establish and fund a Telecom research institute in Chennai,India. Maran and his officials maintained that it is the handset cost and incompatability of CDMA handset with GSM technology that isContinue Reading
Qualcomm – Tata Indicom talks Fail
FE is reporting that the talks between CDMA pioneer Qualcomm and Tata Indicom have failed. Tata Indicom team for the meeting included Ratan Tata and Darryl Green, while Paul Jacobs led the Qualcomm team. It is understood that, Jacob expressed inability to reduce the 7% royalty which was one ofContinue Reading
GSM Vs CDMA, 3G spectrum war in India.
With Reliance’s application for GSM spectrum, the war has intensified further. Some pointing that the spectrum allocation policy by DOT is totally flawed. Lets try to understand what the current policy is. GSM operators have been allocated spectrum in the ranges of 890-902.5 MHz paired with 935-947.5 MHz and 902.5-915Continue Reading
Reliance & Nokia shake Qualcomm. Airtel CEO calls CDMA dying technology
Last week and this week their have been reports that India’s third largest mobile service provider, Reliance Infocomm would kiss goodbye to CDMA technology and slowly migrate to GSM. Reliance Infocomm’s subscriber constitute 8% of Qualcomms total subscriber base and around 10% fo the bottomline(I am not positive). This announcementContinue Reading