Airtel’s Move to Charge VoIP will drag Vodafone & Idea in being Evil with Intra-Circle Roaming
The A-Vo-Id Lobby led by Airtel has resorted to am onslaught on VoIP [Skype, Viber, etc] consumers by deciding to charge for Voice & Video Traffic separately at a much higher rate than prevailing 3G / 2G mobile data rates violating the Net Neutrality unilaterally. The fine print suggests thatContinue Reading
2100MHz Spectrum Auction – Open House by TRAI – Reserve Price & Bidding
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India – TRAI hosted an Open House discussion on valuation and reserve price of the upcoming auction of 2100MHz spectrum band. This event was part of TRAI’s consultation process before finalizing its recommendation to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) over the next few weeks.Continue Reading
Mystery Shopping on JustDial’s Local Only MarketPlace eCommerce Model
Local Search and Yellow Pages Giant, Just Dial has recently enabled online shopping on its platform and is currently mainly selling electronics in Tier 1/2 cities. It has already enabled a number of services (restaurant delivery & reservations, doctor’s appointment, cab booking, hotels, ticketing, movie booking, mobile recharge), on theContinue Reading
How Atlas /aQuantive & LiveRail Power Facebook’s Billion Dollar Ad Business ?
The re-launch of Atlas, the acquisition of LiveRail and the launch of point to Facebook’s emergence as a key player in the digital advertising market. Facebook’s network/adtech initiatives will emerge as a key theme in 2015. What is Atlas? Atlas is an ad server and measurement platform that helps marketersContinue Reading
Reliance Jio Infocomm & Reliance Communications into PAN India Roaming Agreement ?
Deep Pocket Challenger in the Indian Telecommunications industry Mr Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm is attempting to do what has not been seen before in any market and seems impossible – be a 4G LTE player without owning a legacy 2G / 3G network. Admittedly, this is a criticalContinue Reading
Cleartrip embraced Mobile Early for Path to Profitability
Cleartrip a challenger in the OTA space started in 2007 and has recorded a 45% revenue CAGR since then. The company derives ~30% of revenue from international air ticketing, ~50% from domestic air ticketing and around 20% from hotels (largely domestic). The company does not sell holiday packages. Cleartrip usedContinue Reading
Tata Communications’ IZO Platform Ties Infrastructure With Innovative Enterprise Solutions
Tata Communication continues to make strides in enterprise solution which would enable the company to increase its market share in the global enterprise segment. This is driven by the company’s strengths in infrastructure and its innovative and differentiated service offerings. In the last 18 months, the company launched various productsContinue Reading
Mobile Data to Cannibalize Voice – Airtel & Idea Strategies to Mitigate
It requires no big brainier to tell as mobile data gains scale and penetrates relatively lower-income subscribers, it will start cannibalizing voice revenues. We expect this cannibalization of voice by data to start materializing during FY16. In this backdrop, incumbents need to increase their investments to build quality data-ready networksContinue Reading
What Mobile Startups in India must Learn from Xiamoi’s Business Model ?
Chinese companies are best known for replicating products from the West or Japan. However, the trend is fast changing as they build the Baidu’s, Alibaba’s and now Xiamoi. Xiamoi really caught our attention as they have no ordinary business model but have started executing on the vision – “Devices &Continue Reading