Apple WWDC 2014 – Move Towards Internet of Things With Health, Home and Developer Tools
Apple’s WWDC 2014 was solely focused on software-based enhancements. These include tight coupling of iOS and Mac OS integration, significant iCloud enhancements, additional Siri features, enterprise enhancements, and sub-platforms for health and home. iOS continues to evolve; ties deepen with Mac OS – Apple stressed the importance of uniformity acrossContinue Reading
Global Players eye e-commerce in India – Demand from Tier 2/3 Cities via Mobile
e-Commerce companies are generally well positioned to benefit from rising internet penetration, improving affordability of mobile devices/tariffs and a maturing e-commerce ecosystem. e-Commerce in India to Takeoff from Small Base There are 200 mn internet users (c. 100 mn are active regularly), only 15 mn are currently transacting online. InContinue Reading
China Mobile 4G LTE Network to be Largest Globally by end of 2014
China Mobile plans to roll out LTE coverage in over 200 cities with over 500,000 LTE base stations in 2014, well above that of China Telecom (CT) and China Unicom (CU) with 134,000 and 40,000 base stations, respectively to become the Largest 4G LTE Network in the World.Continue Reading
MTS / Shyam Sistema India – Closer to Breakeven
MTS India / Shyam Sistema Telecom (SSTL) reported revenue of Rs 3.2bn, growth of 6.4% QoQ on the back of 6.8% traffic growth and 8.9% data revenue growth. After the cleanup of inactive subscribers, subscriber base contracted by 8% to 9.04mn while MOUs grew by 11% QoQ. Despite low base,Continue Reading
China All Set To Sell 120+ Mn 4G LTE Handsets – MediaTek Suffers
While the Indian telecom Eco-system suffers, neighboring China leaps forward and is all set to enroll over 120 million 4G LTE subscribers by the end of 2014. China Mobile [CM] LTE shipment goal of 100mln in 2014 is achievable due to CM’s strong push and the readiness of the LTEContinue Reading
Vodafone Sets Target of 95% of 3G population coverage by 2017
Vodafone has initiated project spring, an organic capex program targeting 95% of 3G population coverage by 2017. We believe this is quite an achievable target as demand for Mobile Data Service is on the rise. Vodafone’s Mobile Data revenue grew 10.9% QoQ to INR 12.4bn, marginally behind Airtel and IdeaContinue Reading
How Internet is Transforming Banking & Payments to a Digital Experience ?
With the increasing penetration of Internet & embracement of IT, every company is transforming into the Digital Age. Banking and digitization are two sides of the same coin. An industry which is dominated by information and where the products and services are in a sense virtual is ideally suited toContinue Reading
What is the State of Software Defined Networking ?
One thing I love about Google is they don’t do things traditionally and their Out of the Box thinking and implementation leads to Disruption in the market and eventually leads to innovation. Though Google didn’t go all out to commercialize Software Defined Networking [SDN] but they were the first onesContinue Reading
Airtel 3G Coverage Reaches 25% of its 2G Network; 4G Device Price Drop in 18 Months
40 Months after the Launch of Airtel 3G Wireless Data Services in India, the company has been able to reach 25% of the coverage it provides on 2G. [We restrict ourselves to Airtel India Coverage] In the last quarter, Airtel saw an acceleration in 3G footprint expansion with the companyContinue Reading