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After SEZs, its time for a wirless park. Telecom multinationals operating in India – Nokia,Motorola and Siemens are setting up shop in Jarkhand’s Rs75 Crores wireless park. Hutch and Essar continue to battle over BPL mobile’s Mumbai circle. Latest acquistion by Esaar group is, Hutch executives tried to poach theContinue Reading

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I was determiend to find out what were the 4th cellular operators license costs in India that were auctioned of in 2001. I first looked at DOT & TRAI but I couldn’t expect more from them being government managed websites. Then I landed up on Hindu. I found two reportsContinue Reading

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Finally, the Anil Ambani controlled Reliance Infocomm thought it was time to declare results and bring some transperency. Blame it on the Indian government’s telecom policy or Ambani’s inherited busienss practice, it is still not very clear who holds how much in Reliance Infocomm with so many subsidiaries and crossContinue Reading

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FIPB has finally cleared the indirect holding of Orascom in Hutchinson Whampoa. Orascom after the FIPB clearance now controls 10% in Hutch India. Orascom controls around 60% of Pakistan cell phone market. Ahead of Qualcomm’s July-19th board meeting to decide on the handset roylaty issue for Indian cellcos, HFCL, aContinue Reading

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Is India the fastest growing mobile subscribers market in the world ? The total number of cellular subscribers base at the end of Q2-2006 is 105,279,394 compared to 89,346,559 a quarter ago. GSM operators still control more than 60% of the market. Bharti-Airtel is India’s number one mobile service providerContinue Reading

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Indian GSM cellular operators grew by just 13.6% QoQ at the end of Q2-2006(June 30th) compared to CDMA subscribers growth of 32% during the same period. You cannot compare QoQ growth directly as GSM operators have 3 times the subscribers base than that of CDMA. At the end of Q2-2006,Continue Reading

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In a major relief to Telecom service providers, the TDSAT ruled in favor of services providers by clearly stating that only revenues from Telecom services should be included in the gross revenue of the company for calculating fees to be paid to the government. Bharti-Airtel known to the world forContinue Reading