Airtel today announced the results for quarter ending Sept-2012 and also disclosed lot of details on the company’s strategy and 3G / 2G Data and other metrics. Without getting into the financials lets straight away get into Data / Broadband, which is of prime importance to us. Airtel DSL BroadbandContinue Reading
It is little over 12 months since operators started rolling out 3G Services in India. Here is a Status check on the State of 3G in India. 3G accounts for only 1-2% of the subscriber base, and incremental 3G revenues are a similar proportion of total revenues. 3G has hadContinue Reading
Their can’t be a better news than the release of Huawei E303c and Huawei E560 3G USB Dongles for High Speed Mobile Broadband Access. Both are Network Independent Devices – Meaning Change your SIM and access 3G network of the new operator on the fly. Huawei E303c This is aContinue Reading
The Prime Minister should have intervened 3 years ago in the Telecom Sector when 2G Spectrum Scam was happening, sit across the table with various stake holder and sort out the the issue without a Scam. [Well, this is how things are currently done in India, in my limited handsContinue Reading
Just a while ago, in a conference call the Management of Bharti Airtel confirmed that if 3G Spectrum is allotted to them by Sept-2010, as promised by the Government during 3G & BWA Auction, Airtel will roll out services before the CY 2010. Even though Bharti Airtel fell short ofContinue Reading
After 12 days and 70 rounds of bidding on Friday (April 23), 3G bid-price of US$1.71bn (Rs76bn) is almost at my forecast of $1.8 bn and is likely to cross the same, a bad thing for the Indian Wireless Industry as a whole. With Activity requirement still at 80% inContinue Reading
The much awaited 3G Spectrum auction is finally happening, almost smoothly except that potentially corrupt Telecom minister A.Raja is charged by the Office of Controller and Auditor General for causing a loss of over USD 5 bn to the Government. Anyway, after a careful study here is what Indian WirelessContinue Reading
It wasn’t an easy task to estimate the potential clearing bid prices for 3G spectrum in each circle. Taking into considerations various parameters – current subscribers, reach, income levels, etc I assigned a multiple to each telecom circle depending on the growth potential and 3G service absorption capacity. In myContinue Reading
3G is the buzzword for folks reading this blog. But bear in Mind that there are over 558 mn 2G Wireless SIMs out in India and not everybody is aware of what 3G is nor the demand for it. Here is a finding of a survey by RBS, 48% ofContinue Reading
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