Alibaba from Commerce to Cloud AI with ET
At the Alibaba Computing Conference in Hangzhou, the company unveiled partnership with the Hangzhou government city management and AI-enabled AliCloud ET, showing BABA’s leadership in computing and data-enabled intelligence. Jack Ma delivered an opening speech, highlighting that technology innovationContinue Reading
Fixed / Mobile Convergence – Airtel Feels Heat before Jio FTTH Triple Play Launch
Anybody tracking the Indian Telecommunications sector can say that Sunil Mittal lost sight of India when he went for acquisition in Africa and other countries as Indian market threw lots of surprises. Worst nightmare for Mittal is his entire Revenue model in Voice being under threat as Reliance Jio wantsContinue Reading
ibibo merges into MakeMyTrip – Consolidation in Travel / Hotel Bookings
Makemytrip announced that Naspers (91% stakeholder) and Tencent (9% stake) will sell the Ibibo Group to Makemytrip in exchange for fresh shares issued by Makemytrip amounting to 40% stake in the combined entity. Post the merger, Deep Kalra and Rajesh Magow of Makemytrip will continue as Group CEO and IndiaContinue Reading
Vodafone’s Surprise Buy of 2500Mhz Spectrum in Big Spectrum Auction 2016
Vodafone has primarily focused on enhancing its 4G footprint. With its significant acquisition of spectrum in 2500MHz, 2100MHz, and some in 1800MHz, it has 4G coverage in 17 circles, which cover 91% of its revenues and 94% of mobile‐data revenues. Vodafone has faced capacity issues of late, and this additionContinue Reading
Airtel, Vodafone, Idea to divide market into Voice vs Mobile Data to counter Jio
Airtel, Vodafone and Idea [A-Vo-Id Operators] have come up with a very clever strategy to counter Reliance Jio Infocomm’s Mobile Data revolution. A-Vo-Id lobby will split the Indian Telecommunications services market based on Voice Vs 3G/4G Mobile Data. Justifying their stand, they put up an argument that 2G phones stillContinue Reading
India’s Biggest Telecom Spectrum Auction – Tepid Demand
India’s and possibly World’s Biggest Telecom Spectrum Auction will go live on Oct 1st, 2016 amidst tepid demand from existing Indian operators. Global Telcos give it a miss due to fresh memories of Spectrum Scam and constantly changing policies with motive of massive corruption. The spectrum bands put to auctionContinue Reading
RJio’s Big bet on Jio Broadcast for Live Streams AR/VR
“Content is King” was a phrase popularized by Bill Gates former Chairman & Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corp. However, changing tastes of a billion citizens has led to the rise of local content becoming more important than ever. India trials its neighbor China in the Internet Revolution by atContinue Reading
Rise & Rise of Google Cloud Computing Platform
Google argues that its cloud infrastructure is already design’ed for enterprise grade scalability (the pitch being “You can run on Google“), reliability and security and that it has the best fiber network in the industry. Google argues that if engineers were making the choice of cloud infrastructure, most would chooseContinue Reading
Jio Silences Airtel / Vodafone / Idea Cash Register with Free Unlimited Calling
The much awaited Jio Tariffs have taken the industry by storm. It could well disrupt the industry as cheaper data and free unlimited calls have sent telecom captains into tizzy and massive anxiety. Bundling of free voice along with data service offering was not at all a surprise to us.Continue Reading