Can the New Fecabook Feed Really Engage & Drive Revenue ?
Facebook has a great user engagement model but has lacked to monetize the same despite several big attempts in the past. Facebook’s new design includes a new look for News Feed that can be organized based on friends, photos, music, following, games and groups. One of Facebook’s biggest long-term driversContinue Reading
MTS Sistema Wins 800MHz Spectrum in 8 Circles – Sets Base Price
MTS India’s go forward plan involves sharpening the Company’s focus on its data centric-voice enabled strategy and to build a stronger MTS brand in the country. Company’s bidding strategy in the auctions considered a range of variables including spectrum pricing, number of carrier slots available, levels of competition, future dataContinue Reading
What are the Current Trends in Indian Telecom Network Deployment ?
In this Article I’d like to quickly summarize the trends in Indian Telecom Network Deployments after brief interactions with CTOs of Telcos and otehr High Level Technical Staff. In the short term, Industry tower addition is likely to be weak and most towers will be added by Indus and BhartiContinue Reading
What Measures Boost Telecom Tower Companies in India ?
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended re-farming of the 900MHz spectrum, as current licences will start to expire from 2014. In circles where operators migrate from 900MHz to 1,800MHz, they will have to increase the number of their sites by 1.6x to maintain existing coverage, according toContinue Reading
India QoQ 3G Data Growth Strong and Rising
Over the past 12 months, Indian Telecom Operators have started disclosing Data Revenues and metrics separately to give a sense of the performance of Data Networks in India. Currently, data revenue is being driven by 2G data, as 3G smartphone penetration is still low and 90% of data subscribers areContinue Reading
Reducing Benefits on STVs / STD Minutes Packs in Pre-paid Mobile MoM Basis
With the end of Telecom tariff War in H2-2012, operators have been continuously reducing benefits on Pre-Paid Mobile STVs / Minutes STD Packs to boost their Revenue Per Minute. In this article I’ll illustrate few examples of how RPM has increased to operators in some cases as much as 100%Continue Reading
Mobile Call Tariff Hike in Feb-13, Revenue Trends Look Up
Tariff hikes which started as baby steps in Oct and Nov 2012 have now spread wider and are bolder. Wireless Operators have hiked mobile Call Tariffs across the board by reducing Minutes in the Minutes Pack or other benefits like Validity, SMS or Talktime on STD Packs. Airtel and VodafoneContinue Reading
Impact of 3G /4G Data Usage on Voice / SMS Revenues
One of the big questions being asked today is what is the impact of 3G / 4G data substituting traditional communication technologies – Voice and SMS on operators’ bottomlines. The data growth story is widely regarded as positive for operators where the growth of data can help support higher profitability,Continue Reading
National Broadband Project of Australia – An Insight
The Coalition in Australia is committed to completing a national broadband solution – National Broadband Network (NBN), albeit with a number of changes. The Coalition has stated that it is committed to the NBN being a wholesale-only, open-access vehicle. Incorporate a broader mix of technologies for NBN While the currentContinue Reading