Will Idea / Vodafone Join Airtel in Providing Free Roaming – Atleast Incoming and SMS
India’s Largest Wireless Carrier, Airtel has announced a Special Pack for its Customers in Delhi circle where in they can recharge for Rs 21 and avail Free Roaming and Home Plan Benefits [Incoming, Outgoing and SMS] while they are in the States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jarkhand and West BengalContinue Reading
DoCoMo, China Mobile,Korea Telecom – WiFi Alliance to Handle mobile Data Traffic
NTT DoCoMo, China Mobile, and Korea Telecom agreed a joint Wi-Fi inbound roaming scheme covering Japan, China and Korea as well as standardized NFC handset and service requirements. The three companies will jointly show their ideas to global operators at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona this week. ThisContinue Reading
Is Airtel Planning to Exit Sri Lanka in favor of Axiata ?
There have been Rumors in the Market Circle Today [My trusted source] that Bharti Airtel is likely to exit Sri Lankan Operations in favor of Axiata. Airtel’s Sri Lanka operations consists of 1.6mn subscribers, assets of INR7.4bn, liabilities of INR14.8bn and losses of INR2.5bn for the year ending Mar12. AxiataContinue Reading
Airtel & Reliance Connect 16K SMEs With P2P Wireless Broadband
If you are a regular reader here [As If I update Regularly ?], you know Broadband is my Food 🙂 I can go without food for a Day but not Broadband. I knew that Airtel and Reliance Communications have been deploying Wireless Point to Point Technologies for SMEs where theyContinue Reading
Airtel & Idea Shrug Off Reliance Jio Infocomm 4G Voice Threat
India’s largest Wireless Carrier Airtel dismissed any near term threat from the launch of Reliance Jio 4G LTE Infocomm Services. DoT recently gave the Green Signal for 4G / BWA Operators to offer Voice Services by acquiring the Unified Access Services License in addition to the ISP License they holdContinue Reading
2012 Global SmartPhone Shipment Data – Samsung Leads followed by iPhone
In CY 2012, 730 Mn SmartPhones were sold worldwide with Samsung taking the crown and reporting a global MarketShare of 29% followed by Apple’s iPhone with 21% doing extremely well in the United States but trailing elsewhere. Galaxy S3 Sales may decline double digits in 1Q-2013 ahead of the likelyContinue Reading
OnMobile Relying on Global Telcos for Turnaround
OnMobile Global the Mobile VAS Products Company recently embroiled into a series of Corporate Governance issues is looking forward to address investor concerns and shift focus to core business. The management in a meeting told that, greater than 50% sales come from caller ring back tunes (CRBT) but ample scopeContinue Reading
YouTube on TV via FreeSat – Is Google Eying TV Ads ?
Google’s Second Hottest Internet Property – YouTube has partnered with Freesat, a satellite television operator in the UK, to bring YouTube’s content in the living room. Freesat’s service is free of monthly subscription costs, although users must purchase a set-top box. Freesat delivers digital content directly to 3 million TVsContinue Reading
Convergence/ goBroadband is now 3G4G
One of the 2013 resolutions was to Re-brand this Blog, as “Convergence” is a word, too hard to comprehend by most Indian folks. During my interactions with “Aam Aadmi”, I was surprised to know everybody knew what 3G is [mostly due to the massive advertising spend by Telcos] but mostContinue Reading