BSNL Leading Rural Telephony is a Myth – Idea, Airtel and Vodafone Lead
Idea has the highest proportion (of its total subscribers) of rural subscribers at 54% followed by Airtel and Vodafone at 42%. BSNL Cellone, on the other hand, has a much lower percentage at just 35%. Well some of you may not agree, so let us consider it on an absoluteContinue Reading
DoT Quiet on Telecom Auction Failure Questions + Considering Extra Spectrum Fees on Existing Operator
With Spectrum Reserve price for the Top 6 Circles being High and Extremely High for the Top 2 circles, Spectrum Auction may fail in Delhi and Mumbai Circles. Prospective bidders posed a question to the DoT that in case the Government objectives for auction as highlighted viz. to obtain aContinue Reading
Spectrum Auction: DoT Permits Frequency Re-Configuration + Equipment Lease / Sale
Continuing our coverage on Spectrum Auction Pre-Bid Conference Outcome – Read Part-1 and Part-2. As covered in Part-1, bidders with cancelled license have no Guarantee that they will end up getting the same frequency slot in auction. DoT clarifies that Frequency reconfiguration within the same band may be carried out,Continue Reading
Telecom Spectrum Auctioned is 100% Liberalized + Shared Freely in India – Govt Paralyzed on Telecom Reforms
DoT in the Pre-Bid Q&A clarifies that any Spectrum Won in an Auction is Truly Liberalized. What does DoT mean by Spectrum in 1800Mhz & 800Mhz being Liberalized ? Telecom Operators may use the allocated spectrum bands for deploying services in the following technologies GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE and WiMAXContinue Reading
Spectrum Auction: Foreign Entities Allowed + Cancelled Licenesees May not Get Same Spectrum + DoT Undecided on Many Questions
The Scam tainted DoT has finally published Responses to stakeholder Queries on the upcoming Telecom Spectrum Auction in India. This time however, the DoT has been careful not to make this Responses a legally binding document as it was caught on the wrong foot during 3G Spectrum Auction. Here isContinue Reading
Telcos Clean Up In-Active Subscribers – August Addition Dips
Telecom Operators regularly eliminate inactive subscribers, but pile up occurs, requiring one-off clean-up. COAI monthly subscriber addition numbers for August 2012 reported a decline in subscribers by 1%. Airtel, Vodafone and Idea too recorded 1.5-2.0m mom decline each in subscriber base versus net additions of 1-2m in the preceding sixContinue Reading
Facebook Ads not Really as Good as Google and Other Platform – Advertisers
For any Business, Online Advertising is another channel to reach potential customers and at the end of the day its all about RoI. In the context of this, here are the view of one of the large advertising agencies which handles Billion Dollar retail clients promotion on Facebook Inc andContinue Reading
Samsung ChatOn – From Free Texting across iPhones, Androids, Windows Mobiles to Micro Social Network
Global SmartPhone leader Samsung, riding on the Android wave is also trying to build an Apps & Web Services platform. In the same direction the company is said to be gaining traction with its Samsung ChatOn service – Multi Platform mobile communication messenger, which supports the popular Android, Blackberry, iPhones,Continue Reading
Spectrum Auction: No Bids Likely for 1800MHz in Delhi & Mumbai – What Happens if it Fails / Succeeds ?
In continuing our analysis on the likely outcome of the Spectrum Auction based on Economics Prudence rather than Fairy Tales told in an Oligarchic setup, let us see how 1800MHz spectrum auction will likely span out. 1800MHz Spectrum Efficiency With Airtel aggressively expanding 4G LTE to multiple cities and rollingContinue Reading