Micromax 3rd largest Handset Vendor in India
To many this may come as a surprise that a lesser known company Micromax is the third largest mobile handset vendor in India by Sales behind Nokia and Samsung. Micromax followed a different strategy of hitting the bottomg of the pyramid and managed to make significant inroads riding on theContinue Reading
How Idea Managed to beat Bharti Airtel in Traffic Growth
First, my apologies that I couldn’t cover neither Idea Cellular nor Bharti Airtel Results & Analyst Call as I am stuck in Mumbai for some personal work. However, going through the data, I find it interesting to note that Idea Cellular has punched straight into the face of Bharti AirtelContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel Squeezes Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mabarak Al Nahayan out of Warid Telecom
Bharti Airtel’s intention to takeover Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom is finally confirmed. Time for some self-praise – I was very close in valuing Warid Telecom setting aside the hype created by India’s leading financial daily and all other Web 2.0 folks 🙂 Bharti Airtel has informed, Bharti will invest ~USD 300Continue Reading
New Operator – Tata DoCoMo to breakeven in 12 Months ?
Dismissing the myth that new wireless operators will bleed and will be forced to merge with incumbent, Tata DoCoMO has caught every analyst on the wrong foot as it came out public for the first time that it will break even in 12 months. However, it is a bit tooContinue Reading
Indian Domain Registry Security compromised – Courtesy Afilias
Afilias the well known brand name for those in the internet industry did a blunder over the weekend. As they moved registry.in to Drupal powered by Apache/2.2.3Â on Red Hat Linux, they exposed source code of part core modules, due to some configuration issues. Afilias maintains .Org .Asia and manyContinue Reading
3G + BWA Auction – Financial Readiness + Telecom Cabal in India
Insiders are confirming that the 3G auctions are likely to be held before the end of the current financial year, March-2010 even though there is no clarity on 2G license and spectrum for foreign bidders and the issue of incremental spectrum allocation. It is a bit surprising to me thatContinue Reading
Wireless Connections @ 500mn – Tata DoCoMo’s Per Second Billing Magic Continues
If you are from the Advertising & Marketing background, then you’ve gotta to love how Tata DoCoMo changed the entire marketing strategies of all the Wireless Operators in the second largest Market in the world [in terms of subscriber numbers] Tata DoCoMo continues to lead the number of Wireless ConnectionsContinue Reading
BSNL Karnataka Wireless Operations 42% below National Average
I happen to get access to BSNL Wireless Usage Data, of course 5 months old, its that of June-09 quarter. I just wanted to get the numbers on how Post-Paid customers usage compared to pre-paid and then with the National Average. 7% of the subscribers are post-paid while the remainingContinue Reading
Abhu Dhabi Group Liquidating Warid Telecom Holding – Bharti Airtel bids
The Abu Dhabi group led by Sheikh Mabarak Al Nahayan is liquidating its holding in Warid Telecom to stabilize the new Epicenter of financial crisis, Dubai. Warid Telecom is a JV with SingTel and has services in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well. However, only the stake of Bangladesh operations isContinue Reading