Airtel Freedom Plus – 20% to 44% Expensive than Simple Reliance Tariffs
Yesterday at the Analyst call, Bharti Airtel executives denied to cut call tariffs. However, shortly after they announced Airtel Freedom Plan which is the Biggest Marketing Gimmick by Bharti Airtel. Airtel is clearly worried about two competitors – Reliance Communications and Tata DoCoMo and hence the new tariff plan. AirtelContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel – Banking on Brand + Coverage + Won’t Match Lowest Tariffs
The management of Bharti Airtel hosted Analyst call this afternoon and continued to reaffirm their stand that Tariff cut is uncalled for by them. Mr. Akhil Gupta said, As seen time and again, STRONGER Player do emerge winner even though they suffer in short term. Lost to new operators willContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel’s QoQ Growth Streak Ends + ARPU dips 10% + Prepaid Churn Rises
India’s leading integrated telco, Bharti Airtel’s winning streak of QoQ growth in Revenue / Net profit, Market share etc has come to an end – Courtesy: Disruptive Telecom Tariffs by New GSM Operators 🙂 Quarterly Net profit is down 7.5% on a QoQ basis from Rs25,646 mn to Rs 23,716mn.Continue Reading
Google WiMax / BWA Spectrum bid in India + Strategy for NextGen services
Business Standard set fire the speculation that Google may bid for Wireless Broadband Access / WiMax Spectrum in India. The reason why Google is considering this bid is that it does not want to be an ISP for sure. Google is more concerned about delivering Data Services / Apps onContinue Reading
Rural Connectivity Courtesy – HCL Nettop Powered by Intel Atom + BSNL WiMax
To bridge the digital / wired life divide, BSNL is planning a massive WiMax rural network. Affordable computing device – Nettop will be provided by HCL Infosystems powered by Intel’s Atom processor [ as a consumer, they’ll have no choice of Geode processor by AMD ]. This is not it,Continue Reading
Idea Cellular – For Change in M&A + Expects Early Consolidation + Spectrum Policy Unclear
Late this afternoon, I decided to be present in the Idea Cellular Analyst Call, this is my first time since I wanted to know their underlying tone on 3G and nothing else. Here is an exceprt from the call and my comments if any appear in [brackets]. Mr. Sanjeev AgaContinue Reading
Filing RTI with RTINation – It Just Works
I was curious to know if various Government agencies consider the RTI really seriously. As expected, I filed one with the Ministry of Communications and indeed they responded very accurately 🙂 Here is my experience about filing RTI through an online facilitator – RTINation.Com . I filed my application withContinue Reading
SOA + Cloud Computing @ Business Technology Summit – Golden Passes Available
Business Technology Summit 2009 a conference on SOA, Cloud Computing, Virtualisation, Information Security and Business Intelligence will be held @ Bangalore Nov-3rd and 4th [Technical Edition for Developers] and Mumbai Nov-5th [Executive Edition]. Since I occasionally do some web development as well, I got registered myself for the conference lastContinue Reading
Simply Reliance Tariff – Outcome of Market Research – Gain Revenue Market Share
In a Analyst Call, the management of Reliance Communications first confirmed that Simply Reliance Tariff was an outcome of market research which the company had been doing [I told you even before this call was hosted]. Here is what the management had to say on various issues, Time was ripeContinue Reading