Spectrum Battle – A.Raja + Anil Ambani in Nexus ?
Every few years the battle for Telecom services in India takes the center stage, involves PMO, hectic lobbying and then knocking the doors of justice and after a while settling on something that will move the business forward. It is high time that they settle things out maybe by “Auctioning”Continue Reading
TEC Report on Spectrum to Spark Fierece Telecom Battle
The Telecom Engineering Centre [TEC] has released its report on efficient use of spectrum. The final recommendations are summarized [PDF] in this report. The report must have come as a shock to GSM operators. Brief analysis as follows, In Metro Circle of Delhi, GSM operators are required to have 4.8Continue Reading
eBay India Launches Advertising
eBay India is booking ads for its website. You can place an ad on home / categories / search results page. This is not eBay’s Adcontext nor contextual nor behavioral advertising, but the old model of booking display ads. The site boasts of 2.5 million unique users and 30 millionContinue Reading
Mark Zuckerberg @ Web 2.0 with John Battelle
Facebook founder, Mark is in conversation with John Battelle. It is a must watch for anybody who is into Web 2.0. Facebook is one of the fastest growing platforms attracting more than 100,000 developers worldwide.Continue Reading
2G License + Spectrum; Some Predictions come TRUE
Reliance Communications was the luckiest in this round of battle. DoT issued PAN India GSM license to RCom + HFCL + Shyam Tele. IT ministry also accepted the DoT’s guidelines for crossover of technology [GSM / CDMA]. Another blessing for Reliance communications is that the deal is effective in retrospectiveContinue Reading
Yahoo’s affiliate / associate serving ads on Torrentz / illegal site
Networks worldwide struggled for years to get a truly competing product to AdSense. Om says that Yahoo’s Panama and search marketing is gaining some traction but I am still skeptical about the completeness of Panama. Earlier, Yahoo bought 35% stake in Indian online advertiser – Tyroo. Looks like the rulesContinue Reading
Promote your blog on Rediff Classifieds
The spa* from Rediff has increased 3 fold after the Do Not Call registry went live. Here is one that I received just a while ago, Let more people read your blog and post comments, post an ad on Rediff P4C classifieds – FREE for 13 weeks. Rediff wants toContinue Reading
3G spectrum to be auctioned. Why not 2G ? Vavasi’s TD-SCDMA Application.
India is likely to allow all players[domestic + foreign] to bid for 3G spectrum, if auctioned. There is just enough spectrum to accommodate 4 operators for every circle. It has always been said that BSNL will get a back door assured entry provided they match the bidder. So the restContinue Reading
India GSM Wireless Subscriber Statistics – Sept-2007
Indian Wireless Subscriber numbers for the quarter ended Sept-30th are just in [exclude RCom for all purposes]. Net new additions has slowed down. GSM mobile operators added 5.6 m new users compared to 5.95 in Aug and 5.75 in July. India at the end of Sept-07 had 149 m GSMContinue Reading