TRAI Calls VoIP as Grey Market Operations
India’s telecom regulator, TRAI has classified Google Talk, Yahoo! Voice Chat and other innovative VoIP applications as Grey Market operations and maybe cracked down. The report says [PDF] VoIP can also pose a threat to National Security. Good Grief!!! Looks like Mr. S.K. Gupta is following the footsteps of Mr. FailureContinue Reading
3G India – Tata Tele Oppose Foreign Players
When it comes to 3G, Indian Telecom is moving at snail’s pace. TRAI recommendations on 3G and BWA were out late last September, still their is no sight of auction but just hopes. Since TRAI said that 3G was not an extension of 2G, IT Ministry thought of allowing foreignContinue Reading
Nokia ships 100 Million S60; N95 Best Imaging Device
While Steve Jobs is busy moving around his best developers to work on the iPhone, angry CEO in Redmond still thinks Microsoft can have their software running on 80% of the phones. Ballmer said, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I wouldContinue Reading
20XX – Anil Ambani World’s new Media Baron ?
Nikhil writes that Anil Ambani backed BigAdda.com [Alpha] has gone live but still in Invite only mode. Sure this is no big innovation [atleast for now], but Anil Ambani has set his eye sight to become the world’s media baron. Fortune & Forbes will find it irresistible to write about Anil Ambani’s growth from MobileContinue Reading
3G – Its not too late for India
Nokia and Siemens have meregd their network division and the entity is also the biggest benificiary of BSNL’s megatender. Nokia-Siemens’ chief, Ashish Chowdhary said that it is not too late for Indian Telcos to go the 3G way. Here is an official document that gives you more insight on Bangalore Unwired project. [PDF]Continue Reading
Triband Broadband helps MTNL regain customers
State owned MTNL which saw negative growth in Wireline/Landline subscribers is bucking the trend now. MTNL is adding Landline subscribers mainly because of their ADSL broadband services in Delhi and Mumbai. Mumbai has more than 10 good ISPs but MTNL with huge copper network has the ability to reach corners of Mumbai,Continue Reading
India Wireless Subscribers – March-2007
At the end of Q1 [March – 2007], the GSM Mobile Service Providers Market share looks like as shown below Bharti-Airtel is the largest wireless service provider with a market share of 30.63% followed by state owned BSNL controlling 22.53% of the GSM market. Vodafone-Essar is just behind BSNL with 21.77%Continue Reading
Peek into Bharti Airtel FY07 Results
Just a while ago, Bharti Airtel released its results for FY07 [Ending March-31st]. It has 37 Million Wireless subscribers and 1.87 Million Broadband and Wireline subscribers. I was frantically searching for broadband subscribers. Report says, 32% of Broadband & Wirleline subscribers are also subscribing to Broadband. This tells us that, Airtel has 0.59 Million BroadbandContinue Reading
Free Broadband Gimmick on ET
I was surprised to read about Free Broadband for all by 2009. I have asked the authenticity of this release. The government has collected a huge Universal Service Obligation Fund [ A contribution by Private Telecom players to the Government to enable the latter to provide Telecom services in rural areas]Continue Reading