Airtel India’s Data revenue growth continues to be strong though data pricing in India remains amongst lowest in the world. Management highlighted that weakness in data pricing has to be seen in the context of changing customer behavior. More and more subscribers are going for data and the decline inContinue Reading
Every time spectrum comes for auction in India, uncertainty increases for operators. The spectrum auction earlier this year saw an unexpected contest for 1,800 spectrum as the entry of pure 4G players required incumbent operators to add 4G spectrum selectively. Since then, the most interesting trend has been robust dataContinue Reading
Internet has evolved to send a much greater proportion of traffic down to the user relative to the amount of traffic sent back up to the Networks. The rapid rise in demand for high-bandwidth applications, such as online video and gaming, have accelerated the proportion of downstream traffic on theContinue Reading
The great Telecom Spectrum Auction in 1800Mhz and 900Mhz band which has given some clarity and stability to the Telecommunications sector on the policy front has met with mixed views amongst global institutional investors . Here are some views of the key analysts at various research entities, Jefferries in aContinue Reading
LTE Advanced is the next step in the evolution of LTE. As happened to I study in-depth on how exactly LTE Advanced works, here is an insight to readers to get a sense of the technology that can give upto 1 Gbps of High Speed mobile Broadband on your SmartPhone.Continue Reading
As expected by us, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd [RJIL] has entered the Bidding Fray for Telecom Spectrum in 900/1800MHz along with 7 other operators of which Aircel, Uninor and Tata DoCoMo were surprise entrants. Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio made the initial mistake of bidding for in-efficient 2300MHz spectrum in 2010Continue Reading
Our Associate in New Delhi attended the Department of Telecom (DoT) pre‐bid conference on the 20th December 2013. It was an eye opener as we get a sense that serious long‐term players will bid for contiguous 5MHz spectrum to complete or improve their data foot‐print while fringe players will waitContinue Reading
After repeated instructions from the Hon’ble Supreme Court and recommendations from every corner, the Department of Telecom just a while ago has put a Notice inviting Applications for the 1800Mhz and 900Mhz Telecom Spectrum Auction in India. All the Spectrum Auctions will be liberalized [Technology Neutral] and can be deployedContinue Reading
Even though the Indian eco-system is lagging to take forward the Telecom reforms, the rest of the world has moved away from 3G and LTE towards LTE-Advanced. The network competition has now shifted to high-speed LTE from LTE. There are two types of high-speed LTE, which are LTE-A and BroadbandContinue Reading
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