Nokia’s latest report on the state of Mobile Broadband in India suggests that the Indian data market continues to be in a sweet spot backed by – high-end 2G data users are migrating to 3G, 3G/4G device penetration is accelerating on the back of decreasing handset prices, video, audio andContinue Reading
Data continues to be a key driver for tower demand and management suggested 3G and 4G network deployments have almost doubled on a year to year basis. The company suggested that most of the 3G/4G deployments were via the loading route and for the next 6-12 months telcos are expectedContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel India’s leading Integrated Telecommunications service provider has made steady progress on 4G/LTE and initiated 4G rollout in 23 cities. Airtel’s first mover advantage has the following implications – (a)Dilute value proposition for Reliance Jio 4G by being the first to launch 4G and let Airtel have a leadContinue Reading
Armed with acceptable quantum of liberal Spectrum in 900Mhz band and 2100Mhz band, Airtel, Vodafone & Idea Cellular – the Incumbents Lobby have gotten far more aggressive than they reveal it on the Analyst Call. I had an opportunity to speak to Infratel & Indus Tower Executive from which IContinue Reading
3G mobile Data revenues in India for incumbents are incremental to Voice revenues initially because initial 3G adopters are relatively high-income subscribers whose telecom bill is a very small proportion of their total disposable income. These subscribers maintain their voice consumption despite incremental data usage (largely for entertainment and continuousContinue Reading
Idea Cellular management hosted a conference call today to discuss the recently concluded spectrum auction. The company successfully renewed its crucial 900-spectrum in key circles. Airtel and Vodafone both extended their 3G spectrum footprint to 21 and 16 circles respectively, and have surpassed Idea on revenue coverage under own 3G.Continue Reading
Four years into the commercial launch of 3G in India, we have tried to analyze the impact of 3G on relative market shares of 3G versus non-3G operators in this note. For our analysis, we have looked at the cumulative change in revenue market share (based on operator-wise gross revenuesContinue Reading
LTE subscribers formed 4% of global wireless subs and 12% of mobile broadband (3G or LTE) subs globally at end of Mar 2014. At the end of Mar 2014, 74% of LTE subs were in three markets (US, Japan and South Korea). Each of these three markets ranks high onContinue Reading
Based on thousands of complaints of pathetic 3G / Mobile Broadband Speed, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had invited consultation on prescribing Minimum Speed on Wireless Broadband using either 3G / 4G LTE or EVDO services. Till date, in the history of existence TRAI, this paper had got theContinue Reading
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