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
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
On a day when the TRAI revised the Minimum Speed on an Internet Connection to qualify it as Broadband to 512 kbps in India, the Executive team at Airtel set a target for Mobile Data Vertical to garner 10 Crore Mobile Data [3G /4G] Subscribers and achieve revenue of RsContinue Reading
40 Months after the Launch of Airtel 3G Wireless Data Services in India, the company has been able to reach 25% of the coverage it provides on 2G. [We restrict ourselves to Airtel India Coverage] In the last quarter, Airtel saw an acceleration in 3G footprint expansion with the companyContinue Reading
Sunil Bharti Mittal led Bharti Infratel and Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm have announced Passive Telecom Infrastructure Sharing agreement [Thanks to Dayanidhi Maran, then telecom minister for legalizing Passive Infrastructure Sharing] which will currently grant Reliance Jio access to Infratel’s Towers and Network Infrastructure. [In future, Airtel could alsoContinue Reading
The management of Airtel in an Analyst call told that 2G Voice prices are still trending up and there is potential for a 10-20% increase from current levels. In 3Q, there has been a slight increase as per management, with okay volumes.Continue Reading
India’s Largest Integrated Telecommunications company Airtel and Reliance Jio have announced a comprehensive arrangement to share infrastructure created by both companies, including optic fiber network, towers, submarine cable networks and internet broadband services. The agreement can be extended in the future to cover roaming on 2G, 3G and 4G networks.Continue Reading
Airtel has acquired a further 42.25% stake from Qualcomm in the 4 License Areas of Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala held by Qualcomm India through a subsidiary Wireless Business Services (WBSPL). In the first tranche of the transaction, in May 2012, Airtel acquired 49% stake at 60% discount to theContinue Reading
At an excited press event, Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S (new flagship) and the iPhone 5C (predominantly the same as the iPhone 5 but with multi-colored plastic case). iPhone 5S Hardware Spec This model is based on the new A7 chip (64-bit, 32nm, new ARMv8) and new M7 companion chipContinue Reading
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