Himanshu Kapnia, CEO Idea Cellular was at the Morgan Stanley 15th India Summit and he shared his perspectives on the Indian Telecom – Voice and Data Markets. On Indian Telecommunications Voice Market Over the last 2-3 years Indian Telecom sector witnessed huge battle on the competition front as result ofContinue Reading
Idea Cellular continues to execute strongly in this market, as seen by its operational trends. Idea is reducing promotional minutes in the system. It estimates that if all promotional minutes were removed, this could result in around 8-10 paisa improvement in voice yields – although it would be hard toContinue Reading
Idea Cellular believes that LTE is not a threat to its business model and is confident that data prices do not have scope for much reduction from current levels. Idea highlighted that globally there are 5b EDGE customers, 1b 3G customers and 0.1b LTE customers and there is room forContinue Reading
Pure Wireless Operator Idea Cellular reported that it has added 1Mn 3G Subscribers in Q1-2013. Total data subs grew by 4.5 mn to 26.2 mn. Some more metrics on Wireless Data Usage of Idea Cellular as below, Average Data Usage by Subscriber – 163MB [Down from 167 MB last Quarter]Continue Reading
Idea Cellular, third Largest Wireless Service Provider in India on the basis of Revenue Market share has some interesting insights to share. The company has a gap between current (34 paise) and headline (43 paise) voice RPM will continue to narrow as promotional offers keep declining at a faster clipContinue Reading
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