The Indian telecom industry had clocked a robust triple digit data volume growth in FY14 and FY15 with proliferation of smartphone shipments and 3G adoption leading to spurt in number of subscribers and data usage per customer. However, data volume growth is already tapering as the pace of smartphone penetrationContinue Reading
In India, Mobile Data Service is already substituting traditional revenue streams like SMS, with data use per sub increasing 316%, vs a decline of SMS sent per subscriber by 34%, over the past 2 years. With the upcoming launch of LTE on a large scale, incumbent operators [Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel]Continue 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
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
The lethargic Indian Telecom Regulator, TRAI has finally started collecting data from operators on the status of mobile / wireless broadband. At the end of 2013, India has total 55.2 Mn Broadband ( > 512Kbps speed) subscribers (~5% of the population) of which a whopping 40.27 Mn Subscribers are usingContinue Reading
ERICSSON ConsumerLab conducted a survey in the age group of 15-50 years interviewing 4000 people across 16 Cities in India. Face to face interviews were also carried out with 200 customer care agents manning call centers for mobile operators across 8 Indian cities. They’ve also mined Twitter, Facebook, Blogs andContinue Reading
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