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Vodafone believes 2G, 3G and 4G will co-exist in India for years to come and believes multiple networks can help address the needs of all strata of customers and is cost efficient. Management highlighted past failure of a 3G-only network. Vodafone is increasing its own 3G network footprint from nineContinue Reading

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3 Months Ago I was the first to write that Airtel’s 4G LTE Strategy is to sabotage the hype surrounding Reliance Jio Infocomm and since then the management has taken giant strides to launch 4G LTE in 300 Cities across India. One of our users tried Airtel 4G continuously forContinue Reading

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China Mobile has finally caught up with competitors in providing high speed mobile data services to smartphone users. Using the TD-LTE network, users have reported 10x performance increase compared to CM’s legacy TDSCDMA (3G). The TD-LTE network is also increasingly ubiquitous, covering 96.7% of test locations in three Tier 1Continue Reading

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Reliance Jio Infocomm has acquired spectrum in 800MHz band (in 10 service areas) in the recently concluded spectrum auction in order to solve its 4G conundrum by providing cost-effective coverage on LTE. Though technologically it is feasible to offer LTE services with just 2×1.4MHz spectrum, to offer a meaningful LTEContinue Reading

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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

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Mukesh Ambani managed Reliance Jio Infocomm’s network roll-out is clearing the air that this will not be a small-scale, niche network but a geographically spread, large-scale rollout. Though media reports indicated RJio roll out to happen with 45,000 towers connected, our sources inside Reliance have indicated a definite 30,000 towersContinue Reading

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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