Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular operated like a Big Lobby of GSM Wireless service providers without much focus on the market nor offerings. I’ll discuss this in detail on how Airtel and Idea Cellular miserably failed to innovate and take the first mover advantage in my next article. Currently atContinue Reading
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
Deep Pocket Challenger in the Indian Telecommunications industry Mr Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm is attempting to do what has not been seen before in any market and seems impossible – be a 4G LTE player without owning a legacy 2G / 3G network. Admittedly, this is a criticalContinue Reading
The State Radio Regulation of China announced the allocation of TD-LTE spectrum in China. China Mobile (CM) received the broadest TD-LTE spectrum of 130 MHz vs. 40 MHz each allocated to China Telecom (CT) and China Unicom (CU). CT/CU were also allocated FD-LTE spectrum along with TD-LTE spectrum. The MIITContinue Reading
As Voice over LTE still lacks the QoS required and supported by 2G, globally, most operators are currently using their 4G / LTE network for pure data and switching to the existing 2G/3G networks for voice calls. The following chart shows LTE Spectrum Band allotted in various countries and HowContinue Reading
The day when I discussed about Uncertainties surrounding Reliance Jio Infocomm, warring Ambani brothers embraced each others in Arms and announced the Inter-City OFC Sharing Deal and kept options for other passive infrastructure sharing. However, that does not end the problems of Reliance Jio Infocomm as it’ll require seamless voiceContinue Reading
The Entry Level SmartPhone / Feature Mobile Phone [Sub $200] market will be under the control of WhiteBox Phone Manufacturers in 2013. The Mid and High end SmartPhone market belonged to Brands such as Samsung, Apple, HTC etc. However, the equation is likely to change as we have already seenContinue Reading
Reliance Jio Infocomm does not have a Data Only Business Model in India for the next few years. So if 2G Voice is a must, why can’t Reliance do a CSFB arrangement with an existing operator ? It could tie up with existing 2G/3G operators to offer voice calls usingContinue Reading
In the Rich Feature Phone Market, most of the Chinese / Taiwanese brands are profitable (razor thin margin). Despite higher ASP driven by smartphone, the vast majority of these brands could actually be loss making. In my view, these brands are making even poorer profitability on smartphone than on featureContinue Reading
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