The Indian Telecommunications Industry is Divided between the A-Vo-Id[Airtel, Vodafone Idea] Group on one side and the politically influential Ambani brothers on the other. Recently all telcos submitted their response to the TRAI’s consultation paper on Valuation and Reserve Price of Spectrum. The responses are as expected with A-Vo-Id GroupContinue Reading
The Indian Telecom Regulator, TRAI has issued a consulting paper on the Auctioning of 800,900 and 1800MHz Telecom Spectrum. After a Thorough study of the same over the weekend we think that it addresses few issues but is not able to foresee things beyond and we raise few question onContinue Reading
The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) comprising Mr. Kapil Sibal has reverted to TRAI for fresh recommendations on the spectrum reserve price for the third round of auctions. The Honorable Supreme Court of India had ordered the Auction of all 1800MHz Spectrum cancelled in the 2G Spectrum Scam, but Sibal’sContinue Reading
The Indian Government’s Telecom Ministry headed by Mr. Kapil Sibal has reportedly refused, to extend Telecom licences that expire in Nov 2014. Those seeking extension include Airtel (in Delhi & Kolkata circles), and Vodafone (in Delhi, Mumbai & Kolkata circles). Their license extension implies the use of Spectrum that theyContinue Reading
The Multi-Billion Dollar Scam Scarred Congress Government and its Lawyer turned Politician, Minister of Communications, Kapil Sibal is in Trouble again. Mr. Sibal will enter books of Modern History covering the Massive Corruption for his famous Zero Loss Theory in 2G Spectrum Scam. Mr. Sibal is in trouble yet againContinue Reading
TRAI has released its recommendations on advanced wireless broadband services in the 700MHz band. Key recommendations are, FDD to be used in 700Mhz. Spectrum available is 698-806Mhz. A 45x2MHz configuration recommended in the 700MHz band. This effectively implies that only one operator (new/old) can win the spectrum.Continue Reading
MTS India’s go forward plan involves sharpening the Company’s focus on its data centric-voice enabled strategy and to build a stronger MTS brand in the country. Company’s bidding strategy in the auctions considered a range of variables including spectrum pricing, number of carrier slots available, levels of competition, future dataContinue Reading
The Indian Government [Read Politicians and Bureaucrats] despite being recommended several times to come up with a Blueprint / Roadmap for the Indian Telecommunications sector lack the will to do it, and the reasons are obvious, to please some businessmen within the Oligarchic setup and of course get their cutContinue Reading
Finally, Incumbent Operators led by Airtel, Idea and Vodafone have laid to rest the conflict of 1800MHz Spectrum with new operators and Dual technology Operators [ RCom and Tata DoCoMo]. Mr. Sudhir Gupta, Principal Adviser for Spectrum, TRAI clarified on the 1800MHz Spectrum which was bone of contention. Mr GuptaContinue Reading
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