Is India Ready with Key Factors required for 5G Network Rollout ?
Though the Indian Telecom industry has started discussing 5G, we believe it is still couple of years away. 5G standards are still evolving globally, with the first few commercial launches. Looking at the scale of investment, why can’t we expect more participants from different business verticals than plain vanilla telcosContinue Reading
Internet Disruption, Speed Scales New High – Ambani’s Jio Data Law
Researchers at Dept. of Electrical Engineering in University College London led by L. Galdino, W. Yi, E. Sillekens, T. Gerard, D. Lavery et al. working under the Royal Society Research Grant have set a new record speed for wired internet communication on the optical fiber infrastructure using the technique ofContinue Reading
80% of Mobile Broadband in India is 4G – LTE
With aggressive push by Reliance Jio in the past one year, 4G- LTE accounted for nearly 40% of the data subscriber base and 80%+ of data usage in India in the June 2017 quarter. LTE accounted for nearly 81% of the total wireless data consumption of 4.3 bn GB duringContinue Reading
Interconnect Charges – Indian Telecom Oligarchy makes way for Jio, victimizes Airtel / Vodafone
The Republic of India is known as the “Largest Democracy” in the World but when it comes to lucrative sectors such as the Telecommunications / Military / Defense, etc it is the oligarchy that prevails, wins and runs the nation. TRAI the so called Indian Telecom Regulator is a parasiteContinue Reading
Akash Ambani’s Jio 4G Feature Phone Strategy – A Tariff War or Platform War ?
Akash Ambani, Chief Strategy Officer at Reliance Jio Infocomm has selectively dropped hints of the forthcoming 4G VoLTE feature Phone Launch sending shivers down the spine of Airtel and Vodafone executives. When is the Launch of Jio Basic / Feature Phone ? Timing of launch depends on the market segmentContinue Reading
Jio’s Lyf 4G Phone for Aam Aadmi
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
How China Plans to Allocate 5G Spectrum ?
China’s Ministry of Industries and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to allocate a total of 500MHz of spectrum for 5G. Although this is only similar in total spectrum size to the current 2G/3G/4G allocation for the three Chinese telcos, which is 507MHz, the major difference is that the 5G spectrum beingContinue Reading
Post Jio Launch – Demands of Incumbents with TRAI
The TRAI of India met the captains of the Indian Telecommunication companies on the pricing issue post the Jio launch which has disrupted the Voice & Data market completely. Demands of Leading Telcos in meeting with the TRAI officials are as follows.Continue Reading
Vodafone retains High End Mobile Broadband Customers, Subs Base at 38 Mn
Vodafone India CEO Sunil Sood and CFO Thomas Reisten in an analyst call said that they are comfortable with the current market circumstances. Since Jio started charging for its services, Vodafone has retained its high value mobile broadband customers and has seen a lower rate of revenue decline inContinue Reading