India Telecom
From the recent outcome of Bharti Airtel negotiations, it appears that MTN Group is looking to acquire than be acquired by a foreign Telco. Regulatory issues and the need to know local operating conditions in 21 countries mean any acquirer must be prepared to ensure continuity of management. This, togetherContinue Reading
After Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel hung up on MTN group, Anil Ambani of RCom is now in the fray to snap up or merge or [????] MTN into itself. However, Ambani has a tough task on hand – Roll out Reliance GSM services in India and also prepare forContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel’s CEO, Mr. Mittal is in London seeking finance for MTN Wireless bid. However, his Enterprise Services, President – David is busy connecting India to Europe. David announced the building of 15,000 km 3.84 Terrabit OFC sub-marince cable system connecting Europe [London] to India via the Middle East. The project is knownContinue Reading
Though Bharti Airtel declined that it was in talks with MTN Group, the latter in a filing with a stock exchange has confirmed its exploratory talks with Indian telco. As I said earlier, it will be difficult for Bharti Airtel to go solo in its bid for MTN and mayContinue Reading
I just got off the Reliance Communications conference call and would like to share some of the key points from the same. They have announced real good results for FY2008, though with a caveat on Debt and others [See the balance sheet, I hardly know accounts] Mr. Anil Ambani said,Continue Reading
It is reliably learnt from various analysts that India’s leading mobile service provider, Bharti Airtel is likely to bid for MTN South Africa. Bharti’s management recently stated that Bharti’s business model could be replicated in other emerging markets and it may opt to go for oversees acquisitions. Bharti Airtel’s modelContinue Reading
GSM mobile operations constitute ~67% of India’s wireless market. Bharti Airtel continued to rock in the GSM space at the cost of BSNL increasing its market share to 32% [30.63% in 2007] at the end of March 2008. Vodafone India has thrown BSNL to the third spot [See March –Continue Reading
TRAI just a while ago has released recommendations on implementing mobile number portability [MNP] in India which is already running late by just 2 years 🙂 TRAI is supporting implementation on PAN-India basis but starting from metros. TRAI has recommended to setup a neutral third party MNP Clearing house andContinue Reading
After perusing through various documents and reports I have found that India currently has around 60MHz of 3G spectrum of which 30MHz will be made available for 3G services. Spectrum available in 1920-1980MHz paired with 2110-2170MHz. This means 5 operators are likely to be accommodated for 3G services as oneContinue Reading
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