India Telecom
Am I Fu**ing insane asking to penalize the DoT / TRAI ? Well, you’ve read that right. The TRAI in its recommendation has proposed to fine the Telco carrying the unsolicited call. Telcos have no role to play as they are merely completing the call. [It is hard to believeContinue Reading
At the international WiMax conference in Bangkok, Buzz Broadband CEO, Garth Freeman called the WiMax technology as a disaster that failed miserably and closed the networks. Mr. Freeman said, In other parts of the world, citywide Wi-Fi is losing steam, WiMAX may not work. The technology is mired in opportunisticContinue Reading
The Tata house which boats to be the oldest and one of the ethical business houses [unfortunately it is not] in India should be ashamed of its management at Tata Communications [erstwhile VSNL] , Tata Indicom and Tata Teleservices. You are already aware of the poor QoS its broadband divisionContinue Reading
GSM party continues to rock in India as they collectively added 5.9 million subscribers in Feb-08 taking the total tally to 184.67 million [excludes Reliance Communications subscribers] Bharti Airtel continued to gain market share with addition of 2.3 mn subs. The company had an impressiveGSM net adds’ market share ofContinue Reading
Finally, the executives in the Tata boardroom have woken up and took a bold step to let UK’s Virgin Mobile operate on their CDMA network without waiting for any MVNO license from DoT 🙂 Tata Teleservices will benefit from the deal as their mobile network is currently underutilized. Exactly aContinue Reading
According to DoT, Videocon’s Datacom is at the front of spectrum priority list. Yes, Idea Cellular, Swan by RCom are all trailing Datacom. [Yes this is how Indian Government works] In the chart above it is very clear that Datacom leads in 19 circles and Unitech in 12 circles atContinue Reading
TRAI had released a consultation paper seeking recommendation on setting up an all operator National Integrated Directory Enquiry Service. Leading Telcos have opposed the move citing it having disastrous environmental affects. Bharti Airtel said, Printing a telephone directory consumes enormous resources especially paper, which is extremely critical from environment’s perspectiveContinue Reading
Mr. Sunil Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel, speaking at the mobile world congress in Barcelona, echoed our words about the business viability of new GSM players in India. Mr. Mittal said, All new players will collapse within 36 months. These firms will take at least 12 months to build theirContinue Reading
If there is one sector in India that is unlikely to witness slowdown in the next few quarters, it should be Mobile services. As usual GSM subscribers have released their numbers and Bharti Airtel continued to top the charts with 57.41 mn subscribers. Bharti Airtel added 2.25 mn subscribers inContinue Reading
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