India Telecom
In the absence of a well thought Telephone Numbering Plan and more than four [maybe more in the next year] telecom operators providing services in each circle, TRAI is now forced to think about publishing White pages for Fixed and Wireless subscribers [PDF] Currently, only BSNL publishes Whitepages for itsContinue Reading
While the battle for mobile spectrum between Airtel and Reliance is still on, Bharti Airtel has quietly joined hands with Vodafone India and Idea Cellular to form Indus Towers to share telecom infrastructure. Indus Towers will be an independent entity that will provide passive infrastructure services on a non-discriminatory basisContinue Reading
State owned Telco operating in the lucrative circles of Mumbai and Delhi has very poor broadband and internet strategies. Officials simply don’t seem to understand the demand for broadband in these two metros. It took nearly 4 years for them to realize the potential of broadband and they say theyContinue Reading
TRAI in a release has said that around 20,900 telemarketers applied for registration and only 10,700 have been successfully registered, 7,100 applications have been rejected and the remaining 3,000 applications are still being processed. TRAI said, Significant number of rejections are on account of duplicate request and mismatch of numbersContinue Reading
At first I wasn’t very serious about DoT’s internal memo on wireless tariffs heading south. In a discussion with one of the Dalal Street analysts, it became evident that Reliance is all set to change the dynamics of GSM mobile services. Assuming that average revenue per minute will now fallContinue Reading
Coverage of the TiE-ISB connect, Mobile Content creators not rewarded sufficiently – The operators are still ripping the customers [I think I had read this in Tanla Mobile Solutions Research report] Anil Raj of Packet Mobile said Mobile operators are a hurdle for Value Added Services. MCheck is all setContinue Reading
The long pending mobile number portability has been recommended for implementation [Deadline, I don’t know yet] by Telecom Minister A.Raja. I am not sure what were the recommendations of TRAI for Telephone [Wireless / Wireline] Number portability. However, A.Raja has recommended mobile [Wireless Only, Not sure if it also includesContinue Reading
Mr. Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel has released the letter he wrote to DoT regarding Spectrum controversy. I am glad he has challenged BSNL & MTNL over spectrum usage [Don’t know when will these companies improve]. He may get the international GSM lobby to back him 🙂 Mr. T.V.Ramchandran, Director,Continue Reading
Every few years the battle for Telecom services in India takes the center stage, involves PMO, hectic lobbying and then knocking the doors of justice and after a while settling on something that will move the business forward. It is high time that they settle things out maybe by “Auctioning”Continue Reading
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