India Telecom
The Telecom Engineering Centre [TEC] has released its report on efficient use of spectrum. The final recommendations are summarized [PDF] in this report. The report must have come as a shock to GSM operators. Brief analysis as follows, In Metro Circle of Delhi, GSM operators are required to have 4.8Continue Reading
Reliance Communications was the luckiest in this round of battle. DoT issued PAN India GSM license to RCom + HFCL + Shyam Tele. IT ministry also accepted the DoT’s guidelines for crossover of technology [GSM / CDMA]. Another blessing for Reliance communications is that the deal is effective in retrospectiveContinue Reading
India is likely to allow all players[domestic + foreign] to bid for 3G spectrum, if auctioned. There is just enough spectrum to accommodate 4 operators for every circle. It has always been said that BSNL will get a back door assured entry provided they match the bidder. So the restContinue Reading
Indian Wireless Subscriber numbers for the quarter ended Sept-30th are just in [exclude RCom for all purposes]. Net new additions has slowed down. GSM mobile operators added 5.6 m new users compared to 5.95 in Aug and 5.75 in July. India at the end of Sept-07 had 149 m GSMContinue Reading
There is a massive rush from different corners of corporate India to run mobile services. It all started with realty firm Parsvnath Developers, followed by Unitech and DLF. IndiaBulls, retail stock broking chain has also thrown its hat in the ring. Existing operators, HFCL and Spice who have slept over aContinue Reading
As web applications get more and more bandwidth intensive, Google can’t afford to sit quiet and dance to the tune of Telcos. Last week Om wrote about Google’s Trans-oceanic bandwidth needs. Latest reports suggest, Google is reportedly in talks with Reliance Communication’s Flag Telecom to lease 500Gb of dark fibre at around $100 million.Continue Reading
Accelerated coverage into interiors of India helped mobile operators add more cellular subscribers in August-07. As usual, RCom doesn’t have its numbers yet[Ambani doesn’t want to be first here ?] and excluding it, GSM operators added 5.95 million subscribers in August-07 taking the total GSM subscriber base to 147 million. Bharti Airtel continuesContinue Reading
The NDNCRegistry did go online in India but most consumers feel it’s a painful exercise. Vodafone-Essar which has been active in receiving its customer feedback today became the first mobile service provider in India to introduce unwanted call blocking and filtering mechanism to any of its customer irrespective of the mobileContinue Reading
TRAI came out with its recommendations on wireless spectrum allocation and mergers and acquisition in the Indian telecom market. My comments appear in Italics. TRAI suggested, No cap on the number of service providers operating in any circle [HFCL, Spice, By Cell, Parsvnath, etc may all get to enter the Indian Telecom space]Continue Reading
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