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Telecom Tuesday

Telecom Tuesday: Vodafone Application Store, Self-Charging Phone From Nokia

by Ankit Agarwal on March 9, 2010

Vodafone Launches its own Mobile Application Store
It was always on the cards, wasn’t it.After the stupendous success of Apple iStore and the growing popularity of Android marketplace, there is no denying that fact that Application stores are the way forward for telcos.Among India telecom operators, Airtel already has a app store in place and Aircel [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: 3G Auction, BSNLs 10p per min plan, Mobile Number portability & more..

by Arun Prabhudesai
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The buzz around telecom sector in India seems to never die down, be it the growth of Telecom Subscribers, innumerable delays in 3G Auction or Mobile Number Portability or for that matter even the Mobile Call rates – Lots has been happening over past few days – Here is the our Telecom Tuesday giving you [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: 4G Talks, BSNL Enterprise Unit , Mobile Entertainment and More…

by Ankit Agarwal

TRAI To Start The Process For 4G
You have to give it to the telecom regulator TRAI for its ability to make headlines day in and day out.The 3G spectrum allocation is yet to materialize and is continuously getting delayed.Yes, the government is playing its true self too by poking its nose, but could someone tell [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: 3G Delay, Telecom Subscriber growth, Industry consolidation and more…

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Wow ! Lot has been happening around Indian Telecom Industry and last week was no different. Many of our readers have complained that we are covering mostly Telecom and Technology – But we cant stay away from it – It just keeps buzzing all the time ! Here is a Telecom Round-up for past [...]

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Telecom Tuesday : The VAS Market Set For Acceleration

by Ankit Agarwal

The launch of iPhone was undoubtedly a path breaking achievement in many ways.With a seamless interface and fast connectivity , iPhone caused a paradigm shift in Internet On The Mobile.More than that, it unleashed the VAS market.Even though VAS market existed before, but Apple made it disruptive by partially open sourcing it and allowing collaborations [...]

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Telecom Tuesday:Bharti Airtel Gets The Green Signal For Warid telecom Stake

by Ankit Agarwal
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Bharti Airtel has  received the approval from the Bangladesh telecom regulator for its 70% stake in the Abu Dhabi Group’s Warid Telecom. Bharti Airtel will be acquiring stake in Warid Telecom at a proposed investment to the tune of $300 million.

Dubai based Warid Telecom is the fourth largest telecom operator in Bangladesh with close to [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: 3G Auctions, Advertisments,Mobile Banking

by Ankit Agarwal
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3G Auction Delayed,Yet Again
The Indian Government seems to have lost it way with the much awaited 3G auctions.If the Department of Telecom(DoT) is to beleived , the official 3g auctions might get delayed by a more than a month and start around the first week of March.DoT is yet to finalise the Notice Inviting Applications.

The [...]

3 comments December 29, 2009 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: Indian Telephone Subscriber Base reaches 525 Million !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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TRAI has released the latest numbers on growth of Indian Telephone Subscribers. The story is all too familiar from what we have witnessed over last couple of Years. Another Month with Bumper addition of Subscribers (close to 17 Million). The growth is all to do with Wireless segment – The Wireline segment in [...]

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Local Calls 10 paise and STD at 25 Paise – A Raja asks Telecom Companies

by Arun Prabhudesai
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I had really thought that Indian Telecom companies are digging their grave by slashing their rates to bare minimum and offering schemes like one second billing to keep their share in Indian Telecom pie But here is something that has surprised me no end – According to Indian Telecom Minister A. [...]

6 comments November 3, 2009 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: Mobile Browsing sees 200% jump over last year

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Opera’s State of Mobile web has been released and it throws up some Interesting statistics regarding Mobile Internet usage by Indians (as well as globally). Although, this report is purely based on mobile users who use Opera Mini browser on their mobile phones – it is one of the leading mobile browsers [...]

3 comments October 27, 2009 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: The Spectrum allocation Scam! (update)

by Arun Prabhudesai

(Post Updated: Earlier information on 3G was not correct )

BJP has actually accused Telecom Minister A. Raja of carrying out the largest Scam that India has ever seen – worth close to 60,000 crores !!

Here is what BJP GS Arun Jaitely had to say about the Scam:
‘Applications for telecom licenses were invited setting Oct 1, [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: Idea, Sistema, Aircel, Vodafone join the Tariff war

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Suddenly Indian Telecom Sector is buzzing with new super attractive tariff plans – The Tariff war started by Tata DOCOMO seems to have forced other players to match or even better the offerings announced by them. Tata DOCOMO was first to announce the per second billing, but all others are following suit quickly. [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: Tata’s Srinath & Bharti’s Sunil Mittal among Global Telecoms Business Power100 for 2009

by Arun Prabhudesai
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They are heading the some of the biggest telecom companies in the world which have their foothold in the fastest growing Telecom market. Srinath Narasimhan, CEO of Tata Communications is ranked 8th amongst the most powerful 100 people in Telecom Business globally. Bharti’s Charismatic CEO Sunil Mittal has been ranked at number 18th. [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: Reliance feels the DOCOMO heat – slashes rates to 50p

by Arun Prabhudesai
Reliance Communications slashes mobile call rates

Tata DOCOMO / Indicom has been making waves with their innovative schemes off late and other Telecom providers have started to feel the heat, Reliance in particular.

To overcome the hype and flow of subscribers to Tata DOCOMO / Indicom, Reliance has announced a flat rate of 50 paise per minute. The important aspect is that [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: Now “8” series mobile number

by Arun Prabhudesai
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“8” is the new “9” – Till now Mobile numbers have always been identified as starting with number 9, but that will change now. Reliance and Idea have launched new mobile number series starting with “8”.

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This had to happen – Otherwise how is India going to accommodate more than 10 million [...]

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