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Bharti Airtel’s Wild Acquisition Plans Seem To Be Backfiring

by Ankit Agarwal on February 15, 2010

May be it’s only me, but looks like Bharti Airtel is hell bent on chasing Fool’s Gold. Bharti has been chasing inorganic growth at a maddening pace primarily to expand globally. One of the top most telecom operators in India, Airtel enjoys a huge subscriber base in India and wants to penetrate the international markets [...]

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Your Landline numbers will now soon be 10 Digits!

by Arun Prabhudesai
Mobile NUmbers

If you know last year TRAI had announced that it will introduce 11 digit mobile numbers, as India is expected to run out of existing ones in less than 2 years time. TRAI had never expected that it will witness such meteoric Mobile subscriber growth. The numbers which were supposed to last till 2030 (as [...]

5 comments January 11, 2010 Continue Reading →

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 →

Increasing mobile penetration in rural India: one-phone/multiple-numbers at a time.

by Sandy
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Comvivia, which was formerly Bharati telesoft, has developed a new virtual SIM technology that allows multiple mobile phone numbers to be associated with a  particular handset/physical SIM card such that you do not require a dual SIM device,  but can still have more than one mobile number assorted with the handset.  [...]

4 comments December 9, 2009 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: Indian Telephone Subscriber Base reaches 525 Million !

by Arun Prabhudesai
Mobile Subscriber Addition

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 [...]

4 comments November 24, 2009 Continue Reading →

TRAI fixes the fee for number portability

by Ankit Agarwal
Indian telecom subscribers

Telecom sector has been the talk of the town ever since DOCOMO created a stir with its per second billing. What followed was a continuous barrage of price wars among the competitors with Reliance heading the pack. Eventually TRAI made it mandatory for all telecom operators to restructure the pricing structure and switch to per [...]

11 comments November 21, 2009 Continue Reading →

Broadband for Rural India

by Arun Prabhudesai
BSNL-Broadband

You must be joking right? When seamless broadband connectivity is a dream even for the urban population, how is the broadband going to spread to the rural areas with little or no infrastructure in place. But, BSNL is out there to change the notion and kick start a project to have [...]

5 comments November 4, 2009 Continue Reading →

Per Second Billing and how it is haunting the Indian telecom sector

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Boy-o-Boy!! Is the one second billing thing changing the face of Indian Telecom! It makes me wonder if Tata DOCOMO has opened a Pandora’s Box of sorts taking the Indian Telecom Industry into frenzy. Even with a little exaggeration, per second billing to me is as revolutionary as the [...]

8 comments November 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

ZooZoos –Out From the Chatter Box and On to your clothes

by Arun Prabhudesai
Zoozoos

Can you think of an advertisement campaign that became a phenomenon? Rather, an advertisement character that caught the eyeballs of one and all? I am sure you don’t have to think too much and probably already have the answer – An advertising phenomenon during this year’s IPL T20 tournament. The alien looking yet [...]

1 comment October 28, 2009 Continue Reading →

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

by Arun Prabhudesai
Mobile-tariff-war

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. [...]

2 comments October 13, 2009 Continue Reading →

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. [...]

0 comments October 13, 2009 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: India crossed 500 million telephone subscriber Mark

by Arun Prabhudesai

I am sure India has already crossed the 500 million Telephone subscriber Mark. Why I say this? According to data released by Telecom regulatory Authority of India – the total subscriber base by the end of August 2009 was 494.07 Million. India has been adding more than 10 million subscriber monthly for nearly [...]

2 comments September 29, 2009 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: Internet Telephony, Fake IMEI Phones, Nokia Telecom services and more…

by Arun Prabhudesai
Telecom Tuesday

Telecom Tuesday is our weekly digest that brings you the buzzing stories in Telecom space.

Internet Telephony to be blocked !

Yes, thats true – The Indian Intelligence Bureau has asked Government to stop all calls happening over Internet with immediate effect for security reasons.

This is a major blow to many companies who have started offering VoIP [...]

1 comment September 15, 2009 Continue Reading →

Can Tata Indicom’s Pay Per Call Concept be a revolution in Mobile Industry?

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Did you think Tata Docomo’s per second billing was ground-breaking. Wait to hear this – Tata Indicom, the CDMA arm of Tata Teleservices, has just unveiled an innovative pay-per-call plan. It is completely different from traditional per second / minute billing that all the current mobile operators use. Here is [...]

24 comments September 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: Telecom News Digest

by Arun Prabhudesai

Telecom Tuesday is our weekly Digest that brings you snippets of Buzzing stories related from Indian telecommunication Industry No More New Telecom Service Providers, atleast for now ! The Telecom growth has spurred hordes of Companies across the globe to apply for providing telecom services in India. But, [...]

0 comments August 11, 2009 Continue Reading →
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