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After 3G, Will Broadband Auction Pop-up Surprises?
The reserve price for a pan-India broadband license stands at Rs.1750 crore, at half the base price of 3G spectrum.
BWA spectrum is necessary for rolling out WiMAX services and enable internet access to various compatible devices. Here is…
3G Auction Successful Bidders List [Full Details]
3G Auction is finally over and the results are out ! Here are the complete details about the 3G spectrum winners. The Government is expected to add 70,000 crore rupees to its Kitty. The Auction ended after 34 days days of intense bidding…
Woohoo ! Kindle App coming to Android !
I am a big Android fan boy - I have mentioned this more than once that Android is going to be the future of Mobile computing and I am extremely encouraged with the way things are going. Just a few days back, Android surpassed iphone for…
Reliance Unlimited Mobile Talk for Rs. 299 only !
Mobile Call rates are at their rock bottom, one of the lowest in the world – However, just when you think that call rates cannot come down any further, there is another news which has come – Reliance Communication, the second largest mobile…
Where Are The Telco’s Going With The Price War, Uninor Trumps Everyone With Unlimited Talk…
If we had to find an sector equivalent for the likes of Rakhi Sawant for possessing the qualities of “Being In The News”, Indian Telecom Sector would win hands down. Jokes apart, the telecom sector in India has this uncanny knack of making…
Aha…Android beats Apple iphone sales for the first time !
Android is creating waves when it comes to Smartphone market share, Every week I hear about the launch of new Android based phones. I have always maintained that in next 12 – 24 months Android will be number 1 Mobile Operating system.…
3G auction update: Pan-India Bids reach 113.27 billion rupees
3G Auction has reached its last leg with only 2 days remaining for the close. As of Day 23 of 3G auction, the overall bids have reached 11,327.44 crore, up 223.64 per cent from a base price of Rs 3,500 crore. The total revenue today reached…
Apple- Causing Market Disruption, One Product At A Time
Love it or Hate it, but you can’t deny it. Apple does what no other company can and in fact does it time and again.What exactly are we talking about?
DISRUPTION
Before getting into the kind of disruption I intend to talk about, lets take…
Telecom Tuesday: 3G Auction prices swell further
3G Auction prices are touching dizzying heights now, Day 20th of 3G auction saw swell in the frontrunners bid prices. The auction which started on 19th April, saw pan-India license price balloon over to Rs.10,347.67 crore, up close to 200%…
Low cost handset Nokia x2 launched in India
This candybar Nokia X2 sports a bright 2.2-inch QVGA screen and weighs just 81 grams. The phone packs dual speakers, dedicated music keys, FM stereo and support for up to 16GB of storage via regular microSD card. The Nokia X2 also has…
India’s Mobile Internet traffic growth maximum across the world
While USA showed negative growth of 4.6%, Mobile Internet requests from India grew about 1.5% in March 2010 quarter. Indonesia (0.7%) also showed decent growth followed by China (0.4%) & Canada (0.4%).
In Admob’s previous report in…
Now, Google “Suggest” comes to mobile too !
Low cost internet enabled handsets, innovative data plans and introduction of 3G technology are all set to fire up the mobile internet usage in India in the near future. Not that mobile internet is not being used by people currently.…
New Square shaped Mobile phone – A game changer or just another mobile handset?
Indian Mobile handset manufacturers are going at lengths to get their hands on huge Indian Mobile Market. In last few months itself we have seen new trends and innovations (if you can call it) in mobile handset market – A triple sim mobile,…
Low-cost and high Volumes – Mantra for Rural Mobile Handset Market
mobile handset makers are leaving no stones unturned to extract maximum product sales. In order to target a wide base of lower to middle class population, the handset manufacturers are rolling out low-cost products to satisfy the basic need…
India second to USA in Mobile Internet traffic – Smartphones usage surge [Report]
Admob recently released a report giving details on Mobile Internet Usage across the world. The report points out that over last 6 – 12 months usage of Smartphones has surged and now accounts for maximum mobile usage compare to Feature…
Airtel to offer Iphone 3G at 18500? – Rumour, April Fool joke, you decide!
Came across a few articles that are claiming to have hit upon some leaked documents saying that Airtel will be offering the previous generation of iphone at much discounted rate of Rs. 18,500/-. To be honest, I am inclined to discount…
Tata DOCOMO does it again: Now offers Mobile Daily Plans!
Tata DOCOMO keep surprising us with their offerings – They have been innovative from the word go. Even though they launched their services much later than most of the peers, they have probably done more in changing the landscape on how we…
Now a Mobile Phone that runs on AAA battery !
With Urban mobile subscriber base close to saturation point, most of the handset manufacturers are aggressively targeting the rural Indian market to increase their subscriber base. However, one of the biggest impediments is that many…
BSNL brings Mobile WIMAX to India – Capable of 37 mbps speeds !
Ok, don't get all too excited with that 37 mbps Jargon, I just said that it capable of delivering that kind of speeds - Whether it gives even fraction of that needs to be seen. Unlike many countries, we have by-passed the…
Android Market Apps fastest growing – Iphone Market the Biggest !
Currently we have 6 main Mobile Operating Systems that mobile phones run on – Apple, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian and Blackberry. Every OS has its own Marketplace which allows its users to down and install…