Telecom

In ultra-fast world, where the stock market is concerned, a few minutes can affect one’s profit and loss margin. Stock market prices and market fluctuations can literally change in minutes. The facility to trade stocks from a mobile enables…

There has been a lot of talk about how consumer technology has evolved and its effect on our lifestyle etc. Here are few examples of how technological revolutions have impacted (or will impact) on the way we do business. Cloud Computing:…

Mobile Web Usage is overwhelmingly dominated by Men – 96 percent of all to be precise. According to latest Opera State of Mobile Web report, only 4 percent female users use Mobile web lowest in the world. Even countries like Nigeria (5.4%)…

Punch! Here comes Bharti Airtel’s first salvo from its acquisition of Zain Group’s mobile operations in 15 countries across Africa. In a lethal competitive move, Zain Kenya has announced a deep cut in tariff charges in a bid to capture new…

Telecom sector, unlike other sectors has shown the highest growth in terms of competition, benefit for end users, and pricing, social policies, etc. In the post, I want to share current happenings in this industry. 1. New players…

The tough attitude of Indian Government over Blackberry, 3G and other mobile services has left many people wondering over the probable reasons of such actions. Why is the Govt. cracking down suddenly on service providers companies over IMEI…

I am an Android fan-boy (yeah, I know I have repeated this many times earlier) and I am super delighted with the growth that Android is seeing world-wide. Infact, Android’s growth over past quarter has been so good that it has now passed…

Aircel is India’s fifth largest mobile service operator (as of Oct. 2009) providing both post-paid and prepaid services in as many as 18 out of 23 telecom circles in the country. It is joint venture between Maxis Communications of Malaysia…

The cheap $35 tablet released by MHRD (Indian Govt.) was probably the most talked about news last month. We were one of the first blogs to bring in that news and then it got covered wildly in online and offline media. Till now the whole…

The telecom industry in India is growing at a breakneck speed, and the majority of the contribution has come from the mobile segment, what with the fixed line phone business in India logging a negative growth in 2009-10. Going much deeper…

This is surely a first world over – Tata Docomo have gone ahead and announced an innovative mobile Internet offering which will allow users unlimited usage of their favorite websites on mobile for a fixed cost. Tata Docomo have been…

With the BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal recently announcing that BSNL’s infrastructure to support Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is ready and testing on the gateway is in progress, the deadline of October 31st for MNP to be rolled-out in India…

In our earlier post, we saw as to how low-cost desi brands have been carving out a niche for themselves in the Indian mobile phone market. Most of this market share has been robbed off from the leading multinational brands such as Nokia and…

Micromax, Lava, Spice, Zen, Karbonn and many other Indian handset brands are making more than a mark in the market today. They have together occupied more than 14% market share. The best part for them is that this has been at the cost of…

While I was studying in school, mobile phones were not so popular - or for that matter highly unaffordable then – for the student communities to take them in school or colleges. However, the pace of mobile revolution that we’ve witnessed…

There have been various evidence and research studies that measure the economic impact of mobile phones directly. One example is the analysis of fish prices in coastal Kerala, India. Economists from Harvard measured the historical price as…

Given the two options – a fixed line phone and a mobile phone – in front of you, which one would you latch on to make an instant call to your colleague? With the call charges almost same on both the connections (infact, even lower…

Its really amazing to see the Mobile subscriber growth month on month – I have been covering these TRAI figures for past 3 years now, and there is hardly any month which has seen less than 10 million mobile subscribers added. Infact, last…

Last weeks biggest news undoubtedly was the launch of low-cost $35 tablet by the Indian Government for Educational purposes. Trak.in saw huge surge of traffic as we managed to bring out this news before anyone else and also procured some…

Are you a pre-paid card user for your mobile connection? If yes, here is some small suggestion for you to take a note about – if you’re the one who value every bit of your penny or talk-time value. Personally, I’ve been a pre-paid mobile…