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Nokia to launch its own stores by partnering with HCL
Nokia, the largest handset manufacturer in the world and the leading handset seller in India is all set to launch its own stores. FDI guidelines were changed in 2006 to allow foreign companies set shop in a single brand retail stores. The…
Broadband providers taking refuge under ‘fair usage policy’ to mask their inefficiencies
Airtel and Tata Indicom the providers of broadband Internet in India are trying to cap the broadband speeds. There are also talks about policing the content which you read. Your Internet will be monitored for both the content and download…
Bharti Airtel bitten by the conglomerization bug – 9 new verticals !
Conglomerization is nothing new to India. Almost all the business houses are obsessed with spinning off separate business units. Sometimes in related fields and sometimes in totally unrelated fields. It is so prevalent that even Infosys…
Collaborate to compete and think win-win
Think win-win : One of the 7 habits of highly effective people.
Cost cutting, employee firing and land selling are the few measures we have seen companies do till now. Few companies like HCL are sharing the risks with their customers.…
3 things I was waiting for: Number portability, broadcasters not controlling distribution, ban on…
Something like this has happened few days ago where I had 3 WTF moments in the business world. One of them was the $10 laptop (oops electronic brick) Today's 3 things are little different and are actually useful. All in a day's work.…
Reliance Money launches Mobile trading
Reliance Money and Anil Ambani Group Company has launched mobile trading. This will help the Reliance Money customers to trade in equities and commodities from the comfort of their mobile. There are around 347 million telecom users in…
Domain jacking at its best….airtel.com forwards to Vodafone !!!
Have you ever tried going to airtel.com domain name. If you have not...try it now - The name is forwarded to vodafone website. Yes, it may be a spanish Vodafone website, it still is the competitor's website !
Nice domain-jacking I must…
Tata Teleservices stake sale to DoCoMo and the future of Indian telecom
Tata Teleservices has sold a stake of 26% to Japan's NTT DoCoMo. The deal value is $2.7 bn. Tata Tele has 30 million CDMA subscribers and is rolling out its GSM services. Some say the deal is over-valued and some say its not easy to put…
Unitech sells 60% stake to Telenor and makes profit without a subscriber
Unitech's stock was available at at throw away price. People were choosing between Colgate paste and unitech stock. It has also complained to SEBI about a possible stock price manipulation. It's subsidiary, Unitech Wireless has recently won…
Airtel enters the elite club of top 25 telecom companies
Diwali went well. We might have contributed to the global warming in a significant way, but who is checking? Muhurat trading went very well with Sensex regaining 9000 levels. That is the good news. Though it is not the topic of this…
Crowded telecom space becomes over-crowded, needs consolidation
Already crowded telecom space is becoming over crowded - 6 more operators will join the scene. Though Bharti in GSM and Reliance in CDMA dominate the space, the new operators will add to the competition. Indian telecom industry is seeing an…
Is mobile number India’s answer of having a Social Security number?
This story has caught my attention. IMIMobile (Hyderabad based) is collaborating with BPL Mobile to help Mumbai Police track drunk drivers. This would help in tracking the mobile database and check and see if the person is a repeat drunk…
Top 7 reasons why Apple Iphone is a big flop in India
iPhone came to India with a bang. That bang lasted only for the night of the launch. Since its launch it has been weighed, tested and found wanting.
Here are the 7 reason why iPhone did not work in India.
Cost is too high for a…
ISD at Rupee 2 per minute, STD at 50 paise!
Couple of months back, most of the mobile companies slashed their local and STD rates by as much as 40%, making STD calls rates at 1.50 paise per minute. India already has the cheapest call rates worldwide and I did not expect the rates to…
Internet Poll Verdict: Indian Broadband connections are expensive…but why ?
I had set up a poll a fortnight back on this to understand why Indian Internet penetration is lagging behind so much so that a country of size of Hong Kong beats India, even when we out number them in population by over a billion people.…
How cheap can your mobile tariffs get?
Way back in late nineties when I procured my first mobile phone (a.k.a brick), I used to think more than 10 times before making a phone call from my cellular.
Do you know why?
Each minute of a outgoing call used to cost me a whooping…
After People’s car, India gives world ultra-cheap mobile phones !
India showed the world that Rupee 1 lakh car is very much possible and now Indian mobile company SPICE has showcased a mobile handset, sans screen display for as less as Rupees 500. Although, the price point is not fixed the mobile phone…
TRAI gives broadband some meaning, finally!
Having broadband in India is like having speeds of poor dial-up connection. You can never do anything else other than browsing (that too is pretty frustrating) - seeing video clips or listening to streaming music is next to impossible.…
WIMAX: Wireless Broadband Access throughout India by 2010!
There is no doubt that Indian Telecommunication Industry is currently growing at an unimaginable pace. Normally, growth of Internet subscribers is directly relative to growth of telecom subscribers. However in India, Internet penetration…
The new era of mobile content broadcasting and distribution
It is amazing to see how television broadcasting has changed over past 10-15 years. Earlier, we used to watch anything that was dished out to us on Doordarshan, be it Nukkad, be it films division cartoons (do you remember those?) or Sunday…