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Telecom Tuesday: Indian Telephone Subscriber Base reaches 525 Million !
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).…
TRAI fixes the fee for number portability
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…
Broadband for Rural India
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…
ZooZoos –Out From the Chatter Box and On to your clothes
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…
Can Tata Indicom’s Pay Per Call Concept be a revolution in Mobile Industry?
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…
Wireless Subscribers In India
This is the 3rd and concluding post in our India Telecom Report series that looks at details of Wireless (GSM + CDMA Mobile) subscribers in India. Unlike Wireline Subscribers, these numbers have been exploding quarter on quarter.
TRAI had…
Wireline Subscribers In India
We are publishing a 3 part series that will highlight the performance of Indian Telecom sector.
India Telecom Report: Broadband & Internet
India Telecom Report: Wireline Subscribers
India…
Full Report: SMS in India – how, what & why
With the advent of Smartphones, everyone today is talking about Internet on mobiles, 3G speeds etc etc. However, SMS, a traditional short message service on mobile, even today is pretty much the most frequently used feature after…
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…
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…
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…
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…