telecom market

MNP has been implemented – now its time for a reality check for all the telecom service providers. Good boys will be rewarded and bad boys will be punished. And, for a change, the verdict would come from none other than the king (the…

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…

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…

Finally, Bharti Airtel can now be termed as emerging-market multinational. Bharti and Zain Telecom on Tuesday signed a legally binding agreement in Amsterdam where Bharti acquired most of the African assets of Kuwait’s Zain telecom for a…

The Telecom Subscription growth does not stop at anything. Nearly an year back, we were averaging about 12 million subscribers a month – I had thought that in next 12 months the monthly growth rate should stabilize to around 10 million,…

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,…

There has been explosive growth in the number of TV channels that are beamed in Indian Homes. In the earlier part of this decade we had no more than 100 channels – which by the end of it has ballooned to over 500 TV Channels. Yes, that's…

Its high time our IT service providers moved into Product development (especially for Web & Mobile) and creating IP for themselves rather than just servicing clients. These are the companies best suited to take the risk creating cutting…

Last 3 months seem to be all about Tata Docomo. First it was innovative launch advertising, then it was fantastic one second plan and now it is Unlimited GPRS plans. Not to mention the per call billing offering from its sister concern CDMA…