About 20 months ago, telecom service provider Bharti Airtel was termed as emerging market multinational when it acquired most of the African assets of Kuwait’s Zain Telecom for a $10.7 billion deal to fulfill its global aspirations.…

So the trend continues - This is 5th straight month when Mobile subscriptions have fallen - and pretty sharp fall at that. I have covering mobile subscriber addition data since 2007, and this must be probably lowest that I have witnessed.…

India probably has the highest volume of SMS exchange through-out the world, except maybe China - Millions of SMSes are sent and received on daily basis, yet till today mobile subscribers do not have facility to send and receive smses in…

First off – A very Happy Independence day to all our trak.in readers – Even Google is celebrating it with Red Fort Doodle! Having said that, let us have a look at some of the buzzing articles of last week. Did you know that we just…

The mobile subscriber growth is slowing down – As per the TRAI report released yesterday, June 2011 witnessed addition of 11.41 Million new Mobile Subscribers, which is lesser than previous months. Take a look at the drop in mobile…

The biggest news of last week was yet another blasts in Mumbai and how Twitter folks rallied together and helped out the needy when there was not other outlet available. Here are some of the other buzzing stories of last week as well.…

Indian banking sector has been prevalent since the time unknown; but the decade-old mobile phone industry has boomed only much recently. However, wireless subscribers have far out-stripped the number of individuals with bank accounts at…

Globaly, we have over 6 Billion Mobile Subscribers – India and China combined will soon have close to third of this market share. Chetan Sharma, a management consultant recently put out a slideshare presentation, which gives some…

The online world was abuzz with launch Google Plus (and its invites) last week and what a launch it was. Apart from Google Plus, there were quite a few other buzzing news as well – Here is a quick wrap-up. Google Plus has seen such a…

The global market for mobile payments is slated for a blockbuster growth in the next five years. Gartner estimates the number of mobile payment users to reach $340 Mn and a total transaction value at $245 Bn by 2014. The mobile payment…