Comments on: Government Snooping On Missed Calls? http://www.watblog.com/2009/10/13/government-snooping-on-missed-calls/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Piyush http://www.watblog.com/2009/10/13/government-snooping-on-missed-calls/comment-page-1/#comment-27720 Piyush Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:44:45 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=13919#comment-27720 "With telecom providers already facing low margins " Bharti Airtel http://money.rediff.com/companies/bharti-airtel-ltd/15200022/results-quarter Last quarter: Sales: 9040 crores Oper. profit: 3586 crore! Net profit: 4032 crore!! So profit margin is almost 45%. For Idea Profit margin is 28% For RCom It is 31% For Tata 30% So: Even though it may look like as if they are heavily under fire because of competition, most of them are doing really really well because, well, 25+crore(?) people using mobile phones! Moreover providing realtime feed is not as expensive as you make it sound. All the calls do get logged into their central data center and all they have to do is make a feed available from there. They have massive bandwidths available and it is text/binary only data. “With telecom providers already facing low margins ”

Bharti Airtel
http://money.rediff.com/companies/bharti-airtel-ltd/15200022/results-quarter

Last quarter:

Sales: 9040 crores
Oper. profit: 3586 crore!
Net profit: 4032 crore!!

So profit margin is almost 45%.

For Idea
Profit margin is 28%

For RCom
It is 31%

For Tata
30%

So: Even though it may look like as if they are heavily under fire because of competition, most of them are doing really really well because, well, 25+crore(?) people using mobile phones!

Moreover providing realtime feed is not as expensive as you make it sound. All the calls do get logged into their central data center and all they have to do is make a feed available from there. They have massive bandwidths available and it is text/binary only data.

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