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Airtel Profits Decline Rapidly: What’s The Cause Of Distress?

by | posted: February 9, 2012
Airtel seems to have succumbed to pressures of high loan repayments costs and competitive pressure in the Indian market. This coupled with low Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) has resulted in 22 per cent...
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Happy Mobile Number Portability Day? – MNP Kicks Off In Haryana

by | posted: November 25, 2010
Finally! After delays, delays, delays, delays and delays followed by some more delays, it is here. Mobile Number Portability has been launched in Haryana today. By now, I’m sure you know the drill,...
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To 3G Or Not 3G?

by | posted: November 12, 2010
10 years ago, UK raised $34 billion for the sale of 5 3G licenses. Yes – 10 years ago. In 2010, India raised Rs.67,710 crore (approx $15 billion) by auctioning 3G spectrum in 22 circles. In the months,...
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Tata DoCoMo Announces 3G Tariff

by | posted: November 10, 2010
Just a week after it won the accolade of being the first private operator to introduce 3G in India, Tata DoCoMo has launched an aggressive tariff plan eyeing on converting its existing 2G customers into...
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Tata DoCoMo Unveils 3G Services – Free For A Week!

by | posted: November 4, 2010
First place in the 3G race(among the private telcos) can now officially be given to Tata DoCoMo. The company unveiled ‘Tata DoCoMo 3G Life’, its 3G service. And in what can be described only...
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Airtel Continues To Reign The Indian Telecom Scene, Albeit Fall Of Profits

by | posted: August 13, 2010
A recent survey by the journal ‘Voice and Data’ has concluded that Airtel still rules the roost in the Indian Telcommunication scenario. The survey was based upon the results obtained over...
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Indian Teledensity – The Goose Laying The Golden Egg Needs To Be Kept Alive?

by | posted: February 5, 2010
The Indian telecom space has seen over one decade of private enterprise spurred on by rapid advances in the telecomputing arena . The tele density having grown from a mere 2 percent has risen to over 47...
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… And Thus Deflates The Great Indian Telecom Bubble!

by | posted: November 10, 2009
Two years ago, in 2007, I remember, it were the happier times of the Indian Telecom Industry. Everyone wanted to be a part of this. This sector rose as the flag bearer of the rising Indian economy which...
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Telecom Sector Analysis for June Quarter – Severe Decline In ARPU, MOU But Growth Continues

by | posted: October 9, 2009
The boom phase for Indian telecom sector continues to ride on availability of cheaper telecom services at the same time aggressive marketing by new and established players. The growth phase is panning...
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Mobile Internet Ad Spend To Boost By 2014 – Majorly From India & China

by | posted: August 26, 2009
The way the mobile story in India (and in the rest of the emerging world) is panning out makes for a good case study on how great businesses happen over a period of time, and people of the present generation...
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Antakshari On Reliance Mobile – Can Community-Driven Games Do The Trick?

by | posted: August 20, 2009
Reliance Mobile has announced that it will be launching the popular Indian game, Antakshari for its users on the R-World platform. Available both for the CDMA and GSM users, the game shall be available...
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Mobile VAS To Skyrocket.. Do You See It Happening?

by | posted: August 12, 2009
The telecom growth story in India is not news anymore. Inspite of that, the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) in India has remained abysmally low compared to the ARPU in other developing and developed markets...
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Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) To Grow 70% YOY To Rs.16,520 Crore Market By 2010 – IAMAI & IMRB Report

by | posted: September 2, 2008
Its seems like IAMAI and IMRB are on a report releasing spree. Now they have released a pretty comprehensive report on the Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) Industry in India. This is their third report...
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The Modi – (Telekom) Malaysia Lock Out for SPICE

by | posted: June 4, 2008
Another Guest Post by ‘pretty boy‘ Abhinandan Nardekar   The buzz in the Indian telecom industry is just refusing to die down. Close on the heels of talks of Bharti-MTN merger [which eventually...
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Why Are Indian Companies So Keen on Looking Outside? A Look at some Strengths and Weaknesses of the Mobile Operators in India

by | posted: May 30, 2008
Through this post, we can possibly try and deal with some of the issues plaguing Mobile Operators in India, possibly get an insight into why they are looking to go Global. This may also lend some ideas...
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