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There Are 500 Mn Indians Who Are Yet To Join The Mobile Revolution. How Long Will It Take?

by | posted: November 11, 2011
The Indian mobile phone market is unique. We have so many people! Even if the actual phone users form a tiny fraction of this population, the number is still huge. We have earlier blogged about how more...
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Airtel Adds 1.5 Million Subscribers In July

by | posted: August 26, 2011
Mobile service provider Bharti Airtel has added 1.5 million mobile subscribers in the month of July, Reuters reports. This has taken the total subscriber base of Airtel to 170.7 million in India.   India...
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Customer Is King With Mobile Number Portability

by | posted: August 10, 2011
Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is proving to be a big hit across India, with 13 million subscribers changing their service provider since November 2010. Users can now freely change their existing numbers...
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Worldwide Mobile Subscribers Now Stand At 5 Billion

by | posted: July 16, 2010
Though not very new, Mobile mania does not seem to be losing its popularity till today. This is evident from the fact that the total number of mobile subscribers in the world has crossed a whopping 5 billion...
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India To Have Most Subscribers In The World By 2013

by | posted: May 25, 2010
According to reports, India is set to gain the no.1 spot by 2013 and thus making it the world’s largest mobile market. TRAI also released a Press Note ( PDF ) on 26th April 2010 on the current number...
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GSM Subscriber Base Higher By 10.3 Million In October

by | posted: November 13, 2009
The action witnessed in telecom tariffs in recent past seems to have provided a boost to net subscriber addition count for GSM telephony. The total subscriber base in October was seen higher by 10.32...
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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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GSM Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions

by | posted: September 12, 2009
After a brief pick up in the GSM subscribers in the month of July, August showed just a marginal dip over the previous months. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) data shows that the total...
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Unique Identity To Each Citizen- Will The Mobile Subscriber Database Help Getting There?

by | posted: August 27, 2009
The Unique Identification Authority of India certainly has its job cut out for it. Since the revelation that every Indian would be getting a unique identification number, WATBlog has covered the developments....
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GSM Adds 9.47 Mil Subscribers While Total Subscriber Base Touches 325.7 Mil

by | posted: August 14, 2009
The net addition of GSM subscriber base seems to have picked up again. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) data shows that the total GSM subscriber base in July increased by 9.47 million...
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Feature And RTOS, The Phones India Will Still Need For Long

by | posted: July 28, 2009
Smartphone sales growth was very impressive in last year and in the first quarter of 2009 too, while the total mobile phone sales dropped around 8.6% globally Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units,...
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Indian Mobile Subscriber Base Touches 400 Million

by | posted: June 2, 2009
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a statement issued recently announced that nearly 11.9 million wireless (GSM, CDMA and WLL(F)) subscribers were added in April 2009. Comparatively this...
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Telecom Numbers Show Record Growth Of 15.4 Million While Broadband Still Lags Behind – TRAI Figures.

by | posted: February 23, 2009
According to the latest figures by TRAI, Indian telecom service providers added 15.41 million wireless users in January-09. The total telecom subscriber base also exploded past 400 million mark in January...
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Wireless & Broadband touch 325 Million and 5 Million respectively – A Look At State Of Internet

by | posted: November 28, 2008
The Trai has released subscriber numbers for the month of October for mobile and for broadband and yet again mobile growth has been clocking 10 million a month taking the total wireless subscribers above...
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Canaan Partners Upbeat On Investing In VAS Space (Read to Know Why)

by | posted: August 27, 2008
Canaan Partners the Venture firm that has funded the likes of BharatMatrimony (Now Consim Info) and techtribe is now looking towards the VAS space with high expectations with its new fund ready for investment....
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Mobile Subscribers Rise By 9 Million (almost) In June.. While Total Broadband Subscribers Only 4.38 Million!

by | posted: July 28, 2008
Well if the latest TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India)  data is anything to go by than the monthly mobile subscribers are more than double of the countries total broadband subscribers! Well if...
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