Market
India adds 8 mln mobile users in March; Bharti, Idea lead gains
India, the world’s second-biggest mobile phone market, saw a 0.88 percent monthly increase in mobile phone subscribers in March, an equivalent of 8 million new users, data released by the country’s telecom regulator showed on Thursday. [Continue]
India’s Mobile Phone Operators Insist It’s Not a Competitive Market
Mobile phone bills in India could double if the government agrees to new regulatory proposals for upcoming 2G spectrum auctions, the country’s major operators have warned. [Continue]
India to be second largest mobile broadband market
The GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has announced that India will become the second largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years with 367 million mobile broadband connections by 2016. [Continue]
Industry
Mobile Number Portability review in India: Good or bad?
For long described as a dud, the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) regime is slowly but surely making a mark in India. There has been a consistent rise observed in portability requests during the last [Continue]
Mobile email bigger in India than US
Smartphone users in urban India have outnumbered their American counterparts in accessing emails and social networking sites using mobile phones, a new study revealed. [Continue]
Network utilisation and OpEx, key challenges of Indian telecom opertator: Pranay Misra
The cell phone has become so important in your life that previously it was near the ear now it has reached to the heart, it’s emotionally connected. From Hello Hello people just now click [Continue]
Too Much Noise in India Telecoms Sector
India’s telecommunications sector is sending out mixed signals. The potential comes through loud and clear. India has the lowest mobile-phone penetration rate in Asia, and less than 10% of the [Continue]
Finance
Mobile tariffs may double: Telcos
Mobile banking in India does not need a one-size-fits-all solution
Telecom major Telenor writes off Rs 3,500 crore India assets
Mobile broadband: India can generate $ 80 billion of revenue
Indian telecom service sector: Gross revenue down by 1.16% in Q3 2011
Tata fails to agree on price, pulls out of race for CWW
Huawei India targets $200 million revenue
Services
DoT invites early bids for selection of spectrum auctioneer
The government has invited early proposals for selection of an agency that will conduct e-auction of spectrum in 22 telecom service areas. [Continue]Handsets
Can India rescue Nokia?
Nokia, the Finnish handset giant that has struggled at the global level amidst plunging sales, is busy defending its turf in India by offering specialised service offerings. The India strategy is being worked upon three major pillars wherein Nokia will work to grab a larger pie of the rapidly expanding smart phone market, provide web [Continue]
Regulatory/Government
Telecom companies told to show how TRAI could kill
With finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, telecom minister Kapil Sibal and telecom secretary R Chandrashekhar all ears, India’s telecom honchos told it like it is: the industry’s survival and profitability are at stake if the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s [Continue]Technology
What Effect Will Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Have on the Industry?
Everyone has a mobile phone. How many of you have a tablet? I won’t say iPad because some of you don’t have iPads but how many of you [Continue]
HP introduces virtual application network
The infrastructure now needs to become automated. And instead we need to now focus on delivering services. We need to now introduce a layer in the [Continue]
Mobile VAS, The Next Wield for Growth
As we are in a 3G and 4G era, mobile driven VAS is sure to generate interest and adoption among the end user community and operators are set to [Continue]
Infrastructure/Equipments
Software Defined Networking (SDN) – Is It Really the Future of Networking?
Software-defined networking – Is it really the future of Networking? And are the big switch vendors finished? Well, data centres, they’re facing [Continue]
Tower firms oppose change in FDI cap
Telecom tower companies have opposed a proposal to bring down foreign direct investment (FDI) cap from 100 per cent to 74 per cent for telecom [Continue]
Tower cos flay move to bring them under new licence regime
Terming Trai’s proposal to bring telecom infrastructure providers under the proposed unified licence regime as “arbitrary” and [Continue]
Corporates/Companies
Tata Communications pulls out of GBP1bln battle for Cable & Wireless Worldwide
Indian group Tata Communications has pulled out of the £1bn takeover battle for Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), paving the way for Vodafone [Continue]
4G services: Bharti Airtel vs Reliance Industries
It’s just one city. That too Kolkata, not Mumbai or Delhi. Yet, the launch of the latest generation of broadband services in India by Bharti [Continue]
Vodafone tax case: Global trade bodies cannot pressurise India, government says
The government on Thursday brushed aside the pressure being built by the global trade bodies in the Rs 11,000 crore Vodafone tax dispute case and [Continue]
News and Events
MEF Launches Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification
The MEF’s new Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program for services and equipment complements the MEF’s recent launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 [Continue]
NetEvents Hong Kong Highlights
The Carrier Cloud future… SDN’s killer app… Datacentre modularisation…The launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification… One global data [Continue]
M-commerce offers consumers significant convenience over e-commerce
A lot has been written in recent times about the promise and potential of the e-commerce industry in India. What is also taken for granted is the [Continue]