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State of WiMax – Indian BWA Auction Bids Justified ?
Four years of operation, more than 500 deployments across 148 countries and pathetic 6.5mn subscribers, is not a very good situation to be in for the Indian WiMAX industry. Initial WiMax roll outs in unlicensed spectrum in India have been a miserable failure. Given that 802.16m is still being developed…
Bharti Airtel Africa plans to collaborate on network expansion
Bharti Airtel known for innovative business models in running wireless Operations is planning to join hands with other tier-2 telecom operators in Africa (where it acquired Zain’s operations) to share each other’s radio access networks. If true, this would be directionally positive, enabling Bharti to (1) expand its network more…
Five to Six Wireless Broadband Providers in Every Circle
Even before broadband can be deployed using the spectrum earmarked specifically for that purpose, five to six companies will be wireless-broadband-capable in each circle using 3G. If operators gun for BWA in circles where they have not won 3G, it will be most likely to launch broadband on Wimax. The…
Microsoft’s Loss is Apple + Android’s Gain
Microsoft headed by a Non Technical and Non Product Savvy CEO, Steve Ballmer has reason to worry when Apple pipped Microsoft as the World’s Largest Tech company in terms of Market Cap [an indication of future growth prospects]. Microsoft under David Cuttler developed one of the best Digital Platforms, the…
Small Business – Switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Save
Google’s assault on Microsoft has intensified with a Blanket Ban on Windows Operating System across Google’s Office globally and today a massive Ad Campaign on how Small and Medium Enterprises can save by switching to Google Apps from Microsoft Office. How a Small Business With 50 Employees can save $20,168…
Airtel Live Explorer to compete Reliance World
With increasing pressure for Voice Revenues, Airtel wants to increase the share of Value Added Services. After the launch of App Central [limited scope due to low bandwidths] they went back to the design board and came up with a media rich product – Airtel Live Explorer. Airtel Live Explorer…
RCom – MTN Deal Unlikely
Media Reports suggest that MTN could reopen negotiations with RCOM. Per reports, the proposal is similar to the one in 2008 when RCOM had proposed to merge with MTN by swapping Anil Ambani’s 67% equity holding in the Indian company with MTN shares. We believe the possibility of such a…
Sanjeev Bikhchandani on Internet Entrepreneurship
Mr. Sanjeev Bikhchandani CEO and Founder of Infoedge India speaks on Entrepreneurship and the Venture Capital ecosystem in the online space. Excerpts from his interview that appeared in the book “Enterprising India“. The Way Indian technology entrepreneurial space is shaping up Well, it is a sea change, compared to the…