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National Security – Avoid Chinese equipments says DoT
Citing national security concerns, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has strictly directed private players not to use Chinese equipments in 20 out of the 29 states, in a move to ward off Chinese equipment manufacturers from Indian market. DoT, after a meeting with private operators, has directed the private players…
Only 4 3G Licenses for Auction – Reserve Price Higher
The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) constituted by the government to deliberate on the issue of on third generation (3G) spectrum auction has decided the minimum price for the for pan-India 3G license at Rs 3,500 crore. The panel also decided to allow only four operators [plus BSNL / MTNL…
Revenue Marktshare – Airtel Vodafone Lead – RCom Arrests The Fall
Revenue market share of Wireless companies in India proves that, Indians are most likely to opt for a GSM connection than a CDMA. RCom’s CDMA and Tata Indicom CDMA have been consistently losing Revenue market share. However, with th launch of Reliance GSM Mobile, the company has been able to…
Reliance BharatNet + Grameen VAS – Rural initiatives
Reliance Communications, part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), sees a huge potential for its products in the rural market. The company has announced a slew of initiatives like BharatNet, Grameen VAS and M2M to increase its presence in the rural segment. BharatNet is a high-speed wireless Internet service…
Tata DoCoMo Gaining Traction – Reality Check on the Street
Tata DoCoMO launched its GSM service in Mumbai this month with heavy ad spend (print media/hoardings) focusing mainly on per second billing. Tata DoCoMo’s offer of 1p/sec is an ongoing plan and not an introductory offer. We visited some of its retail outlets in Mumbai to gauge the response, took…
MTNL Triband Rates Drop – Compete with Airtel
State owned Telecom, MTNL good in the wireline and broadband business has taken the later business very seriously after we criticized its Wireless and 3G operations and sent it to the management. In direct response to our critic is what we feel, MTNL launched a broadband price war with Bharti…
Comparison of Tata Photon+ – Reliance NetConnect Broadband+
Tata Photon+ and Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ are wireless based broadband services better than their predecessor technologies Wimax and have been gaining lot of traction. Both are offering very similar plans at almost the same rates. Therefore, the distinguishing factor will be “Quality of Service and Support”. Here is a comparison…
Airtel Special 5 – A Great Gimmick
It appears that Bharti Airtel is facing stiff competition from new GSM operators and of course state owned BSNL which has the best plans for heavy mobile phone users. Airtel is banking on a Great marketing gimmick of Special Five. The catch in this Special 5 is all the 5…