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Tata DoCoMo, the GSM Mobile servics from Tata Teleservices and DoCoMo introduced the new concept of 1 paise / second pulse billing in the Indian market to cannibalize the revenue cream of arrogant incumbent operators like Airtel and Vodafone India. MTS India – the new CDMA operator is also offering…

With the tiff between the finance ministry and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) getting bitter over the jurisdiction, the latter may withdraw its decision to waive license fees for fixed-line service operators in rural regions. Earlier, DoT had favored rolling out services in rural areas and had even amended the…

State owned telco, BSNL which has wireline infrastructure connecting lakhs of Indian villages is on an aggressive broadband expansion spree by putting those villages on the information superhighway. In a recent announcement, the Ministry of communications has said that it will establish 28,000 wired broadband exchanges and 6,000 satellite sites…

If you have been reading my write-ups, it should be evident by now that my thoughts are biased towards Google 🙂 Google’s Engineers / Developers have the magic touch to churn out a product that has a WoW effect on end consumer. However, Google Labs SMS Channels lacks the WoW…

Reliance Communications’ GSM coverage is almost at par with CDMA coverage – currently, RCOM is offering GSM services in ~22k towns and ~400k villages (CDMA presence in ~23k towns and ~500k villages). Reliance Infratel the Tower company had a tower portfolio of ~48k towers in March 2009. Management indicated that…

Tata Communications, a leading global provider of a new world of communication has collaborated with Cisco who is worldwide leader in networking. The two companies have collaborated to showcase the fusion between Cisco products and the broadband services offered by Tata Communications. Cisco and Tata have decided that as a…

According to the latest figures released by TRAI, India has 117 mn Wireless Internet Subscribers [March-31st] [i.e accessing the web using GSM / CDMA Mobile Networks] Compare this to mere 6.52 mn broadband subscribers [June-30th] and 13.5 mn Dial-up Internet subscribers. This also means 1/4th of all Wireless Subscribers in…

GSM wireless operators reported 9.3m (estimate) net-adds in Jun vs. 8.7m in May; our June est. assumes RCOM added 0.4m subs (same as in May) in its ‘existing’ GSM (RTL) circles. Increase in overall net-adds was driven by BSNL (net-adds up 0.6m; 98% mom) and Idea (0.3m;24%). Vodafone’s net-adds (down…