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B2B BandWidth Cost To Rise ?
The frequent International Bandwidth cable cuts has given a new business opportunity for Indian Telcos to serve the BPO, IT and ITeS community. Most of these companies use Leased line connectivity for their business needs. Depending upon their ISP, some companies have been affected even though India’s NIXI has provisions…
Subscriber Numbers by State + Geography
We have obtained the broadband subscribers numbers sorted state wise. Maharashtra topped the list with 9.34 lakh broadband subscribers, bulk of the subscribers coming from Mumbai. Here is the complete list – State – Subscribers in lakh Maharashtra & Goa – 9.34 Tamilnadu – 6.44 Delhi including NCR – 5.88…
American telecom non-presence – Uncle Sam Concerned
The absence of an American Telco in the second largest and fastest growing market in the world has left Uncle Sam worried. Russia’s Sistema, Europe’s Vodafone and TelNor, Malaysia’s Maxis & Telekom Malayasia, Singapore’s SingTel, Japan’s DoCoMo and UAE’s Etisalat have all established presence in the Indian Wireless market which…
Blogging Replaces Sex in Bedroom
In a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Intel Corp, it is found that Women are increasingly obsessed with Internet and Web 2.0 technologies rather than have sex 🙂 Here is an excerpt from the results of the survey published by Wall Street Journal, 46% of the women would go…
Spectrum Fee Increase + USO Offset
TRAI has seconded DoT’s line for increasing spectrum charges by 1-2% of AGR across the various bands. TRAI has recommended that the higher % of AGR would be based on only the 2G spectrum held even for those holding 2G+3G (post auction). The move will impact GSM incumbents’ margins by…
Value Added Service market – $700 mn
The Mobile Value Added Services – VAS market is estimated to be $ 700 mn for the current year and is likely to touch $3 bn by 2012 according to Nitish, CEO of Nazara Technologies. Mobile Gaming is likely to grow at 100% YoY. The latest trends include the 3G…
Corporates say no to WiMax / 3G Internet
Big consumers of the fat Pipes in India, the Corporate world is unwilling to migrate to WiMax or 3G according to a survey published in the Dec issue of Voice & Data . The survey included 156 companies across various industrial verticals – Manufacturing, BFSI, Retail and IT/ITeS. 85% of…
Nokia Siemens to build Tata’s GSM Infrastructure
Nokia Siemens Network – NSN has won the contract from Tata Teleservices to build its GSM Network Infrastructure. The value of the contract is said to be around $1 bn. NSN will build, deploy and manage the network for a period of 5 years which include – network planning, project…