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Bharti Leads in August Wireless Subscribers Additions
GSM Operators excluding Reliance Communications added 6.31 mn subscribers in August-08. Bharti Airtel’s subscriber additions were flat 2.7 mn [m-o-m basis], 43% of the net adds.. Vodafone’s and BSNL’s improved steadily, while Idea’s additions declined marginally. Aircel recorded its highest ever adds, rising 18% m-o-m to 0.65m. The key highlight…
Equity Stake Changing Hands
Ahead of the 3G auction, struggling incumbents like Tata Teleservices and BPL Mobile are supposedly in talks for stake sale. Even new operators are desperately looking to divest their stake and are in a hunt world wide to even small countries like Norway. BPL Mobile sold 17% stake to fund…
Online Advertising – Exponential Growth
The Online Advertising market in India is set for an explosive growth within the next 3 years. With the Government striving hard to reach broadband targets and adding more Indians online, brands, portals, services etc are all joining the bandwagon. The Online Advertising market is set to touch Rs 2,500…
Reliance Communications – GSM Capex + Rollout
In a conference hosted by Citigroup at London, RCom has said that the incremental GSM capex @15% of a greenfield rollout as it will be riding on its existing passive infra, backhaul, distribution, billing and CRM systems. RCom management believes that tariffs have already come down and may not be…
Browser War – Google Launches Chrome
The browser war intensified today with the launch of Chrome from Google Labs. Just like how Microsoft moved from Operating system to Office Tools to Development Tools, Google is also moving in the same direction with its offerings in the Internet space. Engineers at Google were spending lot of time…
Waive top-up cards Charges – TRAI
TRAI asks wireless operators to waive processing charge on top-up cards – Prepaid mobile subscribers now have more reasons to cheer as TRAI today asked the telecom operators to waive the processing charge on the top-up cards, resulting full talk time on such recharges. Users will now have to pay…
Meter / Usage Check Software
Are you subscribed to limited Data Transfer Broadband Plans ? Then don’t be at the mercy of your ISP to meter your broadband usage. Now you can monitor your broadband usage so that your service provider won’t have a chance to rip you off. Free Tools To Monitor Broadband Usage:…
Subscribers to Double in 2008
Indian Telecom reforms are now reaching the Internet sector as Broadband Subscribers in India are set to double in 2008. India had ~3 mn broadband subscribers at the beginning of 2008. Latest reports indicate that the number of broadband subscribers in India stands at 4.57 mn. Here is an exclusive…