Category: internet
Research and Analysis on the Indian Internet and Broadband
Indian Mobile subscribers grow by 17.8% QoQ
Is India the fastest growing mobile subscribers market in the world ? The total number of cellular subscribers base at the end of Q2-2006 is 105,279,394 compared to 89,346,559 a quarter ago. GSM operators still control more than 60% of the market. Bharti-Airtel is India’s number one mobile service provider…
Indian GSM Mobile subscribers grow by 13.6% QoQ
Indian GSM cellular operators grew by just 13.6% QoQ at the end of Q2-2006(June 30th) compared to CDMA subscribers growth of 32% during the same period. You cannot compare QoQ growth directly as GSM operators have 3 times the subscribers base than that of CDMA. At the end of Q2-2006,…
Indian CDMA Mobile subscribers grow by 32% QoQ
The CDMA standard mobile subscriber base in India at the end of Q2-2006(June30th) stands at 26,794,545. Their are only two major operators based on this technology – Reliance Infocomm and Tata Indicom. Reliance Infocomm now has 20,205,558 mobile subscribers compared to 15,407,211 at the end of Q1-2006(March-31st) reperesenting a QoQ…
BSNL & MTNL oppose to opneing their pipes
BSNL & MTNL which together have 90% of India’s wirelines(landline) subscribers are opposed to opening their pipes to be accessed by private operators to provide broadband services. Broadband in India is termed as any “always-on” internet connection offering a speed of 256KBPs or more. BSNL & MTNL together have 40…
m-Entertainment and m-Commerce in India
m-EntertainmentIndia:Earlier I had reported about the popularity of Mobile Music downloads in India. Telecom experts are predicting that the Indian m-Entertainment market to be $5 Billion by 2009 in India. DoT’s Arun Kumar Saxena said that Mobile TV has a very huge demand in rural India. It is for this…
9 more companies to offer NLD/STD services in India
DOT has approved 9 more service providers paving way for them to offer NLD/STD services. Those who got the green signal include, Shipping DOT com of the Essar group, HCL Infinet, Hughes Communications (India), Tulip IT Services, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, Power Grid Corporation of India, RailTel Corporation of India, Oil…
Bharti launches Airtel Mega – Fixed Wireless Phone
Fixed Wireless Phone – A phone which is similar to your land phone but operates using Mobile Networks(GSM in case of Bharti). That means unlike your routine landline phone which requires wire till your home is not necessary in Fixed Wirless Phones. I am not sure if this kind of…
Mobile companies can’t operate on CDMA & GSM networks in the same circle
DOT (Department of Telecom, India) has clarified that mobile operators in India can hold only either of the two licenses – GSM or CDMA in any given cricle. This is a severe blow to Reliance Communication’s GSM expansion plans. DOT had earlier sought Reliance’s roadmap for GSM plan which the…