Category: mobile
How can Airtel Transform Zain African Wireless Operations ?
We would like to share with readers an excerpt of Zain’s Wireless Operations now taken over by Bharti Airtel in Africa. The longer Bharti takes to complete the transaction, the higher would be the risk of uncertainty-driven attrition in Zain in addition to the risk of capex needs rising and…
Indian Wireless Base at 578 Million
We have compiled from the Telecom companies and TRAI / DoT and affirm that Indian Mobile SIM base now stands at 578.319 million at the end of March-2010. FY 2010 saw significant realignment in market share of net-adds driven by multiple-SIM phenomenaLarge incumbents [Bharti Airtel, RCOM, Idea and Vodafone] lost…
3G Auction Update – Day 10
The price at the end of Day 10 increased c4.4% to USD6.0bn as compared to USD5.8bn on Day 9. This price (USD6.0bn) is c89% higher than the reserve price of USD3.2bn. We believe at least an average of c3.4 operators remain in contention for pan-India bidding, compared to seven players…
3G auction update – Live
40 rounds of bidding completed for 22 circles to date; believe activity levels remain below 100% (likely at 90%). Number of circles with excess demand up at 13 from 6 on Day 6. We believe players continue to alternate bids among circles and activity levels continue to remain below 100%…
Entry Level 3G Enabled Handsets in India
Withing the next 48 hours we will know who will be the 3G Operator in each Telecom Circle of India. We quickly surveyed the market on the availability of 3G capable / enabled Handsets for the masses of Indian population and we found 5 of them varying in cost from…
Bharti Airtel ends era of Toll Free Calls to Customer Care
Bharti Airtel potentially the 8th largest telecom company in the world on Friday ended the era of Toll Free Customer Care – 121. They have messed up their back-end, atleast in Karnataka and have activated Unlimited SMS Pack without any request and I called to get the waiver for the…
Potential price for 3G + BWA Spectrm
In line with the 3G/BWA spectrum auction timetable, DoT has published the list of applicants for 3G/BWA spectrum. Notably, [1] there are more applicants for BWA vs 3G spectrum, [2] 9/11 existing 2G licensees (holding GSM spectrum) will vie to secure 3G spectrum i.e. no new foreign entrant in the…
Likely 3G Bids by Indian Operators
3G auctions in April; notices inviting bids just before the budget speech. Government plans [not firm] to complete 3G auctions by mid-April; three slots in 17 circles and four slots in five circles to be auctioned. We do not rule out further delays in 3G spectrum auctions. How are the…