Category: telecom
3G bids exceeding expectations
At the end of 16 days and 94 rounds of bidding, the provisional winning price for pan-India 3G spectrum stands at Rs89bn, +155% over the reserve price of Rs35bn, led by strong demand in the Mumbai and Delhi circles. At the current provisional winning bids, the Government is assured of…
How Indian Operators Rank in VAS Globally ?
With the auction for 3G Spectrum hotting up in India, we were intrigued to Analyze on where Indian Telecom Operators stand in Non-Voice revenues a.k.a – Value Added Services – VAS. It is surprising to find that Indian operators rank at the bottom of the chart. At 10-11% of revenues,…
Why is 3G Auction of Spectrum so Aggressive ?
The Bid for PAN India 3G Spectrum in the ongoing Auction has reached a whopping $1.7 Bn, a move the world is watching. This is despite the fact that deep pocket Foreign Telcos were discouraged from entering the game by the Government with unclear policies and roadmap for the industry….
GSM net additions up 7% MoM in March
GSM players added 13.9mn subscribers in March 10 as compared to 13mn in February. We have excluded numbers for Reliance Communications & Tata Teleservices as the company reports consolidated subscribers (GSM+CDMA). Vodafone posted the highest net additions for the second month by adding 3.6 mn subscribers. On the other hand,…
600 mn Connections – Wireless + Landline
The number of telephone connections in India [Mobile + Landline] has crossed the 600mn mark with 90% of it coming from the Wireless Segment. Wireless Connections – 563mn Landline Phones – 37 mn Here is the breakup of Total Telephone Connections in India, Bharti Airtel 127.66 mn Reliance Communications 100.58…
Indian Wireless Subscriber Base 558 Mn
Wireless operators reported 18.9m SIM additions in February 2010, down 5% from Jan (19.9m) despite 10% fewer days. Monthly net-adds of Tata Tele (TTSL) continue to ease and were down 30% from Sep-09 peak of 4 million. GSM leaders (Bharti/Voda) reported some up-tick in netadds in Feb (13%/2% mom), while…
Budget Impact – Higher Spectrum Fees
The Department of Telecom (DOT) has increased spectrum usage charges (SUC) for GSM players by 1% for spectrum held up to 8.2MHz and by 2% beyond 8.2MHz, effective 1 April 2010. A similar hike has been levied on CDMA players with 7.5MHz as the threshold. The hike in SUC charges…
DoCoMo Leads Net addition in Jan
Tata Docomo continued to lead in the Net Adds in Jan-2010 by selling 2.98 mn SIM, however this has fallen consistently fallen since hitting a peak of 4m in Sep-09. Indian wireless subscriber base reached 540 million at the end of Jan-2010. Net-adds of major telcos (Bharti, RCOM, Vodafone and…