Wireless Revenue Market Share – Airtel Lost 1%

According to TRAI’s report on the Telecom industry, gross revenue grew 4.1% in 4QFY11 vs. 4.9% in 3QFY11 which is a seasonally strong quarter. BSNL gained the highest (+49bps revenue share), followed by Idea (+29bps), and Tata Tele (+18bps) while Bharti (-111bps) and RCOM (-59bps) lost share during the quarter….

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Top News + Travel + Sports Sites

comScore just a while ago released data on the Top News, Travel and Sports sites in India based on the number of visitors. Here is the Results. Travel: The Top sites in Travel are topped by rail websites and online travel agents. 19.4 percent of web users visited the Indian…

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Facts about Indian Internet – Beginning of Revolution ?

Not many of us agree that India ranks in the Top 10 across the World when it comes to Internet user base, but has only four Internet firms listed on Stock Exchanges. India has amongst the best demographics for the Internet, with 50% of the population being younger than 25…

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3G Data Vs EVDO Based Services [Photon, Reliance NetConnect, etc]

We conducted a field survey in Bangalore City to ascertain consumer and channel partner behavior post 3G launch. The main aim of this study was to find if there is any shift from CDMA 1x data to 3G ? CDMA operators’ EVDO offerings – Tata Photon+, Reliance NetConnect Broadband+, BSNL…

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Social Network – Will Facebook do a Separate entity in India like China ?

Facebook the Social Networking Platform is likely to sign an agreement with a local Chinese internet company to build a new social network exclusively for China and it is believed that the new website will not be integrated with Facebook.com. Until now, Data suggests that Social networking is highly monopolistic-…

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Good + Bad of New Telecom Policy 2011

The India telcos minister provided further updates on NTP-11 today. These are just the drops from Mr. Kapil Sibal to get a feeling of Analysts and Industry on his new proposals and may be changed before the final draft is presented for approval. The Good in New Telecom Policy 2011:…

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3G Data Pricing + Review – No Disruption Yet

Incumbent Telecom Operators who won 3G spectrum have begun to roll out 3G services across major towns and cities. Tata Docomo and Reliance Communications (RCOM) were the first off the mark, followed by Bharti Airtel which has launched services in 16 cities so far while Idea Cellular rolled out 3G…

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3G Services – Rollout Costs Economics – Phone Vs Laptop & PC Users

The Indian Telecom industry currently in the state of deep mess for 2G Spectrum Scam is quietly rolling out 3G services in lucrative areas. Today we will evaluate the roll-out Costs & Economics for 3G Services in India. For the purpose of our Research, we have classified Operators in 3…

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