What is the State of 3G Data 2 Years after Launch in India ?
As we bid adieu to 2012, it’s almost 2 years that 3g started rolling out in India. Despite significant price correction of nearly 70%, 3G Data rates yet hover above at an average 2.5 times of 2G GPRS Data packages. This indicates that there is room for further price cuts…
China Mobile Launches TD-LTE Network in Hong Kong – Connecting Devices Eco-System Emerging
China Mobile Hong Kong (a subsidiary of China Mobile) launched TD-LTE (4G) commercial service in Hong Kong. It may be noted that China Mobile Hong Kong is already offering FDD LTE 4G commercial service at 2600 MHz since late April of this year. At the press briefing, China Mobile Hong…
Google vs Amazon – Online Sales Performance for Holiday Season
With inputs from Online channel marketing technology and services for ~200 enterprise sellers, the 2012 holiday season comprising of Thanksgiving (TG), Black Friday (BF), and Cyber Monday (CM) reported growth of 30% y/y, 20% y/y, and 23% y/y. One thing you need to pay close attention to is the share…
Google Product Search Transition to Product Listing Ads / Google Shopping has 1 Billion Listings Globally
If their is one company that Google saw as a Threat to its revenue turf, is Amazon, eBay second in line, both big buyers of its advertisement for Product Listings. Mid 2012, Google announced that Google Product Search would be transitioned to a paid model built on Product Listing Ads…
Search Query Volume Down in Nov-12 – comScore. Is Web Moving to Mobile ?
According to comScore Data US explicit queries down 5.2% y/y in Nov-12 vs. down 2.5% in October-12. For the market leader Google, explicit search growth decelerated to down 3% y/y from down 1% y/y in October. November is the third month of negative y/y explicit search query data. Of course,…
Will 2013 be the Year of SmartPhone Land Grab in India led by Android Platform ?
As 2012 winds down, we see many indications that the era of Feature Phones dominated by Nokia and Symbian Platform is coming to an end and the “Land Grab” for SmartPhone is beginning. In the early days of 3G in India, Mobile carriers have focused at capturing high-ARPU smartphone customers…
Consumers Shift from PC to NetBooks / Tablets – How DELL is Trying to Combat Slowdown ?
The flood of devices such as Chrome Book, Tablets, etc have threatened the survival of traditional PC / Laptop manufacturers such as Dell, HP, etc. This is evident from the Sales Report of Online Retailer Amazon.com over the last 1 month dominated by Tablets. Even in the PC / Laptops…
MTS Sistema Hoping to Continue India Operations + Scale in Selected Circles + Data Services Not affected by 3G
MTS Shyam Sistema Teleservices CEO Mr Vsevolod Rozanov addressed Analysts and here are the views of the Management. Spectrum in 800MHz – MTS Sistema India is awaiting decision from curative petition filed in the Supreme Court which will decide if the SSTL license cancelled in 2G Spectrum Scam could be…