Idea Cellular Cares less of Uninor Discount Engine
The management of Idea Cellular sees Uninor’s recent dynamic pricing plans (discounts linked to capacity utlisation) as being factory-oriented rather than consumer-oriented. Idea believes these plans are not impactful so far and hence unlikely to trigger price reaction from other operators. Further, Idea’s top management said that irrational competition has…
Which Equipment Vendors Power our Network ?
The Government of India has been successfully blocking Chinese Equipment being deployed in India’s Telecom network by an indirect means of delaying the approval and certification of equipment indefinitely. This move follows a period of more than 12 months of uncertainty, in which the Home Ministry of India had raised…
Technology Insight into UIDAI – Aadhaar Biomtric ID Project
UIDAI / Aadhaar Project is a Government of India (GoI) initiative to assign a centralised identification number to all residents of India. Headed by Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Founder and ex Co-Chairman of Infosys Technologies. The UID will dispose the need to produce different identity documents for availing various services (opening…
All India 3G Auction Price Reaches $2.1 Bn
The price at the end of Day 18 increased c1.7% to reach a whopping $2.1 Bn for all India 3G Spectrum License. Total 3G Collection is expected to USD8.6bn. Mumbai and Delhi continue to see aggressive bidding, both closing over 4.5x the reserve price at the end of Day 18….
Historical Wireless Spectrum Prices in India
In the wake of Indian Politicians behaving as though Wireless Spectrum is their inherited property, we decided to do a complete study on the pricing of spectrum ever since the Wireless Licenses for Mobile Services were provided by the Government of India. Here is the result of our study, Wireless…
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…
Understanding 3G for Data + Broadband Services
Now that 3G Auctions are coming to an end, much has been talked about VAS and Freeing Spectrum but we would like to explain Data / Internet Broadband services over 3G and the current industry standards. Globally, 3G (WCDMA+HSPA) accounts for ~9% of subscriber base v/s nil in India currently….
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,…