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Global wireless penetration hits 28%
New findings from Informa claim that the global wireless market has 1.8 billion subscribers, representing worldwide penetration of 28 percent. The four largest wireless growth markets are the BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
Italy, the UK, Sweden and Hong Kong have already exceeded 100 percent market penetration, and other markets that could follow this [...]
State of the US mobile market
According to a 5,600 household survey from Forrester Research:
* 67% of US households have at least one mobile phone.
* The top three mobile carriers will own seven out of 10 mobile households: Cingular+AT&T Wireless (28%), Verizon (27%), and Sprint/Nextel (15%).
* Basic features like price, battery life, and ease of use continue to be most important [...]
GSMA welcomes TRAI’s 3G recommendations
The GSM Association (GSMA) has welcomed the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for global spectrum harmonization of 3G services by choosing IMT2000. This ensures that India retains alignment with the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) IMT2000 core (2GHz) band for 3G services.
According to the press release, last year the GSMA called on [...]
Hutch to bid for BPL
Economic Times reports that Hutch and the Essar Group are bidding for BPL Mobile which provides services in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala circles. A no-brainer for Hutch if it comes at the right price; since Hutch doesn’t have presence in the three states except Mumbai.
Essar is the front runner in the auction [...]
TRAIL and Error
Business Standard has a good write-up on the issues pertaining to the new TRAI policy recommendations on 3G.
Also check this related story: Ratan Tata favours revenue share and license fee for 3G.
Congrats Sunil Mittal
Sunil Mittal of Bharti got a double delight when he was adjudged the ‘Best Asian Telecom CEO’ and his company Bharti Televentures bagged the ‘Best GSM Carrier’ at the Telecom Asia Awards 2005. According to the latest figures Bharti is the top mobile operator in India.
Book classifieds through SMS
Bodhtree Consulting plans to launch next month a framework that will enable mobile users to book classified advertisements by sending SMS to publications.
Bodhtree Consulting CEO Sanjiv Gupta said, “A speech interface is embedded on to this framework that will provide users with information like the number of words the classified ad can have, the amount [...]
World Telecom Day
Today is the 36th World Telecom Day. Here’s how the Indian industry is celebrating.
HSDPA versus EVDO
If you can talk about EVDO we can boast about HSDPA. This is what comes across from the Business Line story which says Indian GSM operators are now looking at deploying this latest technology.
Looking at!? We don’t even have decent 2.5G implementations and the operators are already looking at deploying HSDPA which can be called [...]
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