One Year of Mobile Punditry

Its been a year since I started blogging about the mobile revolution (as I like to call it) in India. The reason for blogging on MobilePundit, as in my previous blog Knowledge El Dorado, is to gain an understanding of the space and share the learnings. Blogging has lended a discipline to my education about [...]

BSNL junks Huawei’s contract

BSNL has cancelled Chinese equipment vendor Huawei’s Rs 140 crore contract for supplying equipment for 1.05 million CDMA lines in partnership with Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd and Semiconductor Complex Ltd. BSNL had issued a showcause notice to Huawei in October for failing to supply equipment.
According to BSNL sources, two possible options on the course of [...]

Handset market pegged at Rs 12,000 crore

The present mobile handset market size in India is pegged at Rs 12,000 crore ($2.5 billion approx). The emergence of the sub-2K handset is expected to drive market expansion, at a time when operators are expediting network rollouts in rural circles where low tele-density levels at 1-5% are way below the 9.5% national average.
Even as [...]

‘Buy’ on Bharti TeleVentures

Krishnan Thiagarajan in Hindu Business Line on the possible implications of the Vodafone deal on Bharti and its stock price.
We reiterate our `Buy’ recommendation made earlier this month for the Bharti Tele-Ventures stock. The entry of Vodafone as a strategic investor brings in a greater element of certainty and aggressiveness to Bharti’s growth plans
Though in [...]

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