DoT pulled up on spectrum allocation

Had missed this Business Standard story. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has slammed the department of telecommunications (DoT) for its haphazard planning and spectrum allocation policy, and for its failure to anticipate the demand. The lack of planning on part of the department had led to an ad-hoc and injudicious allocation of spectrum, [...]

Play it by cell

ET quotes a latest SSKI report that expects the wireless VAS market to grow from estimated Rs 350 crore to Rs 3,800 crore in ’10. The revenue share of games is 5-6% at present but is expected to go up to 8% by ’10. Paid downloads figures for mobile games are around 6,00,000 a month. [...]

OneIndia not for large scale users

Business Standard reports that against the earlier proposal for common call rates across the country for both local and long-distance calls, the DoT has now decided to go in for two separate tariff slabs

Mobile user base falls short of 2005 target

Despite record growth and increase of 58.13% in the subscriber base in 2005, India’s mobile users’ population is well below projections. The country finished 2005 with close to 76 million mobile users and a broadband base of 840,000 users, falling well short of its target of 100 million cellular and 3 million broadband subscribers by [...]

India to add 50 million new mobile users in 2006

Ramnath Subbu gives lots of stats on the Indian mobile market in this article. Grant Thornton India, a leader in M&A and deal advisory, has pointed out in a study that while the total value of deals in India in 2005 was $18.2 billion the telecom sector accounted for a third of this, the above [...]

Mobile ringtones biz suffering from piracy

The music industry is crying foul over the growing number of illegitimate downloads and under-reporting at various levels in the chain of content owners, aggregators, handset dealers and operators. Highlighting the menace, Mr Vipul Pradhan, Chief Executive Officer, Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL)

MTNL eyes 15% revenue from VAS

MTNL expects to double its revenue from value added services to 15% of its total revenue in 2006-07. “We currently get six per cent of our revenue from value added services and are adding more such services to get up to 15 per cent in the next fiscal,” said MTNL ED A K Arora. MTNL’s [...]

BSNL tender next week

BSNL would invite bids for the execution of its second phase of the cellular upgradation contract worth $4.5 billion (about Rs 21,000 crore) next week. The 60 million GSM lines tender, which was initially slated for October 2005, but was delayed on technical grounds. Sources suggested that Ericsson, Nokia and Alcatel are likely to be [...]

3 BPL circles merge with Hutch

ET reports that Hutchison Essar has merged BPL Mobile’s three state circles, Maharashtra & Goa, Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry, and Kerala with itself. Most of the senior officials from BPL have joined Hutch. A new position has been created in Hutch for Krishna Angara, COO, BPL Mobile, Mumbai. He will be the director of business [...]

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