India`s moblie user growth rate touches 85%
These are the findings of a TRAI study titled “Financial analysis of telecom industry of China and India”
India has posted 85% rise in its mobile subscribers annual growth rate while China posted 16% growth in the mobile user base in 2005.
Total telecom revenue of Chinese telecom companies increased from $65 billion to $72.70 billion during [...]
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2nd International conference on Value Added Services
Venue: Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi
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Announcing Mobile Monday Mumbai
I’m pleased to announce that we are launching the Mumbai chapter of Mobile Monday and are holding its first event on July 3rd, 2006.
Mobile Monday is a open community of mobile professionals and enthusiasts. It is a forum to network, share knowledge and discuss developments in the mobile world. Founded in Helsinki (Finland) in 2000, [...]
Airtel among top 10 IT companies
Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s top operator, has been ranked among the top 10 best performing IT companies in the world by Business Week.
Business Week ranked companies on four criteria — return of equity, revenue growth, shareholder return (given equal weight) and total revenue (which was weighted).
Describing the company as a highly innovative company, the magazine [...]
Mini Mobile from India
A few months back Mobile Pundit had covered the story of a Swadeshi ultra low cost handset invented at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Now we have a video so that you can see how it looks.
It has just three buttons and the user can receive or make calls from the three pre-assigned numbers. What [...]
Spectrum scramble
Financial Express has a primer on spectrum issues faced by Indian operators. Read the article if you want to understand why there is so much controversy over spectrum.
What is spectrum?
How is spectrum allocated to different technologies?
What are the criteria for spectrum allocation?
How is spectrum allocated in other countries?
Why is there a controversy over allocation of [...]
Hutch launches fun cards
Hutch has introduced Fun Cards - scratch cards that offer predefined content for your mobiles.
With Fun Cards Hutch customers can now purchase Caller Tunes and Ring Tones off the shelf from the nearest Hutch retailer. All one needs to do is simply scratch the panel on the back of the card to reveal a unique [...]
India mobile users to treble by 2011: Bharti
According to Sanjay Kapoor, Joint President, Mobility at Bharti the number of cellular subscribers in India will treble to 300 million in the next three to five years.
Bharti is confident of sustaining its addition rate of more than a million subscribers per month. Kapoor said Bharti’s net adds would continue to outpace overall new mobile [...]
Reliance GSM services by March ‘07
Business Standard reports that Reliance Communications may launch its GSM services in Delhi and Mumbai by March 2007. It expects the 1,800 MHz spectrum to be allocated by October.
The company has also roped in JM Morgan Stanley (JMMS) as financial advisor for a proposed re-organisation.
Even though the exact details for the reorganistaion were not available, [...]
Qualcomm: GSM favouring spectrum policy behind Reliance GSM
One of the supposed reasons behind Reliance’s GSM entry is the high royalty fee it has to pay to Qualcomm. It is said that the royalty payout increases cost of handsets, which may not be viable in price-sensitive rural markets where the next round of mobiles growth is expected.
“The royalty on the chipset charged from [...]
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