TeleBlogging

What is the blogosphere talking about Indian telecom and mobility. Here is a collection of some blogposts related to telecom. Reuben at Zoo Station has an interesting number to share. According to the stats available for January, the telecom sector in India added 5 million new subscribers, of which 4.75 were mobile connections. That’s about [...]

Teledensity and GDP

The positive correlation between GDP of a country and its teledensity is cited many times, especially in discussions related to rural penetration of mobiles. I wanted to better understand the difference between correlation and causal relationship. So I asked my colleague Atanu Dey – a Renaissance man. Here is an excellent explanation, which I quote [...]

MyToday

MyToday.com is a public RSS aggregator providing the latest news, views and content on a topic-based collection of feeds, called Dailies. It is simultaneously available on the web through an Ajax client and on the mobile phone in WML. Ajax version: http://www.mytoday.com/ Mobile version: http://m.mytoday.com/ Public versus Personal Aggregators: Personal aggregators like bloglines.com, my.yahoo.com, live.com [...]

1.11 million CDMA additions in Feb

CDMA carriers added 1.11 million new users in February taking the overall CDMA mobile user base to 19 million, the Association of Unified Telecom Services Providers, representing four carriers, said in a statement. Reliance Infocomm added 804,000 mobile users, boosting its customer base to 14.6 million. Tata Teleservices added 313,192 mobile customers, raising its user [...]

BarCampDelhi thoughts

Back after a packed day at the BarCampDelhi unconference. Met some great guys, learnt new things and got infected with young enthusiasm. Quite a few attendees had strong entrepreneurial spirit and were trying to create innovative product focused companies. The topic of my presentation was Elements of Web 2.0 – Microcontent, Mobiles, Communities. Sunil Goyal [...]

BarCamping

Travelling to the capital tomorrow to attend the BarCampDelhi unconference. The theme of BarCampDelhi is “Next Generation Internet: Web 2.0, mobile computing, and other cool stuff”. Gaurav Bhatnagar has a nice explanation of the concept.

Economic survey 2005-06 on Telecom

Taking stock of progress made on the telecom infrastructure front, through the eyes of the economic survey of 2005-06. The last fiscal was another year of reckoning for the telecom sector. Explosive growth rate in the mobile telephony segment was almost counterbalanced by sedate growth of the fixed line and broadband businesses. Pressure on tariffs [...]

Major organisational restructuring in Bharti

According to a report in ET, Bharti Tele-Ventures is set to merge its mobile and fixed line businesses. This is in line with Bharti’s One Airtel initiative, which had earlier seen the company merge the distribution arms of both companies. “Due to the merger of Infotel and mobility, certain adjustments, restructuring and redesignations are bound [...]

Idea wins GSMA Award

Idea Cellular has won the GSM Association award in the “Best Billing or Customer Care Solution” category at the recently concluded 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The award was presented for its “Bill Flash” service. “Bill Flash

OneIndia worries PCO owners

With STD tariffs being reduced to as low as Re 1, PCO booth owners have expressed concern over the lower commission due to a decrease in overall revenues from long-distance calls. PCO booth-owners get a fixed commission from the telecom companies depending on the total revenues generated. They said BSNL should provide an alternative package [...]

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