Month: June 2012
Airtel / BSNL / Idea – Revenue Per Minute Pressure Continues – MoU Stagnant
Indian Wireless incumbent operators’ Revenue Per Minute – RPM continues to remain under pressure for incumbent operators primarily led by Airtel’s continued competitive stance to arrest its market share decline. The pressure on RPM is mainly due to free minutes being introduced through new packages/ promos. Some of the margin…
MTS mPoS – Portable & Mobile Point of Sale System – Carry Anywhere in India
MTS Sistema has launched a truly Portable and Mobile Point of Sale System [MTS mPos] that can be carried with your mobile anywhere to conduct Credit / Debit Card Transactions. As seen in the picture to your left, mPoS attached to a SmartPhone is a Portable Card Reader much like…
Windows Phone 8 – Core + Hardware + Apps + Enterprise Developers an Insight
The Fall of 2012 will see a deluge of devices and one that is of our particular interest is the Windows 8 Mobile / SmartPhone fully interoperable with Windows 8 Operating System family. We’d like to have a look at the Windows 8 Mobile Platform – The Core, Hardware, interoperability…
What is the Potential + Advantages and Current State of Mobile Advertising in India
As we all know the Lethargic Indian Politicians [Policy Makers] are procrastinating reforms in the sector. WE expect mobile-based and location-aware advertising to gain popularity. Both push-based display and search-query pull models will continue to grow, in our opinion. Potential Means of Mobile Advertising in India Offer free data, minutes…
Limited Spectrum and High Population Density Restricts Operators from 3G Data Tariff War
A section of newspapers [Full of Hype without any Analysis] have reported that Indian Telecom Operators have started a 3G Data Tariff War. Well, we’d like to enlighten the initial cuts in 3G tariffs cannot be termed as a Tariff War like we have seen in the 2G Voice between…
Hardware Powering Microsoft Windows Surface Tablet
Microsoft yesterday unveiled that it will very soon launch its own Tablet branded as Surface running on Windows RT and Windows 8. Windows RT tablet will include Microsoft Office and a full keyboard embedded in a thin touch cover [Consumers using office productivity Suite on Tablets is less than 20%,…
LG Taking early Lead in LTE SmartPhone
Korea’s LG’s smartphone business is making a come back and we believe that LGE is now in the process of joining “Group A” from “Group B” of SmartPhone Vendors. LG LTE Phones LGE is targeting a launch of 16 smartphone models in 2012F of which 8 are LTE models, suggesting…
What Drives SmartPhones Demand ? Upgrade Cycle + Falling Prices
In 2009-10 when smartphones were still not popular in India, only about 10% of users bought feature phones above a retail price of Rs 8000. The market developments over the past year have been in line with expectations despite the regulatory noise and the retail price of entry level 3G…