Month: October 2012
Airtel’s Centralized Network Experience Centre goes LIVE Gurgaon – Monitors India + South Asia
India’s Leading Telecommunications Giant attained yet another benchmark in the Indian Telecom sector as it inaugurated the first of its kind facility in India to monitor Airtel’s networks spanning Mobile, DSL Broadband, M-Commerce, DTH, Enterprise Services, International Cables across its India and South Asia operations from a single location. The…
4G LTE in 1800MHz band – Eco-system Ready and Better than 2300MHz
As demand for data increases, operators are trying new ways to accommodate traffic on existing spectrum instead of going behind higher bands such as 2300MHz and 2600MHz. According to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), one third of today’s 96 commercial LTE operators have deployed LTE using the 1800MHz spectrum…
Challenges Galore for Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone 8
Nokia’s Symbian Phone Sales trends are falling faster than anybody had ever imagined. On the Windows Phone, we knew sales would decline sequentially due to Windows Phone 8 not being backward compatible with existing Lumia devices. Windows Phone 8 Sales to start during November limited to few geographies and operators….
99Acres – Riding the Shift in Real Estate Classifieds from NewsPaper to Web
99acres the online real estate classifieds portal reported robust growth at 52% YoY during the quarter. The company registered strong growth despite tough real-estate market as new launches in Gurgaon and Noida picked up. Moreover, management suggested that there is incremental shift from print real-estate advertisements to online portals, a…
900MHz Spectrum Refarming may Severely Impact Mobile Services of Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL
The Indian Wireless industry may head into another round of chaos, this time around the issue will be disruption of mobile services reach / coverage, if the Government opts for full 900 MHz Spectrum Refarming. Impact of 900MHz Spectrum Refarming on Mobile Services All operators have to replace existing Network…
Airtel Launches 4G LTE in Pune with 605 Tower Coverage Map; Experience Outlets Open
Bharti Airtel, India’s first Telecommunications company which launched 4G / LTE Services today stepped into Maharashtra by Launching Airtel 4G / LTE Wireless Broadband Services. Airtel has done an impeccable job by lighting 605 Towers across the Length and Breadth of Pune city to offer seamless coverage of the highest…
3G uptake increasing; LTE to remain niche; Reliance Skips 4G LTE Conference of Qualcomm
Qualcomm India which is partner with Bharti Airtel for rolling out BWA / LTE Services hosted a conference in Delhi on Oct 16th. Find the key takeaways from the conference. 3G Update Increasing Despite 3G subscribers being less than 3% of the India wireless subscribers base, web traffic on cellular…
Mobile Subscriber Base Down as Dual / Multi SIM Era Ending
India’s Top 3 Wireless Carriers Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular have seen a consistent decline in their subscriber net additions. This consistency clearly suggests that there have been some coordinated efforts to address the multi SIM phenomenon. Earlier, operators were giving higher commissions to the retailers which in turn were…