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Triple Play in India – Hype & Hurdles
Triple Play – Phone, Internet and TV(Cable, IPTV, DishTV) is the new buzzword amongst Indian telcos. BSNL and Bharti – Airtel are planning to introduce IPTV while Tatas has joined hands with Star TV to offer Tata-Sky DTH(Dish) service. Reliance Communications has announced mega plans through its subsidiary, Reliance BlueMagic…
Reliance drops ISD call rates on calling cards, can’t compete with Bharti-Airtel
It took almost few months for Reliance Infocomm to introduce international calling cards. ISD rates on calling cards are upto half the normal rates. For instance, Bharti-Airtel offers VCC – Virtual Calling Card and the rates can be as low as Rs3.50/Minute to US/Canada/Malaysia/Hong Kong/Singapore Mobile & Land Phone on…
Blogs are being blocked ?
On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets till now.” There’s an ongoing discussion of the…
Indian Mobile subscribers grow by 17.8% QoQ
Is India the fastest growing mobile subscribers market in the world ? The total number of cellular subscribers base at the end of Q2-2006 is 105,279,394 compared to 89,346,559 a quarter ago. GSM operators still control more than 60% of the market. Bharti-Airtel is India’s number one mobile service provider…
Indian GSM Mobile subscribers grow by 13.6% QoQ
Indian GSM cellular operators grew by just 13.6% QoQ at the end of Q2-2006(June 30th) compared to CDMA subscribers growth of 32% during the same period. You cannot compare QoQ growth directly as GSM operators have 3 times the subscribers base than that of CDMA. At the end of Q2-2006,…
Indian CDMA Mobile subscribers grow by 32% QoQ
The CDMA standard mobile subscriber base in India at the end of Q2-2006(June30th) stands at 26,794,545. Their are only two major operators based on this technology – Reliance Infocomm and Tata Indicom. Reliance Infocomm now has 20,205,558 mobile subscribers compared to 15,407,211 at the end of Q1-2006(March-31st) reperesenting a QoQ…
BSNL & MTNL oppose to opneing their pipes
BSNL & MTNL which together have 90% of India’s wirelines(landline) subscribers are opposed to opening their pipes to be accessed by private operators to provide broadband services. Broadband in India is termed as any “always-on” internet connection offering a speed of 256KBPs or more. BSNL & MTNL together have 40…
m-Entertainment and m-Commerce in India
m-EntertainmentIndia:Earlier I had reported about the popularity of Mobile Music downloads in India. Telecom experts are predicting that the Indian m-Entertainment market to be $5 Billion by 2009 in India. DoT’s Arun Kumar Saxena said that Mobile TV has a very huge demand in rural India. It is for this…