Category: telecom
2G Scam JPC to Halt Telecom Policy Decisions
The constitution of a JPC probe into the telecoms scandal seems almost certain, going by recent media reports. Previous JPCs have taken between 6 and 21 months to submit their reports. Given the coalition dynamics currently, we expect at least a 12-24 month time frame for a JPC report. In…
Mobile Number Portability – Offers for Post-Paid Users
The lethargic Government of India finally launched the long awaited Mobile Number portability – MNP. To get a sense of the ground realities, we visited the stores of Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Tata Docomo to compare the schemes currently on offer, for postpaid customers. We restricted our…
Will Inflation Impact Wireless ARPU ?
Kids in School are aware now talking of Indian Inflation which is unheard off amongst kids in the rest of the World. We ran a quick analysis on the impact of Inflation on Wireless Service Providers and here is our take on the same. GSM ARPU is at Rs130 (Rs75…
3G issues nearly resolved, guidelines soon: Sibal
In what would came as a major relief for the telecom operators, the government said on Wednesday that the security related issues that were impacting the launch of third generation (3G) services were nearly resolved and it would soon issue new guidelines in this context. ‘3G issue is almost resolved….
Loop + Etisalat + Videocon – Miserable Rollout Failure
The potentially fully corrupt DoT issued show cause notices to new operators (Uninor, Loop, Etisalat, Videocon, S-Tel and Allianz Infratech – now merged with Etisalat) which are alleged to have suppressed information to get licenses and have also failed to roll out services as mandated. All these operators are alleged…
2G Spectrum Scam – Takeways from CAG report
Here are the Key Takeaways from the 2G Spectrum Scam led by A. Raja under the Prime Ministership of Dr. Manmohan Singh. The office of CAG has done a commendable job by bringing to light the following, The report’s findings indicate there were gaps in policy implementation by DoT in…
Mobile Number Portablity – Reality in 2 Days
The long awaited mobile Number portability – MNP will be reality in India from 25th starting with Haryana Circle. Syniverse and Telcordia have been selected to be the clearing houses, the former for West and North India and the latter for South and East India. We understand that all the…
What Bharti Airtel can & will do in Africa which Zain did not ?
Bharti Airtel – The World’s Low Cost Wireless Minutes producer is replicating its business model with localization in Africa. We believe a change in strategy at the African asset after Bharti’s takeover from Zain will likely lead to turnaround of the asset. Give more autonomy to local managers – Bharti…