It's no secret that India is the fastest growing mobile phone market. With 1.19 billion mobile subscriptions India is closing the gap with China to become the biggest country by the number of mobile phone subscriptions. However, unlike China, the...

The launch of the Reliance Jio service back in September 2016 was a real game changer for the Indian telecom industry. Backed by the immense financial muscle and infrastructure of Reliance Communications, Jio has metaphorically set the cat among...

Reliance Jio is launched commercially and by now most of us may be wondering if we should ditch your current mobile operator and port the number to Reliance Jio. At the same time, people are juggling with few other questions that...

Recent reports reveal that over 1.03 billion Indians are hooked onto mobile phones, wherein more than 21.2% of them accounted for smartphone users. The growth is expected to hit 30% by 2017. While the number of internet users in...

In India, all the issues related to 2G auction bidding have finally been settled down by the telecom regulators. Of course, the auction has sparked out a discussion on another front, and more importantly, the government could not generate...

It seems that the bad days of Indian telecom sector aren't ending. The sector finds itself in period of major uncertainty after dismal refreshed 2G spectrum auction. Indian government succeeded to generate just INR 94.1 billion (US$1.71 billion) from...

There is a buzz in Indian telecom industry that the telecom subscriber base declined 20.7 million in July 2012. Indeed, it’s the first time ever in Indian Telecom history and subscriber base (wireless and wireline) reached to 944.81 million...

Yesterday, no any new foreign player participated in first pre-bid conference hosted by department of telecommunication in India related to 2G auction. As per the previous norm, the foreign vendors had to form a joint venture with an Indian partner...

Yesterday, I explained why India needs to focus on its own telecom technology companies. It's also true that the competition is going to be intensified in upcoming months in this sector. Despite of the GDP decline of India--reached to...

In April of this year, Mobile number portability (MNP) requests reached to 45.89 million and Gujarat was leading in the MNP Zone-I (Northern & Western) with 4.23 million requests, while Karnataka was at the top in MNP Zone-II (Southern...