Telecom

The number of smartphone in use surpassed 1 billion milestone in Q3 2012.  The data consumption on mobile handsets is continuously increasing with dizzying pace, and now, data appetite users are looking for 4G LTE enabled smartphones. It's pretty...

In last 12 hours, I bumped numerous times with the ‘news’ floating around almost every news portal, blog and social networks – Bharti Airtel has become world’s 4th largest Telecom operator in terms of number of subscribers. Be it...

Although India is the world's  second largest country in terms of mobile subscriber base, but the telecom penetration in its rural sector is still patchy. Ironically, rural India accounts for 70% of entire population, but it accounts just 29%...

Demand of mobile handsets in India is increasing with galloping pace, but the hold of domestic mobile handset manufacturers is still quite feeble in the market. Somehow absence of domestic supply chain and protectionist policies are responsible for poor stronghold of...

In November 2010, Tata Teleservices began offering 3G service In India and later Bharti Airtel deploy the service in January 2011. It has been almost two years of the 3G launch and operators are still struggling to make its...

Mobile data consumption in India is steadily growing due to increasing number of smartphones and greater availability of data-driven services. This time, businesses are quite liberal for 'Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD) module, means employees can use their own...

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...

In June, India added 4.62 million new telecom subscribers and it was expected that the country could achieve 1 billion milestones soon. But, mobile subscriber base declined in July of this year, despite, active wireless subscribers reached to peak...

The turmoil in the Indian telecom sector is clearly visible at this time. It's the first time ever in the country when the mobile subscriber baseline declined. Indeed, it reveals the uncertainty in the telecom sector and it's the...

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...