As expected, first day of 2G spectrum bidding in India got lackluster response from telecom vendors. Telecom operators complaint that the starting price set for the 2G spectrum by Indian telecom regulators was quite expensive compare to 2G auction...

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...

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...

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...

India is on the way to achieve 1 billion telecom subscribers base. If  the country's telecom subscribers base are growing in the same fashion as it added in June 2012, then the day isn't so far when India will...

At present, we can easily feel a fierce competition in Indian telecom sector and it has affected even to incumbents in this segment. Just at the beginning of this month, the country's largest mobile operator--Bharti-Airtel--reported 9 straight quarterly falls...

Wireless connections are increasing with dizzying pace in India month-over-month. However, the Supreme Court of India has provided some more time to telecom vendors to continue its services till September 7 of this year across the country. A recent...

Despite of a long political maneuver, GSM connections are still staggering month-over-months in India. According to a recent report from Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)--which incorporates numbers of GSM telecom operators--has reportedly stated that 6.86 million new GSM...