Indian Telecom: New Players
Raja has done it again. Reliance has managed to trip over it’s nearest competitors, Bharti and Vodafone and ordered 80-100 million lines. They can easily manage to swing lower equipment costs and hence...
View ArticleVirgn India Mobile: Grey areas
Mobile Virtual Network Operator or MVNO is a “backdoor” entry in Indian telecom. Indian laws don’t allow this at all. Yet, Virgin India “tied” up with Tata and leased out their spectrum (? perhaps) and...
View ArticleSpice Telecom: Snapped up by Idea
Birla’s group Idea snapped up Spice, one of the last stand alone players in the market. Idea cellular is no angel in white. Spice isn’t the best thing to have happened to mobile industry ever although,...
View ArticleTatas: Selling their soul
Poor idiots! They had to sell to DoCoMo, a leader in the 3G services. With the policy as announced, the duds had it in them. They had to sell out to the highest bidder. Very soon, the whole landscape...
View ArticleIndian Telecom: Times gone by!
This is a wonderful satire by Jaspal Bhatti who used to produce and direct “Flop Show” way back in the 1990′s. This series on Telephone is interesting as it shows the rot from which we have emerged....
View ArticleAirtel Fair Usage Policy :”SUCKS”!
There has been a flurry of activity in the blogosphere and a lot of people have bandied together to protest against the assinine policy of Airtel which seeks to limit our choice and control the access...
View ArticleIndian Telecom: Why this negativism?
I am increasingly turning into a cynic for all practical purposes. The guilty are not punished (witness A Raja who made pots of money before he demits his office) whereas the public is being...
View ArticleIndian Telecom: End of the boom?
This is what the headlines in Business Standard say. Let me highlight the relevant portions of the report for your eyes only: Rising competition (13 licences for each circle), falling tariffs (lowest...
View Article3G India: Who needs it?
The following is the text of the email sent and an edited version appeared in Business Standard on 06/11/2009. Dear Sir, This refers to Shyam Ponnapa’s write up on BS dated 05/110/2009 (Managing...
View ArticleTRAI: Filed for RTI application regarding Broadband
Here is the text of the email, fax and the registered post sent to TRAI regarding various issues related to Broadband. To, The Central Public Information Officer Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
View ArticleApologies again :(
Hi All, I have been stuck up with my studies as I am about to finish off my tenure and hurtling towards my examinations. So the posts would be very sparing for some time to come. I wouldn’t know of any...
View ArticleTelecom Scandal: A Raja in dock
Husssshhh… Don’t say anything about it. It isn’t mother of all scams but with all kinds of allegations flying thick and fast, I truly believe that it is a “manufactured” dissent. The culpable media is...
View ArticleIndian Telecom: No “backdoor” Chinese Equipment
This should have been done earlier! Huawei has set up a complete infrastructure with loads of Chinese employees; I am sure most of them as “spies”. The ownership structure is very opaque and it is...
View Article3G Mess: New engine of growth?
There is no authoritative verdict on Indian Telecom scene. In the absence of any concrete statistics, it becomes difficult to pin down the exact number of subscribers, the actual growth of the telecom...
View ArticleIndian Telecom: SMS rates
There are no backhand calculations done but I find the SMS rates to be very expensive. I cannot really crib about it but I know that something that doesn’t cost the company a single paisa, is being...
View ArticleIndian Telecom: Mobile Number portability
Truly an idea whose time has come. I have these feelings that Indians have a “trap mentality”. They tend to whine, cry themselves hoarse and generally straighten themselves out in front of people who...
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2G Scam India: More skeletons tumbling out.
Image via Wikipedia It’s unlikely “Swan” and “Loop Telecom” would ever be “penalized heavily”. Tata and Ambani, even though being summoned by PAC, would be asked to “pay up the damages”; some crores...
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Big Idea Contest Winning Entry.
Image via Wikipedia A little while back, Rajesh Jain had run a “Big Idea for India” contest. He has touched on many issues in his previous posts; there was a lack of serious debate on Broadband. This...
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2G Telecom Scam India: Excerpts from PAC Report
2G Spectrum scam is huge; to the tune of thousands of crores cheated from public money. The specifics are still sub-judice; however, I am linking to the the “leaked report” which has been extensively...
View ArticleIndian Telecom: Whither policy?
That of course, is a million dollar question. And there is no way that it would be answered in the near future.
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