Indian companies aspire to join “Emerging Asian Telecom” group.
The rate race to grab a slice of mobile, broadband, land line and long distance phone services in emerging economies of the world has gotten intense with Indian telcos joining the bandwagon. SingTel, Hutchison and Maxis are the pioneers of “Emerging Asian Telecom” group. We at goBroadband first coined the Emeregence of Asian Telecom Giants and covered all the three telcos.
Earlier this week, MTNL joined hands with Reliance Communications to bid for global telecom services. Now, ET has an exclusive report on MTNL and Bharti-Airtel bidding for Telecom licenses in Kenya. Bharti group have made the bid for the second national operator (SNO) licence in Kenya. MTNL has alos bid for SNO and already holds a license to offer fixed line services in Kenya in a joint venture with Telecom Consultants of India and a local partner.
Summary of Indian Telecos’ global venture,
- Reliance Communications acquired Flag Telecom for international bandwidth and recently launched Falcon.
- Tata’s controlled VSNL, acquired Tyco’s bandwidth division.
- Tata’s have also hold 26% stake in InfraCo, a telecom infrastructure company in South Africa and VSNL is the largest shareholder in NeoTel, South Africa’s second SNO.
- Bharti-Airtel and Reliance are in race to be the fifth national cellular operators in Sri Lanka.
- MTNL holds license for fixed line services in Kenya in partnership with TCIL.
The edge Indian companies have over western telcos is the operational efficiency but severely lack in Research and Development of new technologies which may not be a critical/deciding factor.
India Telecom, Telecom , Africa Telecom , Emerging Telecom
Comments
One Response to “Indian companies aspire to join “Emerging Asian Telecom” group.”
Leave a Reply
Feed
Display Ad
[...] Bharti Airtel India’s best GSM service provider is all set to operate globally. Bharti bagged the 2G and 3G license in the channel island nation of Guernsey. Guernsey is roughly 78 Sq Kms in area and has a small population of just 66,000 people. Sure the deal won’t benefit the bottome line of Bharti Airtel Limited to a great extent but will make a difference. Thinking outside the box about the deal, Airtel outbid other global telcos in the rat race. In the past few weeks I had analyzed Asian and Indian telcos and started a series of postings “Emergence of Asian Telecom Giants“. Bharti will now join the global race for gold in the fast changing world of 3G and 4G mobile communications. [...]