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Yaari.Com is a social networking web start-up founded by Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia. Prerna and Parag are both Stanford Alumunus and have an excellent background to run Yaari. That’s not it, Stanford grads receive the entrepreneurship grooming which is why you see their engineers building worldclass companies like Cisco and Google. Here isContinue Reading

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In order to boost bottomlines, Cellcos in India are concentrating on Value Added Services by tying up with ISVs. SMS is already a big hit in India and consumers are using them to get stock/sports update to book their weekend movie tickets and much more. Mobile service providers are just aContinue Reading

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  RBI governor Dr. Y V Reddy is keen to get M-Commerce rolling in India. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) is currently testing banking transactions by means of Mobile phones. However, Dr. Reddy is well aware that it needs to be a full proof system withoutContinue Reading

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I normally don’t write about outsourcing or management. Being Diwali weekend, and for some reason  didn’t enjoy the fireworks, I decided to peruse through my ACM journal archive and hence this posting. [Unrelated to Broadband or Telecom] In October-2006 Issue of Communications of the ACM[Oct issue not yet available online], I read an article, “TechnologyContinue Reading

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Spice Telecom started its operations in the states of Karnataka and Punjab in 1997; One of the first companies to get licenses and begin operations. Spice has done well in Punjab but gets a C Minus for its performance in Karnataka. In Karnataka it has mere 500,000 subscribers in 9Continue Reading

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Indians are embracing SMS more than ever and probably more than any other country in the world ? Here are some of the applications of SMS I have come across in India, excluding jokes and other routine ones.. Feel free to add any other application or services making use of SMSContinue Reading

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In a recent study conducted by IAMAI, they have found out 38% of Indian internet users are heavy users and on an average spend 8.2 hours/week on the internet. That’s mere 1.17 hour/day. I would personally classify someone as a heavy user if they spend more than 3 hours onContinue Reading

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Disruptive technologies have always bled the Telcos all around the world. At the end of September-2006, India had mere 1.7 Million broadband subscribers and a whopping 120 Million Mobile Phone Subscribers. To correct this imbalance, TRAI has recommended a BWA policy[PDF] according to which any Telco can get an all India WiMax licenseContinue Reading

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ET reports that Egyptian Telecom giant, Orascom Telecom Holdings is in talks with Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL) to take control of HTIL. Late last year, Orascom bought 19.3% stake in HTIL, giving it an indirect stake of 10% in Hutchison India and a board reprsesntation as well. This move byContinue Reading