How Idea Managed to beat Bharti Airtel in Traffic Growth
First, my apologies that I couldn’t cover neither Idea Cellular nor Bharti Airtel Results & Analyst Call as I am stuck in Mumbai for some personal work. However, going through the data, I find it interesting to note that Idea Cellular has punched straight into the face of Bharti Airtel in tems of Traffic Growth for the quarter ending Dec-2009.
Idea’s minutes grew 15% QoQ much faster than Bharti (6.7%) even after adjusting for lower base and the impact of J&K ban on the latter. The reasons could be Read more
Bharti Airtel Squeezes Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mabarak Al Nahayan out of Warid Telecom
Bharti Airtel’s intention to takeover Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom is finally confirmed. Time for some self-praise – I was very close in valuing Warid Telecom setting aside the hype created by India’s leading financial daily and all other Web 2.0 folks 
Bharti Airtel has informed,
Bharti will invest ~USD 300 mn in Warid, which will be utilized towards network expansion and introduction of new products and services. The acquisition will be partly by purchase of existing Read more
New Operator – Tata DoCoMo to breakeven in 12 Months ?
Dismissing the myth that new wireless operators will bleed and will be forced to merge with incumbent, Tata DoCoMO has caught every analyst on the wrong foot as it came out public for the first time that it will break even in 12 months. However, it is a bit too early to BUY the entire story ut in pieces. Tata DoCoMO can perhaps achieve that in a few circles, really especially the Southern circles but may be difficult on a pan-India basis. Read more
Indian Domain Registry Security compromised – Courtesy Afilias
Afilias the well known brand name for those in the internet industry did a blunder over the weekend. As they moved registry.in to Drupal powered by Apache/2.2.3 on Red Hat Linux, they exposed source code of part core modules, due to some configuration issues.
Afilias maintains .Org .Asia and many other Top Level Domains. Anybody with Perl programming experience could download at least 4 core modules from the site. I am not sure if they could download the entire Database of Indian Domains but you never know, hackers are the smartest Developers in my view
As a responsible citizen I first contacted registry.in and Read more
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