Impact of TRAI Recommendations on Airtel, Vodafone / Incumbents Vs Aircel, Uninor New Operators
This Analysis on how the new TRAI recommendations impact Incumbents and New Operators should have come 2 days ago, but can’t really help it as have to manage too many tasks on hand. Anyway, the rest of the TRAI recommendations Vs Own Views are briefly summarized here.
Now lets Analyze the Impact of TRAI Recommendations,
..all spectrum to be assigned through the auction process in future shall be liberalised. In other words, spectrum in any and can be used for deploying any services in any technology
Positive for Incumbents and Negative for New Operators, provided the Reserve Price comes down a bit. Read more
TRAI – Spectrum Auction Roadmap + High Reserve Price + ReFarming Certain + Defer Auction of Other Bands
I am very happy to see that the TRAI has come up with a Partial Roadmap on the Availability of Telecom Spectrum in India and the likely dates when it will be put to Auction. However, disappointed to see that their are no provisions made for other sectors which may require spectrum. Nonetheless, this is a very good step that offers Telecom companies on how they can mark their strategies.
TRAI Roadmap on Telecom Spectrum Auction is as follows, Read more
TRAI – Auctioned Spectrum Must be Liberalized + Allows Limited Trading + Mortgage
Due to the 2G Telecom Spectrum Scam engineered by A. Raja, Honb’le Supreme Court of India had cancelled 122 Licenses and had asked TRAI to come out with Recommendations on Auction of Spectrum. TRAI had invited comments[PDF] from stakeholders and I had submitted my views.
It’s time to see how many of my views were accepted and have found mention in the TRAI Recommendations to DoT on the auction of 1800MHz Telecom Spectrum.
Liberalization of Spectrum Read more
One Per Second Plan for Mobile Users Mandatory + Tariff Regulation on Contest SMS / Calls – TRAI
The TRAI has passed an order which requires all Wireless / Mobile Communication Service Providers[CDMA /GSM ] to offer atleast one per second billing plan in both post-paid and pre-paid segments. Please note that their shall be atleast One Per Second Pulse Plan. Not all Bill Plans are on the basis Per Second Pulse, as wrongly interpreted by many people.
What the TRAI Order Doesn’t Cover is, the tariff per pulse. Thus operators Read more
Airtel 4G LTE Broadband – Cheapest Plans Globally
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest Telecom Company has come a long way from being a 2G Voice operator in Delhi circle by acquiring license exactly 20 years ago to launching of 4G LTE Broadband Data Services in Kolkata a week ago.
For curiosity, I happened to compare the 4G LTE Pricing of Top 4G LTE Operators Globally and Airtel is the Cheapest when it is compared on Price / MB Scale, even though it pinches our pocket in INR Terms and not to forget the $160 Dongle 
The following Chart Shows the Comparison of Pricing of 4G LTE Broadband Services for various Data Usage Plans Globally. Read more
How Airtel, AT&T – Top 10 Global Telcos are Positioning 4G LTE Services ?
Bharti Airtel in India became the first Telecom Operator to launch 4G LTE Wireless Broadband Services. I’d like to compare how 4G LTE services are structured globally ? Unlike in India where 4G LTE is introduced as a Data Only service, it can be used for Voice as well in the rest of the world.
Telcos are unsure on how the transition to 4G LTE technology will affect their revenues. Telecom Operators have two schools of thought – Voice cannibalization on SmartPhones, which LTE could facilitate and contradicting the same is an opportunity for carriers to monetize growing data usage. It’s early days for LTE, too early to draw conclusions on how LTE might be affecting ARPUs. Read more
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