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
BSNL’s Broadband + Wired + Wireless Integrated Plan Offerings – Will Airtel Catch Up ?
I think from 2007, I have been asking Bharti Airtel to offer Integrated bouquet of Services – Broadband, Mobile, Landline and Dish TV. But they have always answered in the negative. However, there is a reason for Airtel to be ashamed that even a Government company like BSNL has put the integrated bouquet of telecom services on offer for customers for quite sometime and are now pushing them aggressively.
BSNL Hyderabad has launched Two UNLIMITED Broadband Plans – TPTS 799 and TPTS 1999.
TPTS 799 – BSNL DSL Broadband at 1 Mbps upto 10 GB and later speed capped at 512 Kbps [Not bad at all] Read more
Airtel + Vodafone + Tata DoCoMo Want 700 MHz Auction – Rest Vote Against
In response to the 2G Spectrum Scam, TRAI had issued a Consulting Paper on Auction of Spectrum and had slipped in questions on the auction of 700 MHz Spectrum. Here are the responses of various stake holders,
Sunil Mittal’s Bharti Airtel wants to grab 700 MHz
We would recommend that the auction of the complete 2×45 MHz spectrum in 700 MHz band is done as soon as possible, preferably along with the auction of spectrum in 800/1800 MHz, and consequent to availability of the complete 2×45 MHz of interference free spectrum.
It is apparent now that Mittal wants Read more
Budget2012 – Tax on Vodafone-Hutch Deal Retrospectively + 700 MHz Auction + USD 12 Bn from Spectrum Sales
The Government of India has made provisions in the Finance Bill to Tax Deals like Vodafone-Hutchinson happening abroad on Assets and Operations in India retrospectively from 1962. This will discourage Investment in Telecom and other Industries. The Government [Politicians] wants to prove that they are Supreme and can do anything. Well, the Honorable Supreme Court of India is Supreme and I sincerely hope that changing rules of the game with retrospective effect is not at all in the spirit of Investors and Businesses.
700 MHz 4G / LTE Spectrum Auction – Government Realistic on Expectations ? The Read more
Mobile Termination Charges / Interconnect Charges – Incumbent Vs New Operators – Cat and Dog Fight
Another Big Issue the Indian Telecom Operators are Lobbying [Read Bribing and Making the System Corrupt] for is the issue of “Mobile Termination Charges / Interconnect Charges“. India has followed the regime of Calling Party Pays – A charge where the operator from which the call originates pays to the operator on whose network the call terminates. TRAI wants to bring down the Termination Charges to Zero by moving to a new regime known as Bill & Keep – Operator Bills the Customer where call originates but Keeps the amount instead of transferring the same to the operator where call is terminated.
Incumbents led by Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are opposing the TRAI’s proposal to bring MTC to Zero thus making the business model of subsidized calls of new Operators unviable. Here are the contentions of both the sides. Read more
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