Business Standard reports that Indian telcos are experimenting with IPTV rollouts in select cities by the end of Q2-2006. Hats off to Shri. Dayanidhi Maran, union minister of IT & communications without whom we would be still struggling to shape our cell phone industry. Why is this a significant developmentContinue Reading
Though the Indian Telecom industry has started discussing 5G, we believe it is still couple of years away. 5G standards are still evolving globally, with the first few commercial launches. Looking at the scale of investment, why can’t we expect more participants from different business verticals than plain vanilla telcosContinue Reading
Researchers at Dept. of Electrical Engineering in University College London led by L. Galdino, W. Yi, E. Sillekens, T. Gerard, D. Lavery et al. working under the Royal Society Research Grant have set a new record speed for wired internet communication on the optical fiber infrastructure using the technique ofContinue Reading
China’s Ministry of Industries and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to allocate a total of 500MHz of spectrum for 5G. Although this is only similar in total spectrum size to the current 2G/3G/4G allocation for the three Chinese telcos, which is 507MHz, the major difference is that the 5G spectrum beingContinue Reading
The TRAI of India met the captains of the Indian Telecommunication companies on the pricing issue post the Jio launch which has disrupted the Voice & Data market completely. Demands of Leading Telcos in meeting with the TRAI officials are as follows.Continue Reading
With the extension of free trial to Mar 2017 and recent announcement of incremental investment of Rs300 bn in the telecom venture, Jio is clearly not pulling any punches. This forces incumbent telcos to speed up 4G rollouts as sunsets on 2G networks which are a drag on the preciousContinue Reading
Idea Cellular has a higher rural exposure than other larger telcos. Since the rural consumers have greater usage of plain 2G Voice, Idea will be more vulnerable in case the trend of unlimited voice plans pick up (Airtel followed Jio in launching unlimited packages). Reliance Jio has further highlighted theContinue Reading
The TRAI has issued another consultation paper on Net Neutrality which is an extension of past restrictive regulatory actions (for telcos) such as prohibition of discriminatory tariffs for data services and recommendations on provisioning of free data. The consultation discusses several critical issues such as the core principles of netContinue Reading
With the launch of Reliance Jio Infocomm’s Unlimited Calling Plan, entire Telecom industry is gearing to match Jio in offering the same. Jio took a lead over the rest of the industry by directly logging on to the superior 4G Mobile Data and VoLTE Network. Industry interactions suggest that theContinue Reading
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