Reliance Jio Infocomm could overtake Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications in revenue over the next four to five years and corner 11% of the total wireless market, an analyst with a prominent global financial group has predicted. By the 2017-18, Reliance Jio and Reliance Communications would have very similar mobile voice revenue market share, at about […]
The vote share of the Congress Party-led United Democratic Front will fall by 3% in the upcoming general elections 2014 in Kerala, while that of the Left Democratic Front will remain the same compared to 2009 – according to an opinion poll by Asianet News network and research firm C Fore. The Bhartiya Janata Party […]
The cloud services market in India will grow at close to 30% this year to about $550 mln, according to technology forecasting firm Gartner. The rate of forecast is three times the 10% growth that Nasscom has predicted for the domestic IT and BPO market in the year 2014-15. Gartner’s forecast includes only public cloud […]
The department of telecom’s decision to maintain a key clause about spectrum pricing in mergers and acquisitions will make such deals costly for both parties and has dampened industry enthusiasm considerably. In its announcement of guidelines for mergers and acquisitions for Indian telecom companies, the DoT has said that even if a company got its […]
Google India will host a two-day Hackathon and workshop in Bangalore focused on designing and creating Android applications in Indian languages. The event will take place on 21st and 22nd February, 2014, the company said in a statement. “Nearly 100 developers are participating in this event that is open to both amateur and professional developers. […]
There seems to be some delays in getting the valuations and finer details right for the Bharti Airtel-Loop agreement, going by the latest statement from Bharti Airtel. The company said it has agreed for a strategic network tie-up with Loop, which it expects later to lead to an integration of the two operations. It also […]
It has been a couple of years since 3G data services were launched in India, and tariffs have largely coalesced around certain points. While we have done similar surveys in the past to find out the cheapest data plan in India among 3G operators, we did yet another to account for the tariff changes over […]
Uninor, the Indian unit of Norway’s Telenor, reported a 67.3% year-on-year jump in operating profits (EBITDA) for the three months ended December 2013. The company also said revenue from its six operating states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Goa rose by 35.8% during the three months. They increased 15% in Norwegian […]
Vodafone will pay the highest amount to the government as a result of the 2014 2G spectrum auction, followed by Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Idea Cellular. Vodafone will pay Rs 196.4 bln ($3.15 bln), followed by Airtel which will pay about Rs 185.5 bln, Reliance Jio Infocomm, which will pay around Rs 11.1 bln […]
Vodafone said it would pay Rs 19,600 crore (Rs 196 bln) for the spectrum that it won in the just concluded auction process. Vodafone has won bandwidth in 11 circles – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat, UP East, Rajasthan, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. It said it will be paying 56 bln rupees in the […]
The operator and circle wise results of the 2014 spectrum auction in India has thrown up quite a few surprises, including the fact that the 900 MHz spectrum price was driven up by Idea Cellular, and not Reliance Jio as expected. (See the results chart below.) The biggest surprise of the spectrum auction results of […]
The Cellular Operators’ Association of India welcomed the end of the spectrum auction, at the end of 11 days of bidding. The COAI said it was also disappointed that the prices were so high, and requested the government to reduce some of the regulatory levies that were put in place during the era of free […]
India’s largest consumer of diesel generators and its larges tower firm Indus Towers is considering replacing diesel generators with solar panels. The company, jointly owned by mobile operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular, buys up nearly 35% of all diesel generators made in India. “The initial program will cover 2,500 towers,” said BS […]
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 93.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010, a 3.1 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2009, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. These figures were below Gartner’s earlier forecast of 4.8 percent growth for the fourth quarter of 2010. “Overall, holiday PC sales were weak in many […]
The share of Indian companies in the global software product market can rise from about 0.5% at present to 18% by 2020, a new report by KPMG and Nasscom said. Indian IT companies need to adapt their business models to incorporate more and more revenue from products, platforms and other intellectual property, KPMG said, adding […]
Mouthshut.com, an online consumer-review service, has decided to approach the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and Department of Telecommunications (DoT) as Hyderabad-based ISP Beam Fibre blocked the consumer-review website, MouthShut.com. According to Mr Faisal Farooqui, Founder & CEO, MouthShut.com, the company got in touch with the nodal officer of Beam Internet, who confirmed the […]
Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, launched a new service that facilitates secure data transfer, especially pictures, videos and documents, from one mobile handset to another. Called the Vodafone Red Box Service, the service is available at any Vodafone RoTo (Retail of Tomorrow) stores in Mumbai. The Red Box facilitates easy and […]
Vodafone India has written to MF Farooqui, Secretary, Department of Telecom, seeking clarifications on the new spectrum usage charge regime cleared by Empowered Group of Ministers. Vodafone said it has “some reservations on the effectiveness of the revised regime” in fully addressing some of the “fundamental underlying issues and concerns” on the high level of […]
In what may be a hardsell, iBall has launched iBall Slide 3G 7334Q-10, a 3G dual SIM-enabled, 7-inch IPS display tablet at Rs 11,500. The tablet is a successor to the similarly priced dual-core iBall 3G 7334i. However, the improvements, besides in the processor, include quality of display (IPS) and 3G (on both SIMs). Ram, or […]
Persistent Systems reported another strong quarter, with 2.2% quarter-on-quarter growth in dollar revenue and 5.6% rise in profit after tax. The company, which provides software product related services, is one of the few that has lived up to Street expectations, especially in the mid-cap IT space. “We have delivered another strong quarter with 3.8% Q-o-Q growth in […]
