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- Spectrum Sharing
The delays with 3 G licensing continue, as they continue to get postponed. The political issues between telecommunications and armed forces continue and many meetings have been organized without any definitive outcome.
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- CSR – Changing the way the world connects
The mobile phone revolutionised the way we connected with our friends, colleagues and family. It allowed us to communicate everywhere and at all times. It also allowed us to be reached even when we would rather not be reached.
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- Oblivious To Scandal
You don’t need much to make a mess out of a good thing. As the old saying goes one bad apple spoils the whole bushel. The glory of surpassing the 500 million connections was superseded by the allegations of the largest telecom scam that ever suspected in the telecom world.
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- Planning For Global Expansion
Planning For Global ExpansionThree times it happened with the same company, twice by Bharti and once by Reliance Communications. Trying to merge with MTN of South Africa in the last year by the biggest telecom companies in India came up with nothing.
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- Cloud the future of Computing
Companies of all sizes are contending with a combination of market trends which are forcing them to seriously re-evaluate business modules. These forces include growing globalization, lower customer loyalty and widening dispersion of today’s workforce.
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- The Importance of Expansion
The last couple of years have been quite speculative for the Indian Telecommunications companies going global. Special references can be made to South Africa’s MTN and Bharti and Reliance trying to merge and create a top 5 global telecom company.
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- Mobile banking in India - Perception and Statistics
Over the last few years, the mobile and wireless market has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world and it is still growing at a rapid pace. Mobile phones have become an essential communication tool for almost every individual.
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- 3G Opportunity - customer readiness not a problem
BSNL and MTNL have a great opportunity on hand with 3 G network rollout. Because of their government backing and ownership they have natural advantages that can be immediately translated into huge payoff for both the companies themselves and the government of India.
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- Insights on Mobile Gaming in Urban India
With the onset of 3G, the mobile gaming industry, which is currently pegged at approximately Rs 100 crore (as of March 30, 2009), is estimated to grow by up to 200% by the next financial year, say industry experts.
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- CMAI on 2009-10 Budget expectations
India is well known for world’s highest monthly addition of telephones of the order of 10 Millions plus as also very huge demand for electronics. From roof top every body in the Government speaks to encourage local manufacturing, but the facts on ground are not much.
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- In Country long term plans for Indian Telecom
It will not be expensive. It will not require big budgets. It will not need any investment bankers. It will not need any government approvals. It will not need shareholder consent. It will be a simple strategy to look for greater revenue sources with long term profit for telecom companies.
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- Indian Telecom – The Case for Faster Growth
Some 429 million or more users and adding quickly to this is quite an attractive case for faster growth. Government of India and the private sector should push for more rapid and positive changes in telecom. The positive effects on the overall economy due to the communications industry are enormous; 13,000 Crores of possible revenues for DOT in 2009.
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- A Value-Add To Your Career
Currently, there are over 100 MVAS companies in India and the number is growing steadily. Says Vijay K. Bhalla, guide and mentor, Telecom India Daily, an online telecom industry newsletter: "While Indian MVAS companies can position themselves in the global market, the global companies can also make India a support hub for their operations and add to jobs generated in India."
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- Deregulation and streamlining prices in telecommunication industry in Delhi
The Indian Telecom services sector was opened for private participation in 1994, based on National Telecom Policy (NTP) framed in that year which initiated the first generation reform process. However, in line with the rest of the world, the policy makers in India adopted an evolutionary approach towards competition and opted for limited competition.
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- Too Successful To Regulate?
Every wireless communications company in India is big. By big meaning they have already paid huge upfront costs for license and infrastructure even before they get started. Each wireless player have to pay hundreds of millions to get a UAS license and then pay for the area licenses, along with infrastructure and people costs.
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- Slumdog Telecom
Using the “Slumdog” title in the Telecom story is not to just attract attention. It’s really a great title for the Telecom Industry in India, which has been a great story for 15 plus years now, and continues to get bigger and bigger in the Telecom success stories of the world.
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- Imagining value addition from 3G Networks
It is anticipated that India will soon conduct 3G auctions. Although the dates for these auctions have been moved, it is certain sooner or later they will happen. There is continued debate with the regulators on how many 3G licenses should be auctioned, and how much should be the floor price and competition and other issues.
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- What is 3G? Does India need it?
Technically, the main difference between 3G and 2G networks is how quickly data can be sent and received. 3G networks can send data up to 40 times the rates of earlier digital networks, which means that in addition to audio, graphics and text, 3G customers can also send and receive video content, in 3G coverage areas. They provide service at 5-10 Mb per second.
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- Can Telecom Come To The Rescue?
Communications users in India continue to grow at record pace with tens of millions of new users added every month. With hundreds of millions of people trying to reach them from within and outside of India, represent a potent force for personal and business uses. Each day the enormous outreach of this group of communicators is expanded, and will continue to expand.
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- Technology Conundrum
We can go on about the long list of technical or fancy terms that we continue to read about in reference to communications. Talking about the technology is a global feature that typically announces the latest and greatest with each major communications event. It is typical to claim that each such advancement is life changing. India is blessed with explosive growth in the new subscribers each month.
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- Perfect Telecom Market
The latest developments with 3 G, VoIP and WiMax will deliver more products and services, along with bringing multitude of new users into the Indian telecom market. A 50% plus market penetration in the next few years from the close to 30% today is not a far reaching goal. Adding the rural landscape to the telecom network will certainly improve the ability of all of India with the rest of the world and bring economic opportunities along with the communications.
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- What is 3G? Does India need it?
Current WAP speed in India is nothing great but it has improved. I understand from my friends who are experts in telecom that you cannot improve the speed performance of WAP any further on a GSM network (which is 2G). I am told only 3G can improve things. So what is 3G?
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- The New India Company
India’s national interest is in making Indian management and investment successful in the world and outside of its own well defined confines. There is no questioning on the Indian minds being some of the best in all fields of business and global affairs. The technology and information boom of the last decade has transformed services industries around the world with major contributions from Indian resources.
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- Can Indian Telecom Foster Cottage Industry?
Putting to use the enormous abilities of the communications, implementing simple and affordable plans for rural development, including small cottage industry into the main stream development of the nation, basic education, supporting the localized industry and sharing the benefits of global knowledge; all of them should be easily to implement in a connected world.
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- Can Value Addition Be Reality In Indian Telecom Market?
In both spectrum auctions and revenue sharing, it is essential to make the market a level playing field for all aspirants, big and small while the ultimate benefit of progressive revisions to the telecom operating guidelines will be to both the GOI and the consumer.The first place to start is the already propagated for auctions for scarce spectrum, and it has the highest value revenue for GOI and DOT, and also attracting serious bidders who have deep pockets for paying for both the spectrum and infrastructure.
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- Spectrum for Budget Balancing
There is a fix to just about every business and budget in the world. The on-going C Block spectrum auctions in USA have crossed 20 Billion dollars as of the 2nd week of February, and still have until June 2008 to close. This auction could fetch 30 billion or more when done, giving a nice chunk of change for the FCC and the USA government to erase some of the budget deficit.
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- Satisfying India's Communications Needs
Hundreds of high profile applicants are lining up for spectrum in India, and there is much confusion about when there will be clarity on who will be next in providing mobile communications for the fastest growing market in the world. There is market driven valuations floated at hundreds of billions of dollars, but nothing focused on the affordability of the services for the consumers.
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- Applied For Your Indian Cellular License?
The August 2007 TRAI document inciting a mad rush for cellular licenses also contained ample caution against precisely such a lemming-like approach for those who cared to read. Visible to jaundiced eyes however was nothing but the recommendation against capping number of service providers.
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- Gnashing Teeth At The TRAI
Giving the angst is its wake, the Indian regulatory authority is apparently not just burdened with acuity of mind but unfortunately lets it be known through a regular consultative & review process with the industry. Halfway through the TRAI’s August 2007 review on capping service providers and its clear this is not the India I bolted from in the Eighties.
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- VoIP- A way to reduce your phone bills
Voice Over Internet Protocol or better known as VoIP or Internet Telephony is not a new word. If you know skype, you know VoIP. VoIP is sending Voice calls over the internet backbone. It doesn't require the conventional PSTN or landline connectivity, so doesn't need any big call charges to make calls.
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- Ancient Indian Technology : Communication neither analog nor digital
The world today defines telecommunication to be either digital or analog. If we categorize it further then we get wired or wireless technology. We talk about the time where these analogies were absent but still had somethings that can be related to the present day terminologies. I take you to the time when there was no telephone or mobile but still there were ways of communication. The engineering minds of those times had invented their own ways of delivering messages.
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