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Too Much Noise in India Telecoms Sector

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

India’s telecommunications sector is sending out mixed signals. The potential comes through loud and clear. India has the lowest mobile-phone penetration rate in Asia, and less than 10% of the population has access to broadband. That is changing fast. The number of mobile users will rise about 50% over the next five years and telecommunication-industry revenue will grow 37% to $30 billion by 2016, according to technology consultant Ovum. Source

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Telecom Infrastructure Firms Protest India Regulator’s Proposals

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

An industry body representing Indian telecommunication tower and infrastructure providers Thursday protested against proposals by the industry regulator involving an imposition of a license fee of 8% of their revenue and limiting foreign investment at 74%. The Towers and Infrastructure Providers’ Association said in a press release that it is “shocked and dismayed” about the recommendations, made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Monday. Limiting foreign direct investment in telecom infrastructure companies to 74% from 100% will discourage investment, the industry body said. Source

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National Telecom Policy 2012likely to get delayed further

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

The National Telecom Policy 2012 (NTP 2012) may be further delayed as the department of telecommunications (DoT) is busy dealing with the consequences of the 2 February Supreme Court verdict, while also waiting for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to complete its work on the specific guidelines to many of the clauses in the policy document. “We missed the March-April deadline because the Supreme Court order came and the decision on spectrum pricing policy also took some time,” said a senior DoT official on condition of anonymity. Source Kipal Sibal, Union Telecom Minister

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India’s telephone subscriber base swells to 926.5 million as of end-December 2011

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

India added 19.5 million telephone subscribers in the October-December 2011 quarter, taking the total telephone subscriber base in the country to 926.5 million at the end of December 2011, against 907 million as of end-September 2011. This represents a year-on-year growth of 17.69 per cent over the same quarter last year and a quarter-over-quarter growth of 2.16 per cent during the October-December 2011 quarter. Telephone subscriber base had grown 2.36 per cent in the July-September 2011 quarter. Source

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India’s mobile penetration is only 51% – Gartner

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

India’s total mobile penetration is only 51%, international technology market research agency Gartner said, well below the official estimate of a teledensity of around 75% by the TRAI. The number of mobile users in India increased by just 9% in 2011, hitting 638 million (63.8 crore) at the end of last year, the agency said. According to TRAI, India had 900 million mobile subscribers in January this year. The discrepancy may be explained by the fact that TRAI depends on the subscriber declarations made by the mobile operators themselves, while Gartner does independent studies to verify the numbers. Source

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Mobile broadband: India can generate $ 80 billion of revenue

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

India can generate $ 80 billion of revenue with 10 percent increase in mobile broadband penetration, says GSMA. “The benefits are clear to see, a 10 percent increase in mobile broadband penetration could contribute as much asUS$80 billion (INR 3,506 billion) of revenue across the country’s transport, healthcare and education sectors by 2015,” said Anne Bouverot, Director General of the GSMA. The GSMA said India will become the second largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years with 367 million mobile broadband connections by 2016. In doing so, the country will overtake the US, which will account for 337 million mobile broadband connections by 2016, but will still be second to China, which will have reached 639 million mobile broadband connections in the same period. Source

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Indian telecom service sector: Gross revenue down by 1.16% in Q3 2011

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

Gross revenue of telecom service sector in India during Q3 ending December 2011 was Rs 49,365 crore, showing a decrease of 1.16 percent compared to Q2 2011. The year-on-year growth in gross revenue over the same quarter last year was 15.03 percent. Pass-through charges accounted for 30.96 percent of the GR for the quarter ending December 2011. Access services contributed 76.37% of the total revenue of telecom services. In Access services GR, AGR, License Fee & spectrum Charges increased by 3.35%, 4.09%, 4.20% & 6.13% respectively in the quarter ending Dec-11 vis-à-vis previous quarter. The performance of wireless service providers has improved in respect of all the Quality of Service (QoS) parameters such as call set-up Success Rate (within licensee’s own network), Call Drop Rate, connection with good voice quality, metering and billing credibility etc The number of telephone subscribers in India has increased from nearly 907 million at the end of Sep-11 to 926.5 million at the end of Dec-11, registering a growth of 2.16% over the previous quarter as against 2.36% during the QE Sep-11. This reflects year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth of 17.69% over the same quarter last year. The overall tele density in India reached 76.86 as on 31st December 2011. These and other interesting facts have emerged from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report for the quarter ending December 2011,released here today. The Report provides a broad perspective of the Telecom Services and presents the key parameters and growth trends for the Telecom Services as well as Cable TV, DTH & Radio Broadcasting services in India for the period covering October to December 2011. The report has been compiled on the basis of information furnished by the Service Providers.

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Microsoft Bing Maps updates interiors maps of malls, airports, casinos and shopping districts

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2012 Featured

Microsoft Bing Maps has announced that they have release a number of  updates which includes interiors of malls, airports, casinos and shopping districts. Total updates : 924 Indoor Venue Maps United States : 790, France : 53, Germany : 20 United Kingdom: 61 The indoor maps automatically appear at a certain level of zoom and

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“Action Measurement”: the New Facebook Ad analytics tool

by Paul Joseph April 19, 2012 Featured

Facebook is planning to introduce a new feature “Action Measurement” within its ads management platform.  It will appear as a column and pie chart in Facebook’s Ads Manager and will allow marketers to see the response their ads are receiving from their fans. This data in turn will enable marketers to design relevant ads for

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Facebook Acquires Tagtile

by Paul Joseph April 18, 2012 Featured

Facebook recently acquired Tagtile, a start-up founded by two ex-IITians’ Abheek Anand and Soham Majumdar.  The deal, for an undisclosed sum is one of the many acquisitions by Facebook as it gears up for its IPO. Tagtile is a unique device which allows any smartphone to interact with the TagTile Cube. The idea behind Tagtile is to

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