Broadband services growth in India has lived under the oversized shadow of mobile services growth. While the Telecom policies of 1994 and 1999 did help the country achieve a telecom revolution, the Broadband Policy of 2004 could not lead to a comparable outcome.There...
The 3G service providers finally seem to be making an important headway, in terms of offering pan-India coverage to their subscribers. Since none of them have licenses for all the 22 telecom circles, they could not offer seamless pan-India coverage to their respective...
Today’s ICT consumers come from different generations, say X, Y or Z. Yet, convergence seems to have created many commonalities for them. Thanks to the mobile revolution, they are all increasingly connected, which means that communication is an instant and real-time...
It’s been 11 years since the rollout of the New Telecom Policy, 1999, which had come five years after the National Telecom Policy of 1994. Also, seven years have elapsed since the Broadband Policy of 2004 came out.While the two telecom policies helped drive mobile...
Communication is perhaps the most important need of man as a social animal. And not so arguably, speech is the most natural means of communication.Sure, the mobile revolution has addressed that need in an amazingly effective way. Yet, even as the mobile services...
Is 2011 looking to be the year of the ‘tablet’ or the ‘cloud?’ Is it tablet because cloud is just a delivery mode or is it cloud because the tablet is merely an access device, I asked in an online poll started two days ago on a professional networking site. At the...
The rise and rise of smart phones and tablets, not just as communication devices but also as media & entertainment devices, would warrant a reclassification of the screens, isn’t it? The screens on these mobile devices may be called the new ‘small screens,’ a term...
It rains so routinely in Bengaluru that a cloud is the most unlikely candidate as a newsmaker here. And yet, ‘cloud’ has been no less newsworthy this week for the city’s ICT audience than for others elsewhere.And why not! Two of the most valued tech companies were in...
Often, while visiting mobile handsets stores, one gets to overhear a typical query from co-visitors regarding the tablet devices on display: how do I use these for making calls? And before the store guys are able to address the query, some other consumer would pitch...
With 3G in and reportedly growing fast, it would only be a matter of time, expectedly measured in months and not in years, that the wireless broadband subscriber base would surpass fixed-line broadband subscriber base in the country. And as that happens, a history...
So tablets have come and are getting settled as a segment that’s somewhere between the PCs and the smart phones. Yes, the mobile tablets story in India is still weak, but signals are that the scenario could be changing rapidly over the next few months.While the...
Convergence of fixed and mobile networks has been an area of interest for telecom operators, and has seen some action in the form of value added services like parallel ringing on the mobile phone and the fixed-line phone. The concept of fixed mobile convergence (FMC)...