The rise in mobile data revenue in India has by no means matched the data traffic growth. Take for example Airtel. According to its financial data released for the April-June quarter of 2012, the percentage of non-voice revenues barely rose by 0.1 percent in the...
It is interesting that India, along with China, is said to be backing a Russian proposal to ‘universalize’ the Internet. The 12-day treaty-level World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT-12) of 193 member countries that’s scheduled to kick off...
By Dr. Satish MisraThe markets would be watching the Winter session of the Parliament very keenly and closely, as many legislations that would impact the business environment in India are scheduled to be tabled during the period.The expectedly one-month long winter...
This week, Google was busy quietly making a series of interface- and layout-related changes and improvements to its home page as well as applications like Gmail. While the changes on the home page are there for all to see, the ones in the Gmail are not so universal.On...
That the government could make just Rs 9,407.6 crore by auctioning 2G airwaves is not so significant. What is notable is that the lesser significant players, Telewings and Videocon together contributed for around 66 percent of the total bid amount. In fact, Telewings...
A tug-of-war game that was started with the government on one side and the telcos on the other side, is seemingly completing a circle.The government had put the industry on the back foot for some time, after it had dropped the 900-MHz-refarming stone with a sudden...
How mixed reviews for Windows, Surface is big positive for Microsoft—#3This is the third and concluding part of the series. For the previous two posts, see: http://www.businessandmarket.net/2012/11/the-new-windows-family-is-first-ever-to.htmland...
How mixed reviews for Windows, Surface is big positive for Microsoft—#2(For the first post in the series, see: http://www.businessandmarket.net/2012/11/how-mixed-reviews-are-big-positive-for.html)Windows 8 and RT together address two diverse sets of chip...
There have been mixed reviews of Windows 8, the Surface and other recent moves of Microsoft. That itself, in my opinion, is a huge plus for Microsoft. There are at least three key reasons (yes, and they are interrelated as well) why I say so, and I’ll be taking up one...
For the first time in past five years or so, Apple seems to be recognizing a Microsoft launch as a competition worthy of attention and has responded with some actions. The most significant of Apple’s responses in this context has come in the form of a decision to...
If anything could come close to planet Jupiter in terms of being storm ridden, it would be India’s telecom sector. One of the lesser storms brewing these days is rooted in the new electromagnetic radiation norms effected by Department of Telecom (DoT) from September...
180M deactivations would help ARPUs to inch up but tele-density would be faced with declineAccording to a release from BusinessandMarket.net, the mobile subscriptions base in India will steadily shrink over the coming months and is expected to be around 880 million by...