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...
As mentioned in the earlier post, let’s now look at the positive fallout of the subscription scrubbing by mobile service providers in India. (See: http://www.businessandmarket.net/2012/10/excluding-exceptional-items-negative.html)As evidenced by the Telecom Regulatory...
Subscription data for the month of August 2012 released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) showed six out of 13 reported operators experienced negative subscription growth, for the second consecutive month.The operators were Airtel, Idea, MTNL, Uninor,...
Increasingly, the problem with new technology ideas is that marketers think of it more highly than the customers do. This leads to, first wrongly determining the specs of a product that is based on a given technology, and thereafter wrongly promoting, placing or...
Before iPhone 5 was launched in September, Apple won a historic jury ruling in its favour and against Samsung. It was then also reported that Apple executives were having rounds of discussions with Google executives and a speculation was that the talks revolved around...
A surprise item in Kapil Sibal’s mystery wish list nearly ignited an unwanted debate just before the end of last week, prevented only by the fact that his statement didn’t seem to threaten any immediate upsets in the state of industry affairs.Mr. Sibal reportedly said...
If a mail sent by Google to many AdWords customers today is any indication, content is going to become all the more determining a parameter in how the websites are ranked and also shown in search results.For years, it has been a common practice by ad managers to map...
Apple and Google have drifted increasingly apart post Apple’s US patent win over Samsung, which also indirectly put Android in the dock. The single biggest suffering for Apple users has been to live with non-Google map applications that are reportedly vastly...
The proliferation of the Internet had significantly altered the order in which many technologies have later been delivered to enterprises and consumers. Earlier, technologies used to trickle slowly from enterprise users to consumers, but now it often happens the other...
Mobile service providers are waking up to a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) directive issued more than a year ago. The private GSM and CDMA service providers, represented by COAI and AUSPAI, have been joined by the state-run BSNL too in a chorus against...
Facebook’s “Promote” button that started becoming available to users in India this week is a great example of how an excellent idea can turn somewhat poor when implemented. Interestingly, it also provides a cue to how telecom service providers can collaborate with...
This has been a month of new launches, big and small: a new iPhone, a new Lumia, a new Kindle Fire, a new iOS, and so on…Social networking sites are not to be left behind. While iPhone maker Apple is expected to launch the iOS6 later in the day, the social networking...