Tag Archives: Indian Telecom

Indian Telecom: New Players

Raja has done it again. Reliance has managed to trip over it’s nearest competitors, Bharti and Vodafone and ordered 80-100 million lines. They can easily manage to swing lower equipment costs and hence lower prices to start off with. They … Continue reading

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Indian Telecom: Winds of change

Delhi High Court has said no to stay the spectrum allocation. It’s a resounding defeat for the COAI (the motley group of morons) and decided to press ahead with Reliance’s claims of having the right for dual licence. Further details … Continue reading

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Year End 2007

This year draws to a close in another 3 days. It would not change anything except for the dates. I call this as perverted optimism because I keep on looking forward for some miracles. It’s truly a make believe fantasy … Continue reading

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Indian Telecom: Spectrum war hots up

Airtel upped the salvo by offering 2000+ crores for the spectrum. This rattled the Tatas (who own perhaps the worst home ISP business) and Reliance and a full fledged media war broke out between the two “giants”. Tatas (and Reliance) … Continue reading

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Indian Telecom:Shift towards GSM

It was coming. I have been proved wrong on very few occassions (a fact that I am proud of) and one of them was about CDMA. CDMA is an acronym for Code Division Multiple Access. This was promised to be … Continue reading

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Indian Telecom:Spectrum issues

This is stuff straight out of a textbook on how NOT to manage assetsat your disposal. At heart of the matter is the warring Department of Telecom and other side of the fence is Ministry of Defence. Both sides are … Continue reading

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Opera India

This is not a promotion for Opera. But once in a while I like to break the monotony of bitching about Indian Telecom scene with something refreshing as Opera Browser. I got a mail from an Opera staffer; an Indian, … Continue reading

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