Tag Archives: Spectrum

New ideas

I have hardly mentioned about my work on this blog which remains a platform for rants against the established interests. I am excited about the new developments in Radiation delivery to eliminate cancers to a large extent. Till to date, … Continue reading

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Virgn India Mobile: Grey areas

Mobile Virtual Network Operator or MVNO is a “backdoor” entry in Indian telecom. Indian laws don’t allow this at all. Yet, Virgin India “tied” up with Tata and leased out their spectrum (? perhaps) and advertised here. Tatas claim that … Continue reading

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Airtel Broadband: Ineffective marketing?

Ever since it has introduced the new 512k unlimited plans (much to my delight), I was struck by the stupidity of the dimwits that Airtel has hired. Airtel has a fantastic infrastructure because it was not weighed in by the … Continue reading

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New players and ideas

Department of Telecom (may your tribe decrease!) has recently awarded the spectrum to new players. They did that with aplomb and a lot of hoopla. Mishra ji, of TRAI fame, was needlessly fingered, perhaps by COAI (after being induced by … Continue reading

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Spectrum: Who wins the game?

Shobhana Subramanian of Business Standard has concrete numbers about Reliance winning the game of spectrum wars. Worth reading. Except for the fact that I had raised the same issues in my earlier posts and now you know why I was … Continue reading

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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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