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Two months back when India auctioned 3G & BWA (Read: Broadband Wireless Access) spectrum, speculations were rife about ‘Broadband Penetration in India’. As telephone subscriber base crossing 620 million, with more than 100% urban penetration, less than 1% population in India can boast to have access to broadband Internet. But this is likely to change [...]
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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), the winner of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum in four telecom circles in India, yesterday announced Global Holding Corporation Pvt. Ltd. and Tulip Telecom Ltd. as initial shareholders for its India LTE venture. Subject to receipt of government approvals, Qualcomm will have a 74 percent stake in the venture, while Global [...]
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Recently I came across a quite interesting presentation by Zahid Ghadialy of 3g4gblogs on ‘LTE & ARPU’. This presentation talks about leveraging LTE capabilities to boost ARPU (Avg Revenue Per User) figures, which give operators sleepless nights. The presentation starts with explaining ARPU, then discussing new avenues of revenue for operators etc and ends with interesting question: [...]
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