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According to latest data released by Ericsson: Latest measurements show mobile data grew 10 times faster than voice Mobile broadband adoption accelerating with introduction of high performance networks Operators to increase profitability and competitive differentiation with mobile broadband Mobile broadband currently accounts for only 10% of total mobile subscriptions but a rapidly increasing majority of [...]
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In field of Telecom, while working with multiple OEMs/Vendors across India, it’s quite natural that, at some point of time you will come across Ericsson’s RBS (Read: Radio Base Stations). And today when Ericsson announced their 2 millionth RBS installation, let me take a moment and congratulate the team for such an extraordinary achievement. Read [...]
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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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TRAI’s latest report on ‘Indian Telecom Service Performance Indicators’ has three main highlights, observed during Jan-Mar 2010. First, rural tele-density has increased reasonably, accounting to 32% of total telephone sub base in India. Second, ARPU is down substantially as compared to previous year’s recorded figures during same period. And lastly, there’s need to improve broadband penetration [...]
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After successful completion of 3G Spectrum auctions in last month, seven Indian Telecom Operators are now gearing up for next phase of 3G services deployments i.e. network rollouts. I hope, as promised by DoT, the allocated spectrum will be handed over to respective winners by Sep-10, as the issue of spectrum handover was again mired with controversy [...]
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There’s little to cheer about statistics of Wireless Industry globally in Q1 2010. Despite registering robust growth in subscriber additions, revenues of telcos remain flat. India, as usual, continued to register highest wireless subscriber growth on quarterly basis, while broadband subscriber growth in the country also on upswing. Let’s go through the key stats of [...]
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