Summary of ARPU trends among top 30 global operators Data being positioned as the centre of business strategy, with operators aiming to offset the weakness in voice revenues with increasing data revenues. The ARPU charts of Top 30 club were dominated by NTTDoCoMo, KDDI, Verizon, Sprint, Telenor, Singtel, Vodafone, and AT&T. Increase in data revenue [...]
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Sprint Nextel Chief Executive Dan Hesse said that in about two years, monthly cell phone bills will focus on the amount of data used and move away from the number of available voice minutes. Sprint has already driven much of that migration with its own aggressive rate plans, which lump in unlimited data, minutes and [...]
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AT&T surpassing Verizon Wireless to become second largest wireless operators only after China Mobile in Q1, 2010. AT&T delivered strong wireless growth in the first and second quarter, led by continued growth for mobile broadband services, significant demand for iPhone 4 and iPad 3G and rapid adoption of connected devices such as eReaders, global positioning [...]
Continue Reading →The unprecedented levels of the recent India 3G & BWA spectrum auctions will keep broadband access out of the reach of many India’s population while putting significant financial strain on service providers ability to deliver services. It is not my intention to reprimand the whole 3G and BWA auction that took place after repeated delays [...]
Continue Reading →By BP Tiwari The industry around 4G FDD is clearly evolving towards LTE as major operators committed their plans or intentions to move into LTE. However, the 4G TDD path for LTE is not going to be an easy ride owing to the competition from WiMAX. Most of the current WiMAX deployments are in TDD [...]
Continue Reading →By BP Tiwari Mangos are my favorite summer fruit. I buy most of my mangoes in Mumbai at a nearby local shop. Back in my hometown we buy most of the mangos from local mango market; otherwise it comes from our mango farms. I am on vacations these days and visiting my parents in my [...]
Continue Reading →By Guest Contributor – Richa Singh When Albert Einstien was asked on what got him to introduce the theory of relativity to the world he said “It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.” Music is your own experience, your [...]
Continue Reading →By Guest Contributor: Richa Singh One of the most well enjoyed human endeavors these days is social networking. It is mainly because we get to communicate with anyone from any part of the worldwide web by texting, chatting and VOIP or voice over internet phone. There are both great opportunities and huge risks in social [...]
Continue Reading →Executive Summary It’s been a dream run for voice in India. India positions itself as number two nation in new world order. However the broadband leadership is dominated by Southkorea, Japan, Hongkong, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Singapore, Luxemburg, Denmark and Norway. India ranked 62 in global broadband leadership scale, with average download and upload speeds [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been an enthralling opening week for iPad . Over 500,000 iPads were sold during its first week, and we found apple mentioning “demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken [...]
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