Written on April 22, 2009 – 6:47 pm
Recently, I have witnessed a significant increase in the advertising of Aircel. So thought, they must be now trying to build up as a national brand. Till now, it was focusing the southern part of India.
For the month of March, over 15 million subscribers have been added in the wireless segment. In [...]
Written on April 17, 2009 – 6:18 pm
Next Generation Networks have made broadcasters telecom companies and vice versa. A telecom operator is your television broadcaster and the company that provided content to your television sets is offering you telephone services. As an end user, it might rarely be affecting or could even go unnoticed. But, for the industry it [...]
Written on April 16, 2009 – 8:59 pm
Nokia yesterday announced its Q1 results for 2009. All the financial parameters are witnessing a decrease year on year and sequentially. There is only one major reason to this and that is the recessionary market conditions. The consumer faith is all time low and every penny (whatever left) is being spent judiciously, [...]
Written on April 15, 2009 – 7:31 pm
VoIP is still restricted in many countries by regulations. Apart from the birth it gives to the grey market, eats up revenue and traffic of the PSTN operators, blah blah; the restrictions not allowing VoIP has fragmented the industry considerably.
The large serious players are unlikely to do anything that is illegal. So we [...]
Written on April 13, 2009 – 5:51 pm
Skype is one of the products that has contributed in its field and become an integral part of the industry. It is a global telecom operator in essence with most of its followers claiming to have become global players.
The application is used by over 400 million registered users. The most recent update (Version [...]
Written on April 10, 2009 – 4:16 pm
Mobile phones and an individual have become inseparable. Leaving apart its dark sides, it is proving beneficial in several ways. For business people, it means optimization of time and for the general masses it means timely communication in case of emergencies.
India is facing many issues that make the lives of the people insecure. [...]
Written on April 9, 2009 – 8:56 pm
One basic benefit that attracts any person towards IP is cost saving. Where you were spending around a dollar on call per minute, IP alternative could either be offering that for free or around a few cents. Even at this level companies are enjoying handsome margin levels.
IP has really enabled certain technologies that [...]
Written on April 8, 2009 – 4:58 pm
Historically data vendors, like Cisco, have got an entry in telecom space mainly due to IP Telephony. IP Telephony did wonders and bad things concurrently for vendors in the communications space – be it a data vendor, voice vendor, video vendor, wireless vendor or wireline vendor. IP brought them all on the same [...]
Written on April 4, 2009 – 6:33 pm
Research In Motion, the force behind, perhaps, the most successful wireless device in enterprise domain – Blackberry, announced yet another extraordinary quarter, even in this downturn, when everyone is trying to stabilise than grow.
As per the impressive results for the quarterly (December 2008 – February 2009), the company earned a revenue of $3.46 billion and [...]
Written on April 1, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Recently there has been a series of communication between TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) and Department of Telecommunications, Government of India about the formulation of regulations for Internet Telephony or VoIP in the country. As is common with bureaucracy, such correspondences trigger a series of communications between the two parties and the same [...]