Airtel Wireless USB Modem

I purchased an Airtel Wireless USB Modem last week for a whooping Rs.5700. Practically, I had no other choice as I didn’t have Airtel’s DSL service in the area I live in and BSNL had a wait time of nearly 2 months. (when will the incumbent telecom service providers learn that service not provided [...]

50 influential Indian Americans

http://www.rediff.com/us/top50.html
Great to see names like Aswath Damodaran, Om Malik, Ram Shriram and Manoj Shyamalan. But, I find it ridiculous that the editor has left out PadmashreeWarrior. I am pretty sure that she has a bigger say in the telecom industry and in the corporate world in the United States than most of the people mentioned [...]

Free Broadband by 2009: Dayanidhi Maran

Well, this is an outrageous claim by the Telecom and IT Minister. I feel this is just an election gimmick with an eye on the 2009 elections.
Maran said that free broadband service in India could soon become a reality. He also said that zero-rental landline phones too might soon see the light of day.[Source]
Zero-rental landline [...]

Hutch => Vodafone Essar

Hutchison-Essar will be called Vodafone Essar from now on. The company will start selling products under services under the Vodafone brand soon.
Under the agreement between Vodafone and the Essar group, Vodafone retains operational control while the Ruias would have representation
at the board level according to their 33% equity.
Hutch Pug Survives

In another development, [...]

Comcast and Broadband

If you are using a Comcast cable modem connection for being connected to the wired world, then beware. Comcast cut the Internet connection for some customers as they were using the internet “too much“. (What is “too much” is something even the company’s representatives are not able to define)
“Comcast has a responsibility to provide these [...]

Hutch buyout

Essar group and Vodafone are offering in the range of $17-18bn for the 67% stake of Hutchison Telecommunications.
FOR SALE
Hutch has around 18% market share in the Indian Cellular market. If my memory serves me correct, the Indian cellular subscriber base touched 140mn sometime in the last month. So, that makes it nearly 26mn subscribers [...]

Cable requires more bandwidth

Was actually surprised when I read about this in CableDigital news. Major Cable service providers have invested nearly $100bn to upgrade their networks to support broadband during the last decade. The investments began after the 1996 telecommunications act, and we are only entering the 10th year now and there is talk of capacity crunch.

Why is [...]

Telecom Stats + Rajasthan’s adventure

Growth in Subscriber base of telephony services: (All numbers in millions)

 
Total
Mobile
Fixed
GSM
CDMA

Jan-06
4.97
4.69
0.28
3.52
1.17

Dec-05
4.92
4.46
0.46
3.19
1.27

Nov-05
3.79
3.51
0.28
2.33
1.18

Total
130

Mobile
80.61

Fixed
49.21

Tele-density
12%

(1. As of January 2006
2. Fixed Line includes WLL-F which is the predominant reason behind the growth.)
The data above shows that in December 2005 and January 2006, the mobile connections seems to have grown at a far higher rate than was experienced before. This points [...]

Cable requires more Bandwidth

Was actually surprised when I read about this in CableDigital news. Major Cable service providers have invested nearly $100bn to upgrade their networks to support broadband during the last decade. The investments began after the 1996 telecommunications act, and we are only entering the 10th year now and there is talk of capacity crunch.
Why is [...]

Wireless VoIP

So far, I have been writing about VoIP and it has been mostly stuff to do with convergence and the connectivity has been through Cable or the telephone line. But,  the next oppurtunity for service providers could lie in providing Wireless VoIP services. If VoIP could be provided on the move, then it might just [...]