Idea Wi-Fi Broadband Plans – PostPaid

Idea WiFi customer you get the flexibility to choose from postpaid or prepaid broadband plans. Enjoy unlimited usage with postpaid plans or flexibility to use data as and when required with long validity prepaid plans. Enjoy unlimited usage with every plan and Speed Upto 2 Mbps download speed for bundled data. After Bundled Usage, Speed … Read more

Growth in Mobile Payemnts in China

According to iResearch, the growth of mobile payments in China is likely to be driven by, The country’s expanding mobile internet economy. iResearch revealed that the scale of China’s mobile internet economy reached RMB97.6b as of 2012, up 148% YoY, much higher than the 46% YoY growth of the desktop-based internet economy during the same … Read more

Smartphone penetration – China higher than US!

U.S. market research firm Nielsen recently released a report summarizing mobile consumption trends across major countries. In terms of smartphone penetration, the countries with relatively high smartphone penetration included South Korea (67%), China (66%), Australia (65%), Italy (62%) and the U.K. (61%) and the U.S. (53%). We note that China according to this report boasts … Read more

Will Reliance Communication Survive the Telecom Shakeout ?

Reliance Communications is set to benefit from the overall improving sector dynamics, as ARPMs, data volumes rise, competitive intensity reduces and capex under control. There is still a lot of time for spectrum renewal for Rcom, with only 7 circles coming up for renewal in Dec 2015, and others thereafter. Moreover, the excess spectrum charges … Read more

OnMobile Global – Banking on International Business

OnMobile’s international revenue grew an impressive 7% QoQ and contributed ~64% of revenue in F3Q13, with Latin America accounting for the majority share (~25% of revenue). Businesses in Europe and Africa have also demonstrated strong revenue growth, albeit at a lower base. Last quarter, the company secured two major contracts for RBT in Europe (in Spain and Turkey), which are expected to go live in the next two to three quarters.

The domestic business revenue has been declining for the last eight quarters, largely due to regulatory issues affecting the industry, including the TDSAT order on VAS requiring the operators to receive confirmation from customers for usage of VAS within 24 hours of activation.

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Tencent Holdings – Expanding user base and product range

Chinese Tencent continues to enhance its platform strength. Active QQ accounts, now 800m, still managed to edge up at a similar pace as the PC Internet accounts in China. Weixin continued to grow fast and gained high-end users as well as international users. Co has seen strong usage in wireless IM, Weixin (100m daily users), … Read more

91Mobile releases 4Q mobile app report

Chinese mobile internet firm 91Mobile recently launched a report on 4Q mobile app development trends in China. 91Mobile boasts two of China’s most popular distribution platforms for Android-based apps, 91 Assistant and HiMarket, which acted as the basis for the underlying data in the report. The number of apps launched per month on 91 Mobile’s … Read more

iPhone Users Play More Games than Android ?

International media and marketing research firm Arbitron analyzed the behavior of 12,000 US Android, iPhone and BlackBerry users, discovering that iPhone users were 10 percentage points more likely than Android users to be gamers. Specifically, the study found that roughly 86% of iPhone users played games vs. 76% of Android users. iPhone users who played … Read more