Telecommunications & Technology
Reliance Jio Infocomm has objected to the telecom regulator’s recent recommendation of an uniform spectrum usage charge of 3% of revenues after 1st April 2014, for all spectrum acquired through an auction. Reliance Jio is the telecom venture of Reliance Industries. It acquired 20Mhz pan-India spectrum in 2.3GHz band through an auction in June 2010 at a price of Rs128bn. The spectrum carries a charge of 1%.
Reliance Jio had acquired
World’s leading 4G LTE Broadband Operator, SK Telecom just a while ago announced new data promotions to its existing 3G-4G users on low data plans. This would impact 4.1 mn of its 3G/4G subscribers and 5 mn handsets on family bundled plans. These would account for 23- 29% of its 3G/4G subscribers. Other offerings introduced include data discounts to late night users, unlimited data gifts/VOD contents sharing among family members, and new low 3G/LTE price plan of W19,000 as the company seeks to retain its existing low ARPU customers and entice them to start spending
In our earlier Article, we discussed how 3D printing has the potential to rewrite the rules of global manufacturing, with an impact that could be as significant to the industrial sector as the now pervasive adoption of the principles of the Toyota Production Systems and Lean Manufacturing. We’d like to enlighten on the actual Process and the Material used in the 3D printing Job.
The different print processes are typically tied to specific materials and produce varying material properties such as strength and surface finish that can better suited for certain applications. The print consumables address nearly the entire spectrum of materials currently being used in the manufacturing process with plastics, glass, paper, ceramics and even metals.
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) / Material extrusion
The process involves plastic filament being forced through a
With Rising Data usage, Wireless Operators are Combining predictive network analytics software with business and operational tools to better predict and address congestion points and deal in real time. Software Defined Network is a developing cloud technology, where telcos use the Internet (cloud) to connect customer premises. This simplifies network managing policies and minimizes the hardware devices that a telco operator should deploy / maintain. Currently, this is limited to data centres and are mainly used to manage backhaul congestion issues. NTT has announced that it will launch an SDN-based network to connect enterprise customer premises systems with NTT’s enterprise cloud through the Internet.
Optimizing Mobile Application Design
Some Mobile Apps even with continuous Pings to the server can be a drain on network Resource of the Wireless data Service Provider when users number in millions.
There are currently more than 1.5mn iOS and
3D printing / additive manufacturing market is about to experience much broader adoption across more upstream production applications and the consumer end market and as such our baseline assumptions project a slightly steeper trajectory than industry estimates. In the past 3D printers were seen as too slow to manufacture true production parts or end-use products and the machines / materials too expensive and technical expertise threshold too high for the average consumer. However, things are changing fast and 3D printers will play a Big Role in the next league of Industrial Manufacturing and shaping Human Lives.
Currently, 3D Printing accounts for less than 10-15% of $2B+ in revenue generated in the prototyping and pre-production mold industry, but we expect it to contribute more meaningfully over the next 3-10 years as global manufacturers incorporate the technology in an effort to gain any edge to differentiate
The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) has released August 2013 subscriber data for Bharti Airtel (Bharti), Idea Cellular (Idea), Vodafone, Aircel and Uninor. The all-India GSM subscriber base rose 0.26% to 674.4mn during the month versus 0.22% rise in July.
Airtel subscribers grew 0.44% in August versus 0.25% in July primarily led by Delhi, Assam, Mumbai, Himachal Pradesh (HP) and Kerala circles. Idea Cellular’s subscriber growth of 0.60% (0.24% in July) was led by Maharashtra, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Delhi and Kerala circles. Airtel has outpaced Vodafone and Idea in absolute subscriber addition for the third
WiFi offloading is being increasingly adopted with heavy mobile data demand in Urban Areas. Given that a substantial portion of mobile traffic occurs inside buildings, telcos are investing/patterning for offloading data to WiFi hotspots.
As mobile and fixed broadband becomes more complimentary, WiFi can do the heavy lifting on data traffic, which can stimulate fixed broadband usage and support total ARPU. This can also be used as a service differentiation tool. But not every telco can do
At the Asia Tech Conference, everybody was positive on the Sale of SmartPhones in Asia specifically, China followed by India and others. Overall growth within the smartphones segment remains strong, driven largely by the mid- and low-end smartphones. Mediatek sounded positive about the traction of its business as did several of the component suppliers supplying into this market. Taiwan suppliers also noted strength coming in from Samsung Electronics for components for mid-end smartphones. With Apple’s decision to not compete in the mid-priced smartphone segment (given the announced pricing of its 5C and 5S series of phones last week), we believe the deck is clear for companies like Samsung to make substantial headway into this market. It was interesting to note that a large portion of even the low- and mid-to-low
Our analysts attending the Asia technology Conference at HongKong confirm two major Trends in the industry – Enterprise Spending Picking Up and Strong DRAM Pricing.
Enterprise Spending – Both Lenovo and Infosys seem to see a pick-up in activity in the US. While Europe hasn’t recovered yet, Lenovo believed that it sees some early signs of stabilisation—from our perspective, macro indicators point towards a recovery in the coming quarters. Tech Mahindra, said enterprise services business
The personal cloud storage is a service model in which data is maintained, managed and backed up remotely and made available to users over a network protected behind an organization’s firewall
We have seen personal cloud storage services being widely adopted in the offerings of internet companies due to: 1) the potential of ubiquity across computing devices. The convenience of file sync’ing with any device ensures that users can install an app in each and every one of their devices, 2) the opportunity to build service exclusivity. As users store more of their material in one place, the cost of