Last Week, Reliance Jio Infocomm [RJI] and Reliance communications announced Inter-City Optical Fiber sharing Deal. Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to launch a nationwide LTE network following its spectrum win in mid-2010.
Citigroup analysts Wrote,
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Idea Cellular Mgmt clarified that the overall RPM remained flat sequentially despite cutting free-mins mainly due to lower proportion of higher RPM ILD minutes in 4Q. Idea believes the stricter subs acquisition norms by TRAI has discouraged multi-SIM usage and has led to incremental consumer spending in favour of existing SIM card (vs. buying a … Read more
World’s Largest Telecom Company China Mobile added 26.4mn 3G subs (averaging 8.8mn per month), which is more than double that of its domestic rivals. Management attributes the strong subs growth to enriching TD-SCDMA smartphone models, falling prices and effective promotion. The parent company will build more than 100,000 3G base stations to increase the total … Read more
Vodafone India Ltd., leading telecommunications service providers, today launched a new attractive national roaming plan for its pre-paid customers. Roaming Pack Cost – Rs 26 to Rs 47 depending on your circle Incoming calls while roaming on Vodafone network at 30p/minute, across the country. Outgoing call rates at 1.5p/sec for all local & STD calls, … Read more
It comes as a surprise to us that China Mobile’s superior 3G net add rate YTD (16.561 mn 3G net adds versus 7.028 mn from Unicom) is due to commencement of a handset replacement cycle in China Mobile’s enormous (720 mn-strong) subscriber base, rather than a significantly improved TD-SCDMA network or service performance. We guessed … Read more
Uninor’s Subsidiary in Thailand, DTAC will launch 2.1GHz 3G service in early May. The 2.1GHz service will be on top of its WCDMA 850MHz 3G service which already covers 60% of the population. The porting capacity of the Mobile Number Portability clearing house will be upgraded soon to accommodate subscriber migration from 2G to 3G … Read more
The Supreme Court has placed the ban till May 9th, when the Court will hear the case on 3G intra-circle roaming (3G ICR) again. However, the operators can continue serving existing subscribers. Though it is not certain, the other GSM players (Idea and Vodafone) might also be prohibited from adding new subscribers in circles where … Read more
3GPP results show that LTE can push through 3.5x as much information into a given amount of spectrum than 3.5G. These results give the performance in 2000MHz frequency band for both LTE and 3.5G. We now have to adjust these values to the Indian context: 3.5G on 2100Mhz band and LTE on 2300MHz. These results … Read more
Tata DoCoMo under revenue pressure has started following market leader, Airtel. Tata DoCoMo GSM / CDMA credited for launching the Most Disruptive Telecom Tariff ever in the Industry 1 Paise / second has raised the Base Tariff by 100% to 2 Paise / Second. The Rise is Applicable to All Connections being activated on or … Read more
Last Week, Reliance Jio Infocomm [RJI] and Reliance communications announced Inter-City Optical Fiber sharing Deal. Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to launch a nationwide LTE network following its spectrum win in mid-2010.
Citigroup analysts Wrote,
The present 3G coverage of most telcos even though thin (8% of 2G BTS), is largely via the loading route. At present, telcos are mounting 3G BTS on sites where they already have their 2G BTS and it is not counted as a new tenancy. Telcos pay c8-10% incremental rentals for 3G deployments via the loading route. Separately, given the rising input costs, we believe operators are unlikely to sign up new towers for 3G.
We believe unless smartphone penetration picks up meaningfully, operators will continue the low cost approach for 3G coverage expansion. We believe data revenues will need to cross a threshold