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How Much it Costs to Make STD VoIP Calls in India ?

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The Following Details the Cost of Carrying out a STD Long Distance Skype Call within India. Bandwidth requirement–uplink (kbps) 100 Skype recommended Bandwidth requirement–downlink (kbps) 100 Skype recommended Total bandwidth required (up + down) (kbps) 200 Data Consumed for Voice Call on Skype in 1 Minute = 1.46 MB If your 3G / 4G pack … Read more

Idea Keeps Focused on 2G Voice, 3G Data 3 Years Away

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Idea Cellular Management does believe that the tariffs now seem to be bottoming out and realizations should inch up going forward. In fact, Idea has already started tweaking plans (mainly discount vouchers) in various circles depending on local dynamics. Management’s view remains that increase in ARPMs will be gradual, rather than a one-time steep hike. … Read more

myairtel app wins Best Application in Mobile World Congress

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Airtel’s myairtel application has been acknowledged as ‘App of the Year’ in ‘Best Application using Network APIs’ category at the prestigious Global Mobile Awards 2013 in Barcelona. myAirtel App is developed by IBM Labs India, and Powered by a robust Network API backbone and a simple front-end User Interface. The myAirtel App lets customers of … Read more

Airtel Chooses Ericsson’s Mobile Broadband Charging Solutions

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Airtel has deployed Ericsson’s Mobile Broadband Charging solution and has completely modernized it’s Pre-paid/ IN solution for it’s subscribers, across 23 circles in India. The solution will allow Bharti Airtel to enhance the prepaid customer experience by offering a wider & attractive range of prepaid services, flexible bundling and real time control of chargeable services. … Read more

Airtel 4G LTE Customers of Pune get CSFB facility to Make Voice Calls using GSM

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Airtel, India’s Largest Wireless Carrier just a while ago told us that they have tested their 4G LTE network in Pune with Nokia Siemens Networks’ Circuit Switched FallBack (CSFB) voice solution using the underlying GSM Band. With CSFB, the network can transfer customers to GSM platform to make and receive voice calls and access voicemails … Read more

Baidu Undergoing Turbulent Times as Users Move to Mobile

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Baidu’s user transition to mobile and rising competition may continue to dampen top line growth, with margins likely to be under pressure in the near term. However, given encouraging new customer acquisition and continued development in the mobile space for future growth.

Mobile search traffic has continued to grow faster than PC search in this quarter, but management notes that the growth rate has been ‘soft’. We estimate that mobile traffic currently contributes more than 25% of Baidu’s total search traffic in 4Q12. We believe mobile search traffic is largely incremental to PC search traffic and, thus do not expect significant cannibalization to PC search traffic. Baidu’s current priority

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Mobile Internet – Emerging trend but lacks demand, holds growth of 3G

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Majority of Indian urban subscribers access Internet at their homes / offices using a wireline connection. Mobile Internet (2G/3G) is the second most preferred option, ahead of cyber cafes. 33% of the respondents use mobile phones to access the Internet when their first preference is not available. The most popular applications are the less data heavy email, web browsing and social networking.

3G uptake has been lackluster in the urban areas and has little/no subscriber awareness beyond the urban areas. Lack of opinion about quality of 3G/data services of various operators among a large fraction of urban subs also points to the current disinterest for data.

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Where are we on the Mobile Internet ?

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State of the Mobile InternetAlmost every year in various kinds of year-ahead predictions about Indian internet, you can find one about mobile internet. So why would 2013 be different?

If we look at the latest Gartner Hype Cycle, mobile internet has already climbed to the ‘Slope of Enlightenment’ and been on its way to mainstream adoption in less than two years. Three years into 3G initiation, operators, platform servicers, hardware providers and content producers have finally accumulated enough users and resources to kick start the entire value chain in 2012 as shown below

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