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Google Other Vendors Ignoring India for SmartPhone Launch a Blunder – Big Leap

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SmartPhone Market India Big LeapThe Indian Mobile Handset Market is set for a Big Leap in 2014. The handset market currently is almost entirely replacement market. Encouragingly, there appears to be a constant upgrade cycle toward smartphones and the company believes that over next three-four years, the feature phone segment is likely to diminish significantly.

e-commrerce Mobile Retailer Vs Store Retailing in India
Ecommerce companies, especially the ones with “marketplace” models, are currently the most aggressive on the ground. Organized retailers comprising national players like Mobile Store, Spice, Univercell, Reliance digital, Next, Hotspot, etc. and brand outlets (example Nokia Priority) are finding it hard to compete with the e-commerce retailers – e-bay, Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, etc

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How Telecom is heading from Spectrum Crunch to OverSupply ?

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The Indian telecom industry has historically suffered an acute shortage of spectrum. The abysmally low absolute quantum of spectrum is compounded by highly fragmented spectrum holdings. TRAI’s recent recommendation and attempts by the telecom ministry to free up commercially unused 2100MHz spectrum indicates a new found feeling within the govt that ‘spectrum unsold is revenue lost’. Increasing the quantum of 1800 Mhz to be auctioned seems to be the first step in this regard.

Spectrum Allocation in the next 3 – 5 years
In light of recent developments, keeping

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Escalate Complaint against Airtel, Reliance, Vodafone, Idea by Dialing 1037

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1037 Mobile Helpline for Telecom ComplaintsDespite best efforts from the Government to regulate the Telecommunication industry with prudent billing norms, Operators like Airtel, Reliance, Idea Cellular have resorted to malpractices with their very own customers such as unauthorized mobile balance deductions by activating Value Added Services the customer has not subscribed to. The TRAI and the DoT established Internet / Web Based Complaint Cells but didn’t take off due to poor reach of broadband & the internet.

A High level committee looking into this problem just a while ago has told us that they have circulated a notification to all

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What is SingTel’s Group Digital Life About ?

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Singtel Digital Life - Core BusinessAsia Pacific Telecommunications giant which grew its business by investing substantial amount in companies like Airtel, Optus etc announced a new organization structure in March 2012 across product groups, rather than geographies, and also created a new business under Mr Allen Lew called Group Digital L!fe (GDL). Digital Life is one of the core Businesses Group.

This isn’t a well understood business and there is generally a broader skepticism. Consumers now look to their mobile devices for immersive content, entertainment and commerce. Group Digital L!fe is

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Mobile Advertising – Apple Devices Command Ad Premium over Android

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The most important and fastest growing segment of Internet advertising is mobile advertising, which makes tracking the underlying key drivers and trends of great importance. Mobile eCPMs increased 68% y/y in 3Q13 and 9% sequentially despite what is typically a seasonal slowdown in Q3 (note that MoPub’s data showed a 10% seq. decline in 3Q12). A key driver of this price increase, in MoPub’s opinion, is the increase in the number of competitive bidders in the auction.

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Better than Skype and Viber – A Cheap, Easy Way to Make International Calls!

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Anyone who has used calling cards, Skype or Viber to make international calls from Ireland is aware of all their drawbacks. For calling cards, you need to constantly add money, enter long pin numbers, and if you run out of minutes, you can get cut off mid-sentence. With Skype and Viber, you need to always ensure that the person you are trying to reach has access at the same time that you do. And let’s face it – who hasn’t had connection problems with Skype and Viber?

And that is where eMobile comes in. eMobile is an international

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Global Mobile Internet Access Penetration

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As traditional online access forms the majority of traffic and revenues for internet stocks but companies are actively pursuing mobile opportunities, the increased migration of traffic to mobile access is both a major threat (should companies not be able to adapt quickly enough) and a major opportunity (as mobile creates opportunities for increased traffic and new potential for monetisation).

As per J’son & Partners Consulting, mobile internet access penetration in 2012 is as shown in the chart below.

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Vodafone Prep-Paid Realizations Rise 9-44% Across India

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Vodafone IndiaIn-line with the rest of the industry (include new entrants) Vodafone started fine tuning their pre-paid mobile plans by increasing tariffs / reducing the number of days / reduce talk-time benefits etc so that the the net realizations per minute goes up. This can be easily done by their Anayltics team looking at the tarffic patterns and the plans subscribed. Our statistics team tracking Telecom Tariffs in India has released the data on Vodafone Tariff hikes in August / September 2013. The following chart shows the hikes represented by circle name, old tariff followed by new tariff, the change and the impact

  • Andhra Pradesh local pack of Rs29, validity 28 days, first 60 sec will be charged @ Rs0.02/sec & thereafter local calls to own network @ Rs0.20/min local pack of Rs29, validity 28 days, first 120 sec will be charged @ Rs0.02/sec & thereafter local calls to own network @ Rs0.20/min New pack charges a higher rate

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Idea Cellular 2G Voice Tariff Hikes in August / September

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Idea STV - RechargeIdea Cellular along with the rest of the Industry hiked 2G Mobile Voice Call Tariffs in August & September considered to be a seasonally weak quarter in the Indian Wireless industry. Our Statistics Team tracking the telecom circle-wise mobile tariffs has released the following pre-paid plans which saw an increment in net revenue realization to the company – the RPM factor.

Idea Cellular Mobile 2G Voice Tariff Hikes in August / September represented by circle name, old tariff followed by new tariff, the change and the impact

  • Assam Minutes pack of Rs41 – 200 local mins

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Airtel Hikes Mobile Charges for 3% to 100% RPM Impact

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Airtel IndiaIndia’s Largest Cellular Service Provider, Bharti Airtel hiked voice call tariffs across the board so as to have a net gain RPM impact between 3% to 100%. The following chart shows how tariffs have increased in August / September represented by circle name, old tariff followed by new tariff, the change and the impact

  • Chennai Tariff Voucher of Rs69, tariff validity 28 days, local calls to mobile no. @ Rs0.30/min Tariff Voucher of Rs85, tariff validity 28 days, local calls to mobile no. @ Rs0.30/min The pack was discontinued, and now reintroduced at a higher fixed monthly cost RPM impact of 14%
  • Chennai Tariff Voucher of Rs97, tariff validity 28 days, local calls to own network@ Rs0.10/min – Tariff Voucher of Rs115, tariff validity 28 days, local calls to own network@ Rs0.10/min – The earlier pack was discontinued, and now reintroduced at a higher fixed monthly cost RPM impact of 18%, impact will reduce with increasing usage
  • Delhi Combo pack of Rs46, validity 28 days

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