Reliance 3G joins hands with Aircel 3G Expands Footprint to 18 Circles

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Reliance Communications 3G services has expanded footprint across the circles of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and UP-East from June-20th. Aircel is the 3G License Holder in all the 5 circles where Reliance has started providing connections. This is potentially due to the positive stance given by the DoT for Intra-Circle roaming arrangements for 3G Data Services. Reliace 3G is already available in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Assam, North East, Jammu & Kashmir.

Reliance 3G will now be available

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Reliance Communications – ONE INDIA, ONE RATE Plan Details

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Reliance One India One Rate PlanReliance Communications has introduced a new ONE INDIA, ONE RATE plan which offers uniform Local / STD Rates across India even when you are roaming in any part of the Republic of India. Reliance GSM Mobile Users can avail the benefits of the said plan. It is not available for Reliance CDMA users.

The Details of the Plan as released to us are as follows,

One India, One Rate Rs 599 Post Paid Plan: 1,200 mina of free outgoing calls (Roaming, STD, Local; subsequent charge of 30 p/min for Roaming, STD & Local; unlimited national incoming roaming free; 2GB data and 100 SMS’ free Plan Rent of Rs 599 / Month.

One India, One Rate Rs 350 Post Paid Plan: 700 mins of free outgoing calls (Roaming, STD, Local);
subsequent

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Can Reliance Jio Crack the Voice Market with 4G / VoLTE ?

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Indian Voice MarketIndian Telecommunications even today is 2G Voice dominated market with operators expanding footprint into rural areas to get the best they can from the infrastructure they have rolled out over decades. Even until last Quarter over 85% of Telcos’ Revenues were from Voice. In this backdrop, Mukesh Ambani managed Reliance Jio Infocomm, has no viable low-cost voice strategy, may struggle to get subscriber traction as a pure data approach has struggled globally. Reliance Jio is likely to target Tier 2 / 3 Cities for their 4G LTE Launch as it was easier for them to acquire Right of Way and light its Towers with virtually unlimited Optical Fiber Carrying Capacity.

We highlight that globally TD LTE is likely to be used for data offload in markets where both customer affordability and data usage are high, suggesting a mismatch

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How has Apple’s Platform Evolved + Matured over Decade ?

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Apple platform EvolutionThere appears to be a pervasive belief that The Next New Thing from Apple will have to be a hardware device that will change the story just as the iPod, iPhone and iPad did when they were launched, particularly since it is becoming more apparent that Apple’s hardware has become less differentiated relative to the competition. After all, the platform (iTunes content, apps, etc.) provides switching costs and without a robust source of switching costs, any new hardware category is unlikely to remain differentiated for long. Just as the iPod was unlikely to remain dominant without the iTunes music store, and the iPhone changed the mobile handset market by leveraging bite-sized apps, any new hardware category needs to leverage and enhance differentiated functionality on Apple’s platform.

Furthermore, with streaming music

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Reliance Jio Get Power of Media Properties after Network18 Buy-Out

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Reliance Jio Buys TV18 GroupReliance Industries announced on May 29 that its board has approved the acquisition of a controlling stake in Network 18 Media & Investments, including its 51% subsidiary TV18 Broadcast and associate company Infomedia Press; together the group owns internet properties, e-commerce businesses and broadcast content. The board has approved funding of up to Rs40bn for the acquisition. The deal, to be done through a wholly owned subsidiary of RIL.

With this deal, Reliance Jio moves closer to convergence of telecom, media and internet in its business model, giving

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3 Key e-Commerce eco-system enablers in India

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e-commerce ecosystem enablesIn a survey of around 25 industry participants such e-commerce companies operating in the fields of classifieds, online travel, e-tailing, mobile advertising, logistics, payment and data analytics, we found the Top 3 eco-system enabler for e-commerce to be grow leaps & bound in India as under.

Affordable mobile devices/tariffs
Declining smartphone prices, falling mobile data tariffs and improving 3G coverage will help accelerate the adoption of e-commerce in India. We expect the mobile opportunity in India to be bigger than fixed-line as many first time users of e-commerce will access the internet via a mobile device given the faster pace of smartphone penetration than PC penetration. As such, we expect

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MakeMyTrip – Business Verticals Review and Outlook

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MakeMyTrip Business Verticals MakeMyTrip (MMT) offers a comprehensive suite of travel and travel-related services and products. The company’s two primary lines of business are air ticketing and hotels & packages. Additionally, it provides rail and bus tickets, car hire, and ancillary travel services, e.g. travel insurance and visa processing.

Air Ticketing Business
The air ticketing business is primarily targeted at domestic travel within India and international travel to/from India. Over FY10-F13, MMT’s domestic air travel transactions have increased at 29% CAGR to 3.4m, whereas international travel transactions have risen at a 39% CAGR to 0.35m. MMT has real-time access to inventory of all major (full-service and LCC) domestic airlines

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Broadband Development Under NaMo – DoT Secretary

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Mr M. F. Farooqui, Secretary, Department of Telecom met Analysts and was very optimistic in his views about the Telecom sector messed up by Sonia Gandhi led Congress Government in the last 10 years. Policy making, as well as implementation, is likely to be quicker under the new government, and decisions can be expected to be loud and clear, as per Mr Farooqui.

Broadband Bonanza likely to happen as Mr. Farooqui pointed out,

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Google Play Store – Billion Dollar Business

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Google Play Billion Dollar BusinessGoogle Play traction is finally becoming material for Google’s financials, driven by: 1) growth in the Android smartphone and tablet installed base, 2) improving Google Play app availability, discovery and monetization, 3) a growing media content library (and more content likely in the future), and 4) improving payments and technology infrastructure. While Android adoption has not contributed much to revenues so far, we expect Google Play gross sales to more than double in 2014 to $9bn, and Google Play to

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Connected Cars Powered by 4G a Reality with GM

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General Motors(GM) announced pricing options for the new OnStar 4G LTE service. The service, which rolls out next month, first provides users with a three month or three gigabyte trial period, whichever comes first. Pricing for most data packages are comparable with AT&T’s 4G LTE services, with a 3GB monthly plan costing $30 and a 200MB plan costing $10 (enough for ~13hrs of internet usage). Current OnStar advisory services subscribers will receive a $5 monthly discount on plans less than 1GB.

Why Connected Cars ?
We are heading into an era of Inevitable

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