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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Aircel Mobile Hikes Tariffs Along with Industry

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Aircel IndiaAircel Mobile with limited 2G and 3G Cellular Operations across India stopped the undercutting to capture market share and shifted focus to Revenue Market Share. In-line with the rest of the industry Aircel has hiked tariffs in the last two months. Our analytics team tracking the tariff illustrate circle name, old tariff followed by new tariff, the change and the impact.

  • Bihar Combo pack of Rs29, validity 90 days, local & STD calls @ Rs0.02/3 sec Cost of pack Rs29 – validity 90 days – local & STD calls to mobile no. @ Rs0.02/3 sec – local & STD calls to landline no. @ Rs0.03/sec Increased cost of calls made to landline nos RPM will increase for a user with a higher proportion of landline calls
  • Chennai STD pack of Rs27,

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Uninor Tariff Hikes in UP Circle in Aug / Sept

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Uninor IndiaChallenger and New Entrant Uninor has also resorted to 2G Voice Call Tariff hike in August / September Quarter. Uninor is no more a PAN India Operator and has operations in limited circles. Here is a brief summary on how the company hiked tariffs in UP(E) and UP(W) circles of India. Here are the details of the Hike which shows circle name, old tariff followed by new tariff, the change and the impact.

  • UP-E Minutes pack of Rs11 – 111 local mins free to own network – validity 5 days Minutes pack of Rs11 – 111 local mins free to own network – validity 4 days Reduced validity RPM impact of 25%
  • UP-E Minutes pack of Rs33 – 99 mins free to local no. – validity 7 days

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Tata DoCoMo Hikes Call Tariff in August / September

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The monsoon season is a seasonally weak quarter for the Telecommunications industry in India. However, our Analytics team tracking the Tariffs suggest that Tata DoCoMo has hiked Tariffs between 11% to 142% on various calling packs across various circles in India. Here are the details of the Hike which shows circle name, old tariff followed by new tariff, the change and the impact.

  • AP Seconds pack of Rs22 – 3600 Seconds free to local & STD no. – validity 3 days Seconds pack of Rs22 – 2700 Seconds free to local & STD no. – validity 3 days Reduced free usage RPM impact of 33%
  • AP STD Seconds pack of Rs16 – 2400 seconds free to STD no. – validity 10 days

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Reliance Jio Infocomm Likely to Bid in upcoming 1800Mhz Spectrum Auction

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Reliance jIo Bid in AuctionReliance 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

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SK Telecom Offers More Data on 3G /4G LTE Plans with Family Bundle

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SK Telecom 4G LTEWorld’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

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What are the Processes and Materials Used in 3D Printing ?

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WineGlass Printed using 3D PrinterIn 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

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How Software Solutions & Mobile Apps Design Help Wireless Operators Manage Traffic ?

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Software Solution - App Design for MobileWith 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

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Big Role of 3D Printers in Industrial Manufacturing, Human Lives

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3D-Printer Big Role in Manufacturing3D 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

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Modest Mobile Subscriber Addition in August

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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

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