The Internal Remittances Market in India is to the tune of USD 40 Bn with money flowing from Urban to Rural Parts of India. The Following Chart Shows the Comparison of Mobile money Transfer vs Indian Postal Money Order on Parameters such as, Min requirement, Limits on Transaction, Technology, Advantage and Dis-advantage.
Mobile Money Transfer & Commerce – Poised for Big Growth
Mobile money will witness rapid growth over the next 3-5 years in India due to increased rural presence of Mobile Operators in Rural India fueled by favorable regulation, rising penetration of smartphones as their prices are more affordable, and acceptance by retailers.
What is Mobile Money ?
We define it as mobile banking, money transfer, and m-commerce. This includes using Airtel Money to transfer money into another Airtel Money account or bank account or mobile number. One could pay one’s driver his monthly salary by transferring money using bank’s smartphone into his mobile linked bank account using his mobile number and mobile money ID. Alternatively, paying from one’s smartphone into the driver’s Vodafone mpesa wallet would allow him to
Is Reliance Jio Infocomm Rolling Out FTTH Broadband Network along with 4G/ LTE ?
Reliance Jio Infocomm will launch 4G / LTE Services by the end of this year, at least in Delhi NCR and Mumbai region. According to Analysts in the Research community, their is a buzz that Reliance Jio Infocomm will launch FTTx [Home / Enterprise]
G V Giri @ IIFLCap said,
RIL may also use FTTX (Fibre to the x) to service the home and enterprise broadband market, chiefly the former. It may bundle broadband services of various hues above in a single offering
Goldman Sachs Report said,
RIL’s focus is on offering high speed services and considering that TDLTE ecosystem is at a nascent stage, we believe the company will focus more on fiber based fixed-line services and nomadic LTE (in limited areas) in the near term
Other Device & Services that Reliance Jio will launch along with 4G LTE Launch is as follows,
Idea Cellular Withdraws Benefits on Pre-Paid STV / Packs – May 2013
Idea Cellular the plain vanilla wireless operator in India continued to withdraw benefits in bits & pieces provided to its 90% of its pre-paid subscribers by means of Special Tariff Vouchers / STV or STD Packs, etc. This is in-line with Airtel and Vodafone as these operators have come under pressure from the Corrupt Government and DoT increasing il-legal levies and charges on spectrum not permissible under the law.
The STV / Recharge Vouchers and Packs Modified in may 2013 are as follows,
Vodafone Pre-Paid Mobile Tariff Changes in May-2013
Vodafone India in-line with Airtel has reduced benefits on most of the Special recharge / tariff Vouchers and Pre-Paid Packs across all the 22 Circles in India. Even a Small Modification in STV / Recharge Pack adds considerably to the bottomline of the company in that circle. We’d like to present you data on the Vodafone Pre-Paid Mobile STV / Recharge Pack Modifications that happened in May-2013 as shown in the table below
Airtel Pre-Paid Mobile Tariff Benefits Reduced in May-2013 – Tracking Changes
Bharti Airtel India’s Largest Wireless Carrier has a Big Data Analytics Team Closely Working with its Product Managers in Delhi who decide how to modify the Pre-Paid Plans across 22 Cicles in India. We tracked Airtel closely in the last 1 month and here are the key changes they brought across circles reducing benefits on Pre-Paid Special tariff Plans / Vouchers and boosting bottom-line of the company. The following table shows the same
Yahoo! CFO Upbeat on Culture Shift + Innovation
Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman is Upbeat on the new the culture shift of the company, which is attracting a high caliber of employees and acquisition candidates. Recent product changes in the core business, and improvement in partner relationships are key positives to the company. Yahoo’s pace of innovation and velocity of product launches are much … Read more
Global DRAM Market Share + Which Industry Consumes the most ?
The strength of the current upturn resembles the sharp turnaround seen in 2010, but could have longer sustainability based on (1) fewer producers; (2) the divergence of DRAM demand drivers with mobile devices overtaking PC DRAMs; and (3) the uncertainty in DRAM equipment technology keeping new fab builds at bay.
Reliance Jio Infocomm & Reliance Communications enter $2.5 Bn Tower Sharing Agreement
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd and Reliance Communications Ltd. today announced the signing of a definitive agreement worth over $2.5 Bn over the Lifetime of the agreement. RCom will offer its 45,000 Towers to Reliance Jio Infocomm to roll-out its 4G LTE Network. In our Previous Article we had raised the issue of Suitability of Reliance … Read more
Windows 8 Devices Expensive – Will Microsoft Learn the Android Lesson ?
Today, PCs’ value proposition as the internet device has been permanently taken away by smartphones and tablet. Better PC hardware can’t help the poor consumer reaction to Windows 8 Operating System either.
Acer and ASUS launched new PC and tablet products at Computex hoping to to drive the replacement demand the PC industry. However, PC used to be the key (in some regions, the only) vehicle for consumers to access the internet, but now smartphone/tablet offer consumers an alternative way to access the internet, and in some cases, with lower cost structure and better user experiences.