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| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| 494 mn Wireless + Wireline Subscribers |
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The All Indian Telecom Subscriber base has reached 494 mn at the end of August-2009. This includes, Wireless [CDMA + GSM], Wireline, Fixed Wireless Phone etc connections. We spend lot of time and other resources to collect this data. Here is the compilation of subscribers [in million] from all the Telecom Operators in India.
Bharti Airtel 110.89
BSNL 85.810
Reliance Communications 85.258
Vodafone Essar 80.874
Idea Cellular 50.058
Tata Teleservices 34.980
Aircel 24.416
Tata Tele Maharashtra Ltd 8.793
MTNL 8.182
BPL 2.417
Sistema Shyam - MTS India 1.843
HFCL 0.545
Wireless Subscribers in India at the end of August-2009 are - 456.45 mn
Wireline / Landline Telephone Connections in India at the end of August-2009 - 37.3 mn |
Published on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM  |
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| Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| Tata's TrueRoots Offer - International Calling to India |
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 Tata Communications have thrown open the competition on International front as well to compete with Airtel Call Home and Reliance India Call.
TrueRoots has unveiled an exclusive offer to Double the Talk Time by simply purchasing a Calling Card from US, Canada or UK to call India. Effective rate will be as low as 2.9 cents / minute. Promo Code is SHTRU73200173 - More details available here. ILD calling has come a long way, as I still remember paying a Dollar / Minute to call India from New York :-)
Do let us know about the quality of the network. |
| Published on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM |
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| Monday, September 07, 2009 |
| OnMobile Global Benefits from TRAI amendment to VAS |
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Late Friday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issued an amendment to its original ruling dated 27 April 2009 on the provision of value-added services (VAS) to customers. The new ruling no longer requires an explicit customer originated call, SMS, fax or email to subscribe to VAS. While a double confirmation still has to be obtained, the customer can do this by pressing a few keys on the mobile handset.
OnMobile reported a significant slowdown in annual revenue growth in the first quarter driven by the TRAI directive, an internal cost-related restructuring at one of its customers, delay in network rollout by another customer resulting in revenue deferral and a general slowdown in domestic VAS revenue growth due to falling industry ARPUs.
We believe the amendment is a result of detailed representations made by service providers, industry associations and VAS providers such as OnMobile on the detrimental impact that the earlier ruling could have on growth of VAS in the country. |
| Published on Monday, September 07, 2009 at 11:14 AM |
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