September 2008: India Adds 10.07 M Wireless, 170k Broadband Subs; 280k Wireline Cancellations (2)
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In September 2008, India added 10.07 million wireless subscribers - a significant step up from the 9 million odd monthly additions earlier this year. The wireless subscriber base is now 315.31 million, up from 305.24 million at the end of August. What is ironic is that the highest increase in wireless connections has come in the same month as one of the highest declines in wireline: with around 280,000 fixed line connections cancelled during the ...
Electricity is the Bottleneck for Mobile Penetration in Rural India (1)
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<!--break-->Atanu Dey on why electricity is the bottleneck for mobile usage in rural India -- We don’t usually associate telecommunications with power. But cellular towers don’t work on love and fresh air (and fresh air is not something that you can take for granted, anyway.) They require power and in areas where the grid is unreliable, you have to spend fairly large sums on diesel generator sets. That, among others, is a major problem in ...
WorldSpace Bankrupt And On The Block: What Happened & What They Were Waiting For (1)
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WorldSpace Inc, which provides satellite radio services, along with its US subsidiaries WorldSpace Systems Corporation and AfriSpace Inc, has filed for Chapter 11 (Bankruptcy). The owners of the company have secured financing of up to $13 million for 90 days, in order to facilitate a sale. Readers may recall that the company had announced having received financing facility of upto $40 million earlier this year, and re-branded as 1worldspace. In India, the company operates satellite ...
SMS Usage and ARPU slides – Telecom Industry Qtrly Report (1)
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Image via Wikipedia TRAI has released the quarterly report (ending June 2008) and here is a summary (useful data that you would need): 93 GSM and 44 CDMA Licensees Wireless subscriber base @ 286.87 million as on 30th June 2008 (as against 261.07 million subscribers in the previous quarter) - 25.80 million wireless subscribers added in the june qtr. 212.51 million GSM subscribers (74.08%) - prev qtr, 192.70 million 74.36 million CDMA subscribers (25.92%) at ...
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