Bharti Airtel, India’s biggest telecom company, has again reorganized its business structure as the company grapples with reducing profit margins in an increasingly commoditized communications market. Atul Bindal, President of Mobile Business, has been moved out and from the preliminary signs, it looks like the CEO Sanjay Kapoor’s hands have been strengthened. Bharti has moved […]
Idea Cellular, the mobile service provider from the Aditya Birla group, has overtaken the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to emerge as the fourth largest mobile operator in the country. Idea, which started its life as Tata Cellular and later transformed itself to the Batata (Birla-Tata-AT&T) alliance, has been one of the fastest growing […]
The Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, popularly known as the Times of India group, has decided to tweak its strategy for the online market (Internet). The group, which has always been pushing its ‘indiatimes.com’ brand, has now decided to co-opt other dotcoms in a partnership that it hopes will benefit both parties equally. Realizing that […]
Gone are the days when the top priority of IT heads in companies used to be topics like ‘virtualization,’ ‘business analytics’ etc.. This year in Asia, they are worried about — yes, Cloud, and of course, mobile, according to the results of Gartner’s ‘Executive Program Agenda Survey.’ Interestingly, Asian CIOs (IT heads) are also reporting […]
G’Five, the biggest Chinese brand of mobile phones, has emerged as the fastest growing top-10 mobile brand in India last year, followed by Blackberry maker Research In Motion or RIM. The numbers, released by the Voice & Data magazine, also points to local brand Micromax as having held on to its position as Number 3 […]
Last year, consumers spent $2 trillion (out of a global GDP of $70 trillion) on communication and entertainment services and products, according to market research firm Gartner Inc. The biggest chunk, $1.2 trillion was spent on “paying the bills” — phone bills, broadband bills, cable bills etc.. while only $600 billion was spent on buying […]
Nokia has finally released the X7 smart phone — its latest device aimed at the large-screen multimedia market — in India, pricing it at just under Rs 23,000. The device, however, is likely to get substantially cheaper in the coming weeks and months as its specifications are not up to those of other phones in […]
Owners of high-end Nokia phones (N8, E7, C7 and C6-01) can upgrade their existing operating system to the next version of Symbian — the Anna — free of charge by the end of August, Nokia India said today. The Anna is likely to be the last big upgrade to the venerable Symbian operating system before […]
It’s something we always knew, but just in case you wanted confirmation — mobile browser firm Opera has just delivered it — Facebook is the new Orkut for Indians. Orkut, which unexpectedly became a hit in India (and Brazil) has found its going tough of late, particularly as users are spending more and more time […]
Microsoft Windows lost a big chunk of the global browsing market, according to the first report from Google on web trends. The survey, based on data from “hundreds of thousands” of websites that use Google’s free Analytics (web tracking) service, shows Windows dropping by a whopping 5.1 percentage points in its share of browsing computers. […]
In a huge relief to ordinary mobile customers suffering from unwanted “value added services,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made a written request from the consumer mandatory for the starting of value added services. Value added services (VAS) are those which are in addition to the normal SMS and voice calling facility. […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested a new colour-coding scheme for recharge coupons as well as forcing telecom operators to offer “itemized billing” to prepaid customers as well. According to the suggestions, made in two draft laws put up for consultation today, the TRAI has suggested that there should be only three […]
Despite a bustling mobile handset market in the country, top Indian phone-brand Nokia failed to grow its revenues during the last financial year, according to the Voice & Data survey of the telecom market for 2010-11. However, number two in the mobile handset market — Samsung — managed to see its revenues grow by a […]
The big players of telecom equipment industry, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens and ZTE saw their India revenues take a big hit in the last financial year due to the controversy over security standards and ‘trap doors’ in Indian telecom equipment last year. Total sales of telecom equipment to mobile operators fell by a drastic 24% […]
Some Asian countries seem to have left the Western countries in terms of smartphone adoption, according to the latest numbers from Canalys — a digital market research agency. The numbers revealed that a whopping 61% of all phone sold in Singapore last year were ‘smartphones’. And just in case you were wondering if these were […]
Finally, the grand-daddy of mobiles phones for Indians, Nokia, has come out with a phone that will have even the staunchest Galaxy or iPhone fan skip a heart-beat. The N9 is undoubtedly Nokia’s best phone to-date and suddenly catapults it into the league of big-screen phone makers like Samsung, HTC and Apple that ‘have it.’ […]
Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone brand that enjoys tremendous brand value in India, may finally be getting its act together in the mid-range. The company today remains unassailable only in the low-range, and has seen its share of the market relentlessly chopped away in both the mid-range and the high-end of India’s mobile phone market. […]
In a move probably aimed at addressing the conspicuous lack of “new model” announcements in the recent days, Nokia has unveiled a new pink edition of its high-end smartphone N8. The “feminine powerhouse”, to be available from today onwards in 18 cities, is targeted at women, the firm said. Nokia is undergoing a massive shift […]
Google’s Android platform will take a 12% market share and nearly 1 lakh tablets will ship this year in India, according to Cyber Media Research’s forecasts for the Indian market. The overall smartphone market will zoom from around 6 million (60 lakh) units last year to 10 million (1 crore) units this year, it added. […]
Vodafone Essar, India’s second biggest GSM operator, seems to be shifting its focus to the enterprise segement — one which it has largely ignored so far. The firm today announced the starting of a “audio conferencing service” targeted purely at companies. Vodafone, due to its traditional focus on mobile services, has always been a consumer […]
