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About the author: Born in India, Yogesh loves to travel and has lived in multiple countries including New Zealand and Canada. His bylines can be found on various newspapers and blogs throughout the world, including Vancouver Sun, Surrey Now-Leader, Daily Hive , Investing News Network and Rach F1.

Bala Yogesh April 14th, 2021 5:20 PM 0 COMMENTS

5G Extremely Crucial in India, Set to Radically Transform Network Performance

The launch of 5G services will “radically transform network performance” in India, says Adriane Blum, vice president of marketing and communications at Ookla. Blum told TelecomTalk that 5G, the fifth generation mobile network standard is “extremely crucial” in the Indian telecom market. However, Blum said that the Indian telecom operators need to have “sufficient wireless spectrum” as it is “crucial for the development of 5G.” While Indian telecom operators have... Read More

Bala Yogesh April 9th, 2021 6:20 PM 9 COMMENTS

Telecom Users Keen to Know Which Operator Deliver Quality Video Experience

Telecom users are “interested in understanding which operator has the highest video experience score,” says Ian Fogg, vice president analysis at Opensignal. Fogg told TelecomTalk that video consumption has become one of the “largest drivers of mobile data usage” largely due to the improvements to smartphone display. Opensignal, a mobile analytics company in late March, 2021, released its Mobile Network Experience report with the company highlighting that the Indian telecom... Read More

Bala Yogesh April 7th, 2021 7:00 PM 13 COMMENTS

India Needs Affordable Smartphone, Mobile Plans with Unlimited Data

The Indian telecom market is “certainly one of the most competitive” in the world, Antonios Drossos, managing partner at Rewheel Research told TelecomTalk on Monday. Rewheel Research, an independent telecom research firm in late March highlighted that India is among the countries with low prices for telecom plans while Canada is among the countries with “highest” telecom prices. In its report, the firm said that the Canadian telecom prices is... Read More

Bala Yogesh April 2nd, 2021 6:09 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indians Request More Features And Better Speed From Web Browser

Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest platform in mid March, 2021, released the Speedtest Global Index for February, with the data highlighting that India retained its 131st position on the mobile Index. According to the data released by Ookla, India recorded an average mobile download and upload speed of 12.40 Mbps and 4.75 Mbps respectively in February. Ookla said that the global average download speed on mobile increased to 46.94... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 26th, 2021 6:44 PM 1 COMMENTS

Cheaper OTT, DTH Set to Halt Cable TV Subscriptions in India

The number of cable TV users in India continued to remain at 103 million in the 2020 financial year, Statista said in a report in early March. The company highlighted that the number of cable TV users in India already hit 103 million in the 2019 financial year having witnessed a dip in the previous years. In the 2017 financial year, Statista, a German company engaged in market and consumer... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 24th, 2021 5:38 PM 17 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Requires Steep Tariff Hikes for Survival, Huge Hikes Unlikely for Now

Vodafone Idea, the third largest wireless operator in India on Monday hiked its two entry-level postpaid family plans by around Rs 50. The operator on its website highlighted that the base postpaid family plan has been hiked from Rs 598 to Rs 649. Further, the third largest operator in India also hiked its second-tier postpaid family plan from Rs 749 to Rs 799. The operator had earlier restricted the price... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 19th, 2021 5:46 PM 18 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Displays Absolute Dominance, Analysts Hail Execution

ICICI Securities, a subsidiary of ICICI Bank on Wednesday said in a report that the execution by Bharti Airtel has been “impressive” as Airtel continued to add more users as compared to its rivals. The report is on the heels of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) releasing the Telecom Subscription Data for a period ending January 31, 2021. The Trai data highlights that Airtel added over 58 lakh... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 17th, 2021 6:39 PM 0 COMMENTS

OTT Platforms Future Evoke Polarizing Response from Analysts

Nirmal Bang, an Indian stock broking company on Friday said in a report that the threats posed by the Over-the-Top (OTT) platforms in India on the Indian film industry is “exaggerated.” The company said that the makers of an “reasonable budget movie” will not find it “compelling” to directly release the movie on an OTT platform in the country. Nirmal Bang said that the movies that opt for a direct... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 12th, 2021 5:50 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Operators Accelerate Network Deployments Held Up by COVID

Ciena, a networking systems, services and software company is witnessing “increased activity” in India, its Chief Executive Officer Gary Smith said in the first quarter earnings call on March 4, 2021. Smith said that the company continues to witness “encouraging signs of recovery from India” with the enhanced activity said to be happening on multiple fronts including deployments. In its first quarter results, the company said that it recorded US757.1... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 10th, 2021 5:30 PM 6 COMMENTS

Higher Spectrum Price Could Lead to Higher ARPU: Analyst

Care Ratings on Tuesday said that the “average price for per MHz spectrum unit” acquired by the telecom operators in India was up by 35.4% in the recently concluded spectrum auctions. The credit rating agency in a report said that the average price per MHz spectrum unit hit Rs 90.9 crores in the March, 2021 auction. In the previous spectrum auction held in October, 2016, Care Ratings said that the... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 5th, 2021 5:37 PM 6 COMMENTS

Indian Consumers Use More Mobile Data Than US Consumers: ATC

India has been a “challenging” market for the American Tower Corporation (ATC) in the past couple of years, Igor Khislavsky, vice president of investor relations at ATC said on Tuesday. ATC, one of the leading infrastructure providers engaged in the telecom space is said to own and operate over 75,000 tower sites in India as of December 31, 2020. Khislavsky in the 42nd Raymond James Annual Institutional Investors Conference on... Read More

Bala Yogesh March 3rd, 2021 3:30 PM 3 COMMENTS

Low Broadband Speeds, Mobile First Makes Product Localizations Critical: Disney CEO

Disney+ Hostar, the Over-the-Top (OTT) streaming platform run by Walt Disney owned Star India streams 17,000 hours of original programming each year, Bob Chapek, chief executive officer of Walt Disney said. The development is on the heels of Christine McCarthy, chief financial officer of the Walt Disney Company in early February highlighting that Disney+ Hotstar makes up approximately 30% of the Disney+ user base. McCarthy in the first quarter earnings... Read More