India, one of the biggest markets for telecom services with more than a billion customers still has millions of people users 2G network for communication purposes. 2G is not fit for internet browsing, but only voice calling and SMS. Even when 4G services are readily available almost everywhere, there are affordable 4G smartphones, and cheap tariffs, why India still has 2G networks? It would be safe to assume that 2G... Read More
The smartphone market today has intense competition. Even the companies with the most flagships and powerful smartphones are finding it difficult to retain market share. India is one market where every smartphone brand wants to excel (Google being an exception). Samsung was one of the early movers with the Android operating system (OS) and was able to build a solid brand around the globe. The Note series and S series... Read More
What started as a beautiful relationship between Indians and OnePlus is now turning a little sour with the buggy experience of smartphones. With the OnePlus 7 Pro, the company stepped into the super-premium category with its smartphones crossing Rs 50,000 in MRP in India. Further, with the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 9 series, the Chinese smartphone giant kept on increasing the price of its devices and made itself a recognisable... Read More
Bharti Airtel has been very careful about its branding and the message that it is sending to its customers. The telco has never focused on being only ‘affordable’ at the cost of experience. Airtel launched its new service named Airtel Black a few months back in India. Airtel Black is a bundled service from Bharti Airtel wherein the customers can combine up to three services from the telco, including Direct-to-Home... Read More
2022 is going to be an exciting year for the telecom sector of India. Not just the telecom sector reforms 2.0, but many new exciting technologies will be coming to India. 5G along with satellite broadband and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL’s) 4G networks might become a reality all at the same time. Starlink has said that if everything goes according to the plan, it will launch commercial services by... Read More
The telecom operators of India have been looked at the wrong way by some for moving ahead with tariff hikes. Many have opposed the government for coming out with reforms that helped at least one private telco save its life in the long run. Then some say that the government must not reduce spectrum price as the telcos wouldn’t extend the benefit of a lower cost to the customers anyway.... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator, is in a very good position post the tariff hikes and the reforms announced by the government. Note that Airtel wasn’t in a bad position either before the sectoral reforms were introduced. The reforms have just helped the telco in strengthening its market position and freed up cash flow to be able to invest in its networks for optimising performance and reaching more Indians... Read More
The telecom operators are going to get high-quality telecom gear for cheap in the long term. This is not just because the technology will achieve scale, and with scale, high-quality stuff becomes more affordable. This will be because of all that is happening in India and what has happened already. First of all, the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme of the government for the telecom sector saw multiple major equipment... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will be very positive looking at the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. According to Ericsson, 4G is going to be a major network service in India till 2027. This makes sense as well since 5G would take its sweet time to expand as the telcos don’t have the means to be aggressive with their investments because of all the dues they have on the books. BSNL,... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in the country, is popular for providing postpaid services. The telco is especially popular in the corporate world for offering uniform postpaid mobile services across India. With the prepaid tariff hikes already implemented, there’s no way that the telcos aren’t already planning on increasing the postpaid tariffs as well. It is only a matter of when it will happen. But largely, Bharti Airtel’s postpaid... Read More
After all that the government has done for the telcos in the recent months (announcement of relief measures, returning bank guarantees), the operators are looking for the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to reduce the price of the 5G spectrum as well. The reserve price of multiple spectrum bands is expected to come down significantly. The reason why telcos want the 5G spectrum to be more affordable is because they are... Read More
Two of the big names that are going to be a part of India’s satellite communications (satcom) industry are SpaceX owned Starlink and Bharti owned OneWeb. Both the satcom companies are gearing for global coverage. While the arrival of both the companies is exciting for the satcom fans in India, there are a few things that are very noticeable from all the developments so far. With respect to India, Starlink... Read More
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India will get 5G in 2030 for sure. Courtesy Jio. I doubt Airtel will get profitable by then.
2G customer base declining fast and are close to 250 million now. Even those 2G customers aren't shifting to BSNL…
2G came in 1992 (2003 in India) 3G came in 2002 (2009 in India) 4G came in 2012 (Airtel launched…
I really hope BSNL and MTNL improve their network that it atleast become usable. (not expecting high quality or higher…
