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Saturday, July 29, 2006
Hutch launches Visual Radio in India

Hutch along with Radio Mirchi - India’s leading FM Radio provider, HP and Nokia has launched Visual Radio service in India. What is Visual Radio anyway ? It lets the user receive the local FM broadcast on his cell phone along with video being fed into it for users viewing pleasure. Hutch is the first operator to offer such a service in India.

It will be interesting to see the Quality of Service because Hutch cell phone users are so frustrated with their poor network infrastructure(Hutch works only indoors and the agents directly ask to have more connections in the locality if user needs an antenna which will act as a signal booster) atleast in Bangalore and Karnataka which is also evident by the poor addition of subscribers in the past quarter.
Published on Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 5:30 PM   0 comments
Monday, July 10, 2006
Mobile Enterntainment in India

Mobile Music downloads is extremely popular in India. Telcom experts are predicting that the Indian m-Entertainment market to be $5 Billion by 2009 in India. DoT’s Arun Kumar Saxena said that Mobile TV has a very huge demand in rural India. It is for this reason that we need to resolve the 3G rollout differences between various operators and the Government
Published on Monday, July 10, 2006 at 5:16 PM   0 comments
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Reliance and Qualcomm Saga - Royalty, Spectrum, Network Independence

Excerpts from gobroadband.In.

It started in the first week of June when Anil Ambani’s Reliance Telecom applied for GSM license. gobroadband.In got an insight about Reliance’s call to switch to GSM - Mainly demanding Qualcomm for network independence and lower royalties. The costly CAPEX for its CDMA to migrate to CDMA2000(3G equivalent for CDMA). June 24th I reporetd that Qualcomm stock was severely beaten down as my insiders told me about possible downgrade as Reliance accounts for 8% of Qualcomm’s bottomline and also Nokia killed its CDMA handset plans.

Qualcomm CEO Jacobs in India. Jacobs and Tata’s talk fail, alleges spectrum policy was flawed and the war breaks out. IT Minister Maran and COAI clarify spectrum is not the issue. Reliance and Qualcomm have marathon meetings without any outcome. Reliance Communication’s sticks to its demands.
Published on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 at 5:02 PM   0 comments
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