RELIANCE COMM SEES INDIA TELECOM CONSOLIDATION
Intensifying competition in the Indian telecom sector, the world’s fastest growing in mobile sign ups, should kick off an industry consolidation in two years, a senior official at Reliance Communications said.
With four firms, including ventures of Norway’s Telenor and United Arab Emirates’ Etisalat, set to start operations in India this year, existing players led by Reliance and Bharti Airtel have slashed call charges to lure users.
India, which has 11 mobile operators, has this year added an average 14 million mobile users a month. Analysts say still there is huge potential as only 40 people of every 100 own mobile phones from a population of more than a billion.
Reuters/Livemint
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Thursday, April 09, 2009
TELECOM: DIAL INDIA FOR GROWTH
India’s mobile telecommunication services sector has defied the economic recession. The incumbent mobile telecommunication service providers collectively added 15 million new subscribers in the month of January, which is more than twice the population of Finland, home country of largest mobile handset manufacturer Nokia Corp., taking the country’s total tally of wireless subscribers to 362 million.
The world's fastest-growing mobile telecom services market estimated to reach a subscriber base of about 650 million by 2012, exposes the growth potential for global mobile telecom service providers who are not yet present in India. Such service providers are missing out on opportunities to grab a share of the projected mobile services revenues of more than $37 billion by 2012 growing at a CAGR of 18%, while the profitability of their operations in saturated developed markets continue to be under pressure.
The string of investments in Indian telecom companies last year, including, Tata Teleservices Ltd, the telecom services arm of India’s largest private sector diversified Tata Group by NTT DoCoMo, Inc., the largest Japanese mobile telecom service provider of $2.7 billion; Unitech Telecom, the telecom arm of India’s second largest real estate developer Unitech Ltd by Norwegian telecom firm Telenor ASA, world’s seventh largest telecom service provider at $1.36 billion; and Swan Telecom, a start-up GSM telecom service company of a Mumbai-based real estate developer Dynamix Balwas Group by Dubai-based Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) at $900 million; as well as South Africa’s largest telecom company MTN Group’s attempts to enter the Indian market – are an indication of the fact that there is ample room to enter this market, at least inorganically.
Of significance is the fact that the government has granted new licenses and spectrum to aspiring operators such as Datacom Solutions a subsidiary of one of India’s leading consumer durables company Videocon Industries Ltd; Loop Telecom, a BPL Mobile Communications group company; S Tel Ltd, joint venture between Skycity Foundations and Telecom Investments (Mauritius) Ltd; among others which are likely targets – but within the regulatory purview as an overseas entity’s stake in the domestic company cannot exceed 74%.
India’s mobile telecommunication services sector has defied the economic recession. The incumbent mobile telecommunication service providers collectively added 15 million new subscribers in the month of January, which is more than twice the population of Finland, home country of largest mobile handset manufacturer Nokia Corp., taking the country’s total tally of wireless subscribers to 362 million.
The world's fastest-growing mobile telecom services market estimated to reach a subscriber base of about 650 million by 2012, exposes the growth potential for global mobile telecom service providers who are not yet present in India. Such service providers are missing out on opportunities to grab a share of the projected mobile services revenues of more than $37 billion by 2012 growing at a CAGR of 18%, while the profitability of their operations in saturated developed markets continue to be under pressure.
The string of investments in Indian telecom companies last year, including, Tata Teleservices Ltd, the telecom services arm of India’s largest private sector diversified Tata Group by NTT DoCoMo, Inc., the largest Japanese mobile telecom service provider of $2.7 billion; Unitech Telecom, the telecom arm of India’s second largest real estate developer Unitech Ltd by Norwegian telecom firm Telenor ASA, world’s seventh largest telecom service provider at $1.36 billion; and Swan Telecom, a start-up GSM telecom service company of a Mumbai-based real estate developer Dynamix Balwas Group by Dubai-based Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) at $900 million; as well as South Africa’s largest telecom company MTN Group’s attempts to enter the Indian market – are an indication of the fact that there is ample room to enter this market, at least inorganically.
Of significance is the fact that the government has granted new licenses and spectrum to aspiring operators such as Datacom Solutions a subsidiary of one of India’s leading consumer durables company Videocon Industries Ltd; Loop Telecom, a BPL Mobile Communications group company; S Tel Ltd, joint venture between Skycity Foundations and Telecom Investments (Mauritius) Ltd; among others which are likely targets – but within the regulatory purview as an overseas entity’s stake in the domestic company cannot exceed 74%.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
INDIA SHATTERS MONTHLY MOBILE SUBSCRIBER RECORD
India added new mobile phone subscribers at a furious pace in January after telecom service provider Reliance Communications launched a new network. The nation increased its mobile subscriber tab by a monthly record high 15.4 million people in January, up from the previous record, 10.8 million, in December, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Network World
India added new mobile phone subscribers at a furious pace in January after telecom service provider Reliance Communications launched a new network. The nation increased its mobile subscriber tab by a monthly record high 15.4 million people in January, up from the previous record, 10.8 million, in December, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Network World
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