Telecom
Gokul’s question on the legality of 3pcc VoIP calls in India
I missed this earlier, Gokul had a question up on his blog asking:
Question on legality of 3pcc VoIP call in India « Gokul Blog — A conversation on VoIP, IMS, Cisco and Just about Anything
Basically, let’s say that I have a Soft PBX making calls to two mobile endpoints and then connecting them [...]
6 million new Internet users in India in 2006-2007 but broadband growth rates are stalling
Its 2007, the "Year of Broadband" in India, but broadband growth rates are stalling! The dream was for 9 Million broadband (>=256kbps) subscribers by year end.
However the latest numbers show the number of subscribers at just 2.46 Million and the growth rate in May dropped to 0.04 million from 0.13 million in the previous month. [...]
TRAI makes the case for femtocells and GSM phones with WiFi support
The TRAI has figured out something that I felt was obvious, that 60% of all calls on mobile phones are made when the caller or the called person is inside a building.
The Hindu Business Line : Mobile phone calls within buildings account for 60%
According to estimates made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of [...]
Telecom Professionals Group June 2007 meeting
The second meeting of the newly formed (i.e. May 2007) Telecom Professionals Group was held on Friday (June 22, 2007) at Park Sheraton in Chennai. Gokul has documented the minutes of meeting here.
Outside the official agenda of administrative issues with organizing the group, discussion topics were quite varied, a lot of discussions centered around VoIP [...]
BSNL’s free telephone service to employees and DOT staff
A reader of the Tribune, Chandigarh has written in to complain about free telephone service provided to employees and to staff...
BSNL provides this service to their current employees and staff at DOT (probably above a certain grade) and to retired staff from BSNL and DOT. However, the treatment of these subscribers - who often times [...]
Lost amidst the hype around WiMAX, South Koreans are snubbing WiMAX/WiBro
I somehow missed this gem in TeleGeography's CommsUpdate (March 14, 2007) until just now:
WiMAX snubbed by users: CommsUpdate : TeleGeography Research
It appears there are only 1,057 subscribers to WiBro in all of South Korea! And SK Telecom's got about 14.3% market share while KT Corp has the remaining.
Why isn't this piece of news being analyzed [...]
More on IVRs: An IVR that reads your mind
Brian McConnell continues his discussions on IVRs at the ETel conference:
ETel Coverage: IVR That Reads Your Mind - O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Great idea, wish more IVR systems would be built around these concepts. To a certain extent, I have seen this already working with banks in India. For example, when you get through the authentication prompt [...]
Antenna overload in personal communication devices
Nick Jones at the Gartner blog brought up a very important issue regarding miniaturization of communication devices: How do we deal with the antenna overload?
Typical dual-mode 3G phones have at least these antennae:
3G antennas for 850, 1900 and 2100 MHz to support tri-band 3G
1800 and 900 MHz for the other two 2G frequencies
2.4 GHz - [...]
The problem with Voicemail in India
As I was catching up on my reading list of blogs, I noticed this post by Brian McConnell at Emerging Telephony:A Poor Man's Hack For Improving Mobile Voicemail - O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Reading the recent post about the poor state of voice mail, I realized that this is a perfect example of how bad [...]
Vodafone wins Hutch-Essar for $19 bn
[Image source: CNN-IBN]
Multiple news channels in India are reporting that Vodaphone has won the bidding war for Hutch-Essar India. Of course, none of the participants have disclosed anything at this time, announcements are expected on Monday Feb 12, 2007:
CNN-IBN article on Vodaphone - Hutch-Essar
NDTV article on Vodaphone - Hutch-Essar
This puts the enterprise value / sub [...]
