Service providers in telecom space, particularly small to medium sized are contracting out their operations to Managed Services providers, essentially vendors out there. There must be so many business justifications in doing so, but are the service providers accepting their failure to run the operations effectively. After all what do these managed services providers do? [...]

Today, the parliament of India is noisy again. There is no big deal about it. It happens every day it is supposed to work. But today, technology is making them shout. With the recent ongoing IPL controversies, outlook, a magazine of repute in India, has come out with a report claiming that the government super [...]

Recently, I have witnessed a significant increase in the advertising of Aircel. So thought, they must be now trying to build up as a national brand. Till now, it was focusing the southern part of India. For the month of March, over 15 million subscribers have been added in the wireless segment. In absolute terms [...]

Next Generation Networks have made broadcasters telecom companies and vice versa. A telecom operator is your television broadcaster and the company that provided content to your television sets is offering you telephone services. As an end user, it might rarely be affecting or could even go unnoticed. But, for the industry it matters a lot. [...]

Nokia yesterday announced its Q1 results for 2009. All the financial parameters are witnessing a decrease year on year and sequentially. There is only one major reason to this and that is the recessionary market conditions. The consumer faith is all time low and every penny (whatever left) is being spent judiciously, if at all. [...]

VoIP is still restricted in many countries by regulations. Apart from the birth it gives to the grey market, eats up revenue and traffic of the PSTN operators, blah blah; the restrictions not allowing VoIP has fragmented the industry considerably. The large serious players are unlikely to do anything that is illegal. So we might [...]

Skype is one of the products that has contributed in its field and become an integral part of the industry. It is a global telecom operator in essence with most of its followers claiming to have become global players. The application is used by over 400 million registered users. The most recent update (Version 4) [...]

Mobile phones and an individual have become inseparable. Leaving apart its dark sides, it is proving beneficial in several ways. For business people, it means optimization of time and for the general masses it means timely communication in case of emergencies. India is facing many issues that make the lives of the people insecure. People [...]

One basic benefit that attracts any person towards IP is cost saving. Where you were spending around a dollar on call per minute, IP alternative could either be offering that for free or around a few cents. Even at this level companies are enjoying handsome margin levels. IP has really enabled certain technologies that could [...]

Historically data vendors, like Cisco, have got an entry in telecom space mainly due to IP Telephony. IP Telephony did wonders and bad things concurrently for vendors in the communications space – be it a data vendor, voice vendor, video vendor, wireless vendor or wireline vendor. IP brought them all on the same table. By [...]