Archive for the ‘Wireless’ Category

Aircel leads the growth in mobile market for March in private operators segment

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 22, 2009 – 6:47 pm

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 [...]

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Wait a while for best deals on mobiles

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 16, 2009 – 8:59 pm

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. [...]

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India needs mobile services for kids

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 10, 2009 – 4:16 pm

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 [...]

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WiMAX seen as a network to remain connected by data vendors

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 8, 2009 – 4:58 pm

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 [...]

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Blackberry can be a potential driver for Fixed Mobile Convergence

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 4, 2009 – 6:33 pm

Research In Motion, the force behind, perhaps, the most successful wireless device in enterprise domain – Blackberry, announced yet another extraordinary quarter, even in this downturn, when everyone is trying to stabilise than grow. As per the impressive results for the quarterly (December 2008 – February 2009), the company earned a revenue of $3.46 billion [...]

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Apple’s ‘touch’ to the industry

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on February 20, 2009 – 6:32 pm

iPhone did genuinely good for Apple. After mac books and ipods, this was yet another marvel from Apple that laid a mark on the industry as a whole. No doubt, Apple made money and is making money from iPhones, the industry owes a lot to the phone as well. iPhone gave the mobile industry the [...]

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IPoW makes sense to all

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on January 31, 2009 – 7:41 am

Very few still doubt IP as a technology. We have seen data, voice and video all traversing through an IP network. Broadband technologies have emerged very powerful in this regard as triple play and quad play services are being offered by service providers world over. With wireless element increasing its presence into our communications scenario [...]

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