Two huge, unexpected developments have played havoc with the economies of the entire world, both connected with China. A new virus spread like wildfire, paralyzing...
Rajan Mathews, P Balaji,Ankit Agarwal, Amit Marwah and Sachin Kalantri at a Webinar recently organized by Faisal Kawoosa, Chief Analyst, techARC, with Communictions Today as its...
Forward-thinking leaders are experiencing a wake-up call, recognizing that the probability and types of risk to business continuity are higher than commonly believed, and they are...
Ambitions for 5G include being both more sophisticated and deployed at scale in enterprise and industry verticals. This points to the need for pervasive end-to-end automation...
As we prepare to enter the next decade, telecoms are being transformed by technology in a variety of ways. Over the last decade, the industry began...
As consumer telco products become more commoditized, and customers become more attached to their core services, challenging conditions of the past remain in place. The increased...
Once again, the fate of the entire industry: the telecom service providers, the equipment manufacturers, the OEMs, and the allied verticals depends on the stance of...
Customers want services that are simple to explore, use, and pay for. They are looking for a digital-first experience as well as personalized service that is...
Mobile World Congress has come and gone for another year and Global Mobile Suppliers Association, Farnham, UK, has compiled a huge database and released reports post...
The report, recently released by BIF and ICRIER, while admitting that regulatory judgement on auction design is an unenviable task, recommends a relook at auction design,...
With USD 10 billion investment committed in telecom infrastructure, and 100 percent teledensity planned, the Indian telecom equipment vendors can only look upward over the next...
Telecommunications in India has emerged as a key driver of economic and social development in an increasingly knowledge intensive global scenario. The telecom infrastructure facilitates connectivity...
Bharti Airtel is one of the world’s leading providers of telecommunication services with significant presence in 16 countries, representing India, Sri Lanka, and 14 countries in...
The state-run telecom operator, BSNL claims that it has outperformed private sector rivals such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, and Idea Cellular in net subscriber additions,...
The other state-owned telco, MTNL, operates only in Mumbai and Delhi in India, and in Mauritius, so its scale of cash flow is significantly lower than...
Reliance Communications (RCom) has exited the flagship wireless businesses. It has hived-off its fiber and related infrastructure assets worth of Rs 3000 crore to Reliance Jio, with...
Reliance Jio disrupted the telecom sector when it launched its services in September 2016, triggering a wave of consolidation in one of the world’s most crowded...
Tata Teleservices (TTSL and TTML) are in the process of merging their consumer mobile business (CMB) with Bharti Airtel (and Bharti Hexacom). Shareholders of Bharti Airtel...
Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, two of India’s leading operators partnered together on August 31, 2018 to form Vodafone Idea Limited, building a company of international...
No doubt, India must not get left behind when it comes to 5G, as it did at the time of 2G, 3G, and 4G, but the...
The draft of the National Digital Communications Policy 2018 is a bold attempt to ensure India’s transition to a digitally empowered economy and create a vibrant...
Digital transformation is a state of being; it is not something with definitive beginning and ending points, but a constant state of motion. Digital transformation is...
While telecom service providers see the big opportunity IoT offers, given the current financial health of the telecom sector they may be able to immerse in...
Stakeholders in the telecom value chain must capitalize on the potential of new age technologies and help drive transformational changes that go beyond their core business.
3GPP is becoming increasingly important as the mobile ecosystem expands beyond smartphones.
In the competitive telecom services scenario that has emerged over the last couple of years, the Indian market seems to be in no mood for MVNOs.
The industry is now consolidating on subscriber base.
3300-4200 MHz Emerges Globally as a Key Spectrum Range
July 1, 2017 is a defining day in India’s history of tax reforms. No country as large and complex as India has attempted a tax reform...
New innovations in G.fast and fiber-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp) enable next-generation bandwidth coupled with a fiber-deep solution without committing to a full fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) installation.
Gigabit LTE has the potential to accelerate 5G rollout as it is a true stepping stone to 5G. Carriers will be able to take advantage of...
Brand Finance has ranked the most valuable telecom brands globally, bridging the gap between the marketing and financial worlds for 2016.
Operators will invest heavily in the advancement of LTE standards, rather than going all-in on 5G before it has been fully standardized.
