Martin Varsavsky, CEO FON (largest Wi-Fi network operator) once said “We are sorry for telecom operators who made the mistake of 3G but it’s not our fault”. Another top executive at one of the European operators had once remarked that “For operators, 3G is essentially a waste of money”. There is a lot of media hype in the emerging countries like India and China...

economyRead my other articles on www.telecomcircle.com The financial crisis that engulfed the world last year is now playing out in full proportions. This has spread to each industry and telecom industry is no exception. The impact of the recession in the western world and economic slowdown in the emerging countries is being felt in a big way by all the players in the...

indian-telecom-subscribersTelecom is a booming industry. GSM alone (which is about 85% of world-wide wireless market) contributes about $ 3 Billion revenue every day. While all sectors of economy are getting badly impacted by the economic recession and liquidity crunch, impact on telecom is a little less severe, at least in countries like India & China. Some people...

  Greater focus on data services and fewer tariff wars as focus shifts to managing EBIDTA margins Both the handset manufacturers and operators would focus on the handset OS platform Smart Phones likely to be the fastest growing category amongst handsets Handset vendors to aggressively push GPS Mobile RSS Feeds and Widgets to emerge stronger Social Networking (esp. IM+eMail)...