GLG News by Broadband Experts in Member Programs

Despite the economic recession, the Internet continues to benefit from the “sea change” in the telecom space.

MTNL CDMA (Garuda) has been a loosing business. IOL Netcom has now been roped in as franchisee to compete with Garuda and others in Delhi and Mumbai. Gains of economies of scale and customer intra-network usage incentives, as achieved in pan India CDMA networks of RCom and TataTeleservices, are not...

Given the tough climate and price challenges associated with building mobile networks in India, the most likely winners will be ZTE and Huawei if CDMA is selected by Reliance and Tata for 3G radio technology. Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent have to bleed in order to get this business.

Pat Russo and Serge Tchuruk have gone.  I wish them well.  Now we have Ben Verwaayen and Philippe Camus to run Alcatel-Lucent.   Healing is a bad word to describe what Verwaayen and Camus need to do,

Qwest has been floundering as a phone company for years, having to deal with PSC fines and general business issues, which appeared to be keeping them from setting goals on newer technology and moving ahead with data sales in particular.  Their FTTNode strategy appears to be solving some of their...

With spectrum auctions concluded and multiple new entrants coming into the Canadian mobile wireless market, it seems that Bell Canada and Telus had to react in order to remain competitive in their market. More bad news for the CDMA technology as a whole and Nortel (a Canadian darling) specifically since...

Having acquired 2G licenses at low prices ($400 million for pan India license and spectrum), companies like Datacom Solutions, Unitech, Loop Telecom and Swan Telecom are seeking enterprize valuations of $ 2-3 billion dollars while offering majority stakes to foreign Telcos. With more than 10 service...

The question posed at the end of the article is key:- The unanswered question--assuming this account is accurate--is why the iPhone 3G shipped with balky power-control software, something that ostensibly could have been discovered in testing? It is true this could have been discovered, but...

A record 9.22 million mobile subscriber additions in July, will soon lead India to break the 10 million barrier. In 2010, with tele-density approaching 45 per cent and sub $5 ARPUs in most regions, telecom players have to brace themselves for a new battle. Licenses and spectrum at abysmally low costs...

The real issue here is one of knowing what the regulatory position is going to be 3 to 4 years out. Will the mobile operators be allowed to re-farm their 2G spectrum, will they be able to use the technology of their choosing and then work the investment plans to make it happen? Is the regulator doing...