Though the Indian Telecom industry has started discussing 5G, we believe it is still couple of years away. 5G standards are still evolving globally, with the first few commercial launches. Looking at the scale of investment, why can’t we expect more participants from different business verticals than plain vanilla telcosContinue Reading

With aggressive push by Reliance Jio in the past one year, 4G- LTE accounted for nearly 40% of the data subscriber base and 80%+ of data usage in India in the June 2017 quarter. LTE accounted for nearly 81% of the total wireless data consumption of 4.3 bn GB duringContinue Reading

Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular operated like a Big Lobby of GSM Wireless service providers without much focus on the market nor offerings. I’ll discuss this in detail on how Airtel and Idea Cellular miserably failed to innovate and take the first mover advantage in my next article. Currently atContinue Reading

China’s Ministry of Industries and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to allocate a total of 500MHz of spectrum for 5G. Although this is only similar in total spectrum size to the current 2G/3G/4G allocation for the three Chinese telcos, which is 507MHz, the major difference is that the 5G spectrum beingContinue Reading