Research & Numbers

India Had 261 Mobile Million Subs End March; Only 3.9 Million Broadband Subs - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 10:59 PM PST

As per a TRAI release, India became the second largest wireless network in the world, by the end of March. India now has over 261.09 million wireless subscribers, with 10.16…

India Ranked 50 By World Economic Forum On Network Readiness Index - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:17 PM PST

India scored 4.06 garnering a rank of 50 out of 127 countries on a Networked Readiness Index (NRI) ranking for 2007-200. The report published by the World Economic Forum in…

Economist Intelligence Unit Launches India Ops - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 27 Mar 2008 09:45 PM PST

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has announced the launch of its India operations, reports the Hindu. A part of the Economist Group, the EIU will focus on assisting domestic companies…

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FICCI-PwC: Online Advertising At Rs. 2.7 Bn; Gaming, Animation & VFx At Rs. 13 Bn - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 17 Mar 2008 05:45 AM PST

With FICCI Frames a little over a week away, FICCI has released a summary of its annual report on the Indian Entertainment and Media Industry. They estimate that Indian Entertainment…

Telecom Roundup: Hughes-Kiosks; BSNL-Broadbad; Mobile Subs; Laptop Sales - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 10 Feb 2008 08:19 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] -- Hughes India has inked a deal wtih Comat Technologies to provide 10,000 broadband kiosks. Out of the 10,000 kiosks, 2000 have already been installed. Here is…

Stats On Games On Demand Users From Indiagames - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Jan 2008 01:01 AM PST

Indiagames’ Games on Demand service has reached 10,000 paid subscribers, and the company has shared some data on the gaming habits on its users: -- Total gameplay over the entire…

BigAdda Claims 1.2 Million Users - 14 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Jan 2008 04:56 AM PST

Reliance ADA Group’s social networking site BigAdda has released some stats on usage on it’s site. The stats: -- The site claims to have 1.24 million users, adding 12,000-15,000 a…

Telecom Performance Report: ARPU Declines, VoIP Grows; 46.37 Wireless Internet Subs - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Jan 2008 12:48 AM PST

Quite a few of our readers inquire about the total number of GPRS users India; as per the TRAI’s quarterly telecom performance indicator report, the total number of Wireless Internet…

I-Cube Report: Young User Base Spending Time Online Mostly For Information And Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 17 Dec 2007 08:37 PM PST

The IAMAI-IMRB I-Cube report posits that, of an active user base of 32 million users in 30 cities in India, around 33 percent are Young Men, and 21 percent are…

Future of Mobile Content And Premium Services in India: Research & Discussion Panel - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Dec 2007 12:24 AM PST

Last week Stanford University hosted a discussion panel titled ”Indian Wireless Market—Why Mobile?, Why India?, Why Now?”, discussing the future of mobile value-added services market. Along with the panel, graduate…

I-Cube Report: More Users From Smaller Towns Are Accessing The Internet - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 10 Dec 2007 02:26 AM PST

Internet usage in small towns has increased over the past three years, as per a release from the IAMAI-IMRB I-Cube report: towns with a population of less than 0.5 million…

I-Cube Report: India’s Active Internet User Base At 32 Million - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 04 Dec 2007 10:25 PM PST

As per the annual I Cube report from the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, the number of active Internet users in India had reached 32…

India Adds Just 20,000 Broadband Subscribers In October 2007
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 27 Nov 2007 08:45 PM PST

Corny though it may be, I found the title of this story ("Broadband now a power point presentation") in the Times of India to be very perceptive. Because that’s pretty…

Head In The Sand, FICCI Wants DRM - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 Nov 2007 08:41 PM PST

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) believes that an ‘efficient digital rights management (DRM) system will give ‘a fillip to the fast-growing Indian digital entertainment and…

Telecom Roundup: RCom-VAS; Telecom Licences, Tariffs; CDMA Subs; 3G vs 4G - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 20 Nov 2007 03:21 AM PST

-- Mahesh Prasad, President of RCom’s Applications, Solutions and Content group has told Business Standard in an interview that the net contribution from VAS (the story says ‘network contribution’) each…

LiveMint Launches Market Info, Videos - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 14 Nov 2007 10:57 PM PST

LiveMint, the website for HT Media’s business paper Mint, has launched MarketInfo, a business information segment that provides Company Information, details on performance of Mutual Funds, Stock Markets, live domestic…

Indian GSM Subscribers Reaching 160 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 14 Nov 2007 06:15 PM PST

India has about 159.7 million GSM-based mobile subscribers at the end of October, according to figures released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) yesterday. The subscriber base represents…

IPTV Will Struggle In India Says Gartner - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 14 Nov 2007 04:48 AM PST

Gartner reiterates something that I’ve said time and again - that IPTV will struggle in India. The reasons that Gartner gives for this are: -- Cable TV users pay almost…

Research Roundup: GroupM On Media Investments; AdMob Handsets In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 07 Nov 2007 02:27 AM PST

-- As per an estimate from GroupM, media investment in India is expected to exceed $5 Billion next year, and hit $10 Billion by 2011. Overall media investment is increasing…

Indian Content Sold Overseas Valued At $200 Mln - E&Y - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 09 Oct 2007 08:14 PM PST

The total value of Indian content sold outside India is about $200 million and it could grow over 20 percent every year, according to Ernst & Young’s latest report titled…

E-Commerce To See 30% Growth In 2007-08 Boosted By Classifieds, Paid Content, Downloads - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 08 Oct 2007 08:06 PM PST

E-commerce is set to grow at a 30 percent pace to touch Rs. 9,210 crores in 2007-08 from Rs. 7,080 crore in 2006-07 boosted by strength in the classifieds, subscription…

Quarterly Telecom Performance Report: India’s Internet Subscriber Base Declines Marginally - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 08 Oct 2007 12:34 AM PST

The TRAI has released a report “The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators April – June 2007”, downloadable here. Broadband -- As per Table 3.1 which gives details of subscriber base…

So Much For Organic Growth, Internet Portal TV Spends Up 190 Percent - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 04 Oct 2007 11:29 PM PST

One of our readers VAS-Guy asked a pertinent question in the comments to this post - about how many users/downloads STAR India has managed with all it’s advertising for the…

One Source Equals Industry Watchers? Readers Beware! - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 19 Sep 2007 09:11 PM PST

So here’s why readers must not believe statistics in some news stories. This Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) article is based on data estimated by one source but is attributed to “industry…

It’s All About Numbers - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sat 08 Sep 2007 12:36 AM PST

Some very imaginative wordplay from the Department of Telecommunication (DoT). ET reports that they claim India has surpassed its target of 40 million Internet subscribers by 2010, three years in…