Research & Numbers

BigAdda Eyes $4-5 mn Revenue; The Myth Of Registered Users - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 31 Aug 2008 03:56 AM PST

BigAdda, Reliance ADAG’s social networking play, is eying $4 - $5 million (approx Rs 17 crore) within the next 12 months, expecting a majority of the same to come from…

Internet Usage Jumps 27% Reports ComScore - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 24 Jul 2008 10:22 AM PST

More than 28 million people in India aged 15 and older accessed the internet from home and work in May. This represents a 27% increase over last year. Do note…

Most Indian Mobile Users Are Male: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 24 Jul 2008 06:42 AM PST

As part of their monthly reports on the mobile Web, Opera has released their June 2008 stats breaking down usage of their mobile web browser – Opera Mini – across…

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VAS To Touch $2 Billion This Year, Overall Media To Grow 18.5%: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 22 Jul 2008 12:58 PM PST

Dizzying projections by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in The Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2008-2012 report. The report forecasts VAS ending the year with $2 Billion (approx Rs 85.5 billion). Take these…

Broadband Base Reaches 4.15 Million; Tele-Density at 27.59% - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:59 PM PST

The wireless growth story continued in May with 8.62 million telephone connections (wireless and wireline) being added, bringing the overall tele-density to 26.89%. No suprises as wireline subscriptions decreased to…

India Serves 345 Million Ad Impressions, Ranks Second: AdMob - 7 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 15 Jun 2008 01:50 AM PST

A quick stat update from AdMob. 344.7 million impressions were served in May in India making it the no. 2 country by traffic volume after the US. Most ad impressions…

JuxtConsult Reports 35.06 Million Regular Internet Users; 19% Growth In Urban Regular Net Users - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 04 Jun 2008 10:28 AM PST

Regular Indian internet urban users grew 19% in 2008 to reach 30 million ‘regular’ users and a total of 35 million. Regular is defined as users who access the internet…

Opera Mini Usage Trends In India: Social Networking And Content Are Key - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 20 May 2008 04:33 AM PST

With no third party data available on mobile website usage in India, we’re relying on company information for trends. Over the past couple of weeks, conversations I’ve had with even…

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…

FICCI-PwC: Online Advertising At Rs. 2.7 Bn; Gaming, Animation & VFx At Rs. 13 Bn - 3 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 - 2 Comments
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 - 15 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 - 5 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 - 1 Comment
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 - 1 Comment
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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 1 Comment
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 - 5 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 - 4 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…