India - Mobile Communications - Market

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India - Mobile
Communications - Market 

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Summary
From a humble start, growth in India's mobile
sector rapidly picked up pace and developed a
sustained momentum, aided by higher subscriber
volumes, lower tariffs and falling handset
prices. Home to a group of global operators
working with local companies, had what seemed to
be a booming mobile market at the start of 2012.
However, growth in India's huge mobile market
effectively stalled during 2012 and the market
was looking very subdued coming into 2013. Mobile
operators had added 370 million new subscribers
to their networks in 2010/2011, an average of 15
million per month over that two year period, to
bring the total number of subscribers to around
900 million by the start of 2012. The year
heralded the start of a somewhat erratic period
in the development of the subscriber base that
saw 2012 end with just 865 million subscribers.
The drop in subscriber numbers was a combination
of falling customer demand and the effect of
operators cleaning out' their data bases.


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Key developments the mobile subscriber base
contracted by 3 in 2012 and growth was only
marginal in 2013despite this, with mobile
penetration of 72, there was room for further
growthmobile ARPUs appeared to be stabilising
and even growing by 2012/2013 as operators
cleared out their subscriber databases and data
services became more significant a number of
operators had exited the market following the
so-called 2G scandal and further fall-out was
anticipatedthe re-auction of 2G licences took
place in three steps (November 2012, March 2013,
February 2014) the initial outcome of the
re-auction process was judged to be a major
failure for the government but the third auction
in February 2014 was a resounding success


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Companies covered in this report
include Aircel/Dishnet, Bharti Airtel, Loop
Mobile (BPL Mobile), Quadrant (HFCL), Idea/Spice,
Reliance Communications, Reliance Jio Infocomm
(RJI), Tata Teleservices, Vodafone Essar,
Telewings (Uninor), Videocon, S Tel, Batelco,
Bharti Telenet, Reliance Infocomm, Tata
Teleservices, Sistema (Shyam Telelink), Swan
Telecom, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Mahanagar Telephone
Nigam Ltd (MTNL), Data Access, Hughes Telecom,
Videocon, SingTel.


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Table of Contents

1. Synopsis
2. Mobile communications
3. Overview of India's mobile market
4. Mobile technologies
5. Overview of mobile technologies used in India
6. BSNL and MTNL
7. Mobile voice services
8. Prepaid
9. Mobile data services
10. BlackBerry
11. Mobile TV
12. M-banking and money transfer
13. Notes on forecasting
14. Related reports

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