Telecom Ramblings – tracking the telecom scene
While contemplating my laptop purchase decision I put in much consideration for an iPad as my sole computing device a year or so back when iPad 2 had just hit the market. Much as I had wanted the device for its flaunt as well as form factor I realized that an iPad is not replacementRead More
It seems that ‘those times’ are finally over. The times when telephony rates were going down a seemingly never ending downward path. The telecom rates after years of finding new lows it seems have hit rock bottom and is slowly bouncing back up. Around the nation most operators led of course by the market leaderRead More
As far as voice telephony is concerned the elephant in the room that telephony operators don’t want to talk about for the moment seems to be Voice over IP (VOIP). It has reached a point at least in India where voice call tariffs has hit rock bottom and there is very little leeway for itRead More
I’ve been a recent convert to android and to sum up my experience of the past four months I would have to say it’s been disappointing. While the Android operating system has taken great leaps over the past couple of years to offer a compelling feature list, slick speeds and given phones with excellent formRead More
IPX or an IP packet exchange is an IP based interconnect platform which would enable multiple service providers of various services to interconnect with each other. To put it simply let me just thrash out a few usage scenario: Dharma, a skype user can make an audio call onto Greg, a yahoo user RichieRead More
A year and a quarter down the MNP path the initial hype and hoopla has calmed down quite a bit. But researchers who try to find out the MNP cyclone has left at its wake would be surprised to find that nothing has really changed from before the predicted Armageddon. The more things change theRead More
The draft national telecom policy which got unveiled in October 2011 talks in fine print about the deregulation of IP telephony in India. Today when you think of IP and internet based telephony you relate that with broken conversations and delayed responses (a result of packet drops and latency) and don’t immediately perceive IP telephonyRead More
India has been a late follower in the adoption of most telephony technologies. The shiny black telephone did not become ubiquitous in an Indian household till the nineties, reaching comparable penetration levels probably fifty years behind North America or Western Europe. Mobile phones took its own sweet time getting as common as it is todayRead More
The frills of maintaining separate network for various services that a telephony service operator offers has come into urgent attention over the past few years. The big wide world of telephony has fallen from the heavens from an industry used to be the race horse that investors fell head over heels to put their moneyRead More