Predictably, the 3G auctions have attracted only existing 2G players -- Aircel, Bharti, Etisalat, Idea, Reliance Telecom, S Tel, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone and Videocon Telecom -- with not a single new entrant, global or Indian, in the list.
TOI was the first to predict, way back on August 12, 2008, that new players would probably stay away from the 3G auctions after the auctions were first announced. Even after the guidelines were revised for the 2010 auctions, the barriers for new entrants remained unchanged. The absence of global bidders is likely to ensure that the bidding will be conservative, and probably lower than the ambitious Rs 40,000 crore revenue target first announced by telecom minister A Raja.
The BWA list has four new players -- Augere, Tikona Wireless, Infotel Broadband Services and Qualcomm -- while Spice is making a comeback into the telecom space. Infotel belongs to Anant Nahatta, the son of HFCL owner Mahendra Nahatta.
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It could not be confirmed if these are all pan-India applications or if players will eventually bid only for select circles. DoT is meeting at 11.30am on Saturday, March 20 to screen the applications. "We will check to see if the applicants meet the licence criteria. For example, no company can hold more than 10% in another applicant company," a senior DoT official told TOI.
The simultaneous, ascending auction designed by auctioneer N M Rothschild enables bidders to bid from their own computer screen with the value of the highest bid and number of bidders in each round for each circle visible to each player, the DoT official added.
However, he declined to reveal what the revenue expectations from these auctions were. "We expect it to be a good auction on the back of robust demand," he said. However, the government recently said it expects to earn at least Rs 30,000 crore from the auction proceeds.
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The reserve price for pan-India 3G spectrum is Rs 3,500 crore and the bids could go anywhere in the range of Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000 crore for each pan-India slot. For BWA auctions, the reserve price is Rs 1,750 crore with bids expected in the range of Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 crore per pan-India slot.
However, data revenue growth in the near term is not expected to be robust enough to justify extravagant bidding, as India is primarily a voice market with over 97% of the market still vanilla voice with rock bottom ARPUs (average revenue per user) of less than Rs 200.
"Unrealistically high 3G bids were witnessed in the UK, France and Germany in early 2000 because large tranches of spectrum were on offer and data growth was expected to take off. However, data has been slow to grow globally. The US is the largest data market today and this growth has only been fuelled lately after the launch of the Apple iPhone," said a telecom expert.
The 3G auctions are scheduled to begin on April 9. The government is auctioning three 2x5 MHz slots in the 2.1 GHz band in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai) and Kerala (all A Category circles), Haryana, UP East, UP West, Rajasthan, MP (all B Category circles), Orissa, Assam and North East (all C Category circles). Four slots are on offer in Punjab (Category A), West Bengal (Category B), and Himachal and Bihar (Category C).
BWA auctions for two pan-India slots of 20 MHz each will begin after the close of the 3G auctions. BWA is used for high-speed data and video applications. 3G is also a technology that is preferred for data - essentially for triple play or voice, data and video which is far superior to the 2G networks used in India.
Source: http://www.prlog.org/10585068-new-companies-to-bid-for-3g-spectrum.html
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
World's Cheapest Electric Vehicle Ev Coming To USA
Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, was introduced at the Delhi Auto Show in January, 2008 and retails for about US$ 2,500 in India.
There are millions of college and highschool students all over the industrialized world who would love to have an affordable EV as their first car. Another population who stands to benefit from such opportunity is the third world working population where gas price is exorbitant and hydroelectric energy is readily available. One such opportunity exists right now in the country of Haiti who's infrastructure is almost totally devastated by the earthquake. Combined with alternative energy development, a cheap EV would be ideal there. Tata Nano EV could replace or supplant gas cars in most island nations around the world whith short distance travel like exists in the Carribbean and Pacific Islands.
At the Detroit Motor Show Tata Technologies presented its ‘Better Innovation’ event at the Detroit Science Center and Ratan Tata, Tata Motors’ chairman, while speaking at the Delhi Auto Expo confirmed that his company was working on a Nano variant for the American market.
Here is what he said, “We also recognise there is a market for the Nano not only in developing countries, but possibly in the developed countries. For the United States we need a car which has a larger engine and we need additional crash test modifications and we are in the process of doing it. We should be there in about three years.” Most think he is referring here to an electric motor.
“The innovative thinking that brought the Tata Nano to market is symbolic of what Tata Technologies has to offer the automotive industry. Tata Technologies was front-and-center in engineering and developing the Nano; working closely with Tata Motors and with a significant number of the Nano project suppliers", said Warren Harris, Tata Technologies’ president and COO of the Center for Advanced Engineering and Design in Pune, India.
Tata is expected to keep its claim by also being the cheapest in the US for the EV variant as well. PTI reports that the small car being showcased by the Tatas is expected to be retailed there at around US$ 5,000. If the 4 seats Nano EV retails between $5,000 and 9,000 it is likely to be the world's cheapest electric vehicle EV.
Source: http://www.prlog.org/10560200-worlds-cheapest-electric-vehicle-ev-coming-to-usa.html
There are millions of college and highschool students all over the industrialized world who would love to have an affordable EV as their first car. Another population who stands to benefit from such opportunity is the third world working population where gas price is exorbitant and hydroelectric energy is readily available. One such opportunity exists right now in the country of Haiti who's infrastructure is almost totally devastated by the earthquake. Combined with alternative energy development, a cheap EV would be ideal there. Tata Nano EV could replace or supplant gas cars in most island nations around the world whith short distance travel like exists in the Carribbean and Pacific Islands.
At the Detroit Motor Show Tata Technologies presented its ‘Better Innovation’ event at the Detroit Science Center and Ratan Tata, Tata Motors’ chairman, while speaking at the Delhi Auto Expo confirmed that his company was working on a Nano variant for the American market.
Here is what he said, “We also recognise there is a market for the Nano not only in developing countries, but possibly in the developed countries. For the United States we need a car which has a larger engine and we need additional crash test modifications and we are in the process of doing it. We should be there in about three years.” Most think he is referring here to an electric motor.
“The innovative thinking that brought the Tata Nano to market is symbolic of what Tata Technologies has to offer the automotive industry. Tata Technologies was front-and-center in engineering and developing the Nano; working closely with Tata Motors and with a significant number of the Nano project suppliers", said Warren Harris, Tata Technologies’ president and COO of the Center for Advanced Engineering and Design in Pune, India.
Tata is expected to keep its claim by also being the cheapest in the US for the EV variant as well. PTI reports that the small car being showcased by the Tatas is expected to be retailed there at around US$ 5,000. If the 4 seats Nano EV retails between $5,000 and 9,000 it is likely to be the world's cheapest electric vehicle EV.
Source: http://www.prlog.org/10560200-worlds-cheapest-electric-vehicle-ev-coming-to-usa.html
Sunday, February 21, 2010
How Yahoo-Microsoft deal will work
The 10-year deal, struck last July, is the biggest effort yet by Microsoft to establish an online business to rival Google, an area where Microsoft has lost $5 billion over the last four years.
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division said the deal was unlikely to substantially lessen competition.
US market participants had expressed support for the partnership as a way to create a more viable alternative to Google, the division said in a statement.
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Google, which did not oppose the partnership, did not comment specifically on the regulatory approval but said that there has always been "robust" competition in the search ad business.
How the deal works
The deal means Bing becomes the search engine for Microsoft and Yahoo sites, while Yahoo focuses on attracting big advertisers.
Microsoft will handle the automated auction of search ads for use on both companies' sites, and pay Yahoo a portion of search ad sales generated on Yahoo pages.
Microsoft is hoping that by making itself a single conduit for advertisers to access customers on both sites, it will become a credible alternative to Google.
Last month Yahoo handled 17 percent of US Internet searches, while Microsoft took 11.3 percent, according to comScore. Theoretically, that would now give Microsoft over 28 percent of search traffic, against Google's 65.4 percent.
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"At 30 points we are now a credible option, so that number matters," said Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi, who is charged with making Bing and the MSN portal a financial success.
Globally, Google is even more dominant, with 90 percent of the search market compared with 7.4 percent for a combined Yahoo and Bing, according to November data from Web research firm StatCounter.
Fully complete early 2012
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal was broadly expected to gain approval, but some had thought the companies might have to alter the deal's terms.
The partnership took months to hammer out last year. It followed Microsoft's aborted $47.5 billion Yahoo takeover attempt the year before. Google abandoned its own advertising deal with Yahoo in 2008, which Microsoft opposed, under pressure from the US Justice Department.
Approval means Microsoft can begin the task of putting its Bing search engine into Yahoo sites. Neither company has laid out exactly how Yahoo's new search pages will look, but they will essentially be Bing searches with some customization of results by Yahoo.
The companies aim to get the partnership fully operational in the United States by the end of this year, with the transition of advertisers taking place before the holiday shopping season, if possible. The partnership should be globally complete by early 2012.
The deal had already been cleared by regulators in Australia, Brazil and Canada, but needed US and European approval to take effect. The companies said they are still working with regulators in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
Source: http://www.prlog.org/10540601-how-yahoo-microsoft-deal-will-work.html
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division said the deal was unlikely to substantially lessen competition.
US market participants had expressed support for the partnership as a way to create a more viable alternative to Google, the division said in a statement.
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Google, which did not oppose the partnership, did not comment specifically on the regulatory approval but said that there has always been "robust" competition in the search ad business.
How the deal works
The deal means Bing becomes the search engine for Microsoft and Yahoo sites, while Yahoo focuses on attracting big advertisers.
Microsoft will handle the automated auction of search ads for use on both companies' sites, and pay Yahoo a portion of search ad sales generated on Yahoo pages.
Microsoft is hoping that by making itself a single conduit for advertisers to access customers on both sites, it will become a credible alternative to Google.
Last month Yahoo handled 17 percent of US Internet searches, while Microsoft took 11.3 percent, according to comScore. Theoretically, that would now give Microsoft over 28 percent of search traffic, against Google's 65.4 percent.
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"At 30 points we are now a credible option, so that number matters," said Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi, who is charged with making Bing and the MSN portal a financial success.
Globally, Google is even more dominant, with 90 percent of the search market compared with 7.4 percent for a combined Yahoo and Bing, according to November data from Web research firm StatCounter.
Fully complete early 2012
The Microsoft-Yahoo deal was broadly expected to gain approval, but some had thought the companies might have to alter the deal's terms.
The partnership took months to hammer out last year. It followed Microsoft's aborted $47.5 billion Yahoo takeover attempt the year before. Google abandoned its own advertising deal with Yahoo in 2008, which Microsoft opposed, under pressure from the US Justice Department.
Approval means Microsoft can begin the task of putting its Bing search engine into Yahoo sites. Neither company has laid out exactly how Yahoo's new search pages will look, but they will essentially be Bing searches with some customization of results by Yahoo.
The companies aim to get the partnership fully operational in the United States by the end of this year, with the transition of advertisers taking place before the holiday shopping season, if possible. The partnership should be globally complete by early 2012.
The deal had already been cleared by regulators in Australia, Brazil and Canada, but needed US and European approval to take effect. The companies said they are still working with regulators in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
Source: http://www.prlog.org/10540601-how-yahoo-microsoft-deal-will-work.html
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