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  • Publicis wins the creative business for Ambuja Cement

    Publicis wins the creative business for Ambuja Cement

  • UTStarcom enters into contract with BSNL to help new generation networks

    UTStarcom enters into contract with BSNL to help new generation networks

    NEW DELHI: UTStarcom has announced a $24 million contract with Indian telecoms BSNL to supply multi-service access network (MSAN) equipment and support design, engineering and installation.

     

    The public-sector company, BSNL is upgrading its network to offer next generation multi-media services to its customers and this entails migrating existing PSTN/ISDN customers to next generation network (NGN) to enable supplementary services using Internet Protocol (IP) along with basic telephony.

     

    The upgrade will cover broadband lines for a wide swath of residential and enterprise customers across western and northern regions of India that include large urban centers such as Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakand and Chattisgargh.

     

    Recently, the Chinese telecom network vendor Huawei announced its NGN switch deal with BSNL to migrate its traditional telephone exchanges to IP based NGN. The IP transition will be in phases and will cover all major telecom circles of BSNL.

    As part of the NGN deal, BSNL will migrate four million existing PSTN subscribers to IMS platform and offer next generation services besides voice, such as video, IPTV, IP-Centrex and MMVC. One million lines will be replaced in Phase-1 and 3 million lines in Phase-2 to migrate existing four million PSTN subscribers to IMS (IP Multi-media Subsystem) platform.

     

    UTStarcom is working with Indian government-owned telecom equipment vendor ITI for the BSNL network upgrade.

    BSNL chairman and MD R K Upadhyay said: “UTStarcom has been a reliable partner in the past, and we have deployed a large number of their broadband access products on our network.”

    UTStarcom India claims that it already holds 35 percent share for broadband Internet network equipment.”

     

    There are approximately 15 million wireline broadband customers in India, of which UTStarcom has supplied more than six million DSL ports.

     

    UTStarcom’s customers in India include telecom service providers, such as Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications.

    Recently, UTStarcom launched a major sales and marketing initiative to promote its latest broadband products to carriers in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.

  • Why Tata Sky’s Harit Nagpal is pained about the MPEG-4 STB rollout

    Why Tata Sky’s Harit Nagpal is pained about the MPEG-4 STB rollout

    MUMBAI: A press release hit indiantelevision.com yesterday disclosing how US chip company Broadcom had got a massive order to supply standard definition MPEG-4 set top boxes (STBs) to Tata Sky. A simple release right. But it surely got the goose of Tata Sky managing director Harit Nagpal.

    Tata Sky MD Harit Nagpal is still awaiting a response from ISRO officials
    “This entire exercise is costing Tata Sky about Rs 1000 crore,” was Nagpal’s admission, when indiantelevision.com called him up. “We are replacing close to 5-6 million MPEG-2 SD STBs at no cost to consumers over the next year. All of this is coming in from internal accruals.” Nagpal says the DTH operator normally supplies about three million STBs a year for new acquisitions and churn. “This year we will be doing about 9-10 million STBs,” says he.

     

    The volumes have forced him to bring in emergency teams to make sure they install 500,000 STBs a month (made by Huawei and Humax apart from other international STB makers). This is apart from the regular service teams, which handle regular installation and problems.

    “For us even at Tata Sky it is a massive exercise and we have been working on it for the past three months and have just started the rollout,” he reveals.

    But isn’t that good? “Upgrading the boxes will give me more capacity for 12-14 channels,” he admits. “But I am being forced to do this because Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) has yet to give me my transponders. I could have put this money elsewhere on expanding my digitisation plans.”

    Tata Sky’s signals are being beamed off Insat 4A; but it had signed a contract to lease 12 transponders on ISRO’s GSAT-10 satellite around five years ago which have not been delivered to Tata Sky yet, even after the satellite launched in to space in September 2012.

    “It is sad that after national publications and a medium such as yours have carried my complaint against ISRO, I have not got a single revert from it about our transponders. We intend to take legal action since all our attempts to reach ISRO have failed. The courts are on vacation now, when they open again, we will move them,” added Nagpal.

    The transponders would have allowed Tata Sky to increase its channel offerings to consumers. However, now the new STBs will allow Tata Sky to add more channels to its bouquet. “We have been adding channels in a phased manner; the process will now be accelerated with the MPEG-4 STB. By June-July next year we should be able to revise our channel offerings to consumers,” said Nagpal.

  • Smartphone sales surge; Smartphone apps score over tablets

    Smartphone sales surge; Smartphone apps score over tablets

    MUMBAI: Here‘s some food for thought. Even as Nokia is betting on its 1O5 $20 phone to ramp up its sales worldwide, IDC last week reported that sales of smartphones in Q1, raced ahead of sales of simple or feature phones for the first time in mobile phone history.

    According to market research firm, International Data Corp (IDC), vendors shipped a total of 418.6 million mobile phones in Q1 compared to 402.4 million units in the first quarter of 2012 and 483.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012.

    In the worldwide smartphone market, vendors shipped 216.2 million units in Q1 2013, which marked the first time more than half (51.6 per cent) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones. The market grew 41.6 per cent compared to the 152.7 million units shipped in Q1 2012, but 5.1 per cent lower than the 227.8 million units shipped in Q2 2012.
     

    The big trend in Q1 is the emergence of Chinese companies in the Top five smartphone vendors list. Huawei and ZTE hawked 9.9 million units and 9.1 million units each in Q1 2013.

    Top Five Smartphone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, 2013 Q1 (Units in Millions)

    Vendor

    Q1 2013 Unit Shipments

    Q1 2013 Market Share

    Q1 2012 Unit Shipments

    Q1 2012 Market Share

    Year-over-year Change

    Samsung

    70.7

    32.7%

    44.0

    28.8%

    60.7%

    Apple

    37.4

    17.3%

    35.1

    23.0%

    6.6%

    LG

    10.3

    4.8%

    4.9

    3.2%

    110.2%

    Huawei

    9.9

    4.6%

    5.1

    3.3%

    94.1%

    ZTE

    9.1

    4.2%

    6.1

    4.0%

    49.2%

    Others

    78.8

    36.4%

    57.5

    37.7%

    37.0%

    Total

    216.2

    100.0%

    152.7

    100.0%

    41.6%

    If one looks at the chart above, Samsung sold more smart handsets than the rest of the four in the top 5 combined.

    Samsung‘s reign in the top five overall mobile phone shipment chart got stronger in Q1 with its share of shipments rising to 27.5 per cent. Nokia, however, saw its share dropping a quarter to fall to 14.8 per cent. Apple too reported single digit growth rates during Q1.

     

    Top Five Total Mobile Phone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, 2013 Q1 (Units in Millions)

    Vendor

    Q1 2013 Unit Shipments

    Q1 2013 Market Share

    Q1 2012 Unit Shipments

    Q1 2012 Market Share

    Year-over-year Change

    Samsung

    115.0

    27.5%

    93.6

    23.3%

    22.9%

    Nokia

    61.9

    14.8%

    82.7

    20.6%

    -25.1%

    Apple

    37.4

    8.9%

    35.1

    8.7%

    6.6%

    LG

    15.4

    3.7%

    13.7

    3.4%

    12.4%

    ZTE

    13.5

    3.2%

    16.2

    4.0%

    -16.5%

    Others

    175.4

    41.9%

    161.1

    40.0%

    8.9%

    Total

    418.6

    100.0%

    402.4

    100.0%

    4.0%
     

    What does the surge in sales mean for those of us in entertainment? Clearly, that mobile phone users are seeking more and more out of their handsets. They have simply moved beyond being just devices to be used as a long-distance talking tool.

    Kantar Media‘s latest proprietary TGI Clickstream study, with data collated from October 2011 to September 2012, has revealed that the smartphone is the device that consumers prefer as their pocket companion, even though tablets sales have been climbing crazily worldwide .Says Kantar Media‘s TGI International head Geoff Wicked: “There‘s no denying that more and more people are purchasing tablets for both business and personal use, but the fact remains that there are a billion smartphones on the planet, and tablet sales are still in their millions. While tablets will continue to become both more accessible and more sophisticated, the smartphone is still considered the all-round communications device that stays with a user for nearly 24 hours a day.”

    Kantar Media has been running a showcase theatre session at the Festival of Media Global, which is ending today Montreux, Switzerland.

    According to the Kantar Media study, social networking is the most popular type of smartphone app, with 37 per cent of smartphone web users surveyed saying they had downloaded a social networking app in the past twelve months. While this was the second most popular kind of tablet app, just half that amount (18 per cent) of tablet web users surveyed had downloaded a social networking app in the past twelve months.

    The biggest gap was evident across health and diet apps, which were downloaded by 11 per cent of smartphone web users but just 3 per cent of tablet web users – a difference of more than triple. The smallest gap was for property apps – downloaded by 4 per cent of smartphone web users and 3 per cent of tablet web users.

    Music, the fourth most popular type of app across users of both devices, was downloaded by more than double the amount of smartphone web users compared with tablet web users (25 per cent vs 11 per cent). Obviously, who wants to carry a clunky tablet with her when she is jogging around Central Park in New York or taking a walk in Lodhi Gardens in New Delhi. Similar results were revealed for mapping apps, which are the fifth most popular across both user types, but are downloaded by 22 per cent of smartphone web users compared with 11 per cent of tablet users.

    Mobile apps downloaded October 2011 to September 2012 (% of smartphone web users)

    Tablet apps downloaded October 2011 to September 2012 (% of tablet web users)

    Social networking – 37%

    Entertainment (games, digital books etc) – 19%

    Entertainment (games, digital books etc) – 32%

    Social networking – 18%

    Music – 25%

    News/weather – 15%

    News/weather – 27%

    Music – 11%

    Maps – 22%

    Maps – 11%

    Shopping – 18%

    Shopping – 10%

    Lifestyle – 11%

    Lifestyle – 8%

    Health and diet – 11%

    Sports – 7%

    Sports – 18%

    Health and diet – 3%

    Property – 4%

    Property – 3%

    Other practical apps – 20%

    Other practical apps – 10%

    Other – 12%

    Other – 4%

  • Sachin Talwalkar joins Commonwealth as ECD

    MUMBAI: Commonwealth, the global JV between McCann Erickson Worldwide and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, has appointed Sachin Talwalkar as the executive creative director.

    Talwalkar‘s last stint was with Contract, Delhi as creative director and vice president where he worked on clients such as NIIT, SpiceJet, Ten Sports, JK Tyres, Shell Lubricants, Huawei, Whirlpool and Dabur.

    McCann Worldgroup South Asia president Prasoon Joshi said, “Sachin has both- great craft and fantastic international experience. I am sure he will add a lot of value and finesse to the creative product.”

    Talwalkar brings with him over 12 years of experience of which 11 years were spend in Europe, working for BBDO and DDB in Germany. He then moved on to Italy to handle P&G‘s oral care business for WE/CEEMEA at Saatchi & Saatchi, Milan.

    In 2008, he moved to London to start his own consultancy onesingleline.co.uk which serviced agencies like Ogilvy, Leo Burnett and DDB launching global and regional campaigns for British American Tobacco and Fiat before moving back to India in 2010.

  • Huawei Devices signs Chetan Bhagat as brand associate

    Huawei Devices signs Chetan Bhagat as brand associate

    MUMBAI: Huawei Devices has signed author Chetan Bhagat as brand associate for its smartphones and tablets category.

    The Chinese telecommunications company is all set to introduce its flagship range in India – an Android 3.2 powered tablet – Mediapad and Vision cloudphone – a smartphone based on cloud services.

    Under his association with Huawei, Bhagat an engineer from IIT, will support the launch of Huawei’s products ranging from smartphones to tablets and will also be a part of all digital, above the line (ATL) and below the line (BTL) activities. His upcoming book Revolution 2020 will also be used to engage customers.

    Bhagat known for his youth oriented novels Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of life (2008) and 2 states-the story of my marriage (2009) has also inspired Hindi films like 3 Idiots and Hello.

    Huawei Devices marketing and solutions director Anand Narang said, “Huawei’s latest range of Smartphones and tablets cater to the youth and we are positive that our association with Chetan Bhagat will help us engage youth in meaningful ways. Chetan is an innovator who has created an entirely new market in Indian publishing. And this aspect of his personality is in sync with Huawei which is an innovator with its focus on leading-edge technology and design.”

    Bhagat added, “As an engineer from IIT, I have always been very interested in technology and its applications. Telecom has been one of the fastest growing sectors in India and Huawei has played a big part in this growth. I have also discovered that it is rated as one of the most innovative companies in the world by many prestigious publications like the Economist. I am really looking forward to be associated with their latest range of Smartphones and Tablets.”

  • Huawei appoints new creative and media agencies

    Huawei appoints new creative and media agencies

    MUMBAI: Huawei Technology has appointed new partners to handle its creative, media, on-ground and online duties.

    Contract Advertising won the creative mandate following a multi-agency pitch that also involved Draftfcb Ulka and Mudra, the incumbent agency.

    Besides Contract, Motivator of GroupM will be the media partner, Encompass will be the on-ground partner and iContract would back Contract on the digital front.

    Contract will work on three verticals of Huawei — terminal,
    enterprise and network and aim to establish the company’s devices in open market launches of its Android devices, tablets, data card etc.

    The agency’s prime focus will be terminal business that will involve promotion and launch of mobile handsets and other devices. Contract will also take care of the growing B2B business.

    Contract Advertising GM Prashant Mathur said, “While we listened very attentively and keenly to the client’s needs and requirements, in our presentation, we remained true to what we believed the corporate brand and the product brands required.”

    Huawei- devices marketing and solutions director Anand Narag added, “Huawei has traditionally been a strong B2B brand. We have now set ourselves a target to be amongst the top five handset brands globally by 2013.”

    Narag also stated that the company is now looking forward to Contract as a single window marketing partner to spearhead all communication solutions across mediums – traditional as well as non-traditional.

    Huawei-Network marketing and solutions director Sethu Raman asserted that the creative idea from Contract was adaptable to their multiple categories.