Brookfield Acquires ATC India's Assets

Brookfield has acquired 100% of American Tower Corp (ATC)'s Indian unit for $2.5-billion valuation as announced on January 4, 2024. ATC India is the one of the leading independent Passive Telecom Infrastructure Providers in India. The acquisition is expected to be completed by Q2 of 2024. 

ATC India started its journey in 2007 by erecting towers for mobile operators in Orissa and Bihar. After that ATC India continued its growth by acquisition of other companies - Xcel Telecom (May 2009), Transcend Infrastructure (November 2009), Essar Telecom Infrastructure (February 2010), Viom Networks (majority stake in April 2016; complete acquisition in April 2019), Vodafone Tower Holdings (April 2018) Idea Cellular Infrastructure Services Ltd (ICISL) (May 2018). 

Battle of Colas: Thums Up vs Coke vs Campa Cola vs Pepsi

India's soft drink market is into a tension as country's richest man Mukesh Ambani has re-launched Campa in India, a new rival in the soft drink market. Campa is being available in three variants - Cola, Lemon and Orange. 

EV in India - List of 2 Wheeler Makers

Electric Vehicles are seem to be the cars from the future. But already several home grown companies developed two-wheelers and cars for Indian populations. 

Tata Motors seems to be the king of EV car market - they have Tata Tiago EV, Tata Nexon EV, Tata Nexon EV Max, Tata Nexon EV Prime and upcoming Tata Altroz EV as 4 wheelers EV offerings. They also launched Punch.ev. 

Other mainstream EV cars available in India - MG ZS EV, Hyundai Kona Electric, Kia EV6 and upcoming Mahindra XUV400. 

There are some cars from premium car makers like Posche, Mercedes, BMW, Byd - all are priced more than 30 lakhs. 

Jio Adds SpaceFiber to Deliver Gigabits in Remote Areas, Partner SES in Trouble with O3b mPower Fleet

It's time to grace SATCOM as it goes masses. Country's largest telecom player Reliance Jio and Luxembourg-based satellite communications company SES backed 'Jio Space Technology Limited' (51:49) had demonstrated capabilities of JioSpaceFiber services at Mobile Congress India's conference on 27th October, 2023. Jio Satellite was formed in February 2022. 

As of now only Bharti backed OneWeb & Jio Space Technology holds the global mobile personal communications. 

Aviation India - June to August 2023 Updates

The civil aviation industry in India has seen remarkable growth after pandemic. As experts predict, Indian aviation will accommodate 430 million additional air passenger journeys by 2040 compared to 2019.

India's aviation market saw an extra ordinary in January 2022, as government sells Air India to Tata group. Once Tatas founded and owned this airlines and again it is in their hands. 

Post Covid era, aviation business is booming as travel is now easier and safer. 

5G-NTN : New Dimension of Satellite Communications

Starlink's satellites 

5G space is getting excited by another new domain - that's 5G NTN (Non Terrestrial Network). The basic idea of 5G NTN is to deliver 5G/NR service via satellite or other airborne platform (like Google Balloons or Project Loon). 

Earlier I wrote regarding the competition between 5G and satellite broadband will be inevitable. But they can synergize to create an efficient and much-desired fusion of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks to bring internet connectivity in the country as well as globally. 

5G-NR is known for the enhanced speed, higher network capacity, lower latency, improved reliability and coverage. With 5G-NR there are new and innovative uses with IoT - like smart cities,  remote industrial automation, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, revolutionizing industries, and empowering novel applications.

Mid 2023: Tablet Buying Guide

When smartphones started coming to India, big screen smartphones were something called luxury. If you can remember, in 2010 Notion Ink Adam was a great tablet by Indian company. But it never got the commercial success, like the applaud they get during initial launch announcement. It got delayed several times, testing the patience of the buyers and the tech community. Frankly speaking, tablet market is always a risk for the OEMs, except Apple - the makers of iPads. 

It's been just middle of 2023, and we have 2 gorgeous Android tablets in Indian market - One Plus Pad and Xiaomi Pad 6. Both are affordable and superb looking devices with several accessories to pump them out.