{"id":59479,"date":"2012-02-11T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=59479"},"modified":"2012-02-11T16:56:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:26:42","slug":"will-mobile-arpu-finally-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2012\/02\/11\/will-mobile-arpu-finally-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Will mobile ARPU finally rise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21547280\">Economist<\/a> has a handy chart on the effect of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on different telecom operators:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/full-width\/images\/print-edition\/20120211_WBC565.gif\" width=\"595\" height=\"439\"> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Least we forget, the ham handed sale of 2G spectrum had the perverse effect of unleashing a price war as the new acquirers of below market spectrum went on a customer acquisition tizzy. Airtel was the biggest loser with ARPU sliding from Rs. 292 in 2008 to Rs. 187 in Q3 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image_thumb11.png\" width=\"624\" height=\"338\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new entrants \u2013 Uninor, S Tel and later Videocon were willing to work at Rs. 15-40 ARPU to gain market-share. But with them gone had having to bid for spectrum in an auction, the old schoolers \u2013 Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel and RCom \u2013 should be able to increase ride the \u201creversion to mean\u201d of mobile subscription rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist has a handy chart on the effect of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on different telecom operators: &nbsp; Least we forget, the ham handed sale of 2G spectrum had the perverse effect of unleashing a price war as the new acquirers of below market spectrum went on a customer acquisition tizzy. Airtel was the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[949,91,262],"class_list":["post-59479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-money","tag-2g","tag-bhartiartl","tag-idea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}