re: BSNL Shuns HuaweiWhat BSNL does depends on their motivation. If it is an indifferent management team looking for kickbacks, then they should go to the highest bidder. If they are actually interested in getting phone service to millions of people, which does not seem to be the case, they should avoid this ship of fools with a ten foot pole.
re: BSNL Shuns Huawei>Isn't there a reason why Huawei is able to quote >such low bids :)
Lack of respect for human free will and dignity by a government that lets workers be slave driven by the promise of equality but the delivery of a tigher class system than perhaps our beloved India.
re: BSNL Shuns HuaweiNow that things are getting better (or atleast there is a silver lining), bloodsucking customers like BSNL should be blacklisted by vendors.
re: BSNL Shuns HuaweiBSNL issued a notice to the vendor in October, asking for an explanation as to why it shouldn't be blacklisted from future contracts after its local partners failed to deliver 1.05 million lines of CDMA2000 equipment. (See BSNL Threatens to Ban Huawei.)
So what happened that Huawei failed to deliver?
Did the US vendor from whom Huawei was stealing software outsource engineering to India? ;)
re: BSNL Shuns Huaweiwhy ? there is no way in hell anyone peddling cellular eqpt can afford to ignore the large indian carriers. find me another country other than china with sustained 2-3 million customer adds per month in a greenfield market with lucrative future upgrades to come. and the teledensity is still only 11%. another 300mil of unserved people is there to rope in. mobile subscriber count has crossed 80 mil.
Mobility touches 120 mn PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 10: The number of telecom subscribers (fixed and mobile) in the country touched 120 million in November 2005 with more than 3.5 million additions in mobiles alone.
The teledensity at the end of November was 11 per cent as compared to 10.66 per cent in October, telecom regulator TRAI said in a statement.
While a total of 3.24 million subscribers (fixed and mobile) were added in October, 2005, the figure in November was a record addition of 3.8 million.
During the first 8 months of year 2005-2006, around 21.50 million people joined the telecom revolution.
In the mobile segment, 3.51 million subscribers have been added during November 2005 as compared to 2.90 million in October.
The number comprises 2.33 million GSM subscribers and 1.18 million CDMA subscribers as against 2.11 million GSM and 0.79 million CDMA last month, the statement said.
re: BSNL Shuns HuaweiTwo recent data points offer an explanation as to why vendors might not want to do business with BSNL.
1. Nortel is realizing gross margin of about -30% in its GSM deal with BSNL. Granted, no one forced them to sign the contract but if this is what it takes to win business in India then it is likely not worth it (I don't think NT will make it up in volume!!).
2. Huawei's decision not to honor the contract. To me this implies that Huawei would lose big on the deal and chose to default instead of honor it... very telling.
There is no doubt that BSNL has taken advantage of a buyers market in telecom gear (it only makes sense, particularly given that their expected ARPU is likely far lower than providers in more developed markets) but that could be changing and they may have to pay higher prices as global demand for gear picks up.
re: BSNL Shuns HuaweiBrahmos: It's not about throwing water on the India telecom story, but dealing with Government owned corrupt entities like BSNL. I ideally the Government should totally get out of the metros (class A and B cities in India) and just focus on rural connectivity.
Isn't there a reason why Huawei is able to quote
such low bids :)