3G in India

3G in India is clearly too expensive on a rational and logical basis

The impact of the prices paid in India will result in an increase of capital employed for Idea, Bharti and Reliance of roughly 3.0%, 3.4% and 10.4% compared to the 255% increase for Vodafone. The immediate impact on the ROCE is to reduce the returns in the range of 0.2% to 0.9% which is relatively benign compared to the damage inflicted in the UK. Furthermore, unlike the UK, the Indian operators will be able to deploy their networks more cheaply and achieve greater performance by jumping to 3.5G in the form of HSPA. The spectrum will be used immediately to relieve congestion on the 2G voice networks and India will quickly emerge as the centre of innovation for low cost smart phones, applications and new mobile business models. The auction winners will not have to wait 10 years before they can start earning a return. Indian 3G prices for Mumbai, Delhli and Kolkata were certainly high and above expectations but they were not anywhere near as exuberant as those of the UK or Germany.

As regards the business case for the 3G spectrum, the 3G spectrum in India is both about voice and mobile broadband. Accessing the Internet from handsets i.e. the small screen will be a much bigger phenomena in emerging markets compared to developed countries. This is already apparent in some markets such as Egypt, Morocco and the Philippines. What matters now in India is not how much was paid for 3G spectrum, and as a classic “sunk cost” it should have little bearing on future decision making, but how quickly can a more rational market structure be established. Greater certainty over the future regulatory environment, including 2G spectrum pricing, along with consolidation and an end to the brutal price war will have a far more pervasive impact on future returns than the prices paid for 3G spectrum.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Barefoot in search of success

B&E’s Pawan Chabria meets up with some individuals who opted to go barefoot in search of success, rather than lazily stepping into the comfort of guaranteed, cushioned golden shoes offered by well set organisations...

So what’s the latest offering from Ace Associates? Well, it comes in the form of a mobile service called, ‘Top five points’ through which a particular salesperson is provided with five reasons for justifying why a certain brand of automobile is preferable over a competitive brand whenever he feels a need to convince his customers. As Anuj claims, he has already roped-in two big auto brands as potential customers for this new service venture. At present, he is also on the lookout for new talent who can take care of his new ventures. And this too isn’t posing any problems to Anuj, “Surprisingly, the response to a start-up venture like ours, has been more than expected, which proves the fact that new-gen MBAs are more than willing to work with start-ups...”

Udit Bhandari, CEO of Indimoto.com, an MBA (with specialisation in Marketing) from The University of East London, UK shares some similarities with Anuj. He too joined the auto sector after his management education, where he worked in GM for about six months. As he says, his MBA education made it easier for him to establish his online second-hand car & bike portal in the country. “The MBA programme helped me in increasing my understanding of business and its various modalities. While setting up Indimoto.com, the learning received in management school helped me to realise various value propositions and to create a strong full-time team, a business plan and a marketing strategy,” he explains. Indimoto.com caught people’s attention via its carpooling initiative, which encouraged commuters to share vehicles to save fuel; clever enough an advertising strategy! Rashmi Vaswani, Founder, Rage Chocolatier, is also one of those who are following their passion with a purpose to strike gold; the only difference was that she couldn’t wait to get started and got down to business right after she completed her post-graduate diploma in management. Her passion was manufacturing chocolates, which she took up as a business opportunity in 2005, and success for her has been sweeter than the product itself.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri – A Man For The Society….
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
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UNIONS: SOCIALIST NO MORE

The good and bad of trade unions

Thirdly, unions have been gradually diverting from their original objectives. With political support, they have been trying to take on countries at ransom. Unions like The Communication Workers Union, International Trade Union Confederation or World Federation of Trade Unions became too powerful, politically motivated, and subsequently, disastrous with their agendas. Unions no longer protected the interests of the poor rather worked towards the benefit of political parties.

Although in countries like Sweden, UK, Germany and Japan, a large portion of the labour is unionised safeguarding worker interests, in many other countries, unions are hated for their political affiliations. Until unions move away from this destructive mode, the time is not far when they’re finally made illegal!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
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Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri – A Man For The Society….
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
IIPM makes business education truly global
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
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I know what you thought last year

Beyond everyone’s forecast, European economies are now the biggest sufferers of the US subprime crisis

Exactly one year back The Economist in an article titled ‘At risk of infection’ had written “Economists are most nervous about who or what might sink into America’s property swamp.” While reading that article the Europeans must not have thought that it will be them, who will sink because of an American fault. And that’s where things went wrong. As a result, today all the economic indicators are overwhelmingly pointing to the fact that the European economy is now sinking and shrinking under the spill over effects of the US subprime crisis.

What began as a problem in a single sector, in a single economy (US housing market) has today metastasized into severe dislocations in broader credit and funding market. The crisis has moved beyond the US and subprime market to prime real estates markets, consumer credits and corporate credit markets. Amid such a milieu the spill over of the man made crisis in the global financial market is being governed by the trio comprising – weakening balance sheet, continuing de-leveraging process and the burgeoning challenges of the macroeconomic environment. Says Tine Olsen, Economist, Moody’s Economy, “A year after the subprime shock, the global economy is still suffering, and the end of the credit crisis is nowhere in sight.”

In fact a year after the genesis of the subprime shock, similar features are beginning to emerge in Europe. Be it losses in terms of subprime, ABS (asset backed securities), ABS CDOs (credit default obligation) or Conduits/SIV (special investment vehicle), Europe is only next to US. Signs of a downturn are becoming all the more evident in European housing market. Market prices of property derivatives today are suggestive of an outright home price decline in the UK with a time lag of around two years (wrt US). At a time when the lenders are tightening standards, many borrowers of fixed rates in UK are set to witness a rate increase of 100 to 200 basis points (bps). This will in all certainty add to yet another source of stress in the already stressed market. It is but obvious that with an increased stress (result of the spill over) write offs and repossessions are set to increase.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.

2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri – A Man For The Society….
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
IIPM makes business education truly global
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
Rajita Chaudhuri-The New Age Woman
IIPM B-School Facebook Page
IIPM Global Exposure
IIPM Best B School India
IIPM B-School Detail
IIPM Links
IIPM : The B-School with a Human Face