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- CITNE faculty update
December 19, 2007
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- CITNE faculty participates in CIST 2007 and the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle
November 3-7, 2007
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- CITNE faculty participated in the BBC World and Taj Chambers panel discussion
August 31, 2007
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- CITNE faculty member addresses ISB Alumni Meet at Bangalore and Chennai
August 4-5, 2007
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- CITNE faculty member gives talk on '3G in India: Getting it right' at Google, Bangalore
August 3, 2007
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- Should foreign/new competitors be allowed to enter the 3G mobile play in India?
Listen to the India Knowledge @Wharton 2 part interview with Professors Ravi Bapna and Arun Sundararajan
3G Mobile Service: The Next Chapter in India's 'Sunshine Infrastructure Story'?
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ISB's Bapna and Stern's Sundararajan: 'Spectrum Revenues Should Be Used to Subsidize Infrastructure Roll-out'
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- Vodafone-Hutch Deal: Is India’s Mobile Phone Market Growing Too Hot?
Knowledge @Wharton, February 22, 2007
After weeks of uncertainty, Britain's Vodafone announced on February 11 that it had decided to pay $11.1 billion in cash and assume $2 billion in debt to buy 67% stake in Hutch Essar….is India’s mobile phone market too hot?
Read Dr Ravi Bapna’s views
- "Scrambling for Control of Hutch Essar -- and a Piece of India's Mobile Phone Market"
Knowledge@Wharton, January 11, 2007
It's hard to say where valuation math ends and acquisitive ego begins with the current high bidding levels for Hutch Essar, India's second largest mobile phone services provider, which currently has 22.3 million subscribers and Rs. 5,800 crore in revenues ($1.3 billion). Active bidders include the world's largest mobile telecommunications company Vodafone, the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications and the Hinduja Group. Verizon Wireless of the U.S. is also said to be kicking the tires of a potential deal.
The quicker tempo being set in the race for Hutch Essar is a testimony to the appeal of the Indian opportunity, says Ravi Bapna, professor and executive director of the Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. "This is as strong a signal as you can get -- for the valuation to double in six months [to more than $20 billion] is totally unprecedented; it was $10 billion in June [2006]. Part of what people are responding to is the growth rate of mobile phone subscribers in the market as a whole. No country in the planet is adding six million customers a month, and the cost of handsets is going down."
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- "The Scramble for Spectrum"
Business Today, December 31, 2006
There are seven mobile phone operators vying for five 3G slots being vacated by the armed forces. So, how should the spectrum be priced? Professor Ravi Bapna and Professor Arun Sundararajan believe that “bundle auctions” and subsidies for subsequent roll out are the way to go.
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