Blogs

3rd December 2024

Australian home prices soar amidst recession outlook: validates CEOHomes’ hypothesis!

While India is witnessing a new billionaire every 5 days, Australia is staring at an inequality crisis – What’s making the tables turn? Apropos CEOHomes’ July ‘24 article “The paradoxical relationship between a country’s…

24th October 2024

11 M subscribers bid adieu to Jio : Jefferies surprised, CEOHomes (formerly Teleprudence) ..not one bit !!

No lessons learned since the 2003 Monsoon Hungama debacle, RIL’s romance with Bottom of Pyramid (BoP) has ended with heart (& pocket) burns yet again! With ~ 11 M users logging…

25th July 2024

The paradoxical relationship between a country’s economic health and its metros’ real estate prices.

An NRI who had invested INR 9.15 Crs. in an under-construction apartment in Trump Towers- Worli, Mumbai back in 2013, recently sold it at INR 8.6 Crs. One may shrug this as…

5th May 2024

CEO Homes’ wisdom on 5G prevails: Telcos get a $25B reality “check” !

Timestamped in successive articles since ’21, CEO Homes (formerly Teleprudence) has been red-flagging 5G’s lack of firepower to shore up Average Revenue Per User (ARPUs). Rendering 5G as a non-starter, the drill-down…

9th March 2022

Teleprudence unveils “Enterprise Home”: co-powered by Hitachi

With borderless working making enterprise grade Information and Communications Technology (ICT) a non-negotiable prerequisite at home as much as in office, we are excited to launch our prop-tech venture codenamed…

6th April 2021

Incumbents Bouncing Back : What’s The Mystery?

Is it just a market mood swing or happy endings for the resilient incumbents? Airtel’s alpha march over Jio for the 6th consecutive quarter and Airtel – Vi’s unexpected data…

6th December 2019

War was stupid ! It took a $ 6.41B whammy for Indian Telcos to stop throwing good money after bad money.

Contrary to general consensus, the recent unprecedented 40 % tariff hike by Telcos is actually good news for Indians using mobiles as a productivity tool – More about that but later. Peter…

25th March 2019

Trends in Unified Communications (UC)

In the context of Indian enterprises, UC resonates with audio-video- conferencing, generic tools like MS-Lync and other proprietary tools enabling features like Presence. The basic conferencing has seen the full…

31st January 2019

ET diagnoses Jio’s health – endorses Teleprudence’s “Bottom of Pyramid is philanthropy” hypothesis.

While the long tail strategy is spinning fortunes for Amazon & Netflix, Jio’s fetish for subscriber market share isn’t showing signs of securing itself a good- pasture future. A glance…

20th July 2017

Oiling Jio ! Indian Telcos’ search for buoyancy in the Abyss

Unless their appetite for disruption is obsessive, it seems the storm dust is showing signs of settling down as operators prepare to roll up their sleeves to chase share of wallet. With…