Nikhil adds: So it may be the case that there is no "official" deal with any telecom operator. Check the faqs (screenshot), and it indicates that the operator billing with Airtel is using P-SMS, rather, Premium SMS. This indicates that it isn't integrated billing, and Samsung probably gets a minority share of the cost to consumer. Remember that ibibo used the same for microtransactions. A question remains - if you're going down the premium SMS route - then why only Airtel? Earlier today: Samsung has enabled operator billing on its mobile app store, Samsung Apps, in India, apart from UK, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Ukraine, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. With this, customers who choose the phone billing option at the time of purchasing paid apps, will be charged on their phone bill, if they are on postpaid, or through a deduction from their phone credit balance, if on prepaid. Previously, only credit card billing was available in India. As of now, operator billing only works on Airtel, as per screenshots (below) and Samsung FAQs. If one tries using any other operator, the 'Phone Bill' option does not show up in the payment methods. Samsung's support pages also confirm the same. Samsung claims that it offers 15,000 apps, and has registered 100 million downloads till March 2011.We tried browsing through the Samsung Apps store on a Samsung Wave, which runs Samsung's own proprietary OS, and found that it offered a very limited selection of apps. Although, some popular gaming apps such…
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