Mobile

Videocon Launches GSM Service In Coimbatore, Finally!

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 18th, 2010 |

Videocon has become 14th telecom operator to launch GSM services in the crowded Indian market. The service, branded as Videocon Mobile Services (and not Datacom) is live in Coimbatore. Videocon has ... Continue_Reading

What ValueFirst Plans To Do, To Be IPO Ready In 2012

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 16th, 2010 |

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Mobile Value Added Services company ValueFirst is eying an IPO in 2012: we’ve heard of IPO plans from several companies in the past, including competitor One97 Communications, and spoke to ... Continue_Reading

Ford Uses QR Codes In FIGO Advertisement; To What End?

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 16th, 2010 |

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It’s good to see QR codes are being further trialled as a cross-media tool in India. After Mid Day, car manufacturer Ford is using QR Code in print ads for ... Continue_Reading

RCOM Crosses 100M Wireless Customers; Next 100M Not So Easy

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 16th, 2010 |

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Telecom operator Reliance Communications has announced that it has crossesd 100 million wireless customers in India, covering GSM, CDMA and probably wireless data cards as well. To celebrate the success ... Continue_Reading

BBC News Launches Premium Voice Blog On Airtel; How Will It Become Viral?

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 15th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel has launched Airtel Blog, powered by Bubble Motion’s Bubbly. Any Airtel subscriber can sign up for their own blog by dialling *7*, and ask their friends and family to ... Continue_Reading

Dialog Telekom Launches Music Station Powered By Geodesic; Mundu IM Now On IPhone OS

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 12th, 2010 |

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Sri Lankan telco Dialog Telekom, has launched an Internet Radio service called Music Station, built on Geodesic’s Mundu Radio platform for its six million subscribers. The platform will work across both ... Continue_Reading

VRock Licenses IPL Mobile Content To Multiple Co’s; In Talks For Stake In PhoneyTunes

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |

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Well, this is unprecedented: within around seven days of acquiring global SMS, MMS and IVR rights related to the Indian Premier League, vRock Mobile has managed to license non-exclusive content rights ... Continue_Reading

Grameenphone Launches Mobile Rail Ticketing In Bangladesh

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 11th, 2010 |

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Despite claims of IRCTC launching application based rail ticketing on mobile, there’s no clear indication of how they’re doing. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Railway has taken the telco route for mobile ticketing: commuters ... Continue_Reading

Ever Heard An AdRBT? MMA Releases Case Studies On Star Plus, Action Shoes

By Preethi J on March 11th, 2010 |

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Update: Corrigendum below Earlier: Though ring back tones are extremely popular in India, it is quite rare that you hear an advertisement as a ringback tone – the only time we ... Continue_Reading

Vodafone Launches Mobile Application Store; IPL Tickets

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 10th, 2010 |

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Update: In an emailed response to MediaNama, Vodafone has said that the app store has around 200 Indian apps, and claims that thousand apps will be launched shortly. The telco ... Continue_Reading

Apalya Gets IPL 3 Global Mobile Live Streaming Rights For 3 Years; Subscription vs Advertising

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 10th, 2010 |

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Update: An interesting question from Kushan Mitra: if one can access YouTube’s live streaming on a laptop using a data card, why would they subscribe to the same content via ... Continue_Reading

BSE Launches GPRS Based SENSEX Streamer App; V.01 Hopefully

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 10th, 2010 |

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The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has launched a mobile application for receiving live quotes of its SENSEX index. Called BSE SENSEX Mobile Streamer, the Java based application is a 113 ... Continue_Reading