There were 7 billion mobile application downloads in 2009, and this is set to increase at a Compounded Annual Gross Rate (CAGR) of 92 percent to 50 billion by 2012, according ... Continue_Reading

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

One would expect that pricing of Internet access to farmers would be highly subsidized, and not as expensive as cybercafes: the Agriculture Department of Andhra Pradesh is running pilot programmes ... Continue_Reading

Twenty nine percent of Indians polled have already paid for books (note: not e-books) online, 19 percent have paid for online magazines, and 18 percent have paid for music, ... Continue_Reading

As far as mobile is concerned, the new year seems to be going the Tata way. Tata Teleservices continues to add more connections than anyother telco for the month of ... Continue_Reading

Sales of both desktops and laptops were down sequentially owing to the “seasonality factor” for the 3 month period between October- December 2009:  of the total number of units shipped, ... Continue_Reading

(By Diwaskar Chettri & Preethi J) 561 out of 1159 Common Service Centres (CSC) are non operational in Haryana and 133 in Tripura: and the reasons are growing. First, it was ... Continue_Reading

Tata Teleservices continues to add more customers than any other telecom operator in the month of December: 17.46 percent of total additions of 19.10 million connections in December. The highlight ... Continue_Reading

In December, a total of 12.52 million GSM connections were added and India at the end of 2009 has 379.85 million GSM connections. This is a growth of 3.41 percent ... Continue_Reading

The attempt by India’s organised gaming sector to rebrand cyber cafes as gaming parlors has been short-lived with a report on Gaming in India by IAMAI and IMRB showing that ... Continue_Reading

The Indian telecom regulatory body TRAI has released the quarterly report for the quarter ending September, 2009  on the statistics and performance of service providers in the telecommunications and internet markets. Wireless In the ... Continue_Reading

Bharti Airtel has generated a mobile phone usage survey from data captured from its subscribers in the past year. Called Mobitude 2009, the survey has 7 categories and showcases the ... Continue_Reading