Telecom

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

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 12th, 2010 |

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

eGov: Expensive Internet Services For Farmers; eDistricts CSCs Behind Schedule

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 12th, 2010 |

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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

Airtel Launches Digital Media Distribution Biz; Bigger Play Than Digital Cinema

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel has entered the digital media distribution business, establishing what they’re calling a “digital media exchange”. The exchange will enable the transference of digital content from media houses, producers ... 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

BSNL Drops 3G Data Card Rates Across India: Tariff War?

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 11th, 2010 |

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Don’t you just love price wars? BSNL, the government owned telecom operator, has thrown down the gauntlet by launching 3G EVDO plans that substantially lowers access charges for consumers on ... 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

DoT Shuts Down S Tel Services: V For Vendetta?

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 9th, 2010 |

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New entrant telco S Tel , has been asked by DoT to stop service in all of the three circles, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa it has been operating from ... Continue_Reading

RCOM Launches Socially With Unlimited Access To Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 9th, 2010 |

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Reliance Communications has launched a mobile VAS application called Socially, which gives access to to social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn through a single client. What’s interesting about it ... Continue_Reading