Every year, the IAMAI, the body representing mostly large Internet and Mobile VAS companies in India, submits a document to the Finance Ministry, requesting certain sops. Every industry body does ... Continue_Reading

It’s about cashflows. The Indian Internet Industry has been plagued for long by issues of delayed payments, with payment cycles going well beyond the usual 60 day period. For online ... Continue_Reading

India’s push SMS industry is facing a challenge with operators Airtel and Tata Indicom increasing the interconnect charges applicable on application to person (A2P)  SMSs on each other’s network. A2P SMSs ... Continue_Reading

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has appointed Shailesh Rao, Managing Director of Google India as its Chairman, who will be taking over from ... Continue_Reading

In answer to TRAI’s directives to offer mobile subscribers more control over their VAS subscriptions, some providers of VAS belonging to IAMAI, the industry body of ISPs and telecom firms, have ... Continue_Reading

According to the latest statistics released by the Internet Governance Forum, due to convene in Hyderabad a couple of days from today, India has the fourth largest number of Internet ... Continue_Reading

IMRB International is planning to launch an Audience Measurement service for the Internet industry in India, MediaNama has learned from multiple sources. A part of the plan was to distribute USB ... Continue_Reading

Should content be made separately for the mobile, and separately for the television? A hint of a disagreement between Manoj Dawane, CEO of Mauj, and Viren Popli, SVP & Head ... Continue_Reading

MultiModal Access And Consumer Segments In the session on Enterprise Mobility, responding to a question on consumer services, Rajesh Jain, MD of MyToday said that there will be multimodal access on ... Continue_Reading

A rather disappointing session on Mobile Marketing, at the IAMAI Mobile VAS Conference, though it started off with the right agenda – with Vijay Shukla, Country Head (India) for ValueFirst, ... Continue_Reading

The gloves came off at the TRAI Open House discussion on regulating Mobile VAS, and despite the sedate start, VAS companies and mobile operators were clearly at loggerheads with each ... Continue_Reading