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

Net profits continue to stumble at mobile VAS company Tanla Solutions, which has registered a 71.8 percent decline to Rs. 126.6 million in the quarter ended December 2009 compared to ... Continue_Reading

Decreasing ARPU and hostile market conditions are no deterrent for telecom operators in India. After Uninor rolled out services in 7 circles simultaneously, earlier this year, Batelco owned S Tel ... Continue_Reading

Mobile VAS company Tanla Solutions has recuperated in the quarter ended September 2009, posting net profits of Rs. 108.3 million, down 3.3% from the previous quarter after a heady 61.5% ... Continue_Reading

A switch among voice based VAS companies from DTMF to speech recognition based services appears to be in progress – Nuance Communications yesterday announced deals with One97 Communications and Comviva. ... Continue_Reading

“I don’t like this term Value Added Services. It’s time to move from Value Added Services to Services, and put the consumer in the centre,” One97 Communications MD Vijay Shekhar ... Continue_Reading

A significant point of discussion that has been repeated through quite a few sessions at IAMAI Mobile Content and Services conference today, is that of mobile termination charges that ... Continue_Reading

The Other Side Of The Story Following our post on whether persisting consumer issues should warrant stricter norms and maybe even licensing of the VAS industry, we’ve received several responses – ... Continue_Reading

It is the largest Mobile VAS acquisition in India of the 2008-09 fiscal, and now Tecnomen has received an approval from India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board to invest Rs. 133.79 crores ... Continue_Reading

Mobile2Win (India) today announced a merger with Altruist, a relatively new entrant in the Mobile VAS space. We spoke to Rajiv Hiranandani, co-founder of Mobile2Win on why they chose to ... Continue_Reading

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) Update: Harish Gandhi of Canaan Partners has confirmed the investment to MediaNama. Though he declined to comment on the amount of investment, he did say ... Continue_Reading

One opinion held about One97 Communications is that they have a significant dependancy on voice based services. The Mobile VAS company announced a fund raising from Intel Capital and Silicon ... Continue_Reading