An Afterthought: in the mobile industry, the term ‘application’ usually refers to a software that is hosted on the mobile handset, not ’services’ available on an SMS short code. Else, ... Continue_Reading

Times Internet Ltd (Indiatimes) has launched an SMS based service called 58888 follow, which allows users to receive alerts related to specific celebrities. At present, Times is allowing users to ... 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

 SMSGupShup, the Helion and Charles River Ventures funded SMS based mobile community, has launched a Mobile Store, retailing content. Interestingly, GupShup’s appears to be a direct-to-consumer retail model, which bypasses ... Continue_Reading

How this issue is settled is of great importance, and it impacts the future of push SMS services from SMS GupShup and Google, apart from every single service provider who ... Continue_Reading

So it’s official: Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures have put in $11 million in SMS GupShup, the push SMS based Mobile social networking community. When the deal had been ... Continue_Reading

(To subscribe to the MediaNama channel, use this subscription form or SMS ON MEDIANAMA to +919870807070) Google is making a habit of entering market segments in India that others have spent ... Continue_Reading

Paid vs Free Push SMS Services Ajay Vaishnavi, Director Telecom for Times Internet: Since there are services which are available to consumers free of cost, there is a pressure on traditional ... Continue_Reading

A little over a month ago, we’d heard murmurs of Rajesh Jain’s company Netcore raising a round of VC Funding. Netcore runs the Push SMS Service MyToday, with around 3.6 ... Continue_Reading

We’ve received some great responses on this post on the burn rate of Push SMS services, both on MediaNama as well as via SMS and email (which are off-the-record by ... Continue_Reading