Mobile VAS company One97 Communications is planning for an IPO in the next two quarters, MD Vijay Shekhar Sharma told VCCircle, and raise around $100 million in order to fund ... 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

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued a directive which makes it necessary for certain Mobile Value Added Services to be billed only on the explicit consent of the ... 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

One97 Communications today announced a fund raising from Intel Capital, with previous investor Silicon Valley Bank also participating. The company operates in the Mobile VAS space, and competes with the ... Continue_Reading

Impact of Do-Call Registry At the MediaNama Discussion at Mobile Monday Delhi, Rajnish Agarwal from Indiatimes asked the panel about the impact of the Do-Call Registry (we’ve covered it here). Vijay ... Continue_Reading

On Advertisers And Rates Interestingly, Affle and NDTV are refusing to take advertising on their mobile platforms on a Cost-per-Lead (CPL) basis. Affle, as a startup, took a conscious decision not ... Continue_Reading