Idea Cellular, the third largest telecom company in the country, said that it would be launching its mobile games app in the third quarter of this fiscal year. While chat, music and movie streaming apps would be launched in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, according to the company's presentation to investors. Readers will note that Idea Cellular CEO, Himanshu Kapania had said that the "4G era will be about building an ecosystem of digital services" and that it was not the best way to treat the Internet as a dumb pipe. At the time, he also made a mention of Reliance Jio and said "only telecom players with an ability to sustain an integrated offering including Voice, High speed mobile broadband services, Digital Sales and Service channel, Digital content and Payments services on a nationwide basis will thrive.” Earlier this…
