RConnect targets 50% of laptop users
CIOL reports that Reliance Infocomm’s second phase of expansion will cover another 5,700 towns under the network.
India currently has an installed base of 12 million desktop computers and the current base of laptops is around 0.5 million. The data usage facilities of the company clocked 333 million minutes per month as on March 31, 2005 [...]
July Systems powers try-before-buy mobile games service
Bangalore based July Systems is the technology provider of the white-labeled, end-to-end managed cross-operator service which allows German consumers to try mobile games before buying on the portal Firstfun.tv.
The new service on Firstfun.TV is completely managed end-to-end by July Systems and is built entirely on July’s German mobile retailing infrastructure. July manages content sourcing and [...]
Virgin Mobile in India
Speculation about Virgin Mobile holding talks with MTNL, Airtel and Tata for starting Indian operations as a MVNO. Virgin Mobile is the largest MVNO in UK.
Virgin Mobile’s business strategy is to act as a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and sell competitively priced pre-paid handsets through retail stores while ‘piggybacking’ onto an existing operator’s mobile [...]
Indian mobile industry comes of age?
The essence of this Telegraph story is that the Indian mobile industry has matured because the proportion of prepaid subscribers registered a decline for the first time since the segment was introduced in 1997.
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) director-general T. V. Ramchandran said, “More post-paid subscribers in any mobile phone market is a sign [...]
Mobiles in Emerging Markets
Nice article on Knowledge@Wharton written by Ron Garriques, EVP of Motorola’s personal communications sector. He says markets in the developing world, especially China and India are emerging as the battleground for mobile-device makers. The part from the article that struck me was:
Affordability is less important in India, where consumers like more expensive clamshell phones, Garriques [...]
Nokia N series
Nokia has launched its new N series range of multimedia handsets featuring hard drives, multi-megapixel cameras, MP3 players and other standard smartphone functionality.
The N series product portfolio comes from Nokia’s new Multimedia business group. In order to distinguish the high-end models from the basic ones, the old four-digit model codes have been replaced by [...]
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SMS Sadhana
Indian Express reports that Sadhana TV is offering instant access to 40 gurus for blessings / advice by SMS. The channel’s managing director Rakesh Gupta claims that they already receive 20,000 SMSes per day on their shortcode 7333!
What is not clear in all of this is that how does Sadhana route the SMS to the [...]
Cisco and Macromedia invests in Indiagames
Business 2.0 reports that ones of India’s largest mobile content / games developer Indiagames has roped in Cisco and Macromedia as investors. This comes after China’s TOM Online acquired a 80% stake in the company in December last year.
Cisco’s share should amount to roughly 10 percent for $2.2 million, while Macromedia’s will come out to [...]
Reliance Infocomm turns profitable
The company has posted a net profit after tax of Rs 51 crore against loss of Rs 390 crore for the corresponding previous year.
They had surprised everyone by early break-even claims, but by turning profitable in two years of their launch, they have put an end to all skepticism.
Source: CyberMedia News
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