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 [...]