Stars moneymakers for Cellcos

Business Standard story on how astrology services are turning out to be the new money-spinners for mobile operators. I think the model for mobile content services should differentiate between the content platform and the content provider. It is not the business of mobile operators to produce content. They should proivde the platform and delivery mechanism [...]

Mobile phones to the rescue

Kerala students who sat for the state medical and engineering entrance tests tried to acquire their results from the website www.kerala.gov.in, which was overloaded with heavy incoming traffic. The government website’s loss was mobile operators gain. According to this report , majority of the students used the mobile services to get the results. Balram, an [...]

India is Nokia’s 5th largest market

Terming India as its fifth largest market, global mobile handset major Nokia, today said it would start production of handsets in the first half of the next year at its Chennai plant.

Bharti top mobile service provider

The Indo-Asian News Service reports that minister of State for Communications Shakeel Ahmad informed the parliament on Wednesday that Bharti Cellular Ltd is the country’s leading mobile phone company as on March 31, 2005. Bharti Cellular = 10.4 million subscribers Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd = 9.4 million Reliance Infocomm Ltd = 9.3 million Idea Cellular [...]

Telecom Growth in India

A government press release on the state of telecom scene in India on completion of one year of UPA government. The number of phones provided in the country up to 1995 was only about 2.2 crore since the introduction of phones in India. In the recent past, every month more than 20 lakh phones get [...]

Cellcos allege 3G spectrum recommendations partisan

GSM operators are fearing that forthcoming TRAI recommendations on spectrum would favour CDMA players in terms of allocation and enable the largest CDMA player in the country an instantaneous ‘back-door’ entry to the third generations (3G mobile) services. “Any provision of additional carriers now to CDMA players would be grossly anti-competitive as it would enable [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

HC stay on Essar bid for Spice Tele 15 lakh new mobile subscribers in April Reliance launches postpaid at Rs149 per month RIM (Blackberry) exceeds 3 million subscribers

IMT-2000 for 3G services likely

Business Standard reports that TRAI is likely to recommend the IMT-2000 2Ghz frequency band for both GSM and CDMA mobile operators, in its spectrum proposal. “IMT-2000 2Ghz band should be allocated to mobile operators for offering IMT 2000 service, which support both WCDMA and CDMA2000 (the 3G growth path of both GSM and CDMA). It [...]

BSNL to invite bids for 40m cell lines

India’s second largest GSM operator BSNL will float a tender within a couple of months for 40 million cellular lines, majority of which would be on 3G networks. Its 3G services are expected to roll-out in 2006.

July Systems Launches Interactive Game Service

July Systems has launched a interactive mobile game service which allows consumers to download a special interactivity-enabled mobile game, play, and post their scores to a community leaderboard directly from their mobile phones. The service called Play2Win is for Mobile Streams on their UK games portal MobileGaming.com and is offered with a weekly subscription. Emma [...]

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