FIR not required to claim Cell thefts insurance

An insurance company, which refused to indemnify the owner of a lost mobile phone for the reason that she did not produce a copy of the FIR of the police complaint, has been ordered by a consumer court to pay the claim amount of Rs 8,700 along with compensation. The National Insurance Company had repudiated [...]

I-mode Felica

News.com has a nice article precising NTT DoCoMo’s new mobile-wallet service called “I-mode Felica”. Operators in advanced mobile markets like Japan are looking at these kind of VAS to not only increase ARPUs but also stickiness / lockin of their subscribers. “DoCoMo is moving to a post-I-mode business model based on Felica.” -Yasushi Yoshikawa, general [...]

Mobile Gaming Market

This article on Indian gaming market estimates the mobile gaming market size to be around US$3 million in 2004. On an average 2,00,000 games were downloaded via the GSM/GPRS operators – Airtel, Hutch, Idea, and BPL.

Other Notables News & Articles

BK ‘Spice’ Modi group to manufacture handsets in Himachal Pradesh Indiatimes and Mobile 365 Join Hands for Singapore Sasken joins Symbian development program Govt may okay FDI in telecom to 74% Foreign partners in Spice move HC over freezing of accounts

Comparing India and China

TRAI has issued a comparative study titled Financial Analysis of Telecom Industry of China and India. It gives a good snapshot of the two of the largest telecom markets in the world. A comparison of usage pattern of GSM services shows that Indians use their cell phones more than their Chinese counterparts. In spite of [...]

SMS spoofing

Story on SMS Spoofing by The Hindu. Faking sender’s number in SMS is easy using some software front-end and the bulk SMS providers as the carriers. For the bulk SMS providers, one way to control this menace and not get involved in the legal tangles is to authenticate their customer’s “sender” mobile number. This can [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Nokia’s Chennai unit to roll out sets from June ’06 US funds to buy 30% in Aircel in $350-m deal Ericsson unveils GSM on aircraft MTNL gives EPABX free for subscribers Communications software provider Redknee sets up Pune R&D center

CommunicAsia 2005

Back from a long break in blogging. Was attending the CommunicAsia 2005 conference and expo in Singapore. Some quick summarising points: Convergence: Convergence of devices, access, content, technology, services. Ecosystems: Operators, Middleware providers, Content Publishers, Device manufacturers working together to create and share a larger pie. 3G: Its here but still not arrived. There is [...]

Mobile subscriber base hits 52.22 mn

Here is the latest round of numbers as reported by ET. Note the degree of difference between penetration rates of Mobiles, Internet and Broadband in India. For the quarter ending March 2005:- Annual Mobiles growth (March 2004-5): 55% Annual Telecom growth (March 2004-5): 28.59% Gross Telecom subscribers: 98.41 million Fixed Line (including WLL-F): 46.19 million [...]

SingTel buys 45% of Pacific Bangladesh Telecom

Singtel has bought a 45% stake for $118 million in Pacific Bangladesh Telecom, the third-largest cellular operator in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has a 3.9 percent mobile penetration rate with 5.4 million mobile phone users in a population of 140 million. Facing a mature and tiny home market, SingTel has spent S$17 billion ($10 billion) in recent [...]

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