Cingular to exit Idea for $300mn
Business Standard reports that US based Cingular has offered to sell its holding of around 33% equity shares in Idea to the other shareholders - AV Birla Group and Tata Industries - at an aggregate price of $300 million. The AV Birla Group has decided to accept the offer for acquisition by the company and [...]
Research makes the game better
Interview with Salil Bhargava, chief marketing officer of Reliance Infocomm funded mobile game maker Paradox Studios, who leads all international business development, strategy and marketing initiatives of the company. Nothing much in the interview except a few tidbits.
Paradox is aggregating and distributing content to carriers in association with international partners like Global Wireless Entertainment for [...]
Ericsson Mobile Organiser on Idea
Ericsson has bagged a contract from Idea for its push email technology - Ericsson Mobile Organiser. In October last year, Airtel had tied-up with Blackberry to become the first provider of push-email on phones in India. Orange and Idea were expected to follow suit with a similar solution. The advantage of EMO is that unlike [...]
Push-to-Trouble for Hutch
Terming the push-to-talk service offered by Hutch as violation of licensing conditions, TRAI has asked government to take appropriate action against the operator.
According to TRAI, Hutch’s service led to avoidance of levy paid by private operators to state-owned BSNL and also security concerns were raised as it is difficult to monitor the calls under this [...]
More on Hutch+BPL
Here is some more news and analysis on the Hutch-BPL deal.
Count on me: Hutch may foot bill for BPL acquisition [Economic Times]
BPL Mobile: Smart exit [Business Standard]
Marriage season begins [Financial Express]
Hutch-Essar buys BPL Comm for Rs 2,500 cr in all-cash deal [Economic Times]
Hutch deal rings in a new tone for BPL [Financial Express]
VC funding could [...]
India overtaking China in ‘09
At least in cell phone sales. According to a recent Gartner survey, Mobile phone sales will exceed one billion handsets a year by 2009 as they become the most common consumer electronics device with 2.6 billion people using one by then.
“China and India alone will account for nearly 200 million units in 2007, with the [...]
Hutch buys BPL
Business Standard reports that Essar Teleholdings will buy BPL communications in a transaction worth Rs 4400 5200 crores, making it one of the largest acquisitions in India. Hutchison Whampoa will continue to have a majority stake in the entity to be created after the merger of BPL’s mobile business with Hutchison Essar.
The merged company will [...]
Mobiles for less than Rs. 1,000
Hindu article on technology breakthrough by Infineon, Texas Instruments and Philips which can make ultra low cost - sub Rs. 1000 handsets possible.
The global push may come in September, when the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents most of the world’s cellular telecom players, hold its 3GSM World Congress in Singapore.
Under an Emerging Markets Initiative, [...]
Rajeev ‘BPL’ Chandrasekhar
ET profiles Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL on the tenth anniversary of BPL Mobile this year. Some points on why BPL couldn’t take the leap despite being an early mover.
Considering he started at the same time as Sunil Mittal, you ask him whether he feels he missed the chance to be the market leader. Rajeev [...]
Court raps Rel Info for billing irregularities
A consumer court has asked Reliance Infocomm to compensate a consumer for charging for calls that never materialised and levying STD tariff on local calls.
“No telephone service provider can be allowed to charge for the calls which have never materialized even after a ring of 10 to 15 seconds or charge STD rates for local [...]
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