VAS Market size
Arun Gupta of Mauj, which happens to be one of the top content intermediary companies in the VAS space, puts the size of the market at about Rs 380 crore, and projects it to grow to around Rs 3500 crore by 2010, reports the Financial Express.
“Revenue from the VAS segment is growing at a rate [...]
Other Notable News & Articles
Conference: Mobile Gaming 2005 at New Delhi21-22 Sep 2005, Hyatt Regency, New Delhi
Tata Tele switches to 1 minute pulseLower rates for calls within its network despite DoT’s plan to ban such offers like Reliance.
SC admits Infocomm plea against TDSATTDSAT upholded the penalty of Rs 150 cr imposed on Reliance Info by DoT for international call [...]
WLL operators may challenge DoT order
Fixed-phone service providers using WLL technology (FWT) may challenge in court DoT’s decision to categorise their services at par with mobile services on the ground that the directive has been issued even as the matter is sub-judice. Service providers said the department had jumped the gun and not waited for the TDSAT’s verdict on the [...]
Bharti salaries
According to the statement of particulars filed under Section 217(2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, Bharti Tele-Ventures has 11 crorepati employees with annual remuneration of over Rs 1 crore each.
The Promoter and Chairman & MD tops the remuneration chart with an annual pay packet of Rs 6.58 crore. Joint Managing Director Akhil Gupta and Rajan [...]
Tata Tele drags Rel Info to TDSAT
Tata Teleservices has approached the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) accusing Reliance Infocomm of failing to provide interconnection in 12 new circles to its mobile and fixed wireless phones. The circles include Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,Bihar, Orissa, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Kolkata.
At present, calls made by Tata Indicom subscribers [...]
Music Phones
ET has a round-up of various music phones available in India. It starts with Sony’s W800i, Samsung D500, Nokias and moves on to Nokia’s plans to rule the segment with N-series phones like N61. Read the article only to get updated on the choices of models available, if you are planning to buy a music [...]
Buy RIL
The Smart Investor puts a buy on Reliance Industries with the following arguments.
Apart from its business plans, what makes RIL an attractive bet is that it provides an indirect play on the telecom sector. RIL stock price has already run up substantially as businesses get separated.
But when the Reliance Infocomm goes for an initial public [...]
SMS
Bunty: India is running on SMS these days.
Babli: Really?
Bunty: Of course. Sardar Manmohan Singh.
Telecom Growth
Good analytical article in Business Standard talking about future telecom growth in the country.
Given per-capita, India will hit the affordability barrier earlier
LG’s India plans
LG Electronics India is looking at a sales figure of around Rs 9,000 crore by 2010. It would use India as a production base for exporting to countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Middle East and Africa; with exports contributing 50% of LG India’s revenue from GSM handset sales by then.
LG claims to be the [...]


