The PC Strikes Back
Tired of my daily glorification and pampering of the mobile phone, my PC has decided to call it a day. Challenging me to realise that I still do my mobilepunditry through a PC and not a mobile - I don’t even have a moblog yet.
Will be taking a temporary break from blogging this week, till [...]
Mauj launches video ringtones
Mauj Telecom has announced the availability of Video ringtones on operator portals like Idea Cellular’s Ideafresh, MTNL’s Funstation, BSNL’s CellOne Galaxy or by SMSing ‘VR’ to 7007 on Idea, BSNL and MTNL or by logging on to wap.mauj.com.
When a user receives an incoming call, a video clip will be played on his screen announcing the [...]
Other Notable News & Articles
Nokia talking to Indian operators for handset co-brandingWill have interface on mobile phone in 10 Indian languages.
DoT rejects plea for a 3 month grace period to confine FWT servicesIf operators want more time they can approach the TDSAT.
MTNL TriplePlay to offer phone, broadband, video-on-demand, cable on 1 linePlaced orders with Sterlite-Huawei for about Rs 53 [...]
Mobile Naukri
Naukri.com is planning to provide its content through mobile and WAP enable its website. The company currently provides information about jobs from its naukri.com database through its own short code.
Naukri.com is India’s top jobs site with a majority of its database consisting of IT resumes. Therefore its target segment, which is largely young and tech [...]
No hike for intra-network rates
TRAI has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) not to issue directives disallowing differential tariff for intra-network calls.
DoT had earlier planned to issue a directive asking all the telecom operators to withdraw tariff schemes discriminating between calls terminating within the same network and calls terminating in other networks.
Reliance Infocomm, for example, under some of its [...]
China Mobile offers to buy Reliance Telecom
World’s largest mobile phone company by subscriber base, China Mobile has offered to buy ADAE group company Reliance Telecom. It becomes the second company after Russia’s AFK Sistema to evince interest in GSM-based Reliance Telecom (not to be confused with Reliance Infocomm).
RTL’s advantage is that it is completely debt-free and most of its subscribers are [...]
mChq
Airtel, in collaboration with ICICI Bank and VISA has launched mChq in Mumbai and Delhi NCR, which enables Airtel customers and ICICI Bank VISA cardholders to pay for their purchases using Airtel mobile phones.
The transaction process is one where the retailer/merchant sends an SMS mentioning the amount to the customer. The customer enters his/her personalized [...]
Matrimonial money for mobile firms
Business Standard has a story on matchmaking services like chat, dating and find-a-friend offered by operators.
Non-voice/SMS VAS revenues constitute probably less than 3 percentage of operators revenues. It surely acts as a differentiator helping the operators to compete on more than pricing. The following comment in the article is interesting in this regard.
The telecom companies’ [...]
Mobile LILA
During the annual Hindi Divas ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan last week, the Government launched a chip version of LILA (Learn Indian Languages through Artificial Intelligence) software which will help non-Hindi speakers to learn Hindi on mobile phones.
According to official sources, the LILA series which is already available on the web for learning Hindi through Tamil, [...]
Other Notable News & Articles
Orissa postmen to collect BSNL bills for a Rs 5 feeRs 3 for the postal department while Rs 2 to the postman.
Spice Nepal launches “Mero Mobile”India’s Spice Cell has a 5% stake in the first private mobile service in Nepal.
Samir Bangara joins Indiagames as Senior VPHead for Strategy and Asia Pacific Operations.
DoT absorption plan of [...]
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