Hutch and Idea offers

Idea launches new number series: Idea Cellular launched blank sims for its pre-paid and post-paid customers giving them the option to choose the number of their choice in the 99 series. The operator also announced reduction of tariff. For calls from mobile to mobile 49 paise would be charged and 99 paise for mobile to [...]

Teledensity reaches 9.6%

India’s tele-density is inching towards 10% with a net addition of 76 lakh new connections during April-July 2005 taking it to 9.6% at the end of July. According to figures released by Ministry of Communication, basic telephones declined during the period under consideration. Total additional phones during the current year are accounted for by the [...]

Telecom largest service tax contributor

An exponential increase in the cellular subscribers will ring in a whopping Rs 12,650 crore as service tax for the Government by the end of 2007-08. The current level of Rs 4,470 crore from the telecom sector is already the single largest source of service tax for the Government. The telephone segment has been a [...]

India ahead since it’s so far behind

Hindu Business Line attenuates the recent reports of India being the fastest growing mobile market in APAC. The gist of the story is that you can’t gloat over the fact that India, not China, is the fastest growing market because China is a relatively mature market while India is still growing. But it is not [...]

Mobile phones scoring on sports biz

After Astrology, Sports have set the cash registers ringing for the telcos. The report puts the number handsets supporting Java (language in which most of the games are available) at 95.5 million in 2003 up from 32 million in 2002. “There are about 4 lakh games downloaded every month across all categories, vendors and operators. [...]

Hutch, Essar to form new entity

Hutchison Whampoa, the owners of the Hutch brand, and the Ruia group promoted Essar Telecom have decided to consolidate their operations into a new entity christened as Hutchison Essar Ltd. Essar Telecom will continue to have a 30% stake in the merged entity. The stakes of the other stakeholders viz. Kotak Mahindra/Hutchison Telecom International Joint [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Hindi film Apaharan content on Rediff MobileExclusive partnership with Holi Cow Pictures and Prakash Jha Productions. Idea Cellular launches ‘Music Masti’Customers can listen, dedicate, gift, preview songs and download ring-tones from Say Idea voice-portal. Rediff announces partnership with TV industry magazine GR8!Magazine’s content to be made available on mobiles via SMS and GPRS. Interview with [...]

Second hand phones

Rediff has a story on the second-hand mobile phones market in India. The second-hand market is largely for GSM phones only. “The second hand mobile phones cost anywhere between Rs 800 to 1500 here but in villages and small towns, 7 to 8 year old models are available even less”, says Madan, who runs the [...]

Itz Cash and Oxigen

Airtel and Reliance Infocomm, have tied up with Intrex, an Essel Group venture, for electronic distribution of prepaid and calling cards. Their customers can now recharge their prepaid account either by sending an SMS to 7575 or through Intrex’s Website. The required sum will be deducted from Itz Cash card and the mobile will be [...]

MBT implements Azure Interconnect for StarHub

Pune based Mahindra-British Telecom has implemented an interconnect system for StarHub, Singapore’s second-largest telecoms firm and mobile operator. Provided by Azure Solutions, it will deliver interconnect billing for StarHub’s mobile services, improving flexibility of the settlement process and a reduction in operational costs. Azure incorporates rules-based rating capability and allows StarHub to analyze call data, [...]

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