Mobile manufacture banks on India

Financial Express article on global telecom manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and LG setting up manufacturing facilities in India. Of the expected 810 million global mobile phone sales this year, India is expected to account for about 34 million. A large percentage of mobile handsets market in the country is the below Rs 4000 category [...]

Airtel launches Rs10 credit pack

’10 on Demand’ is an innovative scheme launched by Airtel in Gujarat. Prepaid users whose talktime has expired can dial 888 to get emergency talktime worth Rs 10, which will be deducted in next recharge. This top up amount will be available only once till customer recharges again. “This emergency value added service which customer [...]

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Maran meets telcos on sharing infrastructureAttended by Ratan Tata, Rajan Mittal, Asim Ghosh, BD Khurana of Reliance, Promod Saxena of Essar. VSNL-SNO gets PSTS license to operate in South AfricaTo provide a full range of telecom services. Electronic Arts to acquire JAMDAT for $680 mnMobile game firm has its development centre in Hyderabad. Cellnext to [...]

VAS keeps telcos ringing

Article in ET provides some useful numbers on the mobile VAS market in India. With tariffs hitting rock bottom, operators are looking at value-added services (VAS) to increase the ARPUs. India has an average revenue per user (ARPU) of $8 per month, which is the lowest in the world. It is less than half the [...]

Vandrevala is new Motorola India head

Former Tata Teleservices chairman Firdose Vandrevala today joined Motorola as head of Indian operations. Vandrevala was associated with the Tata group for over 33 years at different capacities in steel, power and telecom. He recently quit the post of chairman of Tata Teleservices to make room for the group chairman Ratan Tata. Vandrevala would also [...]