Sasken plans development center in Mexico

Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd has announced its plans to set up its international Development and Support Center in Nuevo Leon in Mexico, where it has a wholly owned subsidiary, Sasken Communication Technologies Mexico. The Mexico center is part of the company’s “Near Shore Strategy” to cater to the needs of its customers in the Americas. [...]

Indians not using MMS much

In a survey conducted by market research agency TNS across 15 countries, Indians have been found to be among the lowest MMS users. The survey found only 1% of cellphone users – five out of 395 people surveyed – in Indian metros using MMS to send pictures daily. Only four respondents sent pictures at least [...]

Cash register ringbacking

Story in Financial Express on ringbacktones becoming a significant VAS revenue generator for operators. Most carriers charge Rs 30 per month for the ringbacktone service and Rs 10 for each subsequent tune. Launched in India in June 2004 by BPL Mobile as My FX, callback tunes have quickly caught on. Airtel launched its version of [...]

The pie grows but the slice doesn’t

Financial Express story on the biggest grievance VAS providers have against Indian operators. Content may be king in the growing market for mobile value-added services (VAS) but content providers get only a poor share of the revenues. Operators, turning to VAS to boost their average revenue per user (ARPU), continue to retain a bulk of [...]

The Year that was

Anjanaa Daas & Sunil Batra have done a (little early) year-end roundup of happenings in the Indian mobility space. Good summary. I was planning to do a summarising post for 2005, but ET preempted me.

MTNL’s declining market share

The Government today told the Rajya Sabha that the market share of MTNL has nearly halved over the couple of years. The market share in 2003 was 61.35%, which came down to 32.18% in 2005. Minister of State for Communications and IT Shakeel Ahmad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha that due [...]

i-Mode as inspiration for India

Sumedh Mungee gets it, when he sees stark similarities between Japan and India in their market conditions, which were essential to i-Mode’s success. From Webcams and i-Mode at Wap Review: So why is the mobile web and particularly i-Mode so popular in Japan. There are many factors such as the high cost of both dial-up [...]

MindTree develops chip for mobile batteries

MindTree Consulting has designed and developed a new analog integrated circuit (IC) for Lithium-ion batteries, which will improve power management by intelligent charging. The chip has been developed for a leading Korean manufacturer of semi-conductor devices for wireless products. The IP for the chip will belong to the customer. The 1.5 mm chip is an [...]

Mobisodes mela

Indian Express story on how Indian TV channels are scrambling to make available Mobisodes of their programs. After the success of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, Star One launched a series of one-minute gags on mobile. MTV has taken on the task of releasing fresh mobisodes every day, all based on their new youth-centric serial, [...]

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