Licence to lie

Idea and Airtel have launched services which help you lie. Airtel’s Excuse Me service helps you wriggle out of a boring conversation. All you need to do is dial a number and you will get a call back within 30-40 seconds with a pre-recorded voice asking you questions ranging from

Mobile Pet – Puja

Article talks about various lifestyle mobile content products by Mobile2Win. The Mobile Pet – Puja: Allows one to raise a mobile pet by performing different activities such as playing with the pet, training it, etc. Mobile Pet applications have met with success in Japan and South Korea. Virtual aquarium: Meet some friendly pets

Indian market figures

Some numbers from iSuppli Marketwatch to put things into perspective. Mobiles subscriber base in 2005 grew at an astounding rate of 47% to reach approximately 75.3 million at the end of 2005, up from 48 million at the end of 2004. India in 2005 emerged as the world’s sixth-largest market in terms of mobile-phone subscribers, [...]

ARPU declines to Rs 370

Average monthly revenue per subscriber (ARPU) has declined to Rs 370 for the quarter ended December 2005 for GSM operators. Hutch had the highest ARPU of Rs 422.22, a decline of 3.7% from Rs 438.29 in the quarter ending in September. Bharti had an ARPU of Rs 406.03 compared with Rs 410.13 in the period [...]

Cellcos hit back at TRAI

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the body representing all GSM-based mobile service providers, today slammed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for issuing showcause notice to mobile operators for network congestion, and said that this was an attempt by Trai to hide its failures and shift the blame to the victim. Last week, [...]

Event Alert: Conference on Communications Convergence

4th International Conference on “Communications Convergence: Connecting India – The Global Challenge

GSM, CDMA operators to share infrastructure

The GSM and CDMA operators have reached a deal to share infrastructure for addressing the heavy congestion in telecom networks and poor coverage in major cities. While private operators already have mutual agreements to share infrastructure, this marks the first time that state-owned telecom companies BSNL and MTNL have agreed to share their networks. The [...]

RCoVL restructures its operating companies

In a move intended to reflect the market capitalisation of the company, Reliance Communication Ventures (RCoVL) on Sunday approved a re-organisation of the ownership structure of its operating companies. As per the closing price of Rs 301 on Friday, RCoVL’s m-cap stood at Rs 37,385 crore. Post-reorganisation, RCoVL’s m-cap will stand at Rs 61,000 crore [...]

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