Ringtone market worth Rs 130 cr

The only really useful number from this article in ET is the size of the ringtones market in India – Rs 130 crores and Videotones make up around 3-4% of that. But over the next four years, close to 60 per cent of the new 100 million handsets that get added in india will be [...]

Rhythm nation

With the launch of many music-phone models, handset manufacturers are gearing up to offer iTunes like music service on their phones in India. There are a spate of tie-ups between mobile handset brands and record labels, artists, content providers, online music stores and software companies. Motorola has tied up with Apple iTunes worldwide and is [...]

AT&T planning to re-enter India

AT&T Inc is planning to re-enter the Indian telecom market through a joint venture with Mahindra Air Services. The venture, 74% owned by AT&T Global Network and 26% by Mahindra Air Services, will offer Internet, international long-distance and national long-distance services. The new company will also offer services like global networking and broadband services, video [...]

Soundbuzz to launch prepaid music download cards

Soundbuzz India is gearing to launch a pre-paid music download card in the Indian market before end of this year. The prepaid music cards will serve as an alternative payment option for downloading songs online. Mandar Thakur, general manager of Soundbuzz in India “India is predominantly a mobile music market, with low but rapidly growing [...]

BSNL reduces call charges

BSNL has reduced charges for local calls to private fixed line networks like Bharti and Reliance by a whopping 75% by increasing the pulse rates from 45 seconds to 180 seconds, correcting one of the major discrepancies in call tariffs. This means earlier a subscriber was paying Rs 4.80 for a three minute local and [...]

Spice Telecom to float IPO by Nov

Business Standard reports that Spice Telecom is looking at the possibilities of offloading 20% stake through an initial public offering in November this year to raise $200-250 million. BK Modi, chairman, MCorp, which owns 51% stake in Spice Telecom “We are looking at the possibilities of a listing in November and ground preparations, like appointment [...]

ORG Informatics bags $5 mn order

ORG Informatics has informed that its subsidiary ORG Telecom has got a $5 million order from a Tanzanian telecom firm to help roll out a CDMA network in Tanzania. ORG Telecom has also won two orders in Maldives, the company said. Source: ET

Why Bharti isn’t acquiring abroad

Sunit Mittal shares the problems faced by Bharti in its attempts to go global. He says the valuations of operators worldwide have been driven to crazy heights by the Chinese and Middle-East investors. Asset prices are being driven by the Chinese, who have the go-ahead from their government to go and acquire, and Middle East [...]

Hutch Tuesday

Powered by ActiveMedia Technology‘s mobile coupon platform, Hutch has launched the “Hutch Tuesday” programme that provides exclusive offers to its subscribers across retail partners in Mumbai. Under the terms of the privileges program, subscribers will receive exclusive two-for-one offers on a Tuesday and other ancillary offers the rest of the week to be redeemed at [...]

Indian Operators going to service the Queen

Two Indian operators, Bharti and Shyam Telecom have got licenses to provide services in UK. Bharti has bagged the license to operate full-fledged telecom services, including international long distance, in the southern most state of the British Isles – Jersey. The company proposes to invest over 20 million pounds (GBP) in setting up the network [...]

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