India-China contribute to Motorola and Nokia growth
Announcing its second quarter results yesterday, Motorola posted all time high mobile device sales this quarter, including record operating earnings from devices.
The company’s sales increased 46% to $7,140 million while its operating earnings rose 62 per cent to $799 million.
Motorola has retained its second position in India and world wide, while expanding its global market [...]
PayMate launches mobile payment solution with Citibank
PayMate, a mobile payments company spun off by Coruscant Tec, has collaborated with Citibank and Euronet to launch a mobile payment solution for Citibank customers.
Heres how PayMate works:
Citibank customers need to sign up for this service with the bank by simply sending “PayMate” as an SMS to 2484.
The customer will then be called back and [...]
IndiGo airline announces mobile site
IndiGo, a new low-fare airline, launching in early August has announced a mobile website for GPRS-capable phones available at http://mobile.goindigo.in/
This service not only allows customers to book and pay for flights, but also enables them to check for flight information. Customers can pay for their booked tickets within 24 hours at a number of convenient [...]
Hutch Hadtal
Mobile product retailers in Mumbai have been on strike since a month, protesting against a cut in by mobile operators.
For over a month now, retailers have not been selling recharge vouchers and new connections of Hutch, Airtel and BPL in most areas of Mumbai. They were protesting against reduction in commission from 3.25% to 2.36%. [...]
Samsung eyes 20% market share
Samsung hopes to capture one-fifth of India’s mobile phone handset market by focusing on the replacement market.
Around half of the phones now sold in the big cities such as Delhi and Mumbai are to customers upgrading from older, less fashionable models, said Sutikshan Naithani, vice president for sales and marketing at Samsung’s Indian subsidiary.
Samsung expects [...]
Hutch FDI gets past Orascom hurdle
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared Hutch Essar’s proposal to raise FDI from 49% to 68%, notwithstanding the strong opposition from National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and the company’s Indian partner, Essar.
The foreign investment includes the contentious 10% indirect shareholding of Egypt-based Orascom, which it holds by virtue of its 19.3% equity in [...]
Fate of 1 crore users hanging in balance
DoT today issued a notice to all mobile operators in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Haryana circles, giving them 15 days to explain why they should not be fined for violating norms.
Mobile operators had been earlier directed to discontinue all connections issued without proper verification.
“Nearly 10-15 per cent of all mobile subscribers (100 million) are [...]
Telenity to open Indian R&D centre
US-based VAS platform provider, Telenity will set up an R&D centre in India with an initial investment of Rs 30 crore.
Telenity CEO Dilip Singh:
“We will set up an Research and Development centre either in Delhi or in Pune by the end of next year to offer application-based services to consumers. We will invest rs five [...]
CDMA exodus
After Reliance Communications, the smaller CDMA-based telecom operators also want to migrate from CDMA to GSM and have started applying for GSM spectrum.
Punjab-based HFCL Infotel Ltd has sent an application to the department of telecommunications (DoT), while Rajasthan-based Shyam Telelink Ltd is planning to do so shortly.
Both the companies have a unified access service licence [...]
Radio Mirchi to launch Visual Radio in India
Radio Mirchi will launch a Visual Radio service in Delhi by the end of this month. It will be available to Hutch and Airtel subscribers who have a compatible handset.
Most of the mid-level Nokia handsets with FM radio tuner are Visual Radio compatible. For example, the Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N80, Nokia N91, Nokia [...]
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