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Telcos divided over SMS IUC

TRAI had sought comments from Telcos on imposing Interconnect Usage Charge on SMS.
All operators, except Bharti, have opposed the IUC regime. They have argued that the existng system is working well.
“We believe that the regulator should forbear in the matter of IUC charges for SMS and leave it to the service providers for mutual arrangements [...]

IMImobile raises $10 million from Pequot Ventures

Hyderabad based mobile VAS technology provider IMImobile has raised $10 million from Pequot Ventures, a US venture capital investor in high growth businesses.
IMImobile has a content management and delivery platform which has been deployed by several operators and portals in India. The company is also moving into content aggregation services for operators.
Among content aggregators, Mauj [...]

3.2 mn GSM subscribers added in June

GSM representative body COAI declared that the nine GSM operators added 3.2 million subscribers in June, taking the total GSM customer base to 78.5 million.
GSM mobile growth has remained stable at 4.2% in June, the same as in May. The subscriber base grew from 72.2 million users in April, to 75.29 million in May and [...]

MoMo Mumbai - Event report

Have posted the event report of Mobile Monday Mumbai held on July 3rd.
Also, a list of participants along with the presentations, pictures, audio and video.

Sherpalo and Kleiner Perkins invest in Paymate

Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, two of Silicon Valley’s most reputed venture capital firms, today announced their investment in Paymate, a mobile commerce technology provider.
Paymate is a mobile payment platform that allows users to use their mobile phones to make payments.
The total investment by both the VCs in Paymate is reported to [...]

Blackberry beware, Microsoft is here

Microsoft has plans to take on Blackberry in the Indian enterprise market by promoting the push email capability of its Windows Mobile 5.0 platform.
Microsoft has the “Exchange advantage”. There are around 2000 enterprises in India that currently host Microsoft Exchange servers.
Microsoft officials contend that while the Blackberrry server needs middleware to access enterprise servers (which [...]

IDC Mobile Service Usage & Satisfaction Survey 2006

According to IDC’s Mobile Service Usage and Satisfaction Survey 2006, only Spice Telecom fares above the 95% overall customer satisfaction benchmark set by TRAI.
The good news is that industry average of satisfaction score for all the telecom players has gone up by two percentage points over last year.
As many as 28 per cent of users [...]

Commercial GSM celebrates 15th anniversary

It is 15 years on July 1, since the world’s first commercial GSM call was made.
The network was delivered by Ericsson and operated by Mannesmann in Germany. Radiolinja in Finland made the first GSM call four years earlier in 1992.
With more than 2 billion users, GSM has revolutionized the way the world communicates. Around 82% [...]

Reliance bids for Sri Lankan GSM licence

Reliance Communications has bid for a mobile licence in Sri Lanka to become its fifth GSM mobile operator.
Other bidders include Malaysia’s Maxis and Singapore’s SingTel.
Bids for the licence closed on Friday. Sri Lankan media quoted the country’s telecommunications regulatory commission (TRC) director general, Kanchana Ratwatte saying that the response has been good and over 10 [...]

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