British Telecom to launch fixedline services in India
British Telecom, one of the world’s largest telecom services provider, plans to launch basic fixed-line telephony services in India, to support the company’s corporate customer base.
The launch of fixed-line services by BT is for attracting corporates, particularly MNCs as they use the company to link up to their branch offices in the rest of the [...]
Event Alert: Mobile Monday Mumbai - September
The September event for Mobile Monday Mumbai is on the topic “Mobile Music”.
The event will be hosted by Hungama Mobile.
Speakers:
Saleem Mobhani, VP, Hungama MobileWay forward and Consumer Experience on Mobile Music
Pradeep Anand, MD, Innovative Interactive InfotainmentRich Content for Mobiles - Problems and Solutions
When:
Monday, September 4th, 2006
6.30 pm onwards
Where:
Hungama Mobile, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai.
Registrations are now open.
Trouble Ticket
TRAI has come out with yet another directive aimed towards protecting the interests of the consumer.
TRAI has directed the operators to assign a unique docket number (trouble ticket number) for all service request calls made to the customer care helpline as well as special numbers for registering complaints and convey the same to the customer [...]
Event Alert: Nokia S60 Tech Day
Nokia S60 Tech Day
Event for developers of Symbian C++ for Nokia S60 mobiles.
When:
19 - 20 Sep 2006
Where:
Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.
PVR plans pan-India rollout of m-tickets
India’s largest multiplex chain PVR Cinemas is planning a pan-India rollout of m-ticketing in September.
M-ticketing for movies has been tried out before. Fame Cinemas had announced a IVRS-based service powered by OnMobile where the payment could be made through credit cards. While ConvergeLabs had launched barcode-based m-ticketing for Deep Multiplex in Gujarat.
But the PVR announcement [...]
5 things your operator won’t tell you
ET has a candid piece on the fraudulent practises many operators use to make more money off the gullible user.
Operators introduce greetings SMS into the system on days like Diwali, Friendship day etc. to induce users to forward them
Ignorance of premium pricing for VAS services leads to inflated bills
Within-network offers won’t neccessarily work cheaper for [...]
Mobile companies in Red Herring list
Heres a list of Indian telecom companies part of the “Red Herring Asia 100” - an award programme that recognises the most promising private technology companies in Asia.
ACL Wireless
AreTec
ClearTrail
ConvergeLabs
Coruscant Tec
Encore Software
Jataayu
Mauj
Midas
Mobile2win
MyZus
TELiBRAHMA
Mobile 365 mobilizes Oxford Bookstore
Oxford Bookstore has launched a SMS service for book lovers to check for new releases and bestsellers. The technology for this short-code based “pull” service is provided by Mobile 365.
Its basically an on-demand shortcode service where the user sends a SMS with a keyword to 6365 and gets back a reply with the asked-for info.
E.g. [...]
End of Cablewalla Raj
My latest post on Technology Walla.
Even if DTH only manages to reach the projected 25% penetration of cable homes in 5 years, it would have gained a major victory for the consumer. DTH gives the consumer an alternative to the cable operator, an option which he did not have before.
Sponsored calls
“Please hear this message before proceeding with your (urgent) call.”
This is what one might hear if the “sponsored calls” service actually comes into being. Business Standard says that one operator is soon expected to offer this service on local calls made within its network. OnMobile is the technology provider and developer of this service.
Forget low [...]
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