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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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