Airtel awards billion dollar deal to Ericsson

Bharti Airtel has awarded to Ericsson a one billion dollar (Rs 4500 crore) contract extending over three years, for the expansion and upgrade of Bharti Airtel’s mobile network in 15 circles. Last year Bharti Airtel had signed a 250 million dollar (Rs 1,075 crore) contract with Ericsson, to set up and maintain Airtel’s cellular network [...]

Tatas to invest in South African telco InfraCo

ET reports that Tatas are picking up 26% in InfraCo, a new telecom company in South Africa. The remaining stake in the company will be held by the South African government. The joint venture will be the third network operator in South Africa, and apart from offering long distance services within the country, it will [...]

Nazara of Dhoni games

Nazara has announced the launch of two games based on popular cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni developed for Qualcomm’s BREW platform. It will also launch Dhoni’s wallpapers and screensavers. In Dhoni Tappebaaz, the user will have to skillfully keep the ball off the ground by striking it with his bat. Dhoni Tappebaaz also will have a [...]

Mauj as a consumer brand

ET has press release like article on Mauj. It can hardly be called a company profile, but nevertheless worth a dekko. Founded by Anupam Mittal (of Shaadi.com) and Arun Gupta (ex-Yahoo India) in August ’03 Turnover of about Rs 10 crore with 165 people Raised $10m from Sequoia India and Intel Capital in March ’06 [...]

Zero-rental GPRS

I’m always pleased to see favourable developments in the uptake of data services. The ubiquitous internet-ready mobile phone has the potential to be the laptop of developing countries like India. We have to move beyond Voice and SMS; for this operators have to bring down the cost of entry and usage, and the content / [...]

Airtel, Reliance may bid for Bhutan GSM licence

Business Standard reports that some Indian operators, including Bharti Airtel and Reliance Telecom, have evinced interest in bidding for a GSM-based mobile service licence in Bhutan. Bhutan started mobile services in November 2003 and has about 50,000 cellular subscribers and over 40,000 fixed-line customers. State-owned Bhutan Telecom is the sole operator until now. This would [...]

Tech Mahindra bags international orders

Its raining deals for Tech Mahindra, an IT solutions provider to telecom companies. The company is in the news for bagging some large international deals. Digicel deal: It will provide the platform for running mobile virtual network operator services to Caribbean’s largest mobile service provider Digicel. As per the contract, Tech Mahindra will provide integrated [...]

Happy Independence Day

India is celebrating its 59th Independence Day today. Wishing all of you a great 15th August. Jai Hind!

Helion invests $2.2 million in JiGrahak

After content aggregators, Indian mobile payment companies are attracting VC funding. Helion Venture Partners has announced an investment of $2.2 million in Bangalore-based mobile commerce company JiGrahak. JiGrahak’s product NGPay is a free downloadable mobile application which enables users to book flight tickets, buy movies tickets, to buy goods and services, and make payment through [...]

5 mn new mobile users in July

India added more than 5 million new mobile users in July, taking its mobile user-base to 108 million. GSM operators added 3.93 million customers and CDMA operator Reliance Communications added 1.1 million new users in July. Bharti Airtel = 1.26 million new, 24.337 million total Reliance Communications = 1.1 million new, 23.7 million total BSNL [...]

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