On The Gobar
Some of the oldest forms of fuel, cow dung, jatropha and cottonseed, may help power rural mobile telephony in India. The country’s first base station powered by biofuel is set to become operational at a rural area near Pune in the next couple of weeks.
The rural areas are plagued by erratic power supply and mobile [...]
Cricinfo’s mobile plans
Hindu Business Line has a story on leading cricket portal Cricinfo’s mobile plans. Read through the post to learn about the plans. But there’s one problem. Go towards the end of post to find out.
Anil Nair, Creative Head, Wireless Media, Cricinfo:
“We were one of the earliest providers of mobile cricket content. It started as [...]
Next level in Gaming
Business Standard has a good article on the pricing innovation happening in the Indian mobile gaming market.
A look at the innovative pricing / business models:
Pay-per-play
Satchet packaging
Time-based gaming or subscription model
Advergaming - the use of mobile games for promotion of a product
Game stacks - where packs of three games can be downloaded for Rs 100
Splitting of [...]
Event Alert: Internet & Mobile Connect
Chennai-based Venture Intelligence is organizing Internet & Mobile Connect, a roundtable event on Venture Capital investing in the Internet-based Services and Mobile Value Added Services sectors. The event will be held on March 15 in Mumbai.
“The Online Services and Mobile VAS sectors have emerged as favorite sectors among Venture Capitalists accounting for almost 50% of [...]
Its a good Idea
Idea Cellular has won the GSM Association’s Global Mobile Awards award under the “Best Billing or Customer Care Solution” category.
“CARE
State of the Indian handset market
According to ORG-GFK figures, Nokia has seen a dip in its Indian market share in the last one year.
Nokia’s market share in the GSM handset market in terms of units sold has come off its highs at 78-80% in end December 2005 to around 70% at the end of December 2006.
In the same period, Motorola [...]
Essar Telecom Retail
Essar Telecom Retail, an Essar group company, is all set to enter mobile retailing in India with the launch of its “The MobileStore
GSMA honours Indian Government
The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association representing more than 700 mobile operators, presented its Government Leadership Award 2007 to India for exceptional achievement in the field of mobile communications policy.
India has been selected because of its success in establishing a framework of policies and regulations, which have enabled and stimulated the growth of [...]
Mobile Monday - February event
The February event of Mobile Monday Mumbai will take place on February 19th.
Big thanks to Astrolife.com for sponsoring the event and supporting the Mobile Monday community.
Topic:
Convergence of Internet and Mobile business models
How internet websites are integrating mobiles in their services and business models.
Agenda:
Raj Rao, Busines Head, Astrolife.com
Debashis Dey, Founder, Hotclips.mobi
Networking Dinner
When:
Monday, 19th February, 2007
6.30 pm [...]
Mobile Phones Facilitate Romance in Modern India
Here are some interesting tidbits from a story on the doctoral research done by Carolyn Wei of the University of Washington.
“What Carolyn has done it take this really interesting element of youth culture
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