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Lalu ke peeche kutte ka baccha pad gaya.
Lalu bola: “Hum toh Airtel ka card dalwaya hoon, phir sasura ye Hutch ka network kaise pakad raha hai!!”
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Life before marriage is AIRTEL: “You can express yourself ”
After honeymoon is HUTCH: “Wherever you go, your wife network follows”
After 1 year life is IDEA: “A wife can change [...]

News in Brief

UK-based GLG Partners buys 8% in Idea
Last month private equity firm Providence Equity Partners bought a 15% stake in Idea Cellular. Another private equity firm, TA Associates, also grabbed a minority stake in Idea.
No one can beat us in India: Nokia
With customer service and distribution network well in place, “We shall be very difficult to [...]

News in Brief

Recent mobile content news.

Mobile2win and Indiagames to distribute Ozura Mobile’s game titles in India
According to In-Stat/MDR, the Indian mobile gaming market is expected to generate annual revenues of $336 million by 2009.
Hyderabad is the new base of Electronic Arts mobile division
Electronic Arts mobile division EA Mobile will initiate developing casual games at its Hyderabad office. [...]

News in Brief

July Systems patents personalization tool for mobile phonesJuly’s Application Intermediation Gateway (AIG) is part of its mobile service delivery platform, which enables real-time personalization of mobile content services based on subscriber’s history, preferences etc.
Subex Azure secures $6.5m in new ordersThe merged entity targets product revenue of $53 million in this fiscal.
Airtel ties up with Microsoft [...]

Other Notable News and Articles

Reliance’s bid to enter Egypt disqualified after technical evaluationIt is close to finalising an MoU with MTNL to jointly bid for international licences.
LG CDMA launches RD 6330 moviefone on ReliancePriced at Rs 5500, comes with camera and video recorder.
Tata Tele launches loyalty programme for PCO operatorsThere are about 80,000 Tata Indicom PCO operators in Tamil [...]

Other Notable News and Articles

Maran @ GSMA meet: Reduce international roaming ratesRs 100 a minute for making a call while roaming overseas on an average.
BSNL reduces fixedline rentals for One India planRentals reduced to Rs 225 per month from Rs 299 and 25 free calls per month.
Bharti strikes services deal with Ericsson for 60 million linesEricsson also bagged a [...]

Other Notable News and Articles

Mobile subscriber base figure authentic: TRAIRead this post for a background on this story.
US cries foul over BSNL reserving quarter of mega contract for ITI ITI has tied up with French vendor Alcatel to manufacture cellular equipment.
Motorola to set up manufacturing plant in ChennaiMotorola is likely to make the announcement next week.
TV show Bid2Win collects [...]

Other Notable News and Articles

Rajeev ‘BPL’ Chandrashekar: Next opportunity lies in business centred around core telecom or infrastructureNumber of players in the domestic mobile space have more or less stabilised.
DoT in favour of allowing foreign bosses at telcosBut opposes remote access of telecom networks outside India.
Airtel fixed line customer base stands at 14 lakhExpects 70-80% year on year [...]

Other Notable News and Article

Australia’s Telstra keen on entering IndiaGrowth in Australia’s mobile market to slow down to 17.1% by 2010.
Indiagames to develop mobile game on NBC’s hit comedy ‘The Office’Mini-games includes Wastekeball, Paper-Football, Table-Top Golf, Office Paper War.
TRAI directs operators to report international traffic minutes every monthIn order to curb the grey market in international calls.
Paul Donovan replaces [...]

Other Notable News and Articles

Hutch brand begins replacing BPL in Maharashtra and GoaAlso replacing existing infrastructure with the latest Nokia equipment.
Nokia raise its growth forecast in the global mobile market as demand grows in China and IndiaThe company expects the number of mobile users to touch 3 billion in 2008.
GSM operators will continue getting double the spectrum than CDMADoT [...]

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