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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 / [...]

IMImobile bags Yahoo! deal

VAS technology provider, IMImobile has bagged a contract for providing short code-based technology to Yahoo! in West Asia and Africa, enabling users to download mobile content.
According to Business Standard, the deal is slated to be one of the largest contract bagged by any Indian VAS technology provider in terms of size.
The services will be available [...]

Airtel inks $100-mn deal with IBM

Airtel has announced a 100-million dollar deal with software major IBM for developing, managing and operating its service delivery platform.
The implementation of the service delivery platform will enable Bharti Airtel to have an integrated environment that will incorporate all of Airtel’s content and applications services under one platform. Airtel’s customers can now get the benefit [...]

Visual Radio launched in Delhi

Radio Mirchi, Hutch, Nokia and HP announced the launch of Visual Radio service in Delhi yesterday.
Radio Mirchi has become the first FM radio station and Hutch the first operator to offer Visual Radio in India.
Visual radio allows listeners to tune in to local FM radio via the receiver on their Nokia devices while simultaneously receiving [...]

Norwest to invest $10-15 million in Mobile2win

Contentsutra has an exclusive report that mobile content company Mobile2win is close to receiving an investment upwards of $10 million from one of the world’s largest VC firms, Pramod Haque’s Norwest Venture Partners.
Mobile2win was set up in September 2003 and is from Alok Kejriwal’s Contests2Win stable. Its investors include Siemens Mobile Acceleration, Softbank China and [...]

IndiGo airline announces mobile site

IndiGo, a new low-fare airline, launching in early August has announced a mobile website for GPRS-capable phones available at http://mobile.goindigo.in/
This service not only allows customers to book and pay for flights, but also enables them to check for flight information. Customers can pay for their booked tickets within 24 hours at a number of convenient [...]

Telenity to open Indian R&D centre

US-based VAS platform provider, Telenity will set up an R&D centre in India with an initial investment of Rs 30 crore.
Telenity CEO Dilip Singh:
“We will set up an Research and Development centre either in Delhi or in Pune by the end of next year to offer application-based services to consumers. We will invest rs five [...]

Radio Mirchi to launch Visual Radio in India

Radio Mirchi will launch a Visual Radio service in Delhi by the end of this month. It will be available to Hutch and Airtel subscribers who have a compatible handset.
Most of the mid-level Nokia handsets with FM radio tuner are Visual Radio compatible. For example, the Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N80, Nokia N91, Nokia [...]

Hutch launches fun cards

Hutch has introduced Fun Cards - scratch cards that offer predefined content for your mobiles.
With Fun Cards Hutch customers can now purchase Caller Tunes and Ring Tones off the shelf from the nearest Hutch retailer. All one needs to do is simply scratch the panel on the back of the card to reveal a unique [...]

Fame multiplexes launches mobile ticketing

Fame Multiplexes has launched ‘M-ticket’ service in Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata that allows booking of movie tickets of any Fame Multiplexes by a voice-recognition service (IVRS) and payment through credit card.
This service has been powered by OnMobile and is available for Hutch, Airtel and Idea subscribers in the above mentioned cities.
What is noteworthy in the [...]

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