Mobile VAS market may touch Rs 4,000 cr by 2007

BSNL is the second largest operator and it is putting of VAS infrastructure in its various circles. This will open up a new market for the providers and is expected to substantially increase the total VAS market size. But without going in to the reasoning of the market size projection of Rs 4000 crores in [...]

IMImobile to set up 3G lab in Mauritius

Hyderabad-based VAS technology provider IMImobile is setting up a 3G lab in Mauritius in partnership with a local operator Emtel. The lab, likely to be operational within this quarter, will help mobile operators to roll out 3G value-added services like video chat, video mail etc. The company employs 225 people in India and is looking [...]

Doordarshan’s Mobile TV initiatives

Good old DD is going hi-tech. It plans to start its DVB-H based mobile TV service in the second half of this year. DD will also digitize its archive and make it available on a per view basis with the operators as streaming videos. Doordarshan director general Navin Kumar: “With this technology, we will be [...]

Rajshri Media brings Barbie and Classic films to mobiles

Rajshri Media, the digital arm of the Rajshri Group is bringing some of the evergreen blockbusters on your mobile phone. The company has launched

Have you played Jackpot today

Sounds familiar? Have been receiving at least 1-2 SMS every week since last month, trying to make a gambler of me. Forget about winning, going by this ET article – it might even be illegal to play. Some mobile operators are offering what appears to be an online lottery, though it is described as an [...]

Ringtone market worth Rs 130 cr

The only really useful number from this article in ET is the size of the ringtones market in India – Rs 130 crores and Videotones make up around 3-4% of that. But over the next four years, close to 60 per cent of the new 100 million handsets that get added in india will be [...]

Rhythm nation

With the launch of many music-phone models, handset manufacturers are gearing up to offer iTunes like music service on their phones in India. There are a spate of tie-ups between mobile handset brands and record labels, artists, content providers, online music stores and software companies. Motorola has tied up with Apple iTunes worldwide and is [...]

Soundbuzz to launch prepaid music download cards

Soundbuzz India is gearing to launch a pre-paid music download card in the Indian market before end of this year. The prepaid music cards will serve as an alternative payment option for downloading songs online. Mandar Thakur, general manager of Soundbuzz in India “India is predominantly a mobile music market, with low but rapidly growing [...]

Hutch introduces

Hutch along with Hungama Mobile, Filmkraft and T-Series announced the music premier of the forthcoming blockbuster

Cellebrum launches Background Music in India

VAS solution provider Cellebrum has tied up with operators like Idea, Spice and Reliance Telecom at the national level and is also running a pilot programme for Airtel for its landline services in the Madhya Pradesh Circle. Over 170,000 Idea and Spice subscribers have tried the BGM service till now. With Background Music, you can [...]

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