Mobile

Most Indian Mobile Users Are Male: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 24 Jul 2008 06:42 AM PST

As part of their monthly reports on the mobile Web, Opera has released their June 2008 stats breaking down usage of their mobile web browser – Opera Mini – across…

Indian Mobile Data Revenues To Reach $8.3bn; 3G Policy To Be Announced Soon - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 23 Jul 2008 09:34 PM PST

A report by Juniper on mobile coverage for the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka) states that content revenues in the Indian region should hit $8.3 billion…

Vodafone To Beat Airtel To iPhone 3G Launch; Expected Next Month - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 23 Jul 2008 02:18 AM PST

The iPhone 3G will be available as early as next month in India reports Techtree. As we had reported earlier, the phone was expected sometime in October from both Vodafone…

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Zapak Launches Zapak.mobi; Advertising Supported Turn Based Strategy Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 22 Jul 2008 07:11 PM PST

Zapak.com has dipped its toes into the mobile domain through its Zapak.mobi venture. The GPRS-based site offers games for mobile download and play, with multiplayer aspects and a message box,…

NDTV Partners With July Systems For SMS Service - 5 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 09 Jul 2008 12:50 PM PST

NDTV Convergence has tied up with mobile technology company July Systems for a free SMS service. The service, titled MiSMS, will enable users to fetch news, videos, stocks and cricket…

Updated: DoT Says No Threat From Blackberry; The Argument Continues… - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 02 Jul 2008 12:57 PM PST

Update: Communications minister A Raja said on Friday that the government was looking at solutions offered by third parties to address security concerns associated with Blackberry. These statements come even…

Airtel To Pilot Ad-Funded CRBT Project - 7 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 30 Jun 2008 01:07 PM PST

You are reading it here first. ContentSutra has learned that Airtel will be piloting an ad funded CRBT (NYSE: BT) project starting around 8th July in two yet to be…

Broadband Base Reaches 4.15 Million; Tele-Density at 27.59% - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:59 PM PST

The wireless growth story continued in May with 8.62 million telephone connections (wireless and wireline) being added, bringing the overall tele-density to 26.89%. No suprises as wireline subscriptions decreased to…

AT&T Close To Buying Out Majority Stake In Aircel - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:54 PM PST

Looks like Bharti Mittal’s prediction of consolidation being inevitable in the telecom space has come true. Close on the heels of the Spice - Idea merger, ET reports AT&T is…

BigAdda Launches Mobile Blogging Application With Big B(eta) - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:32 AM PST

Its hard to resist a headline like that. Reliance ADAG’s love affair with the Bachchan’s continues, this time in the form a mobile blogging application called MoBlog developed especially for…

Idea - Spice Merger Complete; Telekom Malaysia To Hold 14.99% Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 25 Jun 2008 12:44 PM PST

The deal is finally over with, Idea has bought the Modi’s 40.80 stake in Spice Communications at Rs 77.30 a share. The stake, valued at Rs 2,175 crore will see…

Tata Hikes Stake In Neotel By 30 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 25 Jun 2008 10:06 AM PST

Tata Communications has hiked its stake in South African telco Neotel by 30% by acquiring stake in two state-run firms Eskom and Transnet reports ET. Tata had previously acquired 26…

Yahoo To Sell Mobile Ads on Idea; OneSearch on MTNL - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 16 Jun 2008 11:34 PM PST

Yahoo has signed up Idea Cellular to sell mobile adds across its network....the operator plan to carry a variety of graphical ads, sold and served by Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). It…

India Serves 345 Million Ad Impressions, Ranks Second: AdMob - 7 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 15 Jun 2008 01:50 AM PST

A quick stat update from AdMob. 344.7 million impressions were served in May in India making it the no. 2 country by traffic volume after the US. Most ad impressions…

@ WWDC: 3G iPhone Available July 11 For US $199: Our Coverage - 4 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 09 Jun 2008 02:16 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced the launch of its 3G iPhone; the 8-Gig one will be $199 and the 16-Gig will be $299 in the U.S. It launches in 22…

MS To Expand SMS Services; MD Neelam Dhawan Quits - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 09 Jun 2008 08:14 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) India is planning to expand its SMS search services in India reports ET. MS, which currently has a tie-up with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) for SMS search services…

Spice - Idea Merge, BK Modi To Exit Completely: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Fri 06 Jun 2008 11:29 AM PST

Early reports coming in from CNBC state BK Modi is exiting Spice Communications with Idea picking up 40% stake. Idea will replace Modi as the Indian partner with Telekom Malaysia…

Tanla Acquires $15.8 Million Stake In Finnish-based Openbit - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 05 Jun 2008 12:43 PM PST

Tanla, an Indian provider of mobile services, said it acquired an 85 percent stake in Openbit, a Finland-based mobile payment software company for $15.8 million in cash (Euro 12 Million)reports…

TRAI - DoT Battle Over 3G Foreign Entrants; Sarin Comments On Spectrum Allocation - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 02 Jun 2008 07:42 AM PST

This is beginning to look like a family drama. TRAI and DoT are not seeing eye-to-eye again, this time over entry of foreign players in the 3G segment. Like all…

Aircel CEO Rohit Chandra Joins Unitech - 2 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 02 Jun 2008 07:03 AM PST

Expect more such announcements as new entrants start rolling out services. Aircel CEO Rohit Chandra is the new CEO of Unitech’s telecom arm. Telecom Tiger also reports Ashok Sud of…

Indian Govt And RIM To Meet Again Over BlackBerry In India; Posturing Continues - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 30 May 2008 12:40 AM PST

The Indian government and Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) (RIM) have met again to discuss the governments security concerns over the government not being able to track data communications over…

Will Nokia Need An MVAS License For Ovi? Thoughts On TRAIs Consultation Paper On MVAS - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 29 May 2008 01:51 AM PST

The TRAIs has issued a consultation paper on Mobile VAS, which you may download here. The value chain appears to be overly simplified as follows: Definition of MVAS and the…

Indiagames Acquires Multiple Rights For Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 27 May 2008 01:55 PM PST

Indiagames has acquired rights for mobile, PC and interestingly Interactive Television (DTH and IPTV) rights for Star’s Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain (Are You Smarter Than A Fifth…

Reliance Globalcom Acquires Struggling UK Based MVNO Vanco For $76.9 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 May 2008 05:25 AM PST

Reliance Globalcom has acquired 100 percent stake in UK based MVNO Vanco for $76.9 Million. Vanco services over 220 MNC customers, including AVIS, British Airways, Siemens, Virgin Megastores; the acquisition,…

Cleartrip Ties Up With PLUS! - 2 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 26 May 2008 12:27 AM PST

Cleartrip has tied up with Star India’s mobile application PLUS, to deliver travel related information to users. The service allows users to access travel information and make reservations via the…