Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
The 3G game has come to an end with an approximate gain of Rs 70000 crore to be more exact Rs 67,719 crore for the Government. The bidding for acquiring 3G airwaves license across 22 circles was started on April 9th. The 3G activation across the country have wide options that let the users to benefit from high speed broadband and more value added services from the operators.
The winners of the 3G spectrum are as follows-
Delhi: Vodafone, Bharti, Reliance Communications at Rs 3317 cr
Mumbai: Reliance, Vodafone, Bharti Airtel at Rs 3247 cr
Maharashtra: Tata Communications, Idea, Vodafone at Rs 1258 cr
Andhra Pradesh: Bharti,Idea at Rs 1373 cr
Karnataka: Tata Telecommunication, Aircel, Bharti at Rs1580 cr
Tamil Nadu: Bharti, Vodafone, Aircel at Rs 1465 cr
Kolkata: Vodafone, Aircel, Reliance Communications at Rs 544 cr
Kerela: Idea cellular, Tata Telecommunications, Aircel at Rs 312.5 cr
Punjab: Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata Telecommunications, Aircel at Rs 322 cr
Haryana: Idea Cellular, Tata Telecommunications, Vodafone at Rs 222.6 cr
MP: Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata Telecommunications at Rs 258.4 cr
Rajasthan: Reliance Communications, Bharti, Tata Telecommunications at Rs 321 cr
U.P. (West): Bharti, Idea Cellular, Tata Telecommunications at Rs 514 cr
U.P (East): Aircel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone at Rs 364.6 cr
The new entrant S Tel got license for Himachal Pradesh and Orissa. Though Videocon Mobile took part in online auction it was not found on the list. The Delhi tops among the above circles with a value of Rs 3317 crore.
[Via:CellBharat]
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Indian Government has banned sale of chinese mobile phones in the country. According to Global Telecom Business, the Indian government is concerned about the fact that phones from China could come with “spyware or malware that offers intelligence agencies across the border access to telecom networks in India” – and that’s the reason for the ban.
Manufacturers like ZTE and Huawei, which used to sell lots of phones across India, will certainly be affected by the decision. Indian telecom operators are also put in a difficult situation, as many of them have ordered phones from Chinese manufacturers and now they have to search for other suppliers. On the other hand, India-based phone makers should be quite happy about all this.
[Via: unwiredview]
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Bharti Airtel Ltd. has reached at a deal with Apple Inc. for selling the iPhone 3GS in India in the upcoming months. Bharti Airtel is India’s largest mobile phone operator by the users that has submitted its bid for participating in bandwidth auction to get the third generation, 3G mobile services. The bidders who would achieve success would be permitted to provide 3G services commercially from Sept. 1, 2010.
This high-speed service on the 3G bandwidth is going to offer the Indian telecom companies a chance to attract the big premiums for the multimedia capabilities in domestic market that is already over flown with rough competition with minor margins.
[Via: unwireindia]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
In a bid to boost the Blackberry Mobile services, Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM mobile service operator today announced the launch of Unlimited Chat and Email service over BlackBerry phones just at Rs.99 per month. Before you jump with joy, let me clarify it-The service is only for new Blackberry service subscribers and available on BlackBerry smart phones with Airtel Postpaid connections. As a promotional offer, the monthly service charge of Rs.99 is for first 6 months from the date of activation and after 6 months the regular BlackBerry plan charge of Rs.299 per month will be applicable.
The Data usage is restricted to Email and Messganges data. Internet browsing does not available with this plan.To subscriber the service Airtel postpaid customers can send SMS <take99> to 543210.The offer is valid till 19th February 2010. This service is specilly tailored to access Email via “BlackBerry Personal Mail” while on the move and stay seamlessly connected with instant messaging on your BlackBerry smartphone. “BlackBerry Personal Mail” is a unique offering to customers in India.
The “BlackBerry Personal Mail” service plan offers unlimited access to the industry-leading email and instant messaging features of BlackBerry Service, allowing Airtel customers to access up to 10 supported POP3/IMAP email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail) as well as various instant messaging services (including Windows Live Messenger, GTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger) from a single device.
[Via: Unwireindia]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, has joined the race with handset makers such as Nokia, RIM (maker of BlackBerry) and Samsung among others to get a share of the mobile applications market in India. Bharti’s app store is set to go live on Wednesday (February 10) with over 1,200 applications making it the first Indian telco to attempt replicating the highly successful business model of Apple, the pioneer in this space.
Last month mobile operator Aircel had announced a tie-up with Infosys for its mobile applications platform and the telco is set to unveil its app stores by the March-end, an indicator that more operators here set to tap the business potential this space offers.Mobile apps have been a rave globally ever since Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Earlier this month Apple said that its apps which are divided into 100,000 categories such as games, business, news, sports and health have seen over three billion downloads.
Other handset makers such as Nokia who have joined the fray over the last 12 months are also seeing big business opportunities in this space. For instance, BlackBerry’s app store which is only a few months old already boasts of over 4,000 apps. Ditto with Google’s Android which as already crossed the 20,000 apps figure.
[Via: unwireindia]
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
After the huge success of Corby series Samsung India has launched launched Corby Speed , its first touch screen mobile handset on the CDMA platform. Samsung Corby Speed gives data speed of up to 2.4Mbps. The phone supports full Service (Voice + Data) across all CDMA operators OMH SIM Cards like Tata Indicom, Reliance Mobile, MTS and Virgin Mobile. The Corby Speed comes in bold colours and has pop-style contours and curved body design. The phone has a 2 MP camera, 2.8″ display, music player, FM with recording and 80 MB internal memory expandable upto 8GB with a MicroSD. The Indian subsidiary of the South Korean Samsung sells its CDMA phones through two channels – directly in the open market and through mobile phone service providers. “Currently, the ratio of open market sales to telecom operator sales is 20:80. We expect to change to 30:70 next year,” said company vice president Hendrick Lee while launching a range of CDMA Corby.
The Corby Speed, available on the CDMA platform, has the original Corby’s trademarks of bold colours, pop-style contours and stand-out curved body design. Users can update current status and access friends’ updates, live feeds on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The handset also supports various social networking community sites by integrating leading User Generated Content sites such as Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket and other popular SNS sites including Facebook, MySpace and Friendster directly into the handset’s user interface. Users can upload photos and videos to these SNS and User Generated Content sites. The Corby Speed package includes 3 vibrant color fashion jackets – Yellow , White and Black and is priced at Rs. 10,400.
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Spice Digital Limited, India’s leading Telecom VAS player and Finland based Foreca, pioneer in digital weather services, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding for offering Weather services in India through different Mobile connectivity medium. MOU was signed by Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Spice Digital Ltd. and Mr. Marko Moilanen, Vice President, Foreca Ltd. Gracing the occasion were Mr. Mauri Pekkarinen, Finland’s Minister of Economy & Employment and Ms. Terhi Hakal, Ambassador of Finland to India.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Spice Digital Limited, mentioned, “As a leader in Indian Telecom VAS arena, we are always looking for innovative and technologically advanced offerings that can add value to our customers. We look forward to leverage our expertise in different Mobile connectivity medium of Mobile Internet, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and SMS, to develop different standalone and integrated product offerings around Weather that can be leveraged by millions from the comfort of their handsets. We envision the information to be not only useful for city residents for their day to day activities but also for farmers in planning their agriculture activities, for tourists in planning their business & vacation travel, for governments & NGOs in planning disaster recovery efforts etc. It gives us great pleasure to announce the signing of MOU with Foreca, a pioneer in digital weather services for internet, mobile and navigation devices”
Mr. Marko Moilanen, Vice President, Foreca Ltd said, “We are very excited to sign the partnership agreement with Spice Digital. Foreca’s vast knowledge and in-depth experience of weather data and markets around the world, allows us to bring a very unique and innovative weather offering to the Indian market. Spice Digital’s reach in Indian Mobile arena would allow us to offer different products & services to the Indian consumers”.
[Via: Unwire India]
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Spice Digital Limited, India’s leading Telecom VAS player and Finland based Foreca, pioneer in digital weather services, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding for offering Weather services in India through different Mobile connectivity medium. MOU was signed by Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Spice Digital Ltd. and Mr. Marko Moilanen, Vice President, Foreca Ltd. Gracing the occasion were Mr. Mauri Pekkarinen, Finland’s Minister of Economy & Employment and Ms. Terhi Hakal, Ambassador of Finland to India.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Spice Digital Limited, mentioned, “As a leader in Indian Telecom VAS arena, we are always looking for innovative and technologically advanced offerings that can add value to our customers. We look forward to leverage our expertise in different Mobile connectivity medium of Mobile Internet, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and SMS, to develop different standalone and integrated product offerings around Weather that can be leveraged by millions from the comfort of their handsets. We envision the information to be not only useful for city residents for their day to day activities but also for farmers in planning their agriculture activities, for tourists in planning their business & vacation travel, for governments & NGOs in planning disaster recovery efforts etc. It gives us great pleasure to announce the signing of MOU with Foreca, a pioneer in digital weather services for internet, mobile and navigation devices”
Mr. Marko Moilanen, Vice President, Foreca Ltd said, “We are very excited to sign the partnership agreement with Spice Digital. Foreca’s vast knowledge and in-depth experience of weather data and markets around the world, allows us to bring a very unique and innovative weather offering to the Indian market. Spice Digital’s reach in Indian Mobile arena would allow us to offer different products & services to the Indian consumers”.
[Via: Unwire India]
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Samsung India has launched the C5130 in Indian market. Designed specially for users with active social life, the handset’s homescreen comes with 8 favorite SNS shortcuts including Orkut, Picassa, Facebook, and YouTube. Owing to its integrated full HTML browser and 3G capability, users can easily surf internet on their devices, at a faster speed. With this capability, users can access favorite sites for news, weather updates and various blogs.
“The C5130 mobile is clearly targeted at the youth who are looking at staying connected with their friends at all times, need fast and easy internet access and good multimedia features in their phones, all features being made available to them in an attractively priced package, as indeed the C5130 does”, states Ranjit Yadav, Director -IT & Telecom, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. The Samsung C5130 offers a 1.3 megapixel camera with image editor functionality to edit images and customize them as well. It supports Bluetooth that allows users to upload and share images with their loved ones.
The C5130 packs in MP3 player and FM Radio which entertain users while on the go. Users can customize the look of their devices as it is pre-installed with three types of user interface. The handset supports expandable memory up to 8GB, mobile tracker and talktime up to 13 hours. Users need to shell out Rs. 6,200 to purchase the stylish Samsung C5130 slider handset.
[Via: unwireindia]
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Reliance Communications , India’s largest and only nationwide operator offering both GSM and CDMA mobile services, today initiated a radical move in the Indian telecom industry by making SMS’s more affordable to all mobile customers in India. Reliance Mobile customers can avail of two revolutionary SMS tariff plans:
- ONE PAISE PER SMS
- UNLIMITED SMS’s @ Re. 1 PER DAY
The new SMS tariff plans are add-on plans and are applicable for all Reliance Mobile customers irrespective of CDMA or GSM network as well as prepaid and postpaid customers.
“SMS continues to grow every year with more and more innovative ways of utilizing its potential coming in the forefront. Indians are using SMS as a mode of communication to keep in touch with friends and family. With select subscriber groups, SMS is a preferred communication mode over voice calls. On account of significant tariff disparity in the recent months, it has lost its due share of attention. Considering this, Reliance Communications with its 1st in the industry initiative, aims to revitalize SMS usage in the country”, said Mr. Mahesh Prasad, President – Reliance Communications.
“Like our earlier Simply Reliance offerings of Local, STD and Roaming calls at 50p/min and 1p/sec from any Reliance mobile to any phone on any network, yet to be matched by any competitive offering. With this best in the industry initiative, we offer significant value not only to our existing 9 Crore CDMA and GSM customers, but are also aimed at gaining new acquisitions from high SMS usage groups of the GSM community such as young professionals and the youth across India”, he added.
[Via: unwireindia]
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