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Earlier I reporetd the popularity of mobile retailing in India. The story doesn’t end with MobileNxt, ConvergeM & M Bazaar or Essar Telecom. This time we have Mr. Vijay Singh a NOKIA dealer from Mahrashtra who has grown his business organically and had a choice to expand in assocation with NOKIA or venture on his own. VijayContinue Reading
On one hand the GSM operators are lobbying hard for cheaper 3G entry. On th other hand, Reliance a CDMA operator which feels humiliated by Qualcomm’s indifferent treatment on tax issues has thrown its bid for 3G space in both GSM and CDMA. Enter, third player, the Cable TV OperatorsContinue Reading
Sorry I wasn’t able to post for the past 3 days as their was Priority-0 issue 😉 In the meantime, Google launched its Google Apps for Domain. Isn’t it the same as Google Hosted Mail + Google Talk + Google Calendar and Google Page Creator all bundled together ? However,Continue Reading
If you have read The Google Story then you will probably regret having not majored in Math 😉 Billions of dollars lying idle in your bank account and all of a sudden you think Wall Street is the place to be at. That’s exactly what Googler’s might have thought. IContinue Reading
With the opening of telecom sector and the Government of India allowing 74% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the same, we are now hearing of companies from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong which have have high interest in the Indian telecom business, especially the mobile business. SingTel (Singapore Telecom )Continue Reading
Earlier this year, I had reporetd on the unique business model adopted by Airtel for network expansion, upgradation and management – outsource the entire networking operation to GSM equipment manufacturer, Ericsson. Airtel has done it again. It has outsourced a Billion dollar(Rs4,600 crores) contract to Ericsson for the next 3Continue Reading
TRAI and the telecom ministry together had put a hefty demand of $2Billion for all India 3G license. COAI represnting the GSM assoication have offered just Rs300 crores($66 Million) for all India 3G license. Recall that the government wanetd to price the 3G spectrum on the European model of TelecomContinue Reading
TRAI has directed all the mobile service operators to cut premium SMS rates. What is a premium SMS anyway ? SMS sent to TV contests, or Win a civic with your lowest unique bid on Airtel network etc are all categorized as premium SMSs. They typically cost between Rs5 throughContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider has tied up with the Redmond giant to offer Windows Mobile services targetted at SME(Small and Medium Enterprise) customers in India. Airtel already offers blackberry services to corporates and SMEs. Speaking on the ocassion, Manoj Kohli, President of Bharti-Airtel Mobile division said thatContinue Reading
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