There is a massive rush from different corners of corporate India to run mobile services. It all started with realty firm Parsvnath Developers,  followed by Unitech and DLF. IndiaBulls, retail stock broking chain has also thrown its hat in the ring. Existing operators, HFCL and Spice who have slept over aContinue Reading

Is it under the inspiration of Indian Idol or Contest2Win ? I am unsure, but India Ka Hero for sure is a neat idea to let users exhibit their talent and let others choose the most talented. India Ka Hero has launched four contests and the prizes for each ofContinue Reading

Accelerated coverage into interiors of India helped mobile operators add more cellular subscribers in August-07. As usual, RCom doesn’t have its numbers yet[Ambani doesn’t want to be first here ?] and excluding it, GSM operators added 5.95 million subscribers in August-07 taking the total GSM subscriber base to 147 million. Bharti Airtel continuesContinue Reading

MobileNXT, one of the first Mobile phone retailers in the country has divested 35% stake in favour of the Network18 group. MobileNXT plans to utilize Network18’s content – ringtones, movies, web creatives as well as advertising on its network. They may also explore sales on HomeShop18. MobileNXT has opened justContinue Reading

The bug for being Numero Uno has severely bitten Mr. Anil Ambani and his team 🙂 The core team keeps announcing things one after the other even before the products are ready. For instance, they announced the launch of Reliance Mobile Money Transfer in a filing with the Stock Exchange Mumbai  on theContinue Reading

Mobile has become a converged device in the hands of an Indian. According to a recent survey by Singapore based SoundBuzz, sales of digital music for mobile will touch Rs 3,601 crore [$900 M] out of the projected Rs 4,100 crore [$1.025 B] digital music market in 2009. It isContinue Reading

The NDNCRegistry did go online in India but most consumers feel it’s a painful exercise. Vodafone-Essar which has been active in receiving its customer feedback today became the first mobile service provider in India to introduce unwanted call blocking and filtering mechanism to any of its customer irrespective of the mobileContinue Reading