Airtel Ties up with Microsoft
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
Windows Live Custom Domains – Review
I wanted a secure web based email interface to communicate in my official capacity as an associate of this blog. Since their were some problems involved in configuring Convergence.In, I decided to use ConvergenceIndia.Com. To setup your free Hotmail like web based e-mail on your own domain, sign up withContinue Reading
Free outgoing calls coming to your mobile soon.
OnMobile, Bangalore based company developing innovative mobile solutions in the space of Ads, Speech, IVR is all set to provide a 30 to 45 seconds commercial mobile Ads for one of the Indian cellular operator. (Not Bharti-Airtel, could be Hutch ? Keep guessing) All the consumer has to do isContinue Reading
Rs425 crores per circle for 3G spectrum – Insane ?
If ET is to be believed, then TRAI is proposing Rs85 crores for every MHz of spectrum to offer 3G services. TRAI is considering auctioning the spectrum on European model of Telecom business – Price it for every MHz. For any operator to offer 3G services efficiently then he hasContinue Reading
Dish TV or Triple Play ?
I read a review of Tata Sky TV which prompted me to peek at Zee’s Dish TV offering. I must admit that I have been lagging behind in using or atleast testing these two services. I was kind of lost thinking that IPTV is the way to go. But letsContinue Reading
3G license fees and updates.
TRAI and DOT are determined to impose license fees for 3G spectrum. They have proposed three options – auction, beauty parade and fixed fees. Industry associations, COAI and AUSPI in their presentations didn’t want any fees as they have already paid a hefty entry fees. India has one of theContinue Reading
Indians lead in online population growth
The number of Indians over 15 years of age accessing the internet rose 7.8% in Q2-2006 to 18.02 million from 16.71 million. India currently ranks at ninth position in terms of total online population. America has retained top slot with 153 million users according to comScore. China and Russia followedContinue Reading
Google’s Doodle for Indians on Independence Day
Google has the tradition of pleasing the locale in which it is operating in. I first learnt about this from “The Google Story” – David Vise. To honour the Indian independence day, it has changed its doodle to include the tri-color. And from Convergence.In – linking diversity, Wish You aContinue Reading
Maxis owned Aircel to get LoI from DoT
DoT has cleared the deck for Aircel to operate in seven more circles in India. Aircel currently operates in the circles of Chennai, TamilNadu, Assam, Orissa, West Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir and North East India. It has receievd approval from the DoT to start operations in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan,Continue Reading