Mobile phone consumers using internet in India is at mere 3% of the total subscriber base. Most of these users use the GPRS based services and bulk of them are on Bharti-Airtel network. Hutch and Reliance have also announced big plans to offer Blackberry and mobile internet services. Meanwhile inContinue Reading
For the first time, an India – Bharti-Airtel’s founder and Chairman, Sunil Mittal was inducted on the board of 3G Association. Sunil stepped up to host the 3G Association conference in India @ New Delhi. Some of the key highlights from the meet are as follows. Their are 2 BillionContinue Reading
3 cheers to Nripendra Mirsa, Chairman, TRAI for keeping IPTV out of CableTV act. What’s the big deal ? CableTV networks in India are highly unorganized and controlled by local politicaians or men with muscle-power except SitiCable and Hinduja’s TMT. You might want to recollect how Siticable MD was murderedContinue Reading
I am extraordinarily bullish on the Indian and Asian Mobile market in general. Lately, Indian Cellcos have been toying with the ideas of cashing in on its vast mobile subscriber base by offering more value added and innovative services. Mobile coupons, Location Specific Services, Mobile Portals, Advertising on mobiles byContinue Reading
Timesonline is reporting that Google Mobile Labs is targetting the fastest growing Mobile marksts of the world, India and China. Earlier I had reporetd that the equation for Mobile 1.0 is not the same as Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 – East will rule the West 🙂 It is interestingContinue Reading
Hutchinson which is in a major clean-up operation before its proposed IPO offered to buy Hindujas 5.11% stake in Hutch @ Rs2025 crores($450 Million). At the current offer price Hutch is valued at $9.0 Billion. At the end of March-2006, Hutch had a subscriber base of 90 Lakhs(9 Million) whichContinue Reading
I had earlier reported about the Asian corridor deram which Maxis, Singtel, Bharti and others are pursuing. It was formed under the brand name Bridge Mobile Alliance(BMA). BMA partners include CSL (Hong Kong), Globe Telecom (Philippines), Maxis (Malaysia), SingTel Mobile (Singapore), SingTel Optus (Australia), Taiwan Mobile (Taiwan) and Telkomsel (Indonesia).Continue Reading
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