Airtel, ICICI and American Express fined for tele-marketing
India’s largest Cellco, Airtel and largest private bank, ICICI along with American Express have been severely fined for unsolicited tele-marketing. A complainant, who neither had any banking nor any business relationship with ICICI / American Express dragged them to the consumer court and made Airtel a respondant in the caseContinue Reading
Record quarter for Reliance Com and Tata Indicom
For the quarter of Dec-2006 Reliance Communications and Tata Indicom’s achieved a new milestone as their subscriber growth soared to record levels. Reliance Communications now has 26.3 Million CDMA [includes WLL] mobile subscribers and 3.7 3.4 Million GSM mobile subscribers taking the tally to 30 29.7 Million. Tata Indicom which is focusing only on CDMAContinue Reading
BSNL – VoIP and IPTV gimmick
Calcutta Telephones – BSNL Kolkatta is planning to provide free calls to its ITPV subscribers on BSNL fixed line phones. The calls are likely to be powered by VoIP technology and BSNL plans to waive the upload / download bandwidth used by such calls. I don’t find a compelling reason to subscribeContinue Reading
Moser Baer’s retail DVDs hit shelves
Moser Baer, the low cost manufacturers of CD / DVD media products had announced its intention to enter the home entertainment market by launching Indian movie VCD / DVDs for as low as Rs 34 [$0.75]. Moser Baer has fulfilled its promise by launching 101 Tamil titles. Moser Baer isContinue Reading
HFCL – Business of Ripping Investors.
Kamla has a report on Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd’s group company HFCL Infotel talking to, New Enterprise Associates, a valley based PE firm to buy 50% stake in the company at around Rs 350 crores [$78 Million]. All said and done about Triple Play in India, Kamla probably forgot to write aboutContinue Reading
Fabmall.Com is not part of A V Birla Retail
Most bloggers have wrongly reported that Fabmall.Com, India’s leading e-commerce portal is a part of A V Birla group under the Trinethra acquistion. In a note sent to us, K Vaitheeswaran Chief Operating Officer, FabMall.Com said, The online business continues to operate as an independent entity. The reports of the acquisitionContinue Reading
Indian wireless service providers market share – circlewise
Click on the image below to see Indian mobile service providers market share in every circle at the end of Nov-2006.Continue Reading
Tactful Broadband promise by Indian IT Minister
Recall, few weeks ago the Indian IT Minister, Mr. Maran said that 2007 will be a year of Broadband in India. I have been speed testing BSNL – DataOne broadband at several places in Bangalore / Bengalooru. I have used one international and one local [Airtel Broadband Hosted] website to conduct the speed testsContinue Reading
Mobile Marketing the WAP way in India
Last November we read about Lee Jeans going for Bluecast marketing [Marketing via Bluetooth enabled handsets] developed by Maxus Interaction. Lee is in the forefront of this innovative advertising and marketing approach. It has done it again debuting an exclusive WAP portal hosted on Mauj – http://wap.mauj.com/lee. The portal offers Mobile catalogueContinue Reading