Coverage of mobile space and happenings

The recent tiff between producers and multiplexes had prevented the release of several movies for the last few months. Now, to offset the delay, several movies are releasing at the same time with promoters doing everything they can to catch the limelight. Today much awaited movie “Kambakkht Ishq” will release. What is interesting to note [...]

It seems that every Indian is trying to grab a mobile phone leading to a humongous requirement of new mobile numbers. Mobile numbers starting with 9 have come to an end and DoT has given permission to telecom companies to allocate new numbers starting with 8. According to TRAI, India has 415 million cellular subscribers [...]

This is so because the myriad cultures in India find its definition in the music that they play. They carve a special identity not only for themselves as folk genres but also for the people there. And we all know how much of a social part regional and linguistic identity plays in today’s India (sons of the soil anyone?). These music based services will obviously be used as caller tunes, message and ring tones, etc. One doesn’t need a hypothesis and prood to see that the reason CRBTs have worked is not just because peoplelove music but they find it identity defining. And in that context Idea already has a winner on its hand.

It seems TRAI wants to leave no stone unturned for smooth implementation of Mobile Number Portability in India. It has therefore issued a draft legislation to clear the uncertainty surrounding the introduction of mobile number portability.
The draft guidelines describes the rights, obligations and duties of both the telecom operators in consideration for [...]

It looks like payment gateways has become a main attraction for financial services giants as Citibank India, consumer banking arm of Citigroup, has tied-up with Vodafone Essar Ltd and Nokia India to launch a pilot project testing its Mobi-payment solution in India.

The pilot project is said to be one of the largest ever taken and [...]

Webchutney - The Digital Marketing Agency has released the first edition of its annual report which looks at the future prospects of the Digital Media Industry in India. This report analyzes the digital medium by analyzing the ad-spends of the Top 500 marketers who control two thirds of all advertising spends in India. The interview [...]

Mobile apps have taken the world by storm be it Apples iphone apps or growing number of Anrdoid apps or Palm pre apps. Apple has already seen one billion mobile app downloads, Palm pre app catalog hit 1M downloads in less than three weeks of it’s release and Piper Jaffray estimates that mobile app spending [...]

Content and Carriers seem to be gelling well these days as two more tie up announcement sprung up with regards to telecom providers tying up with content providers. Here are the updates:
Blue collar Jobs on Airtel Powered By Babajob
Airtel has tied up with Bangalore blue collar jobs service Babajob to launch as sms based service [...]

Reliance Communications is on a roll when it comes to VAS and VAS related initiatives. They have recently announced their intention to launch mobile Tv offerings for their newly launched GSM Network. RCom is reportedly in advanced stages of discussions for an alliance with Apalya Technologies to offer mobile television (MobiTV) on its network.

We want to contribute to the growth of these mobile applications, which is why we’re happy to announce our beta launch of AdSense for Mobile Applications. And so saying Adsense has sort of opened gates for a mini revolution of sorts in the mobile applications field. It’s a revolution for not many reasons and it is mini for a whole lot more, nevertheless it is an important step.

In a tie-up which could have far reaching effects on working of mobile device Industry, Nokia-world’s no.1 cell phone maker and Intel-seller of majority PC chips has announced a tie-up covering chips, hardware, and software for mobile devices.

The companies under their agreement would focus on joint-development of new chip architectures and software’s for mobile devices.The [...]

Around a week back we blogged that HTC will soon launch Google Android based phones in India and here they are, HTC is launching HTC magic in India today in strategic partnership with Airtel. HTC magic will be priced between 26,000 and 28,000 and will not be locked to any operator unlike Apple Iphone thus [...]

Indian telecom sector is on the path to prosperous growth till 2013 at least that is what can be said through the recent research study conducted and made public by Gartner.
Future projections by Gartner :

The Telecom sector revenues would touch $30 billion by 2013 registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5 percent between [...]

The other day I was discussing “Rural VAS business in India” with couple of my friends, and one of my friend argued that information about the right prices is always available with the farmers and making market price information available on mobile is little if not of no value addition to the farmer.
Another friend of [...]

(With Inputs from Siddarth Raman)
It seems that the conflict between the finance and telecom ministry related to the fixing of reserve price for 3G auction has finally come to an end. The Government has decided to fix the reserve price for 3G auction at Rs.4040 crores. It’s a collective sigh that we all heave, with [...]