OnMobile, India’s leading Mobile Value Added Services(VAS) player recently announced launching of their own Developer Network. Everyone agrees its great news for entrepreneurs / content creators, as it will give them an opportunity to reach out to ONMobile’s market easily. WATBlog decided to approach OnMobile and get complete details about their Developer Network.

Shemaroo the video entertainment company has signed a deal with Israel Mobile and Communication Association (IMA), to explore new business opportunities in Indian VAS space. The first objective of this partnership would be to introduce the member companies (there are 80 of them in their list) of IMA to the Indian Mobile fraternity(read as Mobile [...]

Come September 15th, prepaid subscribers in the country will start rejoicing as a new directive released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today allows them to use almost the full value of recharges done for their mobile phones. The regulator, with this directive, has directed the mobile service providers in the country to discontinue charging the processing fee that is levied on the recharge coupons currently.

IOL Netcom, who had so far become synonymous with broadband and IPTV services in Mumbai and Delhi with its tie-up with MTNL is now all set to enter as a player into the Indian telecom market. The company has entered into an agreement with state-owned telecom service provider MTNL, which has presence in the Mumbai [...]

Its seems like IAMAI and IMRB are on a report releasing spree. Now they have released a pretty comprehensive report on the Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) Industry in India. This is their third report in just 2 weeks. It also comes at an appropriate juncture as IAMAI is conducting the National Conference on Mobile [...]

Over the last month, the folks down at SMSCountry have been making some additions to their 160by2.com project.

Around three weeks ago they came up with MyAds, which allows users to post their ads (under 65 characters) that will appear after the SMS of people.
Anand, the chief blogger for 160by2.com said on the company’s blog:
That is [...]

In a major step up Shyam Telecom is said to have got Pan India spectrum to launch mobile services. This is a huge feather in the cap the Sistema controlled for Shyam Tele which now becomes only the third player in market to have a Pan India spectrum. They have been allotted spectrum in the CDMA platform. Among the new crop of mobile telecom players, Shyam is perhaps the first and only player to have a nationwide reach with this announcement.

It shouldn’t come to you as a surprise that the Indian Mobile Market is growing at an alarming rate, with the total mobile subscriber base almost touching the 300 million mark. We’ve been covering the industry’s every move here on WATBlog as it happens and as your may know, everyone is eagerly anticipating the [...]

Indiatimes.com had a busy couple of days if their latest announcements are anything to go by. Singing the same tune as we did here at WATBlog on Friday, when the air was filled with more mobile industry stories than any other, Indiatimes has launched three mobile enabled services catering to different needs and projecting different business streams that mobiles are capable of. I guess this only adds to our assertion that mobile is moving ahead and moving ahead big.

Cybermedia has announced its plan to go mobile and provide news updates in the IT and Telecommunications sphere to its mobile subscribers. The system powered by Netcore’s MyToday platform already has over 10,000 subscribers signed up. Cybermedia as most would know is the force behind Dataquest, PCQuest, Living Digital and 12 other publications. It had also launched the online space for its entrepreneurship magazine DARE recently.

September seems like a month of events. Hell, it seems like there are more events than there are speakers. Let’s see what all is coming our way in September.
IAMAI Mobile VAS Conference
Delhi. 2-Sept-2008
The VAS conference of IAMAI will be held in Delhi. Prominent speakers include Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Guruji.com; Prasad Narasimha, [...]

VNL has managed to develop a simplified base station that is powered by solar panels and requires just a fraction of the electricity of typical base stations.

However, convincing telecom operators to buy a stripped-down base station made by a little-known start-up won’t be easy. VNL is among many companies trying to develop mobile-phone technologies for poor rural areas.

Get ready to dial a new set of numbers in near future. he earlier announced guidelines had specified that spectrum for broadband wireless can be used only for data services. However, the Telecom Commission, in its meeting on August 21 has taken a decision to remove the restriction.

open2save.in a retail aggregator of deals and discounts which we have covered earlier here has announced a tie up with Zook a mobile answer engine of Ziva Software which is funded by Ojas Ventures whose Managing Partner Mr.Rajesh Srivastha was interviewed by WATShow recently.

open2save which started in January 2007 and based out of Bangalore now [...]

After announcing new versions of its traditional image and video editors, Photoshop Elements 7 and Premier Elements 7, Adobe also announced a new flash based mobile application, the Photoshop.com Mobile for Windows and Palm based smartphones.