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Aircel Partners INQ – To Launch Device In India
Aircel is on a tie up spree with new devices that want to be launched in India. Just recently they had tied up with Peek (an email only device) and now they have gone ahead and tied the knot with a new mobile entrant in INQ. INQ Mobile is launching in India with Social Mobile [...]
Peek Partners With Aircel To Launch In India
Last month we blogged about Peek an email only device that was to be launched for India after a launching in the US. Its seems peek has found a partner in the newbie telecom player Aircel. Aircel has partnered Peek to launch the same for the Indian markets.
Pricing & Plan Details For Peek
As blogged earlier [...]
Aircel To Launch Mobile App Store In Partnership With Infosys
Aircel has announced that they are partnering with Infosys to launch mobile application store. The partnership will see Infosys implementing the app store on Telco’s behalf leveraging its ‘Flypp’ platform, a ready-to-go application platform developed specially for telecom operators.
App stores are attracting attention from handset makers to telecom operators as soaring smartphone and mobi-internet usages [...]
GSM Subscriber Base Higher By 10.3 Million In October
The action witnessed in telecom tariffs in recent past seems to have provided a boost to net subscriber addition count for GSM telephony. The total subscriber base in October was seen higher by 10.32 million compared to 9.03 million recorded in September. The total GSM subscriber base stood at 355.2 million in October.
Vodafone [...]
Battle Of Telephonia – ‘Per Second Paisa Bolta Hai!’
It was expected, but never ever did we thought that it would come about this fast. The whole thing was started by the TATAs as they have always done, flagging of new revolutionary ideas for the Indian Economy through the history, and then adopted by a new comer from foreign lands called MTS. They called [...]
Telecom Roundup – BSNL Alliances Grow, USO Fund Still Swings Overhead
The telecos found the Universal Service Obligation (USO) fund noncompetitive when the government of India proposed to allocate Rs 1,800 crore to BSNL in order to expand their activities. The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) and the Cellulars Operators Association of India (COAI) along with the CDMA and GSM operators fought [...]
Indian Telecoms Expanding Fibre Optic Cable Network – Is The Competition Getting Brighter?
Some of the major Indian Telecom companies are finally seeing some action on the expansion of their fibre optic cable network. Idea Cellular, Aircel and Powertel (The telecom focused BU of PoweGrid) have rolled out massive expansion plans.
The currents stats of fibre optic network for these 3 are -
S.no.
Company
Existing Network
Proposed [...]
GSM Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions
After a brief pick up in the GSM subscribers in the month of July, August showed just a marginal dip over the previous months. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) data shows that the total GSM subscriber base in August increased by 9.31 million taking it to 335.45 million. The total net additions in July [...]
Price Wars II – Aircel Strikes Back, Slash Tariff Plans
It suddenly feels like revisiting the early years of this decade when we had all the new and upcoming cellular network operators clamoring over one another in providing the cheapest call rates. Started in 1999, Aircel broke into the tough market in Tamil Nadu by offering free SMS for the very first time. Ever since [...]
Fight Against 11-digit Mobile Number System
Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) Technical Engineering Centre is suggesting new numbering plan due to 10 million subscribers increasing every month. Another reason behind the recommendation is that DoT has reserved six billion numbers for the fixed-line users on the contrary; actual number of subscriber is below 40 million.
On the other side, Cellular Operators’ Association of [...]
Aircel Begins its Mumbai Sojourn – The Seventh in Line to the Throne
After a few weeks of heavy advertising and promotions, Aircel finally set its shop in Mumbai. Along with vodafone, Airtel, Idea, Loop, Reliance and Tata, Aircel is now the seventh service provider in the spectrum. On the launch, Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel, said, “The opportunity for a seventh player to come from behind is to not be a one-sided heavily loaded but to provide a composite bouquet so one is deep understanding of consumer, segmenting them very well and putting a 360 degree around the product and the proposition offered to them.”
Yahoo! Ties Up With BSNL, BPL Mobile And Others For OneSearch On Mobiles!
The trend of portals such as Yahoo!, Google, MSN and AOL going mobile is taking mobile users with awe. Certainly, the war of the internet giants is getting warmer to capture the mobile search market. The mobile market in Asia is huge and certainly the giants are making efforts to prepare for the big [...]