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Telecom players seem to be waking up to the power of local search so both Airtel and BPL seem to have launched local search products that their large subscriber base can use. While BPL Mobile has launched the local search service only in Mumbai, Airtel with its tie up with AskLaila has launched the service [...]

BharatMatrimony.com the matrimony portal which claims to have over 12 million registered members announced the launch of matrimony services on Airtel. Airtel has over 77 million mobile subscribers and bharatmatrimony’s matrimony services would now be available on Airtel Live the wap portal on all the GPRS enabled handsets using an airtel connection across the country.

Keeping [...]

Google phone will debut in India in December this year, reports Business Standard. The price will be higher than what the user has to pay in the United States ($179 or Rs.8200). The handset will be an HTC device, and will be launched through a possible tie-up with some operator.
As we discussed, the Google phone [...]

Nokia has taken a significant step in being a Mobile Ad Network, by adding Sprint and Bharti Airtel to the list of carriers, reports Reuters India. Last year Nokia acquired Enpocket to start building its Mobile advertising business. Enpocket.com now redirects to advertising.nokia.com.
Two days back we have covered the trend of Publishers Creating Their [...]

Whether the Apple iPhone is really worth Rs. 31,000 and Rs. 36,100 is an argument that’s debatable for hours together, but it is now almost certain that iPhone has almost failed in India. There was a lot of hype generated a few months before its launch, but all that seems to have died down owing [...]

Idea Cellular, one of the major telecom companies in India led by the Aditya Birla group have announced that they have begun their operations on Mumbai. The company so far has heavy presence in the Northern and Southen parts of the country.

Ever since Preshit wrote about iPhone on WATBlog, everyone at WAT had been speculating about the prices at which Vodafone and Airtel would make iPhone available in India. Out there, there were many who were just waiting to lay their hands on the iPhone as soon it appears in India.
Well, a lot of them have [...]

iPhone 3G - This is undoubtedly the only gadget, ever released by any company in the market, that has managed to generate so much hype that users all over the world are desperately awaiting the launch of the phone in their respective countries.

So, amidst all the speculations in the market, how much is the iPhone actually worth?

In this release, Airtel claims it has 2,60,000 subscribers for its mobile commerce services. Airtel now plans to use the eCogNito end-to-end mobile commerce platform by XIUS-bcgi. This will be on a pilot basis under a memorandum of understanding between the two companies.
Sunny DeWakar, president of XIUS-bcgi’s eCogNito division,
“Our eCogNito solution offers Mobile Network [...]

Amidst all the speculations regarding the launch date of the brand new iPhone 3G in India, since the very first day Vodafone came out with initial registrations, Economic Times finally comes up with the official launch date of the “super-phone” as August 22, 2008. It seems, it is going to be Airtel to pioneer the much touted touch-phone’s launch in India, giving mobile companies like NOKIA, Samsung and Motorola something to think about.

Airtel has been trying to increase the share of its VAS services. Its Airtel Live service, which offers a host of VAS features, is quite a hit with its subscribers. Now, Airtel has tied up with Nokia to embed the Airtel Live icon in its handsets.

SKS Microfinance is one organization I have always been a fan of. Working on the model of microeconomics, SKS Microfinance has done quite well for itself, and more importantly, for thousands of poor living in villages. The way they worked and their policy of giving soft-loans to the women in villages had paid well in the past. And just when we have began to wonder how to fill the digital divide between those living in metros and those in villages, comes the news of Airtel partnering with SKS Microfinance to provide mobile service to those living in villages

The iPhone 3G has been announced - combining  all  the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking  that  is twice as  fast  as  the first generation  iPhone,  built-in GPS for expanded  location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync  and  runs the hundreds of third  party applications  already [...]

Bharti Airtel joins forces with Verisign to provide more secure web solutions to the consumers. Airtel plans to get its own networks secured, alongwith other telecom operators, and also provide similar services to every other interested party. Also, Bharti expects to generate almost 100 million dollars as revenue, in the next 3 years, using their [...]

Last week we reported about the iPhone coming to India with Vodafone - well, it turns out that the deal is non exclusive! Airtel is also bringing the iPhone to India according to this release. 
 
Earlier the Economic Times had reported that Apple was in talks with both Vodafone and Airtel for an exclusive deal. 
 
This changes all the analysis with respect to [...]