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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 [...]

We briefly wrote about the Bharti – MTN Deal and were off the opinion that it would not go through primarily because Bharti would be Marrying Up. MTN has higher revenues, a wider reach, it too, is in markets that are likely to grow (admittedly not as fast as the Indian Market).
 
The 2 firms had discussed merger [...]

While this may not seem like great news to many of you – it did get me quite excited. I have always maintained that setting up a Wi Fi Mesh is not too difficult if the topography is not too varied and the Line of Sight is clear because equipment (with powerful dual radios) today [...]

Bharti Airtel yesterday said that it is holding discussions with South African telecom company MTN Group that are aimed at “combining the strengths of the two leading emerging markets players and, accordingly, is veering towards possible structures to achieve this objective”, Business Standard reports.
 
The company also made it clear in a statement today that this may [...]

Bharti has joined a global consortium to build a $700-million undersea cable system (it’s sixth) that will cut through 13 countries and link India to Britain as reported by AP.
 
The cable will carry commercial traffic by the second quarter of 2010.
 
Mr David Nishball, President, Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd, was quoted as saying “There is [...]

Airtel has launched its 3G mobile services in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore on a test basis.
Seems like after a really long wait Indian subscribers will get to see the benefits of 3G services. However, as we speak, operators in some countries are already testing the 4G services. China has decided to move to 4G, bypassing the 3G completely. And there is a looming question that should India move to 4G networks ?

Social Networking has taken up Indian entrepreneurs with awe. As web 2.0 sites like orkut are filled with loads and loads of profiles of Indian youngsters and others, Indian entrepreneurs are starting to count gold on the social networking business model. There are two instances where in Indian entrepreneurs have found gold.
 
The first instance [...]

Bharti Airtel has tied up with the very popular Western union (money transferring service provider) and is offering money transfer through mobile phones. Users from anywhere across the world can send money upto $100 to their hometowns in India.
According to The Hindu business line The move is part of a global initiative by [...]

 
Bharti Airtel one of India’s leading telecom operators is planning to roll out mobile payment services for its 50million plus users.
This service will allow users to make payments using their cell phones. As Bharti is also getting in Wal-Mart in India it makes perfect sense for them to provide the mobile payment facility. I wouldn’t [...]