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The railways plan to tap some 100, 000 recharge vendors and mobile phone service providers to offer cellphone ticketing across India.
 
 
“When you go to a recharge shop for a top-up, all you need to do is to ask the vendor to also accept separate payment for the railway ticket. The money deposited for the ticket [...]

Mobile Phone subscriptions in India recently crossed 260 Million in India making it the 2nd largest mobile market in the World. Everyone in Mobile has been grappling with revenue models.
 
 
The telecom providers in India currently on an average make about $7 per subscriber. They are looking at newer ways to drive up that figure. They [...]

M Commerce is at a very early stage. Its about purchase and sale of goods and services through the mobile with the use of a financial institution. Purchase and sale of VAS content cannot be classified as M – Commerce.
 
 
The different areas that come under M – Commerce
 
 
a) Travel and Ticketing – convenience is [...]

 
We have written about Mobile TV in the past. Many companies are foraying into this. Around the world, many technologies exist for delivering Mobile TV content. Doordarshan uses DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast for Handhelds) technology for Mobile TV. France, Italy and Spain, the three out of the five biggest countries in the European Union uses [...]

ESPN Star Sports has recently introduced Star Sports Mobile, a mobile content service that is similar to Mobile ESPN that was launched across multiple markets in Asia Pacific in May 2006. The service works on WAP and can be downloaded from espnstar.com.
 
The content that ESPN – Star distributes will mainly revolve around the football clubs [...]