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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 [...]

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, [...]

ADAG’s BigAdda has reportedly set targets to the tune of $4-5 Million US in revenue in the next 12 months. “We have projected to have a revenue of US $ 4-5 mn within next 12 months and majority of it will be coming from advertisements,” BigAdda.com COO Shivanandan Pare.

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.

The drama around the 3G rollout in the country hardly seems to be over. However, the pre-bid conference has been deferred till August 27 and the opening of bids has been deferred to September 22 from September 3 as decided earlier.

Update: Afaqs has reported today that Bigadda is reportedly spending over 4 crores in popularising the mobile version of its site. Well I caught some ads on tv as well guess Reliance ADAG has pots of money..
Original Post: BigAdda the social network backed by Reliance ADAG which has already spent crores of rupees [...]

People Group’s Mauj Mobile, a digital solutions and services provider, has unveiled mobile content for the Shiney Ahuja - Esha Deol starrer movie Hijack across the country. The movie is scheduled to hit movie theatres on Teachers’ Day, September 5th.

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 [...]

The August event of Mobile Monday Mumbai was held yesterday to discuss the consultation paper released by The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on mobile value added services (VAS) recently. WATBlog was at the event to see what the esteemed panelists had to say about TRAI’s recommendation on regulating and licensing mobile value added services and other services to be provided via 3G and Next Generation Network (NGN).

The mobile and mobile VAS industry has been a popular topic on WATBlog for quite some time. While looking for some new news in the sector, I had a sense of feeling underfed on information about the business of mobile communication. This led me to find and list some interesting posts on the mobile industry and mobile advertising. This post lists 25 of the ones which I found most interesting and value adding.