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Some Telcos Favour Delinking While Some Oppose – To Link, Or Not To Link?
In true sense the turning point of Indian Telecom Industry was November 2003, when ‘Unified’ Access Service Licensing was introduced. Earlier, The BSOs (Basic Service Operators) or the guys who provide you services popularly known as landline, had a different licensing regime as compared to Wireless or Mobile Operators. In the early 2000s Government issued [...]
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.”
‘Start now and you’ll thrive when the market is booming’ – Insights from Startup Saturday, Mumbai
There have been quite a bit of anticipation regarding this month’s Startup Saturday, organized by HeadStart, in Mumbai. In addition to 2 startup demos by the founders of Librarywala and AdoRoi, there was also a panel discussion scheduled, with speakers like Mahesh Murthy (from SeedFund), Hemir Doshi (from IDG Ventures), Rohit Nalwade (Ex-CEO of ConsumerVision) and Gopal Krishnan (of Mobile2Win fame). The topic of the panel discussion was – What should a startup do in a slowdown?
Event Update: India Gaming Summit 2008
Well in our november events update we missed on one of the important gaming events taking place this month. So here is a mid month update on the same.
India Gaming Summit 2008: Intel and Zapak are all set to take a close look at the Gaming industry this year again with Intel & Zapak India [...]
Citywide WiFi Planned by BMC in a 50-Crore Plan For Mumbai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has brought forward a plan, which, if implemented, would allow anyone to use WiFi on their compatible laptops or mobile phones. This initiative by the BMC is a public-private partnership of sorts, in which the BMC plans to cover the entire city with WiFi coverage, albeit not free.
Long Queues No More: Receive Your Mumbai Local Tickets via SMS
The Centre For Railway Information System (CRIS), the information technology arm of the Indian Railways, is working on mobile ticketing for Mumbai’s 65 lakh daily suburban commuters. CRIS has already begun field trials for the system and will be ready with the system by March 2009.
“The project will be implemented for suburban and unreserved tickets [...]
Now Women Meow On FM Radio!
I noticed this CATchy advertisement on BEST buses (almost all BEST buses):- “Meow FM 104.8 – India’s First Just-For-women Radio Station”. This clearly caught my attention (I guess many others as well). This is called “Kill two birds with one stone” strategy – Obviously, women will tune into and men too will follow to check [...]
I-Cube Report 2007: Cyber Cafes Remain Favorites!
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International have jointly published the I-Cube Internet In India Report 2007. The IAMAI and IMRB have jointly researched the report through a survey in more than 65000 households across India. The cities covered are namely:
Mumbai, Kolkatta, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Pune, Ahmedabad, Patna, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Surat, Guwahati, Coimbatore, Nagpur, Durg, Bhopal, Bhubhaneshwar, Trichy, Jalgaon, Panipat, Trisshur, and Bellary.
The analysis according to the report:
According to the I-Cube [...]