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Mobile Roundup: 4G Won’t Hamper 3G Bidding, Cupid Strikes iPhone, Comics on Reliance Mobiles
4G Won’t Hamper 3G Bidding
We have already talked about 3G bidding here on WAT Blog. Now there has been a lot of buzz created by 4G and people are worried whether the news of 4G coming to India might hamper the 3G auctions due February 25 this year.To this, the union minister for Communications and [...]
Reliance BigTV And Indiagames Tie Up For DTH Gaming, Is Zapak Dead Already?
Reliance BigTV, DTH arm of Reliance Communications have inked a strategic agreement with UTV’s Indiagames, to provide DTH gaming to their consumers. As a part of this agreement, Indiagames, in strategic partnership with their US-based Ally Oberon Media, will provide the popular games series currently available on PC, Web, and other gaming platforms to the [...]
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 [...]
Atom Tech On A Tie Up Spree – Ties In Rcom and Makemytrip
If you are a mobile payments solutions provider then the key for you is distribution. Distribution can be achieved by partnering with several players. This is the exact strategy that Atom Tech a mobile payments and m-commerce enabler seems to be following since 2 years now.
In recent times it has announced two major deals.
RCom Deal [...]
Mobile Handset News Round Up: Mindtree Enters Mobile Production & Chinese Player Coolpad Comes to India
This week Mindtree announced that it will enter the mobile products business and begin making handsets. Don’t jump yet, because they will be white labeled products. The solution will be called N!Mo (Next in Mobility) and will offer feature-rich, ready to brand mobile handsets to telecom service providers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).
This follows Mindtree’s acquisition of [...]
Reliance Mobile Launches Job Search With BabaJob
Reliance Mobile has launched a job search service on R-World, its VAS offering. The service would be available pan-India and is launched in tie-up with Babajob. The service would be available in five languages namely Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and English.
The company through this service wants to target employees which avoid going online for searching jobs. The service [...]
GSM Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions
After a brief pick up in the GSM subscribers in the month of July, August showed just a marginal dip over the previous months. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) data shows that the total GSM subscriber base in August increased by 9.31 million taking it to 335.45 million. The total net additions in July [...]
Impact Of Mobile Number Portability In India – Nielsen Survey
The hype around the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has got some more brushup in the news. Nielsen report has brought some bang-up news for high spenders on mobile. Especially, postpaid users were found to be more overhelmed by the MNP news that will help them switch networks without their number being changed. Nielsen on Mobile [...]
RCom to pump 150 crores to advertise its GSM Service
Reliance Communication or RCom as it is popularly known in media circles is planning on a major advertising campaign for its GSM services. The campaign has already gone live on media with television ads promoting the product. It has also hired Hrithik Roshan as its brand ambassodor for the Mobile and DTH service in a high profile deal which itself is going into crores.The ad campaigns planned itself is to the tune of Rs.150 crores.
Exclusive: Reliance ADAG Launches BigOye.com – A Bollywood Centric Entertainment Portal
You are reading it here first: Reliance ADAG’s Big Entertainment has launched a Bollywood centric entertainment portal called Bigoye.com. This portal has news, interviews, movie reviews, celebrity blogs, games and movie rentals services all rolled into one. This portal directly competes with Hungama’s Bollywoodhungama.com (previously IndiaFM) and also the latest launch by Percept Knorigin i.e. [...]
RCom Launches ‘Samachar’ – A Text News Service In 9 Languages
Reliance Communications has launched “Samachar” an text based news service on Reliance Mobile Phones. This service provides text news in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. For this service Reliance has tied up with Webdunia.com a regional language content provider for web and mobiles.
Mr. Krishna Durbha, Head – Value Added Services, [...]
Reliance Soft Launches GSM Service. Targets 25% Market Share On Debut
Company has been giving. The company has distributed around 10,000 test SIM cards to its employees.
RCom has invested around Rs.800 crore and erected 2500 towers. By mid-December, the company plans to launch the full GSM service.
The testing began in the cities of Mumbai, Bangalore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Ludhiana.
The second stage of funding will involve [...]
“Hulla” Available For Download on Bigflix
Bigflix.com, the movie rental company of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has bagged the rights of the recently released Hindi film “Hulla”. Starring Sushant Singh, “Hulla” promised to be a laugh riot.
Hulla was produced by Big Pictures, another Reliance Entertainment company. The news item from Indiantelevision.com said Bigflix bagged the rights to the film. Really? [...]
Shyam Tele Goes Pan India: Gets Spectrum for All India Roll Out
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.
Reliance ADAG’s DTH Service To Be Launched On Tuesday
The long awaited Direct-to-Home service from Reliance ADAG will be launched on Tuesday, reports Afaqs. Reliance will be starting with a basic offering of about 200 channels. The price will be an aggressive Rs.200-250.
Reliance will be using the MPEG-4 technology for compression in their DTH platform. MPEG-4 is an advanced technology that allows upto 30% [...]