3G Networks coming to India was a huge step forward in the Telecom business. The auctions had shattered all records and thousand of crores were paid for licenses to provide 3G in various parts of India.  Since no operator had pan-India connectivity, operators got into Roaming Agreements with each other to help out their customers. Unfortunately, the Government did not like this and banned them from...

Reliance Group’s digital video content service BigFlix has tied up with Sony India for content syndication. The BigFlix content will now be available on Sony products such as Bravia Internet TV and Sony Tablet S & P through its BigFlix Plus application.   BigFlix Plus was launched in January 2012. It allows a user to stream and download a catalogue of over 600 movies at a subscription...

Jump Games, the game development company owned by the Digital arm of Reliance Entertainment has a new Business Head for its India operations. We covered Jump Games’ super successful international iPad gaming app, Real Steel, last week. Chaitanya Prabhu has been appointed as the new Business Head of the company. He has replaced Rajneel Kumar who is now with Viacom 18 Media as its Digital Head. Chaitanya...

BigFlix has added 200 Bollywood movies thanks to its agreement with Unisys Infosolutions. The Reliance ADA owned Video content service provider has tied up with VAS and Enterprise Messaging Solutions Provider for online streaming of over 200 full-length feature films & music videos.  Additionally, the agreement also allows Bigflix, access to regional content. With over 5,000 music videos in more...

Zapak.com, India’s leading online gaming portal have officially announced the launch of their social cricket game called Cricville. This is the companies second foray into social gaming, the earlier one being Tambola. The game was initially in released in a closed beta program to select people to review. It seems the ratings are through the roof on this one. The game is specially designed for Facebook...

Reliance Strategic Investments, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has picked up 1.14% stake in DEN Networks. DEN is one of the two leading & listed content aggregation and distribution companies in India, Zee Turner Ltd. being the other one. Interestingly, the script hit the Upper-Circuit Buzzer on Bombay Stock Exchange when investors got whiff of the deal. Through the deal RIL should get...

India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued Show Cause Notices to India’s five private operators, including Bharti Airtel , Vodafone and Reliance Communications, for under reporting revenues. As per a special audit report conducted for the period between 2006 to 2008, gross discrepancies about the actual revenue generated & the one reported, were found. This was allegedly done in order...

Around 1.7 Million Indians are suffering owing to the behavior of two Telecom Giants. Reliance Communication & Etisalat DB. Etilsalat’s customers are facing disruption of services since Friday owing to Reliance Communication disconnecting its services for the company. The Base Stations used by Etisalat are provided by Reliance under a US$ 2 billion, 10-year deal signed in 2009. However, citing...

ICANN has just opened its pearly gates for companies to register their brand names as domain extensions. The new names will come online in 2013, but application procedure has already started. It was a common perception that .COM was the most desired extension. However, with ICANN proposing new extension options, companies soon could even customize this end of the website. ICANN, the internet governing...

Hundreds of users connecting to the Internet through Reliance’s internet gateway (Reliance broadband), found themselves unable to access file-sharing websites. Reliance has come forth saying the Government of India made them do it. The ISP Reliance Communication has blocked many popular websites like: Megaupload and Filesonic. People trying to access these are greeted with a “This site has...