Bharti Airtel’s Zain Loses Subscribers – Videocon May Sell 26% of Telecom Arm

by | posted: September 1, 2010
Zain losing ground in Kenya We have been following Kuwait-based Zain Telecom’s Africa unit right since it showed interest to when the deal was finally sealed, to when Bharti decided to pump in $308...
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Mergers On The Cards In Indian Telecom Sector

by | posted: July 13, 2010
From an international point of view, when you think about India, one of the things that strike you is quality products and services at cheap prices. One of the pristine examples is the current scenario...
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MTN Trying To Enter India Through Loop Mobile

by | posted: June 28, 2010
MTN has the habit of being in the news recently. One more instance is that it is in talks with Loop mobile to purchase a stake in the company which operates in 21 circles in India. Loop, initially BPL...
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Mobile Roundup: 4G Won’t Hamper 3G Bidding, Cupid Strikes iPhone, Comics on Reliance Mobiles

by | posted: January 27, 2010
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...
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Reliance BigTV And Indiagames Tie Up For DTH Gaming, Is Zapak Dead Already?

by | posted: January 25, 2010
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...
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Some Telcos Favour Delinking While Some Oppose – To Link, Or Not To Link?

by | posted: November 27, 2009
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...
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Atom Tech On A Tie Up Spree – Ties In Rcom and Makemytrip

by | posted: November 18, 2009
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...
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Mobile Handset News Round Up: Mindtree Enters Mobile Production & Chinese Player Coolpad Comes to India

by | posted: October 9, 2009
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...
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Reliance Mobile Launches Job Search With BabaJob

by | posted: September 22, 2009
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...
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GSM Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions

by | posted: September 12, 2009
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...
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Impact Of Mobile Number Portability In India – Nielsen Survey

by | posted: July 30, 2009
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...
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RCom to pump 150 crores to advertise its GSM Service

by | posted: June 1, 2009
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...
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Exclusive: Reliance ADAG Launches BigOye.com – A Bollywood Centric Entertainment Portal

by | posted: December 31, 2008
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...
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RCom Launches ‘Samachar’ – A Text News Service In 9 Languages

by | posted: December 22, 2008
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,...
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Reliance Soft Launches GSM Service. Targets 25% Market Share On Debut

by | posted: September 29, 2008
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...
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“Hulla” Available For Download on Bigflix

by | posted: September 23, 2008
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...
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