Essar Seeking For New Foreign Partner to expand their Mobile Retail Arm

by | posted: August 3, 2011
The Essar Group has plans to pump its mobile retail brand: The Mobile Store with a new foreign partner soon. In 2007, Essar had entered a tie up with Richard Branson’s Virgin Mobile to open The Mobile...
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NimBuzz Spreads Over 50 Million Users Worldwide In Less Than A Year

by | posted: June 23, 2011
Nimbuzz (www.nimbuzz.com), a Dutch company known for free messaging and mobile social entertainment application have crossed over 50 million registered users worldwide. In the year 2010, Nimbuzz added...
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BSNL App Store Coming Soon?

by | posted: February 9, 2011
Appvolution rolls on! We just wrote about an Android App Store specifically for India.Well, BSNL is the fray as well. It had signed an agreement with Accenture to build an app store for its 2G and 3G...
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‘Dual’ling SIM connections – Problem For Indian Telcos

by | posted: August 30, 2010
While talking about mobile connections, there is a decent chance that you have had someone tell you that the only reason for not changing their connection is that a lot of people already have their existing...
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After RCom, Virgin Mobile India Ties Up With GetJar – Appvolution

by | posted: August 20, 2010
Virgin Mobile India has introduced many youth centric campaigns, with the most recent one being the ability for Virgin Mobile users to download free music thanks to its tie-up with Universal Music. Now,...
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Download Unlimited Music For Free On Your Mobile – Virgin Mobile Targets Youth Again

by | posted: August 5, 2010
Virgin Mobile, who claim to be the only “youth centric” mobile service brand in the country, have launched yet another incentive to grab the youth of India by announcing unlimited and free...
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TTSL To Pay Cellphone Subscribers For Network Errants

by | posted: March 4, 2010
Tata Teleservices continues to introduce industry breaking initiatives and this time it has taken customer care services to next level. Tata Teleservices has decided to compensate its CDMA cellphone subscribers...
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Virgin GSM Comes To Mumbai (And Maharashtra) – New Features & Addons

by | posted: February 18, 2010
After successful launching in the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Orissa Virgin Mobile has finally launched their GSM services state-wide in Maharashtra including Mumbai....
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WATFive: Google vs Newspapers, Telenor Launches Service, MTNL-Virgin Mobile, Mauj – Hungama Tieups

by | posted: December 5, 2009
WATFive your dose of 5 news stories is back. Here are the 5 news stories of last week! Google vs Newspapers At the World Newspaper Congress in India it was Google vs Newspapers. Google senior vice president...
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Key Points On Telecom, 3G & MNP At The Asian Telecom Seminar

by | posted: September 30, 2009
I was recently the moderator of a panel discussion on ‘Incumbents vs New Entrants’ at SITM Pune at the Asian telecom seminar. Panelists present were: Mr. Satyen Gupta, Chief Regulatory Advisor, British...
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UTV Bindass Launched Mobile Bindass Buddies – Mentor For College Freshers

by | posted: July 28, 2009
At WATBlog, we informed you about the launch of Bindass.com by the Bindass TV of the UTV Group. Now UTV Bindass have launched Bindass Buddies in affiliation with Virgin Mobile. Like a Social Networking...
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Virgin Mobile and Yahoo present ROCKATHON

by | posted: May 26, 2009
Virgin Mobile, in partnership with Yahoo and Planet M are attempting a rocking feat! 100 hours of live music – Rockathon! The event titled ‘The 24×7 Rockathon’ is being performed...
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Industry Movements: Interaction Appoints New National Director; Virgin Mobile Gets a New CEO Via WATJob.com

by | posted: May 16, 2008
Madhusudan Mandyam has been appointed chief executive officer of Virgin Mobile India. Virgin hopes to capture 10% of the Indian Mobile Telecommunications Market. See what Mr. Mandyam thinks about how...
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Shyam telelink Gets CDMA Spectrum For Maharshtra and Kerela Circle.

by | posted: May 15, 2008
According to this article in The Hindu Business Line Shyam Telelink has been allocated the spectrum to start CDMA service in Maharashtra. Shyam Telelink is partly owned by Russian conglomerate Sistema.   Shyam...
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Number Portability To Be a Reality Soon – TRAI To Submit Recommendations

by | posted: March 20, 2008
  OK now, how many of you, curse your mobile operators seven times a day but can’t really do anything, ‘coz some thirty-seven million “contacts” have your number? Alright, I can see almost...
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Virgin and Tata – Losing the Virginity

by | posted: March 4, 2008
  That Richard Branson’s Virgin group had plans to enter India was knows for a while now. The entry is announced now. Virgin will be entering India in collaboration with Tata Teleservices. Virgin...
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