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Idea Cellular, one of the major telecom companies in India led by the Aditya Birla group have announced that they have begun their operations on Mumbai. The company so far has heavy presence in the Northern and Southen parts of the country.

Ever since Preshit wrote about iPhone on WATBlog, everyone at WAT had been speculating about the prices at which Vodafone and Airtel would make iPhone available in India. Out there, there were many who were just waiting to lay their hands on the iPhone as soon it appears in India.
Well, a lot of them have [...]

iPhone 3G - This is undoubtedly the only gadget, ever released by any company in the market, that has managed to generate so much hype that users all over the world are desperately awaiting the launch of the phone in their respective countries.

So, amidst all the speculations in the market, how much is the iPhone actually worth?

Here comes the news that would surely give all the iPhone enthusiasts huge adrenaline rush. Yeah, as the headlines suggest, Vodafone has, today, opened up registrations for the brand new iPhone 3G. Although the phone hasn’t been officially launched in India as yet nor has any date been officially announced, the very fact that the registrations have been thrown open is an indication of this beauty’s arrival in the Indian market, very soon.

When $2.1 billion is at stake, one shouldn’t be surprised if someone shows the urgency that Vodafone is showing. It began its argument in earnest in the Bombay high court on Monday by strongly opposing against ,”an imposition of penalty” . Vodafone International Holding is challenging the show cause notice issued last September to it by the Income Tax department in Mumbai for its approximately Rs 8,000 crore tax liabilities.

Following the tradition started by Ankit, here’s another WAT’s Up Online where we try to report all the news and happenings that we missed in the day, so that our readers don’t feel left out.

The iPhone 3G has been announced - combining  all  the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking  that  is twice as  fast  as  the first generation  iPhone,  built-in GPS for expanded  location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync  and  runs the hundreds of third  party applications  already [...]

AskLaila, one of India’s hottest search engines will now be available on your mobile phones via a WAP based app and also an SMS service. Any mobile subscriber with GPRS connectivity can log in to the mobile WAP site (m.asklaila.com) and find what he/ she is looking for. For subscribers who do not have GPRS connectivity or [...]

Last week we reported about the iPhone coming to India with Vodafone - well, it turns out that the deal is non exclusive! Airtel is also bringing the iPhone to India according to this release. 
 
Earlier the Economic Times had reported that Apple was in talks with both Vodafone and Airtel for an exclusive deal. 
 
This changes all the analysis with respect to [...]

The story that has been floating around for a month now has finally been confirmed. Vodafone will launch the iPhone in India and other countries such as Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey (reports Business Standard)
 
The price of the iPhone has been unconfirmed. Earlier it had been reported that [...]

Well, it can be said that lowering of tariffs is going to benefit the consumer, but I would argue that providing cheaper call rates to the rural population was far more important. An important question to ponder over is, do we really need still lower tariffs. They are already at an all-time low, and the lowest in the world. BSNL was doing a good job of providing telecom access to the rural population. Talking of “inclusive growth” it’s important that these people have access to affordable telecom and computing solution. I actually don’t mind paying Rs.0.50 per minute extra, if that money is utilized to help a poor woman talk to her husband working in the adjacent village.

Number Portability allows one to retain one’s number while switching the operators. So, if your Reliance Mobile customer care is a waste, the billing is erroneous (to put it politely) and there are just no Nokia N-Series handsets available, you can happily switch over to a Vodafone network, while still retaining your three year old number, just in case you ex decides to call you sometime.

 
Online transactions are increasingly being used to pay bills, recharge, booking tickets and etc. Earlier, SpiceJet had tied up with BillDesk for easy and safe online payments. Now, the cellular companies have also stepped into online payments. Airtel has launched M-Commerce solution for easy payment.
 
 
Airtel customers can now pay their bills, recharge their talk-time, buy [...]

In India Gaming is certainly the next trend especially when portals like games2win and zapak.com are helping it to flourish. Zapak owned by ADAG (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) has always been known for its aggressive marketing strategy. Why wouldn’t they, especially when they get all the required resources from their parent company.
 
 
In a game [...]

According to the latest TRAI (Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India)figures, the number of Indians using their mobiles to login to the internet has almost doubled from 16 million to 38 million just last year. This includes both CDMA and GSM users logging on to the Internet to surf, check email etc.  The number of ‘active’ [...]