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Education Infotainment Portals – Big Business in India
Social Networks in India like BharatStudent and MingleBox which started off to connect the Indian Youth have included the most sought after modules to attract more individuals to their platform – Education Information hence changing the theme of their portals to Education Infotainment from mere Entertainment and Social Connection. Education…
Nokia N78 – Not even Worth a Look.
Nokia which is having half of its sales from emerging markets like India and China has launched a series on phones in the popular N Series in these markets. However, after the initial euphoria, Nokia hasn’t lived up to people’s expectations [which only went higher after they saw the coolest…
Airtel’s Innovation – On Demand Speed. Pay as You go Surfing
Bharti Airtel has informed about the launch of value added broadband service – Broadband Speed on Demand to its existing customers based on the Pay as you go model. This enables a customer to upgraded to higher speed for limited amount of time. To upgrade, all you need to do…
8.2 Mn Subscribers Added in April
India added 8.22 mln mobile users in April, after overtaking US to become the world’s second largest wireless market in India. Start-up spectrum in some various circles was also allocated to new Telecom operators who are starting to operations to sell-out after a while [Unitech and Videocon] Here is the…
Public Grievance Portal – Government of India
Can you imagine this is happening in INDIA? Yes!!! The Government seems to be taking e-Governance very seriously. They have launched a new Portal – Online Public Grievance Lodging and Monitoring System. The govt. wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government…
Peek into Vodafone’s Operations in India
Vodafone’s 4QFY08 KPIs followed a trend similar to those of other GSM incumbents (Bharti/Idea) with a 5% sequential jump in MoUs in response to rev/min decline of 5%qoq. ARPU remained flat sequentially at Rs350. EBITDA margins decline (32% vs. 34% in 1HFY08) is in-line with Bharti and could be a…
Reliance Globalcomm acquires VANCO Group
Reliance Globalcom, subsidiary of India’s largest integrated telecom service provider Reliance Communications today announced signing of an agreement to acquire the London headquartered pioneering global managed network services, VANCO Group through one of its wholly-owned subsidiary. Reliance Globalcom would pay $ 76.9 million to acquire 100% equity of VANCO Group…
Idea Cellular + Providence Deal – Insight
Aditya Birla Telecom (ABTL), a subsidiary of Idea Cellular will issue compulsorily convertible preference shares for $640m to Providence which on conversion will translate to a 20% stake in ABTL. ABTL owns a 16% stake in Indus Towers (a joint venture between Bharti, Vodafone and Idea in 16 service areas…