Category: mobile

Declining Revenues in Wireless

The Average Revenue Per User has been consistently declining in both the CDMA and GSM Wireless segments in the World’s second largest and cheapest cellular market. Reliance Communications saw a decline in ARPU [Average Revenue Per User] from 375.0 to mere Rs 317 at the end of Fy2008[ March-8]. QoQ…

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Airtel CEO in London for MTN Bid

Bharti Airtel CEO, Sunil Mittal is in London to arrange finances for the multi-billion dollar African Wireless Safari – MTN group. Bharti has lot of synergy with MTN and the bid makes strategic sense. Bharti could easily transport its low cost business model to the high population, low affordability MTN…

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MOTOYUVA W270 Hit Retail Stores

Motorola has launched the MOTOYUVA W270 in the Indian market. This is a flip phone with built in MP3 player and FM Audio. It has dedicated keys to control the Audio and can be operated even with the flap closed. It can have an expandable 2 GB memory.The best feature…

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Value Added Services Market

The value-added services (VAS) account for 8% of the mobile market’s revenues in India, and non-SMS services account for 65% of VAS revenues. CRBT (caller ring-back tones): This constitues bulk of the VAS market share at 45%. This is a popular service in which the calling party hears music chosen…

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Send Free SMS from e-Mail – 160by2.com

160By2.com the FREE SMS startup in India powered by Mobile Advertising has introduced yet another feature – SMS from E-mail to Mobile. This is introduced after several Indian IT companies started blocking the website of 160by2.com. All you need to do is insert the recipient’s mobile number in the “To”…

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Comparison of Paymate + mChek payment services

Have you ever tried mobile payment services like Paymate or mChek ? We had an exclusive review of Paymate mobile payment system in India. However, I tried mChek and found it to be more user friendly than Paymate. Here are some differences between the two competing services. Paymate is like…

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Vodafone to launch Apple iPhone ?

News was leaked early this morning that Apple is planning to launch the official version of iPhone in India in Sept-08. Like elsewhere in the world how Apple has tied-up with a mobile operator for selling its handset, it is believed that it has chosen Vodafone in India and Australia….

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Orkut Mobile Lanuched with limited features

Google powered social networking site Orkut, the most popular network for Indians has gone live with Mobile edition. The site can be accessed with a GPRS enabled phone at http://m.orkut.com [On your left is the screen shot of the Login which I took on my N70 and Opera mobile browser]…

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