Category: mobile
Airtel breaks barrier – Wins largest deal
Bharti Airtel which features – Talk to breaking barriers in its Advertisement has clinched a historic and probably the largest ever subscription deal by any mobile service provider in India. Airtel has bagged an order for 100,000 connections from Indian Railways. This deal is for the closed user group [CUG]…
Virgin Pays for Incoming Calls – Youths go Virgin!!!
It was in 2003 when incoming calls became free with the launch of Reliance Infocomm. In 2008, with the launch of Virgin Mobile in India, incoming calls are not just FREE but you get paid to receive the same 🙂 Virgin Mobile India became the first company to pay Rs…
Vodafone ordered to refund unsolicited VAS charges
It is not uncommon to see Value Added Services [VAS] charges on your post-paid mobile bill or see your friend complain lot of times that Rs 30 got deducted from his pre-paid currency. All these are unsolicited acts of mobile service providers and Vodafone is the first victim. TRAI has…
100,000 iPhone SDKs downloads in 4 days
Apple’s killer product iPhone, which is probably the best selling premium range phone ever in the history of mobile handsets is now open to any Developer around the world. The SDK attracted more than 100,000 downloads in just 4 days. This surely a shot in the arm of Nokia, a…
Nokia Soul of the Night Contest
Nokia under pressure from iPhone is spending aggressively on Marketing and Contests in India to retain its market share in the high end mobile handsets. The most popular series from Nokia – Nseries has launched yet another phone couple of months ago N82 specially targeted at users with interest in…
Tanla Mobile Marketing – Advertising Guide
Tanla Solutions has informed us that Tanla Mobile, a subsidiary of the Tanla Mobile has published a Mobile Marketing and Advertising guide in United Kingdom. The release is as follows, The Tanla guide aims to offer step-by-step guidance to agencies and brands about how to design, launch and manage mobile…
Reliance Telecom CDMA services in East India
Reliance Communications has announced that the Ministry of communications & information technology, Government of India, has granted in principle approval to Reliance Telecom (RTL), a wholly owed subsidiary of the Company, for providing CDMA services also under the existing unified access service licenses (UASL) granted to RTL for Assam and…
75% of rural customers on private networks
State owned BSNL has always pitched that it is the only telco in rural India to escape criticism from different corners. However, in a recent release by COAI, the facts are entirely different. 75% of the rural wireless subscribers are on non-BSNL network. Only 24.7% are on BSNL. Bharti Airtel…