Bharti Airtel introduces Charity by SMS

India’s Number on Mobile Service Provider, Bharti Airtel Ltd just a while ago kicked off with a new service – Charity by means of SMS. Like me and countless other Indians who long to donate to places such as Lord Manjunatheshwara of Dharmasthala or Shri Siddhivinayak of Mumbai, can now…

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Growth prospects spur Bharti Airtel, RComm

Bharti Airtel jumped 5% to Rs 770. The stock hit a high of Rs 773, which is a life high for the scrip. As many as 3.6 lakh shares changed hands in the counter on BSE.Reliance Communications (RCL) was up 4% to Rs 493. The stock hit a high of…

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Phone Manufacturing – Destination Chennai

Hats off to the Indian IT and Communications Minister – Dayanidhi Maran. First it was Nokia which was given the facility to setup a manufacturing hub near Chennai. Close on the heels of Nokia shipping its 20 Millionth phone from the Chennai facility, Motorola announced a massive $100 Million manufacturing…

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Cellebrum from Mobile VAS to incubation funding

Cellebrum, the mobile VAS provider is investing close to Rs 50 crores into an incubation fund targetting companies into the mobile space. Lehman Brothers is also expected to invest $15 million in the company. Dilip Modi said, We have charted out a Rs 100-crore investment plan for Cellebrum’s expansion over…

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Airtel SBI Mobile Credit Card for Farmers

The Indian farmer is all set to go Hitech with the introduction of Mobile / Wireless credit cards by Bharti Airtel Ltd in association with State Bank of India. A pilot project is under way in 9 villages and full commercial deployment may take another 12 months. Currently, farmers in…

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Bollywood on Demand – Return of the Intel Lobby

We have heard about the Indian economy being overheated, but what do you call these announcements about BSNL IPTV and Bollywood on Demand ? IPTV never makes sense to me in the context of Indian consumer. Questions sent to Airtel and BSNL GM, Dr Chakravarty, on IPTV have went unanswered….

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Animation and Gaming India 2007

NASSCOM, India’s voice for the IT and ITeS industry recently hosted the Indian Animation and Gaming conference in Hyderabad. Here are some important highlights about the Indian gaming industry. The Indian Gaming industry was estimated to be USD 48 Million in 2006 and is likely to record a 72% CAGR…

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Buy Tata Indicom PostPaid Connections Online

Tata Indicom today became the first service provider in India to sell Post-Paid conenctions on the web. Tata Indicom unveiled, iChoose platform to BUY Tata Indicom Post Paid connections with a wide variety of Mobile handsets. The service is not available on a PAN India basis but covers major states….

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