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P K Tarun September 20th, 2009 12:19 AM 2 COMMENTS

The Wall Street Journal has named VNL’s WorldGSM as the Best Wireless Innovation

The Wall Street Journal has named VNL’s zero-opex solar-powered GSM system as Winner of the Wireless Category and overall Bronze winner in its 2009 Technology Innovation Awards. VNL’s WorldGSM is a zero-opex solar-powered GSM system specifically designed to enable mobile operators to build sustainable and profitable networks in remote rural areas where ARPUs are less than $2 a month. Rajiv Mehrotra founder Chairman & CEO of VNL, quoted (more…) Read More

P K Tarun September 19th, 2009 8:42 PM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Mobile 8 Series Mobile Number Unveiled In Goa and Maharashtra

Reliance Mobile has rolled out "8055" series mobile number in Goa and Maharashtra circle, tagged as "Boss" series. Reliance is offering the new series for both pre-paid and postpaid platforms across its GSM network. Customers across Maharastra and Goa need to purchase unique numbers from the BOSS series by sending an sms as "BOSS" followed by the remaining 6 digits of their choice to 567678. Depending on the availability, the... Read More

P K Tarun September 19th, 2009 3:19 PM 0 COMMENTS

IMImobile Conferred With New Market Entrant Of The Year Award

IMImobile, a next generation end to end enabler of mobile Value Added Services for Mobile Operators, has been awarded the ‘New Market Entrant of the Year’ award at The UK Trade and Investment India Business Awards 2009 for demonstrating exceptional success as a start-up in... Read More

P K Tarun September 19th, 2009 3:33 AM 8 COMMENTS

TATA DOCOMO ANIMATION CONTEST

TATA DOCOMO has announced a unique Animation Contest. This is great because the company is encouraging animators to be creative with their own brand, something that has not been done by too many companies in India. The animators will be required to come up with a short 2D animation clip (5-60 secs) using the Tata Docomo logos and tune. Those who impress the jury with their animations will win (more…) Read More

P K Tarun September 18th, 2009 11:57 PM 70 COMMENTS

TATA DOCOMO DEBUTS UNLIMITED GPRS

TATA DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today announced the launch of two unlimited GPRS packages for its prepaid subscribers tagged as Rs 15 GPRS pack and Rs 95 GPRS pack. Rs 15 GPRS pack comes with 3 days validity offering unlimited GPRS access, whereas Rs 95 GPRS pack is valid for 30days and can also be used on PC and laptop. On both the packs one would... Read More

P K Tarun September 18th, 2009 3:06 PM 4 COMMENTS

RELIANCE MOBILE UNVEILS JOB SEARCH

Reliance Mobile today announced that it will be offering Job services on its VAS platform R-World. The Job search service is powered by with Babajob.com, a company that specializes in informal labour hiring, to launch this service on a pan-India basis. Reliance Mobile's job service is for job seekers who are not computer literate as well as not qualified for jobs that get advertised on well-known job portals. The compnay... Read More

P K Tarun September 17th, 2009 7:27 PM 9 COMMENTS

TATA COMMUNICATION ENTERS INTO BANKING INFRASOLUTION

Tata Communications today announced its wholly owned subsidiary Tata Communications Banking InfraSolutions Ltd. The compnay claims TCBIL offers Managed Payment Infrastructure as a service to banks. Mr Rajiv Singh, President TCBIL, quoted "Tata Communications is now expanding its pioneering managed services value proposition to the Indian financial services sector. Our customers would not need to make upfront investments in channels like ATM,... Read More

P K Tarun September 17th, 2009 6:02 PM 3 COMMENTS

AIRCEL NEWEST ENTRANT TO BLACKBERRY SOLUTIONS

Aircel in which Malaysia’s Maxis Communications Berhad holds a 74 per cent stake, has launched a range of BlackBerry smart phones and services for enterprise and individual customers on its network. With this launch, Aircel become the most recent entrant in the BlackBerry league and will directly compete with other services providers like Airtel, Vodafone, MTNL, BSNL, Idea, BPL, Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices who already provide BlackBerry services to... Read More

P K Tarun September 17th, 2009 3:59 PM 9 COMMENTS

AIRCEL AND DATACOM ENTER INTO TOWER SHARING AGREEMENT

Aircel and Datacom Solutions today announced that they have entered into a tower sharing agreement, under which Datacom will share a minimum of 5,000 towers across Aircel’s footprint, over a span of 16 months. The deal is valued at approximately USD 400 million. By leveraging Aircel’s tower infrastructure Datacom, a new entrant in the Indian telecom sector, will be able to reduce cost and gain time to market. Aircel, the... Read More

P K Tarun September 17th, 2009 3:44 PM 11 COMMENTS

IDEA CELLULAR INTRODUCES LOCAL AND STD CALLS AT 48 PAISA IN TAMILNADU

IDEA Cellular today announced the launch of a new special tariff voucher for its subscribers in Tamil Nadu and Chennai Telecom circle, offering STD and local calls at 48 paisa per minute. To avail this offer new prepaid subscribers of IDEA CELLULAR have to purchase any of the two new tariff vouchers priced at Rs. 37 and Rs. 95 offering a talk time of Rs. 15 and 70, respectively. Both... Read More

P K Tarun September 17th, 2009 2:29 PM 0 COMMENTS

QUIPPO TELECOM TO INSTALL BUILDING SOLUTIONS AT IGI AIRPORT

Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Ltd today announced that it will be installing Neutral Host Shared In-Building Communication Solution at IGI Airport’s upcoming Terminal 3. The solution will be on active fiber based technology and is first of its kind in the Indian telecom industry for wireless Coverage (GSM, CDMA & UMTS). This would be done with the help of Ericsson as its technical partner. QTIL’s IBS vertical has emerged as a... Read More

P K Tarun September 16th, 2009 11:58 PM 5 COMMENTS

TATA TELE MUMBAI REACHES THREE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS

Tata Teleservices Maharashtra proclaimed it has crossed the three million subscriber mark in Mumbai circle. This comes on the back of a successful GSM services launch under the brand name TATA DOCOMO, wherein the company has added over 1 million subscribers within the first month of launch. Mr. Rajesh Puri, President wireless Operations quoted "We are delighted with the overwhelming response from the market to our various launches, including our... Read More