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HTC TyTn II phone was finally launched in India. This professional and trendy mobile device features a global high-speed access through HSDPA connectivity while in-built GPS allows personal navigation.
Following its launch Ajay Sharma, Country Manager, High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) India (more), said, “HTC TyTn II will meet the needs of both the mobile [...]

In a bid to sustain its leadership position in the Indian mobile handset market, Nokia is shifting gears by restructuring its business strategy with a focus on offering services and solutions.
Under the new organisation, Nokia will have three main units. Until now, Nokia had its operations under mobile phones, enterprises and multimedia businesses. These three [...]

Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) has partnered with mobile commerce firm PayMate (more) to enable Tata Indicom customers to book domestic flight tickets on the mobile phone.
Customers need to download a application one-time from Tata Zone to experience the service. They can make the payment by providing credit card details on the phone [...]

Canadian communications company Nortel has been awarded a $100m contract by India’s largest telecoms service provider BSNL (more) for its GSM network expansion plans in southern India.
BSNL, with over 20 million cellular subscribers and a 25% market share in the telecoms market, is actively growing its network reach and capacity to meet demand for [...]

US-based payment and remittance services provider Obopay is in talks with at least five Indian lenders to offer mobile payment services in the country, its top official said.
“We are in talks with a large public sector bank, a foreign bank and three private sector banks (for the tie-ups). We expect to announce these agreements in [...]

India is expected to emerge as the second largest market in the field of mobile telephony on a global basis, playing second fiddle only to China, by April this year. With the current subscriber base in excess of 250 million and counting, the extrapolatory prediction by the country’s telecom regulatory authority should instance no surprise [...]

At a press conference held at Bangalore, India, Adroit Claretdene Infotech announced the launch of a new mobile email solution: email@mobile.
With email@mobile you no longer require high-end business phones and don’t have to be a tech-geek as well. The sign up process to this email id is simple and there are no registration charges or [...]

If you think Swarovski gems on mobile phones look ostentatious, Nokia brings you regalia and classiness in the form of the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte. The handset has a genuine sapphire gem stone in the center of the D-pad.

During the launch of Nokia 8800 Arte and Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte, the Senior Vice President, Mobile [...]

The smallest and lightest Palm phone Centro has made its debut in India with voice, text, email, web, contact and calendar capabilities, a full-colour touch screen and full keyboard.

In a bid to level the playing field between old and new telecom operators, the Department of Telecom has decided that all entities with a unified access licence will be eligible to bid for third generation (3G) mobile licence.
This means that companies such as Shyam, Unitech, Videocon, STel and Swan, which recently got new licences, [...]