Blyk on Aircel, India’s first mobile messaging media company, has completed first year of its operations in India. Since the time of its launch in November 2010, Blyk has expanded its subscriber base to over 1.68 million opt-in members in the country with successful campaigns for more than 40 leading brands across different industries. Blyk [...]

Vodafone India unveiled its new Vodafone Mobile Application Store, powered by white-label mobile app storefront provider Appia. The new Vodafone India store boasts more than 10,000 free and premium apps and games optimized for Android, Java, Symbian and BlackBerry devices, promising a one-stop shopping experience for the operator\’s 145 million 2G and 3G subscribers. In [...]

Mobile social communications leader Bubble Motion is announcing further expansion throughout India with the launch of its market-leading Bubbly social messaging service on Vodafone India — bringing India\’s hottest social communications phenomenon to the operator\’s 130 million subscribers. Sometimes described as a \’voice-based Twitter\’, the Bubbly social messaging service enables celebrities and everyday people to [...]

As many as 9 million consumers have taken a third generation (3G) mobile connection since the services were launched in the country four months ago. This number assumes significance when one considers that there are only 11 million wireline broadband customers till date. The leader of the 3G pack is Bharti Airtel with 3 million [...]

A few days ago, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the industry watchdog, said the country\’s mobile phone subscriber base had reached an astounding 812 million, adding 20 million new connections in March. That should have been quite a milestone — going past the 800-million mark and inching toward 70 percent tele-density. If only [...]

Nokia and Reliance Communications, today formally announced the launch of the India chapter of Ovi Store, Nokia\’s popular mobile application store. Reliance Communications will be the first service provider to offer integrated operator billing for their consumers in India enabling access to a host of paid content on the Ovi Store. The amount will either [...]

Indian telecom operators are faced with a unique challenge of dealing with falling Average Revenue per User (ARPU), even as mobile penetration in urban and rural segments have witnessed significant growth in the past few years, according to Deloitte’s recent thought paper on Mobile eCommerce. While the number of mobile phone subscribers in India (both [...]

Tata Teleservices Limited, India\’s fastest-growing pan-India dual-technology telecom service provider, announced the launch of Kirusa\’s path-breaking \’Call-n-Tweet\’ service for all TTSL and TTML subscribers. This unique \’Call-n-Tweet\’ service will enable Tata Indicom subscribers to update their Twitter status by posting Voice Tweets (short audio snippets) from their mobile without logging on the internet. The new [...]

Consumer electronics brand OSCAR today announced its entry into the Rs. 70,000 crore cellular phone markets.To begin with Oscar mobiles will be launched in North and East India where Oscar has a strong presence and will be subsequently launched in rest of India. Backed by 25 years of trust, brand OSCAR has been credited in [...]

Internet search engine Yahoo! has said Indonesia and India will be key markets to grow its mobile services in Asia. It plans to tackle these emerging markets through tie-ups with phone suppliers to boost data usage. Mobile phone penetration in Asia is growing, but data usage through smart phones remains low. And as Indonesia and [...]