It remains one of the most high-profile marketing campaigns this summer. Reliance Communications (RCom) has left no stone unturned in its attempt at promoting its alliance with Google for pushing its Android operating system and mobile services respectively. The telecom operator, which has the second-largest subscriber base in India after Airtel (Reliance has over 150 [...]

TVS Motor will launch the new Apache RTR 2012 on April 23 (today). The Indian motorcycle manufacturer had released a teaser image of its flagship model on April 18. This is what TVS has revealed about the all new TVS Apache RTR 2012: “The all-new 2012 TVS Apache Series RTR features an all-new split footrest [...]

Communications minister Kapil Sibal is expected to launch Bharti Airtel’s broadband wireless access (BWA) services based on 4G technology in Kolkata on Tuesday. A successor to the 3G and 2G families, 4G is expected to be five times quicker than 3G services. It would offer services such as high-definition mobile TV and video conferencing. Airtel [...]

Realty firm Unitech has sought about $150 million from Norway’s Telenor to sell its 32.7% stake in their telecom joint venture and end the bitter dispute between two partners, an executive with direct knowledge of the development told ET. Unitech is learnt to have made this proposal to the Company Law Board, after the quasi-judicial [...]

Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, has launched WorldSpace Radio across 18 circles in India. Customers can now listen to more than 100000 songs across 10 channels, using their mobile handset. Worldspace Radio service on Vodafone is live in Uttar Pradesh East & West, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Mumbai, Bihar, Kerala, Rest of [...]

Cheers Mobile, the brand of Etisalat DB in India, has advised its customers to transfer their mobile numbers to other operators before 31st March, a date on which it will cease its operations in India. Cheers Mobile has close to 1.67 million users, most of the connections are already inactive with less than 30 per [...]

Finnish handset maker Nokia has decided to exit mobile money business, two years after it launched the service in India. The move is in line with the company’s global strategy to move out of non-core areas. Nokia had launched mobile money in 2010 through a partnership with YES Bank. Subsequently, it signed up with Union [...]

India’s biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has increased margins for its dealers to drive sales of petrol cars. The 8-10% rise in commission comes at a time when the company’s share in the domestic market has dipped below 40% for the first time. While Maruti will pay 1,000 more to its dealers to sell small cars, [...]

Reliance Communications said it has disconnected from its network a mobile phone joint venture between UAE’s Etisalat and India’s DB Group over non-payment of fees for using its towers. The joint venture, Etisalat DB, said separately that it has been facing network disruption across India since last Friday due to a technical issue beyond its [...]

Snapdeal.com, India’s fastest growing e-commerce firm has launched its mobile site for enabling ease of access for customers on the go. Customers can now access the attractive offers by visiting www.snapdeal.com/m on their mobile devices. The WAP portal offers various payment options too, including Cash on Delivery. The company said that it works on every [...]