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Spice Mobiles, the pioneer and leader in dual SIM handsets appears to be on a mobile launching spree. The latest addition to the company’s dual SIM handset category is the Spice D-90. The new avatar of the handset accompanied with some trendy features should hopefully raise the bar in the dual SIM handsets series.

Despite being a potential market for the mobiles, India is witnessing a slowdown in its growth rate in sales. “While the mobile market has seen a growth by 25 percent, the rate of growth in the sales have come down by atleast 10 percent, compared to the previous fiscal Year,” says Tina Budhrani, Director, The [...]

Well, if you use your mobile phone just to make calls, send text messages or click photographs — the iPhone 3G is not for you.But in case you are a tech freak who loves tinkering with gadgets, this Apple smartphone might be your dream come true. Downloadable GPS, games, AIM, Facebook on the go and [...]

India’s state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will erect 19,000 towers in two phases to extend mobile phone connectivity to all villages in the country, the government said Wednesday. “Some 8,000 mobile towers will be erected by the end of this year under Phase-I of the shared mobile infrastructure scheme,” India’s Telecommunications Minister [...]

The country’s four leading IT players— TCS, Infosys, Satyam and HCL have bid for a BSNL project worth Rs 400 crore which will make state-run telecom company a a paperless organisation. BSNL is likely to select the player within the next three months for countrywide adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

Unitech has raised Rs 1,200 crore for its telecom venture from a syndicate of public sector banks led by Punjab National Bank and Canara Bank. Meanwhile, Norway’s telecom firm Telenor is learnt to have emerged the frontrunner in the race to acquire stake in Unitech Wireless, group’s telecom arm. Unitech is likely to finalise a [...]

Citing increased competition and a worldwide economic slowdown, Nokia lowered its third-quarter market share expectations Friday. The world’s largest cell phone manufacturer pointed to “aggressive pricing of some competitors, the overall market competition, including the entry markets, and the temporary impact of a slower ramp-up of a mid-range Nokia device.”

Qeep, the world’s largest mobile social community is all ready to capture the Indian market. The official launch of the free mobile application and its services was recently announced by Blue Lion mobile, based in Cologne, Germany.
Allowing users to stay connected with friends anytime anywhere, the social networking software developed on Java is completely free [...]

Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the appointments of Aman Khupsare as sales manager and Amaresh Sawant as sales engineer of the company’s new team in India. Based in Mumbai, Khupsare and Sawant are responsible for all new customer sales and management of existing Bytemobile accounts throughout [...]

Asia will continue to deliver strong growth in the mobile phone market due to sustained demand from China and India, the world’s two biggest markets of such services, industry officials said.
But, even if Asia is the world’s largest broadband market in terms of absolute numbers, it lags the United States and Europe in overall penetration, [...]