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McGraw-Hill Education India has entered the mobile learning space with the launch of four products for the Common Admission Test (CAT) Exam preparation under the TopCAT brand name. TopCAT is designed to help aspiring Indian Institute of Management (IIM) graduates prepare for the high-stakes CAT Exam using their mobile phones.

NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile phone company by market share, is to pay Rs130.7bn ($2.7bn) for 26 per cent of Tata Teleservices in a deal that highlights the high prices foreign operators are willing to pay to enter the booming Indian market.

Boingo Wireless, the global market leader in Wi-Fi, announces the addition of Tata Communications hotspots to the Boingo Roaming Network, giving Boingo members access to over 500 new hotspots under the Tata Indicom brand. With the addition of the Tata Communications network, Boingo members will be able to enjoy high speed Wi-Fi connections in restaurants, [...]

‘TATA NEN Hottest Startups‘ is quite in news for all good or bad reasons. There are about 33 nominations in Mobile/Telecom domain, here is list for the same. Hope winner is from this domain (though chances are rare).

Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL), India’s sixth ranked mobile phone services company by customers, is working on an agreement to sell a 26% stake to NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s biggest mobile phone operator, for nearly $2.5 billion (Rs12,100 crore), two people familiar with the development said.

Virgin Mobile India has also launched a campaign to promote its new tariff plan ‘New 50 paise STD local’. The television commercial is created by Bates 141. The campign is further promoted through print media and Virgin Mobile’s out-of-home (OOH) agency Poster Publicity, a unit of Group M’s Kinetic Worldwide.

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) along with Tatas have urged the government to drop the ‘Internal Mobile Number Portability‘ proposal saying it would cause huge financial losses to the exchequer and is against the announced policy.

ZTE, the China-based sixth-largest mobile phone handsets maker, wants to enter the retail market in India by the end of this year. So far, its handsets were sold by telecom service providers such as Reliance Communications, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, Vodafone, Bharti and Tata Teleservices as their own —- that is, the phones carried the [...]

Tata Teleservices, a mobile services company in India, launched BlackBerry mobile services in the country Thursday, after a long controversy over whether the service poses a security threat to the nation. The launch comes even as Indian government agencies are still investigating the security issues arising from the BlackBerry service, according to informed sources.

Richard Branson promoted Virgin Mobile today made all its services including handsets, plans and recharge coupons available online so that customers can get the services without visiting company’s sales stores.