Morgan Stanley has recently released some reports on the mobile internet: ‘The Mobile Internet Report,’ a massive 424 page tome which explores 8 major themes, ‘The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes,’ a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in the report, and for the ones in a hurry, there is ‘The Mobile Internet [...]
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Given the runaway success of FarmVille on Facebook, it suprising, that Zynga which developed FarmVille has not released FarmVille on the iPhone as yet.
Now beating the rest, PlayMesh which had earlier released its iMafia game in January on the iPhone platform has launched iFarm for the iPhone, which, in less than 24 hours jumped into [...]
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The telecom tariff wars seem to be working well for subscribers, with a record 16.67 million new mobile subscribers added in October, the highest ever.
According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). This 16.67 million wireless subscribers which includes GSM, CDMA and FWP combined, takes the total wireless subscriber base to 488.4 million (up from [...]
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Mobile users wanting to change their service provider while retaining their own number would be able to do so starting December 31. All this, at a cost of a mere Rs. 19.
Mobile number portability would be introduced in metros from December 31 and in the rest of the country by March next year. According to [...]
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In a move that is bound to add fuel to the mobile tariff wars, Bharti Airtel in it’s latest plan called Airtel Turbo has dropped its roaming charges by 60%.
Under the Airtel Turbo plan, subscribers would be charged 60 paisa per minute for all incoming calls while roaming, Local and STD outgoing calls to an [...]
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According to The World in 2009: ICT facts and figures by ITU, mobile growth is continuing unabated, with global mobile subscriptions expected to reach 4.6 billion by the end of the year, and mobile broadband subscriptions to top 600 million in 2009, having overtaken fixed broadband subscribers in 2008.
That represents about two mobile subscriptions for [...]
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In response to TATA DoCoMo pay-per-scheme, Reliance Communications has launched a scheme where subscibers will have to pay a flat rate for all calls on its network at 50 paise a minute, including local, STD, incoming and outgoing roaming, and SMSes. The call rates would be applicable for all calls made from its CDMA, GSM [...]
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As much as 18% of India’s mobile subscribers are waiting to change their operator once Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is launched, says a mobile consumer study by the Nielson Company, with one in four Reliance and Tata Indicom subscribers keen to change their operator, followed by a close one in five of BSNL subscribers.
The findings [...]
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Dial 54999 – Sing along, record and dedicate. Thats what the new “Karaoke Messaging service” from Loop Mobile promises.
Subscribers can listen and select from a database of popular bollywood songs, sing the song along with the right music accompaniment and the exact lyrics, listen to their recording and then send it to anyone, anywhere in [...]
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The telecom tsunami continues, with GSM operators adding 8.89 million subscribers in June, taking the total number of subscribers using the technology to 315.8 million. Compare this with 8.3 million subscribers added in May, and 8.9 million in June.
Bharti Airtel, added 2.82 million, increasing its subscriber base to 102.4 million, while Vodafone-Essar, recorded a lower [...]
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