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| Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on your Mobile TV |
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 Cable TV has lost its popularity in India and IPTV may never take off in a big way. Dish TVs is the sought after for home viewers while the new generation of India is looking for mini entetainment on the move. With the immense popularity of Mobile phones in India, STAR TV India is planning to launch its most popular serial "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" episodes and clips of climax events for your Mobile viewing pleasure. "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge" video clips are already available for mobile downloads - Mobisodes :-)
You can download them by subscribing to Planet Hutch. |
Published on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 10:10 AM  |
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| Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| Airtel introduces VideoTones |
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 Airtel Mobile will introduce another value added service - Video Tones. This service is powered by, Migital. What can Video Tones do to you as a customer ? VideoTones will play a short video clip when you receive a call or a SMS. Just like how you customize a ringtone - one for your friend, one for your wife and one for your gf ;-), VideoTones can also be customized.
Hutch already offers this with Planet Hutch. You can download VideoTones from Nokia's Indian website. Also check for handset compatibility before you download.
In a related development, Bharti Airtel has tied up with Bubble Motion to introduce Voice SMS. What is Voice SMS and how does it differ from VoiceMail ? In case of VoiceMail, this is a feature enabled by the recipient and the caller leaves a message for you. In Voice SMS, the caller records and sends a personal voice message instead of the usual text sms. Reliance Telecom already offers Voice SMS but is not very popular. Neither is VoiceMail popular in India. |
| Published on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 10:25 AM |
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| Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
| MTNL - Dolphin Slashes ISD tariffs |
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 Mahanagar Telecom Nigam - Mumbai (MTNL) has reduced its international call (ISD) tariffs on its GSM, effective today. The company operates two services, Dolphin and Trump, in Mumbai and Delhi.
Under the revised tariff structure, call charges to countries like US, Canada, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia would be around Rs 6.67 per minute from the existing charges of Rs 12. Sure, these charges are below Airtel or Hutch, which charge Rs7.2/Minute. But MTNL must also consider introducing a calling card like Airtel's Virtual calling card which costs just Rs3.5 to call the US.
MTNL Mumbai has reduced call charges to Europe, Gulf, Asia, SAARC and African countries to around Rs 10 per minute, from the earlier Rs 15. The PSU has reduced call charges per minute for the rest of the world to around Rs 15 for a sixty-second billing from the earlier Rs 30. Kindly note that these tariffs are not applicable to customers under the ‘One India Plan’. |
| Published on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 12:22 AM |
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| Sunday, September 17, 2006 |
| Online Cell Phone Retailer, AtLast |
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 My desperate search for an online Mobile Phone retailer has finally come to an end. UniverCell the largest mobiel phone retailer in TamilNadu wants to be the largest in India. UniverCell is selling mobile phones through their website, UniverCell.In. All you need is a Credit Card to shop your favorite phone next time.
Excerpts frm their website,
"Mr. Satish Babu started his operations with a team of 6 people including himself, dealing with Skycell (now AIRTEL) postpaid connections and genuine branded mobile phones. He went to partner with Skycell and signed up the first Skycell Teleshop in Chennai. Together he and his team have created a revolution in the Telecom industry by setting high standards of service to customers ".
Cool feature about UniverCell is that it lets you compare phones side-by-side just like in the showroom and help you arrive at a decision. Here is a comparison between Nokia-N70, Sony-Ericsson and Motorola V3i. They stock almost all the models that are introduced in India by Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, LG, samsung and others at both higher and lower end of the price band. So the next time you want to BUY a cell phone for your loved one in India, think of UniverCell. |
| Published on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 6:18 PM |
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| Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| Mundu Mobile Radio - Beta Launch |
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 Mundu Radio, a GPRS internet radio for your mobile went live with its Beta. Mundu Radio is a product of GeoDesic Information Systems. With Mundu Radio you can listen to all your favorite Internet fm stations. It is available for download on their website and is compatiable with Symbian and Plam OS.
GeoDesic claims that the QoS is better than MP3 and currently is available for FREE much in line with any other Silicon Valley hi-tech products and the company has kept all options open to charge later or go for an Ad based model. |
| Published on Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 6:58 PM |
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| Saturday, September 02, 2006 |
| Mobile Retailing in India |
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 Branding and Retailing is the new buzzword in corporate India. After Bangalore based Mobile NXT, Pantaloon quietly ventured setting up ConvergeM mobile retail chain under the brand name M Bazaar, M Port and Gen M. It is now Essar groups turn to enter cell retailing.
Esaar Telecom has done due dilligence in association with KSA technopark and is willing to invest upto Rs3000 crores in 3 years. They will offer telecom handsets, connections, recharge vouchers, mobile accessories, after sales services, facilities for bill payment, gaming, mobile entertainment options, repairs and refurbishment.
Mr. Vijay Singh a NOKIA dealer from Mahrashtra who has grown his business organically and had a choice to expand in assocation with NOKIA or venture on his own. Vijay opted for the latter and started Mobile Magic, a chain of retail mobile stores which will offer Mobile Handsets and Accessories, Cellular Plans bundled with Value Added Services, Mobile repairs and software. Mobile Magic has also tied up with gaming companies to offer access to cheaper and better mobile games and is already operational in 34 cities. Mobile Magic also has an institute, MMIT - Mobile Magic Institute of Technology to train in mobile technologies.
All these stores means an end to your local mobile retailer After adding currency to my mobile, if I want the latest Halo-2 game do I need to look for the game retailer ? Gimme a Break!!!Companies such as Essar should plan to scale up their operation to the size of BestBuy or CircuitCity which is so essential for the Indian consumer. Size does matter in retailing ;-) |
| Published on Saturday, September 02, 2006 at 2:55 PM |
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