Date: 23/12/2010
Bharti airtel launches high capacity direct terrestrial link between India
and China
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Bharti airtel, a leading global
telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries
across Asia and Africa, in association with China Telecom
Corporation today announced the commencement of a direct
underground terrestrial link between India and China – the two
fastest growing economies in the world. The new terrestrial link
will offer robust network and seamless connectivity to customers
transiting India or China to reach key global destinations. With
this network, Bharti airtel now establishes a third
International Gateway for customers in India.
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Date: 22/12/2010
CanvasM
establishes its first 3G Device Test Lab in India
CanvasM, Tech Mahindra’s VAS subsidiary, today entered into an agreement
with Qualcomm Incorporated pursuant to which CanvasM will operate a 3G
device testing lab based in Noida, India. The lab will provide quality
testing to 3G handsets and devices for their compliance with regulatory,
technical and international performance standards. This initiative is the
first investment undertaken by Tech Mahindra towards adopting 3G technology
and driving the technology in India according to international standards.
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Date: 21/12/2010
Cellular Tower Study Debunks Radiation Myth
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The first of its kind study, specific to the Indian environment
carried out independently by the Premier Engineering Institutes
revealed that “Levels of Radiation” from cellular
base stations in Delhi fall hundreds of times below
international safety standards. The independent study was
commissioned by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)
and Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI)
as a proactive measure stemming from the concern for the public
health and safety issues.
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Date: 10/12/2010
Marvell Unveils a
New World of Mobile Communications at the 2nd Annual MWorld 2010
in India
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions
and one of the world’s largest chipmakers, showcased its complete product
platforms for always-on, always-connected devices, including mobile
computing, intelligent displays, gaming, entertainment, and smart
furnishings for delivery of anytime, anywhere and any size live digital
content and services. In keeping with India’s explosive cellular subscriber
growth, the event is aptly titled “Life is Mobile.” MWorld set the stage for
2011 by providing insight into the Company’s vision, as well as the
industry’s expanding communications landscape for the enterprise industry,
service providers and consumers.
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Date: 10/12/2010
IMEWE submarine cable launched for Commercial use
13000
kilometre of the most advanced fiber optic submarine cable travel through 3
continents to interconnect South Asia
to Western Europe
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Bharti airtel, a
leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19
countries across Asia and Africa today announced the launch of
IMEWE cable system which will open a second gateway for airtel’s
customers to the European market from Asia via Mumbai (India).
The deployment of the cable system will
enable Bharti airtel to deliver the much anticipated capacity to
meet the connectivity requirements of Middle East and European
countries to Asia transiting through India and vice versa. While
company’s state of the art i2i and SEAMEWE4 cable systems
already provide connectivity to these markets, IMEWE will help
provide alternate routes for meeting the bandwidth requirements
and diversity needs of the customers at any given time.
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Date: 3/12/2010
Reliance
Communications to Unveil New 3G Mobile Data Services Portal
| Reliance Communications, India’s
leading telecommunications service provider, is launching a new mobile data
portal, R World, powered by Motricity (NASDAQ: MOTR). This portal developed
for the upcoming 3G services will deliver complete, end-to-end mobile
Internet and data services to 120 million Reliance mobile subscribers at the
click of a button. The ubiquitous Mobile Data Services Portal has been
developed on Motricity’s mCore platform which powers 3G Mobile Portals of
many leading global 3G service providers.
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Date: 22/11/2010
Stay connected in style with Nokia X5, now
available in India
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Bringing in
the groove into music, Nokia India today announced the launch of
its new super chic entertainment device – the Nokia X5. A fully
loaded entertainment device, the Nokia “Jukebox” X5 goes beyond
music and gives users everything they need in a compact and
stylish mobile including an eye-catching slide out QWERTY, a 5mp
camera, integrated speakers, messaging and social networking
features.
The fully loaded Nokia X5 stands out
from the crowd with its compact and stylish square design
including an eye-catching slide out QWERTY keypad, a 5mp camera
and integrated speakers. It comes in bold, vibrant colours and
reflective finish.
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Date: 20/11/2010
Lemon Mobiles Conferred the Prestigious “Udyog Ratan Award”
| Lemon Mobiles, India’s value for
money mobile brand promoted by Fastrack Communications Pvt. Ltd
was awarded the prestigious Udyog Ratan Award today at the India
Habitat Centre, New Delhi by the Institute of Economic Studies (IES),
one of the premiere research oriented and awareness promoting
organization conducting studies in various problems related to
Indian Economy. Lemon Mobiles received the award for outstanding
performance in the field of industrial development of the
country.
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Date: 18/11/2010
DISCOVERY NETWORKS
ASIA-PACIFIC ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP FOR MOBILE TV SERVICE
Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) has announced a strategic
partnership with Apalya Technologies, a leader in mobile TV service, to
avail its bouquet of channels on the mobile platform. Programmes from
DNAP’s five networks in India – Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet,
Discovery Turbo, and Discovery Science – are now available on mobile
platform.
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Date: 17/11/2010
Spice Mobility
launches India’s 1st 3G + 2G Dual Mode Qwerty Phone
| Spice Mobility, India’s leading
mobility company launches new range of qwerty handsets – QT-95 &
QT-68. QT-95 supports of 3G and 2G SIM as active dual modes,
enabling to access high-speed data transmission, advanced
multimedia access, richer data and voice experience. It is a
premium finished qwerty phone with dual cameras for video
callings and capturing spontaneous pictures. QT-68 is a stunner
loaded with Wi-Fi, EDGE and others hosts of multimedia and
Social Networking features.
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Date: 13/11/2010
RELIANCE
COMMUNICATIONS (RCOM) ANNOUNCES ITS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
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Reliance
Communications Limited (RCOM) today announced its unaudited
consolidated financial results for the quarter ended September
30, 2010. Highlights of the financial performance for the year
are - Revenue at Rs.5,118 crore, EBITDA
at Rs.1,660 crore and Profit
after tax at Rs.446 crore. The corporate developments include -
RCOM & Universal Music sign exclusive strategic partnership in
its preparation for 3G launch and RCOM & Nokia join hands for a
first-of-its-kind multi-faceted business partnership.
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Date: 11/11/2010
Nokia-Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® direct access email
boosting global businesses
Nokia business smartphones, maps and apps enhance the
enterprise experience
Nokia
today gave an update on the deployment of Microsoft
Exchange ActiveSync for Nokia smartphones that shows it
is gaining substantial traction among the world’s
biggest operators and enterprises. The email service is
also gaining significant traction in the Indian market.
The solution – which delivers direct, secure access to
email and personal information via organizations’
Microsoft Exchange servers – is now available for Nokia
smartphones on more than 550 operator networks Worldwide
including all leading
operators in India. And recently, the solution
has undergone large-scale deployment at leading
enterprises such as OnMobile and JCDecaux, which have
been attracted to its dramatically improved efficiency
and significantly lower cost compared to rival
solutions.
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Date: 12/11/2010
Nokia’s treat to Kannada music lovers
Songs from forthcoming movie ‘Sanju and Geetha’ exclusively
available for free on Ovi Music Store
As a special
treat to music lovers, Nokia Ovi Music Store,
India’s popular music service, offers its
consumers an exclusive opportunity to download two songs
from the much awaited Kannada movie ‘Sanju weds Geetha’.
Consumers can download and enjoy the digital editions of
“Sanju weds Geeta” and “Gaganave” tracks from the movie only
on the Ovi Music Store till November 15th, 2010
prior to the official music launch of the film.
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Date: 9/11/2010
Nokia’s Ovi Music Store makes music downloading even more
fun!
An absolute treat for music
lovers, Ovi Music Store, Nokia’s popular music service has
introduced the “Ovi Music Shorties” offer in exclusive
association with Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt.
Ltd. Ideal for music lovers and enthusiasts on the move, the
exclusive offer gives music lovers an opportunity to
download 500 popular songs in 90 seconds format from the Ovi
Music Store. Nokia’s Ovi Music Shorties are ideal for people
who are constantly on the move and like to listen to new
releases every day.
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Date: 26/10/2010
RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS OFFERS SMS BASED MOBILE
CONFERENCING SERVICE PAN INDIA
| Reliance Communications,
India’s leading service provider announced SMS based voice conference calls
as an extension to its product Group Talk, a handset independent Mobile
Conferencing service. This innovative group-oriented service will be made
available to all Reliance Mobile GSM and CDMA subscribers using any handset
through the ‘SMS based Mobile Conferencing’ solution from US based Kodiak
Networks, a global leader of group communications’ solutions. The Group Talk
service will enable Reliance Mobile customers to establish a conference call
amongst a group of 9 contacts with a single SMS.
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Date: 25/10/2010
Spice Mobile launches India’s First 3D Phone – VIEW D
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Spice Mobility, the
leading mobile handset business of India, has launched
yet another pioneering device, the first 3D display
mobile phone –‘View D’. View D will allow the mobile
phone users to experience images, videos and even the
interface in 3D. The auto-stereoscopic display will
provide the user a 3D experience without the 3D glasses,
making it very convenient for a common user. This is
first of its kind technology, that enables the user to
enjoy real life video and images in 3D, couple that with
stereo surround sound and dual speakers, it becomes a
new age entertainment device. With the popularity of 3D
televisions, movies and other video content, the company
will now offer 3D experience in a pocket size mobile
phone.
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Date: 22/10/2010
Nokia pays tribute to Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett
Ovi Music Store,
Nokia’s popular music service, is giving its consumers
and Indian rock lovers an amazing opportunity to download
legal, good quality digital sound tracks from the recently
launched album of Syd Barrett, founder member and former
vocalist of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd. As a perfect
reprise to this legend of rock music, Nokia will give out
exclusive Syd Barrett posters to the first 200 users who
download the album, “An Introduction To Syd Barrett” from
Ovi Music Store.
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Date: 15/10/2010
This festive season, Sony Ericsson takes you on a shopping
spree
| For all
those of you have been making your shopping wish-list, Sony
Ericsson is playing genie, and inviting you to make your dream
come true. Grab a Sony Ericsson phone this season, and you may
just win a shopping spree accompanied by none other than the
Sony Ericsson brand ambassador and bollywood queen – Kareena
Kapoor, complete with Rs. 5 lakh in shopping money!
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Date: 13/10/2010
Reliance Communications announces live streaming of ICC
Cricket World Cup 2011
ICC’s Cricket
World Cups are the most prestigious and most widely followed
event in India. Reliance Communication (BSE: RCOM) the ‘Global
Partner’ for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 (ICC CWC 2011)
organized a preview of the trophy at Mumbai today. Reliance
Mobile also kicked off a series of promotional activities for
ICC CWC 2011 as part of the partnership for the 2011 edition of
the tournament scheduled to begin in February 2011. Cricketing
legend and key member of Indian Cricket team which won the World
Cup in 1983, Syed Kirmani was present at the occasion.
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Date: 12/10/2010
THE NOKIA N8 NOW IN INDIA
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Nokia today launched
its latest and much anticipated smartphone, the
Nokia N8, with Ovi services in India. Leading
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who had been
living virtually on N8 for the last 48 hours,
reappeared at the unveiling event with the
device. The first of a series of devices powered
by Symbian^3, the latest edition of the world’s
most used smartphone software, the Nokia N8
intuitively connects people to the places
and services that matter most. It allows people
to create compelling content, connect to their
favorite social networks and enjoy on-demand Web
TV programs and content.
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Date: 12/10/2010
TTL Crosses 80-Mn-Subscribers’ Mark
Tata Teleservices Limited, India’s fastest-growing dual-technology
telecom service provider, has added 2.14 million new subscribers
(wireless and wireline) in the month of September 2010 to cross the
80-million-subscribers’ milestone in a short span of just over
five-and-a-half years since the launch of its mobile telephony
services in early 2005. The company closed the month of September
with a total of 80,306,495 subscribers (wireless and wireline), as
on 30 September 2010.
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Date: 12/10/2010
Alcatel-Lucent opens
regional delivery centre in India
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext
Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has opened a new
regional delivery center (RDC) in Bangalore. Alcatel-Lucent’s
new RDC provides services to manage, operate and maintain
multi-vendor fixed and mobile telecommunications networks based
in India or anywhere around the world. This is the first center
of its kind for the company in the Asia Pacific region, and the
4th in the world. Alcatel-Lucent’s other RDCs are located in
the United States, Poland and Romania. more...
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Date: 6/10/2010
NOKIA
LAUNCHES
ITS
LATEST
ESERIES
DEVICE
IN INDIA
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Nokia today announced the launch of its latest addition to the Nokia Eseries range, the Nokia E5-00. Designed for those that want to be productive in both their professional and personal lives, the Symbian-based Nokia E5-00 follows the successful blueprint of devices such as the Nokia E72 and Nokia E63. The Nokia E5-00 combines high quality business features with all of the personal networking and entertainment capabilities that a busy professional expects from a smartphone.
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Date: 29/9/2010
Airtel
India-Australia Cricket Series Trophy unveiled
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The excitement for the
forthcoming Airtel India-Australia Cricket Series has
already kicked in. The title sponsor of the tournament -
Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company
with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa -
today unveiled the glittering trophy of the Airtel
India-Australia Cricket Series in a special ceremony
held in Chandigarh today. Captains of the Indian and
Australian teams, M.S.Dhoni and Ricky Ponting, alongwith
Shashi Arora - CEO (Upper North), Mobile Services, Bharti
Airtel unveiled the glittering trophy designed by Frazer and
Haws in silver with 24 karat gold plating.
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Date: 28/9/2010
Sony Ericsson
announced LiveView™
micro display with remote control functionality
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Today sees the
announcement of the Sony Ericsson LiveView™. It is on
Android platform and
uses Bluetooth™ connectivity to wirelessly
pair up to a compatible handset and allows consumers to
control the phone without taking it out of their pocket or
handbag.
Whether on the go, in a meeting or out for dinner, the
convenient Sony Ericsson LiveView™ can be clipped anywhere.
Attached in a watch strap, on a keychain or clipped to a
laptop, the micro display allows the user to incorporate the
product into their lifestyle and always stay connected. more... |
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Date: 22/9/2010
INDIAN DEVELOPERS SHINE AT THE NOKIA DEVELOPER SUMMIT IN LONDON
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Indian developers rocked the Nokia Developer
Summit 2010, and how! The prestigious, global Calling All
Innovators contest, organized by Nokia annually, saw Indian
developers walk away with 3 key prizes in 4 categories, in
addition to securing 3rd position in the Calling
All Innovators Hackathon at the Summit, held simultaneously
with Nokia World 2010 in London this year. Comic
Creator, an app created by Nextwave Multimedia has
emerged as Grand Prize winner in the ‘Entertainment’
category of the Calling All Innovators Contest, while
Webdunia and Infimatra Technologies won the second runners
up position with their entries Green Plaza in
the Eco/ Being Green category and PlanEasy2D
in the Productivitiy category respectively.
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Date: 19/9/2010
Bharti
Enterprises
group company ‘Beetel’ launches a range of feature packed
2G and 3G Mobile Phones
Beetel Teletech, a Bharti Enterprises group company and one of India’s
leading distributors of telecom and allied products, today announced the
launch of the ‘Beetel’ range of mobile phones. The current range
comprises of eight feature packed mobile phones with many industry
firsts highlighting Beetel’s strong consumer focus and understanding.
The entire range of Beetel phones boasts of Dual SIMs, FM, Camera and
Great Battery Life thus ensuring the range is contemporary. The
individual models have many firsts highlighting Beetel’s focus on
innovative technology. Some of them include - the first gaming QWERTY
phone, triple SIM offering GSM+GSM+CDMA, the first phone to house a
complete movie and a 3G phone with an exceedingly well designed and easy
user interface.
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Date: 15/9/2010
HTC UNVEILS HTC DESIRE
HD AND HTC DESIRE Z WITH
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HTC Corporation,
a global
designer of
smartphones,
today unveiled a
new HTC Sense
experience with
the new HTC
Desire HDTM and
HTC Desire ZTM
Android-based
smartphones. The
new HTC Sense
experience
continues HTC’s
strong focus on
the customer,
placing people
at the center by
simply making
its phones work
in a more
personal and
natural way. HTC
Sense introduces
a number of key
innovations
including a
series of
connected
services called
HTCSense.com
that enhance
people’s mobile
experience on
HTC phones.
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Date: 14/9/2010
Nokia’s latest entertainment phone, Nokia X2,
launched in India
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Continuing with its commitment to offer
complete music and entertainment experience, Nokia India
announced the availability of its latest music phone, Nokia
X2 in the market. Designed to delight young entertainment
enthusiasts and music lovers, the Nokia X2 comes with
dedicated music keys and 3.5mm AV connector, FM radio with
built-in antenna, a digital music player and loud stereo
speakers for sharing music. Adding to the great music
experience, the Nokia X2 offers a 5 megapixel camera with
flash and a video recorder.
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Date: 10/9/2010
Loop Mobile Offers Innovative Services celebrating Ganesh
Chaturthi
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Loop Mobile, Mumbai’s leading mobile service
provider, introduced a host of unique mobile offers for its
subscribers to add to the festivities of the season
beginning with Ganesh Chaturthi. Along a wide range of
caller tunes on Ganpati mantras, shloks and wallpapers,
subscribers will now also enjoy cost effective calling
during the entire festive season to stay connected with
their loved ones.
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Date: 8/9/2010
THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES
EQUITY INVESTMENT IN SISTEMA SHYAM TELESERVICES Ltd.
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Sistema (LSE: SSA),
the largest diversified public financial corporation in
Russia and the CIS, which
invests in and is a major shareholder of
companies operating in different industries,
today announced that the
Government of the Russian Federation has approved an
equity investment in Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd. (SSTL),
Sistema’s subsidiary in India, which provides
telecommunications services under the MTS brand.
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Date: 6/9/2010
MTS launches Smart Phones
Introduces Buzz, Alive & Ivory with smart voice and
internet applications for the young pros, offers 20GB free for first two
months
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MTS, the mobile telephony services brand of
Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) today launched the
elegant range of internet enabled smart phones for the
trendy and technology oriented new generation mobile
subscribers, especially the college going and young
professionals. Enabled with state-of-the-art futuristic
CDMA2000 technology platform, the range of Buzz, Alive
& Ivory lifestyle phones support high quality voice
and net enabled data services with best of tariff plans.
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Date: 30/8/2010
Nokia launches dual SIM devices & solutions in India
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Nokia India today unveiled its long awaited 2-in-1 dual SIM
solutions in India – the Nokia C1 (C1-00) and Nokia C2
(C2-00). The two new devices, in the Nokia Cseries family,
are available at very attractive and affordable price points
and will address the consumer need for a Nokia phone
boasting multiple sim functionality. Nokia C1 and Nokia C2
will enable users to take advantage of a rounded feature set
including multiple phone book options, long battery life,
large screen and local language interface.
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Date: 26/8/2010
Sony Ericsson unveils new portfolio of entertainment-packed phones
Bringing alive an unmatchable user experience, Sony
Ericsson, the communication entertainment brand, has
unveiled its six new phones, including smartphones,
GreenHeart and affordable walkman phones. Comprising
the Xperia X8, GreenHeart Cedar and Aspen, and
Walkman phones – Yendo, Spiro and Zylo, the
portfolio will give consumers a wide range to choose
from.
Following the success of the ‘Fab 5’ portfolio in
March this year, the new range of phones offer a
host of innovative features and signature
applications to make communication more playful and
multiply and enrich opportunities to connect. In
addition to features and applications, design is
essential to the entertainment experience. Sony
Ericsson’s human curvature design philosophy is
applied across the portfolio to package the
technology into products that look and feel great.
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Date: 20/8/2010
RCOM &
Nokia join hands for a first-of-its-kind multi-faceted business
partnership
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Reliance Communications, India’s largest
integrated telecom operator and Nokia India today jointly
announced a first-of-its-kind multi-faceted business
alliance. The RCOM – Nokia alliance will aim to foster
greater use of mobile services, giving consumers an
opportunity to get richer experiences and do more with their
phones. The RCOM–Nokia partnership is structured on a
one-of-its-kind blue-print to engage with the Indian
consumes to offer an array of unmatched & innovative mobile,
data and services offerings in India. The business
partnership with Nokia is in line with the multitude of
innovations lined-up by the two companies to take mobility
to the next level.
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Date: 19/8/2010
HTC STRENGTHENS ITS COMMITMENT TO INDIA
Plans to build a retail infrastructure to support
expected future smartphone market growth
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HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today
announced its continued commitment to the Indian mobile
phone market by outlining plans to strengthen and expand its
national operations in order to support future growth in the
Indian smartphone market. “India’s unique geography, culture
and consumer culture create a complex retail environment
that requires a deep understanding of local retailers and
consumer needs,” said Jack Tong, vice president, HTC Asia
Pacific. “HTC is focusing on offering customers a better
retail experience that fully represents what the HTC brand
stands for.”
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Date: 17/8/2010
Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools launched on Bharti
Airtel’s mobile service
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Nokia and Bharti Airtel, a leading
global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries
across Asia and Africa, today joined hands to launch Ovi Life Tools
service targeted at providing Airtel’s mobile customers with access
to relevant content on agriculture, education and entertainment.
This partnership between India’s largest maker of mobile devices and
largest telecom operator represents a wide scale distribution model
that will empower Indian masses with improved access to information
available in a simple icon based, graphically rich user interface.
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Date: 4/8/2010
MAKE
THIS ONAM SPECIAL WITH NOKIA
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Kerala,
India, Aug 04, 2010: With Onam, Kerala’s biggest festival around the
corner, Nokia India has just announced an exciting ‘Cash Back’*
offer for its consumers today. Nokia consumers have the opportunity
to get cash-back up to Rs. 1 Lakh on purchase of Nokia devices this
festive season. This offer is valid from July 23 till August 31,
2010 across all Nokia Priority Stores and other Nokia outlets in
Kerala. Nokia will give away a total of over Rs. 93 Lakh worth of
prizes through this offer to their loyal consumers. more... |
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Date: 4/8/2010
RCOM & Universal Music sign
exclusive strategic partnership in its preparation for 3G launch
| Reliance Communications today
announced the signing of an exclusive strategic partnership with
Universal Music to offer music-related services and content across
RCOM’s GSM, CDMA, 3G Mobile and Wireless Broadband platforms. The
agreement between Reliance Communications and Universal Music has
been signed with a commitment of substantial investments to be made
by both the parties to offer 360 degree music experience to
customers across all platforms including Voice, WAP, Web, IVR, Blog
& through On-Ground Events.
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Date: 1/8/2010
Reliance Mobile and HTC Launch the HTC Wildfire for GSM
and 3G customers
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In a move that would empower the younger
generation social networkers to stay seamlessly connected on the
move, HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, and
Reliance Communications, (BSE: RCOM)
India’s largest integrated telecom service provider,
today
announced an exclusive partnership to launch the HTC Wildfire™ in
India. The 3G ready HTC Wildfire, equipped with the company’s
signature HTC Sense experience, is a new Android phone on the GSM
networks that integrates the most popular social networks to help
bring your friends closer to you. Under the alliance, Reliance
Communications GSM customers can avail up to 500 MB of free data
access every month for a period of six months, thereby enabling them
to experience the true power of the HTC Wildfire.
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Date: 29/7/2010
Sony Ericsson's FREE service camps
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To ensure best user
experience for its consumers, Sony Ericsson India is organizing a
month long FREE service camp for everyone who owns any of its
phones. Giving the brand users a golden opportunity to breathe new
life into their old phones, the service camps will offer free
software upgrades and more. The camp is taking place across the 46
Sony Ericsson Experience Stores in the country till August 16th
2010,
where specialists will help you out with all you need to know about
your gadget.
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Date: 27/7/2010
Nokia launches 0%
EMI scheme across eight cities in India
Nokia announced the launch of its
Easy EMI scheme that will allow customers to buy their favourite
Nokia handset and accessories and pay for it in three equal
monthly installments (EMI) at zero percent interest. Customers
can purchase a Nokia handset and accessories in the price range
of Rs.7,000– Rs.35,000 under this offer. The scheme will be
available through over 176 Nokia Priority Partners (NPPs) across
eight cities Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad,
Chennai, Ahmadabad and Chandigarh.
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Date: 27/7/2010
3G Summit 2010 Convened at New Delhi
“With communication and Content
ruling the roost, the advent of new technologies is gearing up fast, with
the recent 3G auctions and the market realizing the need of establishing the
right supporting infrastructure. We feel proud to bring together the top
stakeholders to discuss 3G”, said Mr. Fen Castro, representing Virtue
Insight, while opening the 3G Summit July 22-23, 2010 at New Delhi.
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Date: 19/7/2010
Nokia Siemens Networks to Acquire Certain Wireless
Network Infrastructure Assets of Motorola for US $1.2 Billion
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today
jointly announced that the companies have entered into an
agreement under which Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the
majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets
for US $1.2 billion in cash. The companies expect to complete
closing activities by the end of 2010, subject to customary
closing conditions including regulatory approvals. Approximately
7,500 employees are expected to transfer to Nokia Siemens
Networks from Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure
business when the transaction closes, including large research
and development sites in the United States, China and India.
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Date: 15/7/2010
Loop Mobile packs in Double the value with SmartPaid
Get Local Minutes, STD, Missed
Call Alerts (MCA) & 2GB Data all in a compact bundle for 30 days
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Enhancing the mobile phone
service offering to a newer level, Loop Mobile, Mumbai’s leading mobile
service operator introduces SmartPaid for subscribers. SmartPaid
allows new as well as existing prepaid subscribers to get bundled local and
STD minutes under various simple rental plans. Smartpaid new
subscription with bundled minutes comes at a cost of Rs.349 while recharge
options start from Rs.320.
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Date: 13/7/2010
MTS flags off ‘MTS on Wheels’
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MTS, the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema
Shyam Teleservices Limited (SSTL) today flagged off ‘MTS on Wheels’-
a unique initiative first time in West Bengal aimed at taking
telephony services to the door of customer. This is a month long
activity started today from Kolkata and will complete its journey at
Burdwan by August 2010. During the period, the bus will travel
through various cities and towns of West and North Bengal and will
address all customer needs related to voice and data services.
'MTS on wheels’ is an air
conditioned bus comprising of all the facilities available to
customers at MTS branded retail outlets across the country.
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Date: 12/7/2010
Telcordia wins Aegis Graham Bell 2010 Awards
Telcordia, a global leader in the
development of mobile, broadband and enterprise software and
services, today announced that it has won the prestigious Aegis
Graham Bell 2010 Awards in the Telecom Operations Management
category for its successful work with our customers in India and the
Telcordia® Real-Time Charging solution. The award win recognizes the
Telcordia Real-Time Charging solution for helping Indian
operators successfully meet challenges in a competitive environment.
The solution further enabled operators to differentiate brand
offerings and offer innovative real-time services and tariff plans
allowing them to maximize their plan benefits and realize the
benefits of personalized interactive services.
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Date: 9/7/2010
Rs. One Lakh Crore revenue from Mobile Services by 2020
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The prospect of Value
Added Services becoming a huge industry with a turnover of Rs
100,000 crores annually by 2020 emerged at a VAS conference here
today. According to OnMobile Chairman and CEO Mr. Arvind Rao VAS
would be a “transformational force” and even by 2015 when its
turnover would rise from Rs.15,000 crores now to Rs 50,000 crores it
would be a larger industry than advertising or media. Over 2.5 lakh
villages would be connected to wireless broadband and 3G by 2012
enabling them to access the whole range of value added services,
said Department of Telecom Secretary Sh. P. J. Thomas inaugurating
the conference. The entire lot of panchayats would be connected
through optical fibre and computers providing them broadand
services, he revealed.
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Date: 8/7/2010
Reliance
launches
India’s first CDMA Android Smartphone
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In a move that would redefine the
Smartphone user experience in the country, Reliance Mobile and
Samsung Mobile today announced the launch of India’s first Android
powered CDMA handset Samsung Galaxy i899. Combing a unique blend of
performance and elegance, Samsung Galaxy i899 will offer an enhanced
experience of seamless Speed Data on the Move offering speeds upto
3.1 Mbps to Reliance Mobile customers. The new Smartphone available
only on Reliance Mobile network will also be the first CDMA device
to be launched in India pre-installed with Android Market – an
online applications store developed by Google for Android devices.
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Date: 8/7/2010
Entertainment on the go
with the LG Cookie Zip
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While you always enjoyed big and clear
picture on your TV, your wish to catch your favourite programmes
while you are on move is now possible with the launch of LG 510 also
popularly called as, “Cookie Zip” in the Indian market
today. The phone clearly portrays the brand's technology leadership,
especially with the EVDO feature giving ultimate downloading speed
and Live TV for superior TV experience.
You have seen LG betting big on the GSM
segment and now its time to highlight the brand's technology prowess
in the CDMA open market.
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Date: 7/7/2010
MTNL and Novatium introduce MTNL Nova Navigator
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| Novatium
Solutions Private Limited, today announced the launch of
MTNL Nova Navigator Service for the MTML broadband
subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai. MTNL, with their High
Speed Broadband will revolutionize the concept of
computing, as a “service”, rather than a “product”. MTNL
Nova Navigator can be used for both Internet access and
Computing Applications. The services include
comprehensive computing experience with special emphasis
on Internet, gaming, digital entertainment, online
education, telephony and business productivity. It
supports Linux and Windows Operating systems. MTNL Nova
Navigator delivers computing experience which is
superior in performance, simpler to use, with
substantial savings on investment.
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Date: 6/7/2010
BSNL
launches BlacMailä,
the innovative pushmail service
Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), India's state-owned telecommunications company today
joined hands with mobile applications and technology firm Fifth C, based in
Bangalore, to offer BlacMail – the innovative push email service to all its
consumers. BlacMail is being heralded in the mobile telecommunications
industry as the new platform to deliver affordable true push mail service to
the burgeoning mass market mobile consumers with a need for instant push
access to email - the top Internet application. Using sophisticated
messaging server based technology, BlacMail enables customers having
accounts with most public email systems to instantly receive email
notifications on a wide variety of phone models – from inexpensive and
popular models to smart phones - with a user experience available today only
on high-end pushmail services on expensive smart phones.
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Date: 6/7/2010
Airtel wires up Terminal 3 at IGI Airport
for customers
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Bharti Airtel, one of the leading emerging markets telco, today
announced the availability of its basic telephony and mobile
services in Indira Gandhi International Airport’s T3 terminal.
Through this initiative, Airtel has become the only mobile
service provider to be associated with India’s biggest and
world’s second largest integrated airport terminal. The services
to be provided will include superior network connectivity
enabling Airtel subscribers to be constantly in touch with the
world, PCOs to make calls, charging stations to charge laptops ,
and facilitation counters which will offer telephony solutions
and services to customers.
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Date: 6/7/2010
8th VAS ASIA
2010 – Will Help in Maximising VAS Revenues for Indian Telecom Industry
All
the major Indian Telecom Operators along with the Leading VAS technology
organisation’s will be congregating at 8th VAS Asia 2010 – a single
day International Conference & Exhibition which is being held on July 9th
2010 at Le Meridien, New Delhi. Global majors in the VAS segment are
participating in the event.
Among the Telecom
Operators - Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance
Communications, TATA Teleservices, Sistema Shyam, Virgin Mobile, Etisilat,
Unitech Telenor, TATA DoCoMo, Datacom would be part of the event.
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Date: 1/7/2010
RCOM ACQUIRES DIGICABLE, INDIA’S NO. 1 CABLE TV SERVICE PROVIDER
| The Board of Directors of Reliance
Communications Ltd. (RCOM) today approved a proposal to acquire
Digicable, India’s largest Cable TV service provider, in an
all-stock deal of the new entity, subject to definitive
documentation, necessary approvals etc. The new entity named
“Reliance DigiCom” is an integration of RCOM’s DTH, IPTV and Retail
Broadband Operations, with Digicable. This will be India’s / Asia’s
largest, and the World’s 5th largest company, to offer the
full-suite of Triple Play services – Digital TV, Ultra High-Speed
Broadband and Voice.
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