Company Press Release:
Dow Jones and Bharti Airtel Partner for Launch of
The Wall Street Journal India Mobile
INDIA|MUMBAI (March 17, 2010)─Dow Jones today announced the launch of The Wall Street Journal India Mobile application in association with Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom service provider. The application provides the latest international and Indian financial and business news from The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. It will be available exclusively to Airtel mobile customers.
The Wall Street Journal India Mobile can be downloaded free-of-charge by
Airtel pre-paid and post-paid mobile users. Customers will have to pay a
monthly subscription fee of Rs. 99 only if they choose to access premium
financial market news and data, the personalisation functionality and the
portfolio tracker, which helps monitor stock portfolios as well as mutual
funds and commodities investments.
Mr. Mitya New, Managing Director, Dow Jones India said: “The Wall Street
Journal India Mobile application provides leading-edge functionality and
content targeted at consumers in the Indian market. Our partnership with
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile phone operator, significantly enhances
our ability to reach mobile users across India.”
Raghunath Mandava, Chief Marketing Officer – Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel
said: “It has been Airtel’s endeavour to constantly innovate and lead the
mobile content revolution in the country by delivering best in class
products and services to customers and adding value to their lives on the go
and wherever they go. The Wall Street Journal India Mobile application is
our latest initiative that will empower our customers to make smarter
decisions by accessing news and information from one of the world’s most
trusted and premier providers of financial information.”
The Wall Street Journal India Mobile application is currently compatible
with a large number of models of Blackberry and Nokia Smartphones and will
be extended to other handsets soon. Airtel mobile customers may download The
Wall Street Journal India Mobile application by texting ‘WSJ’ to 54321.
The Wall Street Journal India Mobile is a unique on-the-go tool that
empowers India’s decision makers with specialized India-focused content from
the world’s most trusted source of business and financial news. The
application provides real time updates with the latest headlines, market
commentary and analysis, data on equity, mutual fund, IPO and commodity
markets and a portfolio tracker, allowing users to monitor their personal
investments. The product will also give access to international news,
technology trends, lifestyle features, blogs and multimedia content from The
Wall Street Journal, including an exclusive tie-up with Naukri.com for
premium job seekers and hotel deals from Yatra.com
Key features of The WSJ India Mobile application include:
About Dow Jones
Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com)
is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV;
www.newscorp.com) and a leading provider of global news
and business information. Its principal products include The Wall Street
Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and
Dow Jones Indexes. Its Local Media Group operates community-based newspapers
and Web sites. Dow Jones also provides news content to television and radio
stations.
About The Wall Street Journal
Founded in 1889, The Wall Street Journal is the world's leading business publication. Boasting more than two million subscribers, the Journal is the largest newspaper by total paid circulation and has the largest individually paid circulation of the top 25 U.S. newspapers. The Wall Street Journal franchise, with a global audience of 3.8 million, also comprises The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com, the leading provider of business and financial news and analysis on the Web with more than one million subscribers and 26 million users per month. WSJ.com is the flagship site of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, which also includes MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com. The Wall Street Journal Radio Network services news and information to more than 375 radio stations in the U.S. The Journal holds 33 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, and, in 2009, was ranked No. 1 in BtoB's Media Power 50 for the 10th consecutive year.
About Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited,
a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is among Asia’s leading integrated
telecom services providers with operations in India and Sri Lanka. In South
Asia, the company had an aggregate of over 131 million customers as of end
January 2010, including 121.7 million mobile customers in India. Bharti
Airtel has been ranked among the six best performing technology companies in
the world by BusinessWeek.
Bharti Airtel is
structured as four strategic business units - Mobile, Telemedia, Enterprise
and Digital TV. The mobile business offers services in India and Sri Lanka.
The Telemedia business provides broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 95
Indian cities. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions
to corporate customers and national and international long distance services
to carriers. The Digital TV business provides DTH services across India. All
these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s national
high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 118,337 Rkms across
India. Airtel's international network infrastructure includes ownership of
the i2i submarine cable system and consortium ownership in five global
undersea cable systems, SEA-ME-WE 4, EIG, I-ME-WE, AAG and UNITY. For more
information, visit www.airtel.in