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Does Aircel PEEK Email-only device make sense?

by Arun Prabhudesai on March 17, 2010

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By now, I am sure you may learned about the new Email-Only mobile device – PEEK. It sure has some amount of novelty factor, but does it really make sense – I think NOT !   Lets quickly look at the  PEEK advantages – To be honest, I don’t see any if [...]

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Tata DOCOMO does it again: Now offers Mobile Daily Plans!

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Tata DOCOMO keep surprising us with their offerings – They have been innovative from the word go. Even though they launched their services much later than most of the peers, they have probably done more in changing the landscape on how we use our mobile services. From one second billing to [...]

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Telecom Tuesday: Vodafone Application Store, Self-Charging Phone From Nokia

by Ankit Agarwal

Vodafone Launches its own Mobile Application Store
It was always on the cards, wasn’t it.After the stupendous success of Apple iStore and the growing popularity of Android marketplace, there is no denying that fact that Application stores are the way forward for telcos.Among India telecom operators, Airtel already has a app store in place and Aircel [...]

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App Store Bandwagon: Vodafone joins it !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Mobile App stores seem to be the current rage amongst the telecom companies, everyone is launching it now. Airtel’s app store is already live, While Aircel & Reliance are expected to officially launch their apps store very soon. Vodafone becomes the 2nd Indian mobile company to start the app store after Airtel announced it [...]

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Now a Mobile Phone that runs on AAA battery !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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With Urban mobile subscriber base close to saturation point, most of the handset manufacturers are aggressively targeting the rural Indian market to increase their subscriber base. However, one of the biggest impediments is that many villages in India still lack proper supply of electricity – And where the supply is available it is quite erratic. [...]

7 comments March 6, 2010 Continue Reading →

Bangalore Cops Armed With Blackberries, Will It Help Keep Corruption In Check

by Ankit Agarwal

Next time you see a cop on Bangalore’s road playing around with a Blackberry in his hand, you better be careful.He might just be checking your history of traffic violations and might hold you down for not clearing you earlier violations.

Bangalore traffic police has reached the last leg of Project Blackberry, a completely electronic traffic [...]

3 comments March 5, 2010 Continue Reading →

BSNL brings Mobile WIMAX to India – Capable of 37 mbps speeds !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Ok, don’t get all too excited with that 37 mbps Jargon, I just said that it capable of delivering that kind of speeds  – Whether it gives even fraction of that needs to be seen. Unlike many countries, we have by-passed the broadband revolution and moved straight to Mobile Internet revolution [...]

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India adds another 20 million Telecom Subscribers in Jan

by Arun Prabhudesai
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The Telecom Subscription growth does not stop at anything. Nearly an year back, we were averaging about 12 million subscribers a month – I had thought that in next 12 months the monthly growth rate should stabilize to around 10 million, but it does not seem like happening. Infact, it has nearly doubled and last [...]

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Android Market Apps fastest growing – Iphone Market the Biggest !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Currently we have 6 main Mobile Operating Systems that mobile phones run on – Apple, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian and Blackberry. Every OS has its own Marketplace which allows its users to down and install applications. Some are Free and some are paid.

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Telecom Tuesday: 3G Auction, BSNLs 10p per min plan, Mobile Number portability & more..

by Arun Prabhudesai
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The buzz around telecom sector in India seems to never die down, be it the growth of Telecom Subscribers, innumerable delays in 3G Auction or Mobile Number Portability or for that matter even the Mobile Call rates – Lots has been happening over past few days – Here is the our Telecom Tuesday giving you [...]

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Tata DOCOMO now brings Social Networking Free of Cost to your mobile

by Arun Prabhudesai
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I am sure you must have seen the new Tata DOCOMO Buddynet Ads recently being played on Television. Tata DOCOMO has been forefront in launching innovative services for its users like 1 second billing, which now has become a common-place with all mobile service providers. With Buddynet platform users can get [...]

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Single Sim, Dual Sim and Now Triple Sim Mobile Phones

by News Editor
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Innovation in Mobile Hardware / Software is reaching its boiling point – From Rs 500 basic Mobile Phones to low cost 3G handsets to super charged Open source Mobile operating systems – The whole dynamics of mobile Industry is changing fast. Till now I had heard about regular single sim mobile phones and Dual [...]

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Now The Mobile Number Portability pushed to May: Chennai & Bangalore will get it first !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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MNP or the Mobile Number Portability is again pushed ahead by couple of months – Earlier it was going to be launched in March 2010, but according to recent statement by Telecom Minister A Raja, MNP should come into existence by May 2010. Like 3G, MNP also has seen tremendous delays and no one [...]

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Mobile Technology Innovation in Rural India – Actual Case Study

by Arun Prabhudesai

We have been repeatedly talking about how Mobile penetration in Rural India will bring about a sea-change in the betterment quality of life in lower strata of people – However, we never came across any real life scenario. One of my friends forwarded me this Video where a Mobile Development company has come up [...]

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Vodafone Launches Lowest-Cost mobile phone, beats Nokia to it !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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We just wrote about Nokia announcing ultra low cost mobile phone in India in near future that would roughly cost you Rs. 500/-. Vodafone UK, however, have beat them to it – Although not exactly Rs, 500 phone, they have launched world’s cheapest mobile phone in the market.

The Vodafone 150, which was unveiled at Mobile [...]

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