Comments on: Buy movie tickets, make payment and even select your seats – All through mobile!

By: creator...

creator... — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:00:00 +0000

Hey Guys…
Stop Fighting…
Logon to http://www.bookmyshow.com or call 39895050 or point your GPRS mobile device to m.bookmyshow.com

You guys would be astonished… Forget TAGIT….

By: Future of Indian Mobile Content broadcasting and Distribution !

Future of Indian Mobile Content broadcasting and Distribution ! — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:46:53 +0000

[...] you can access everything on your feather weight colored mobile phones, be it listening to music, booking your tickets, online banking, playing games or accessing Internet (albeit slowly) [...]

By: schicksal

schicksal — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:38:35 +0000

Wow…that is news to me..

By: trakin

trakin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:20:23 +0000

Amit,
Thanks for the heads-up, but I got the release just yesterday. I think they must have started in select cities earlier to test out and now they must have gone full fledged….
Anyways good to know that in reality too, the service seems to be pretty appealing..

By: Amit Puri

Amit Puri — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:05:42 +0000

This is actually a bit old story now. The PVR chain of cinemas has their mobile application (only on Airtel currently) that allows you to book tickets across any PVR cinema in India (More info at this link – http://tagit.tv/pvr/faqs/faqs.htm). You can even select your seats through the application. It’s really cool…I tried a month back and since then I have been hooked to it. PVR levies a charge of just 20 Rs…the same that they levy through net bookings. And Airtel just charges you for the surf time used on your mobile…no service charges.

By: trakin

trakin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:20:00 +0000

Sri Vikas,
On to your first point..how many users actually access mobile internet…A very good question to which I have no definitive answer. I had written a post on it sometime back, you may be interested in reading.
Secondly, about geographical distribution: This is where the wireless/ mobile companies like Bharti, Vodafone, reliance and TATA come into picture and thats why anwering to your previous comment I said that you have to be wary about these big players as they have the user base, the demographic information, internet access statistics etc. inshort evrything they need for getting targeted audience. Remember when you fill up the mobile connection form you give out nearly everything to the mobile compay.
Thirdly, mobile content/ application download based on advertising model in not new. Here in US it is mostly to do with mobile games….But yes, in India we are still far way off….It is surely a good idea that could catch up in coming years…
WOuld be interested in hearing your point of view.

By: sri vikas

sri vikas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:20:46 +0000

sir,

we know that among the burgeoning 300 million mobile subscriber base in India, 38 million(and growing) use or access internet from their mobile phones(by the statistics released by TRAI). fair enough!

but, the question remain where are these 38 million mobile subscribers?
on what basis are we sure that they access mobile internet? is it because so many connections we taken or are there parameters set in place to find out who actually use the service offered by the companies in question?

A sound marketing strategy would be to first identify where this 38 million subscribers are (demographically), identify the age , the behavior(behaviorally targeting that is) etc and only then go ahead launch the product full fledged.

now, how are these companies going to identify this target ?

you want idea on what else can be done over mobile phones? how about downloading of mobile content/applications for free with ads enabled in the content? thats how we are doing it . infact ,we have done enough research to identify potential WAP users in india. we went ahead and launched a alpha version of mklix backed it by zestadz.
let me know what u think?

By: sk-rt.com

sk-rt.com — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:11:44 +0000

Buy movie tickets, make payment and even select your seats – All through mobile!…

Everything, absolutely everything is going mobile. The services now available on mobile make me think about the future of Computers…