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S Tel which recently launched services in Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand, is betting big on the launch of mobile number portability (MNP) to further its fortunes in India’s crowded telecom arena.
New entrants will be the biggest beneficiaries of MNP as it allows them to target the best post-paid customers of existing incumbents. A review of the circles in which S Tel operates shows upto seven to eight operators competing for customers.
India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, has joined the race with handset makers such as Nokia, RIM (maker of BlackBerry) and Samsung among others to get a share of the mobile applications market in India.
Bharti’s app store is set to go live on Wednesday (February 10) with over 1,200 applications making it the first Indian telco to attempt replicating the highly successful business model of Apple, the pioneer in this space.
Mobile handset manufacturers, as well as importers in India, would soon have to get their handsets tested for radiation before any launch across the country, if the recommendations of Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), the technical arm of the department of telecommunications, are accepted.
A TEC committee set up to study issues related to implementation of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) guidelines has said the manufacturer/importer would have to provide two random samples of each model being sold in India to TEC for compliance monitoring before the launch. The test fee would have to borne by the companies.
Nokia 5233 priced at Rs. 7,850 can surely make you the proud owner of a smartphone without breaking your bank balance. Nokia 5233 specifications are similar to Nokia 5230 but it doesn’t come with a 3G transceiver.
Nokia 5233 specifications are a touch screen of 3.2” with 16:9 picture quality, 640×360 pixels resolution and 16.7 million colors Nokia 5233 is a dream come true for young professionals and students alike that wish to carry a trendy handset without burning their fingers with steep price.
Micromax Q5, the latest upcoming mobile phone from Micromax with Full QWERTY keypad and Trackball Navigation. The Micromax Q5 comes with 2.2 inch QVGA Screen and has 2 mega pixels camera.
The Micromax Q5 is a bar styled, Dual SIM (GSM)-Dual-Band mobile phone. The handset has integrated FM Radio, games, video player and supports multiple music formats.
‘Burning’- that’s what defines the current telecom market in India. Where BSNL and MTNL are providing one rupee plan for one india, MagiVox is offering free calling from one device to other for free anywhere in the world.
Business market is going global and so there should not be any difference in cost when you make an ISD call. The International VoIP business grew 7% over the previous quarter despite a steep fall in prices and the tariff war between operators.
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In yet another setback to its international expansion plans, Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) has lost the bid for managing telecom networks of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corp (ETC), a state monopoly in the African nation.
“BSNL had bid aggressively for the contract, but lost to France Telecom,” sources familiar with the development told ET. They said although BSNL had made a financially better offer than France Tele, it did not qualify on some other criteria, including operational performance in the domestic market.
Monitise, the leader in global mobile banking and payments, has beaten off fierce competition to be short listed for the Best Mobile Money Service at the 2010 GSMA Global Mobile Awards.
The winners of the mobile industry’s leading annual awards will be announced at a ceremony during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 16th February 2010.
Well over 1.3 million bank customers in the UK and in the USA are already using Monitise’s ser-vices to check their account balance, set up and receive text alerts, transfer money and pay bills on their mobile phones in seconds.
The Handcase launched its mobile search system, called Gune. Gune is a system of meta-search, ie it searches the other websites and generates a single page of results, optimized for small screen phones and smartphones. The websites consulted by the Gune are: Google and Bing.
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