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April 22, 2010: LG Electronics today announced the launch of the new stylish 3G enable multimedia Mobile Phones LG GU285 at Rs.6500 in India.
The new LG GU285 sleek compact slider mobile phone which is 3G enabled and has a large 5.6cm screen. It has equipped with 1.3MP smart camera, with an added function of printing images through blue tooth and Secondary VGA Camera to make Video Calls as well as to take users own images.
April 22, 2010: Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of Live Aarti service for its subscribers. Airtel subscribers will now be able to listen to live prayers from some places of worship in India which include Tirupati Balaji, Sidhi Vinayak, Shri Shirdi Sai Baba and Bangla Sahib.
In a press statement, the company claimed it was the first service on mobile offering live puja. Users need to call on different numbers from their mobiles for subscribing to different shrines and have to pay Rs 5 as a onetime membership fee along with a daily subscription charge of Rs 2 per shrine.
April 22,2010: The bid price for all-India 3G spectrum rose to Rs 6,968 crore, nearly 100 per cent higher than the base price, on Day-11 of the auction and is likely to go up further with operators now shifting to smaller circles.
The government will surely get Rs 28,228 crore from sale of 3G spectrum. This leaves a gap of less than Rs 7,000 crore from achieving the target of Rs 35,000 crore set by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in his Budget for 2010-11.
April 22,2010: State-run telecom operator MTNL on Thursday announced the commercial launch of the country’s first 3G driven mobile TV service in collaboration with Aksh Optifibre and Alcatel Lucent.
Mobile TV service would make multimedia and entertainment content available to MTNL mobile subscribers in the metro cities of Delhi and Mumbai.
April 21,2010: IMImobile, the global technology partner for operators, media providers and enterprises and IL&FS Education & Technology Services limited, one of India’s leading education and training company, today announces the launch of “English Seekho” on mobiles.
Introduced with an intent of teaching conversational English language to the non- native speaker, the “English Seekho” initiative will offer a complete ‘On the go’ learning solution.
April 20, 2010: The pan India bid price at the 3G auction has reached Rs 60.68 billion, 73 per cent up from the base price of Rs 35 billion, after the end of the eighth day. A total of 46 clock rounds have been completed.
Mumbai and Tamil Nadu have joined Delhi with bids for more than Rs 6 billion. The bid for Delhi circle was Rs 6.91 billion, while Mumbai trailed at Rs 6.35 billion and Tamil Nadu Rs 6.06 billion.
April 17, 2010: ZTE Telecom, a provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, expects a business of $4 billion for the telecom vendor industry, which will be generated soon with the likely rollout of 3G, WiMax and other next generation communication services in India.
The company is eyeing about 10-15 per cent share out of this market, its chairman cum managing director D K Ghosh said here on Friday.
April 17, 2010: For the first time since the 3G spectrum auction started, the provisional winning price for pan-India service crossed Rs. 5,000 crore on Friday, with Gujarat circle remaining most valued at Rs. 512 crore. As against Thursday’s winning price of Rs. 4,831 crore, this figure now stands at Rs. 5,095 crore after completion of 34 rounds of e-auction.
After Gujarat, the second most high-value service area is Delhi (Rs. 493 crore), followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra (Rs. 483 crore each), Mumbai and Andhra Pradesh (Rs. 469 crore each) and Karnataka (Rs. 460 crore). The bidding for remaining 15 circles out of 22 is still to gain momentum.
April 16, 2010: TeleDNA Communications, the leading VAS technology and infrastructure provider, today announced that Aircel, one of the fastest growing Pan-India telecom service provider, has selected TeleDNA’s VAS Infrastructure platform that includes SMSC (short Messaging Service Centre), MMSC (multimedia messaging service centre), CBC (Cell Broadcast Centre) LBA (Location Based Applications) to increase current Aircel’s portfolio of VAS offerings to its mobile consumers.
Aircel selected TeleDNA because of its ability to offer high-performance, scalable VAS infrastructure solutions with its personalized Customer First support structure focused to support Aircel’s current and future business strategy and help its services stand out in an increasingly competitive Indian market. The TeleDNA carrier grade SMSC platform would help optimize traffic flow and improve the overall messaging experience of Aircel subscribers.
April 14, 2010: 160by2.com, one of India’s largest free SMS service providers has increased its SMS character space to 145 characters from the earlier 80 characters. This service comes as one of the most interesting and useful development in internet and communication domain for people who use online platform.
Commenting on increasing the limit of SMS, Mr. Satyakalyan Yerramsetti, CEO-160by2.com said, “Our free SMS service and other offerings like mobile application have revolutionized this industry. With the tremendous success to our products, we have decided to remove the cap on the remaining 80 characters in a text message. We see this move bringing in more users to online messaging platform.”
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