Archive for the ‘VAS’ Category
Indian Premier League (IPL) and its licensing partner Global Cricket Ventures (GCV) have tied up with July Systems, to launch an IPL mobile internet service, designed for the Indian market.
Users can access the service from their mobile phone by calling MiX (Mobile internet eXperience (MiX) platform toll-free number 08 123 123 123 or by accessing m.iplt20.com.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) awarded the exclusive rights for mobile match alerts, SMS, MMS and other services to vRock Mobile Communications — a move that would curtail telecom operators from generating and distributing match-related content on their own.
As per the agreement, vRock Mobile, a value-added services firm, will have the exclusive rights for creating and transmitting mobile content such as SMS, MMS, alerts, games, live audio commentary and others related to the upcoming IPL matches.
The popular Archie comics, which have been a part of almost everyone’s childhood, will now be accessible on your mobile and that too in the language of your choice.
The American comic strip, revolving around the lives of a bunch of teenagers, will be released in vernacular languages for mobile users in India by Nazara Technologies, a mobile entertainment company.

92.7 BIG FM and one of leading players in the value added services (VAS) space, OnMobile have joined hands to come up with BIG Mobile Radio.
The new service aims to offer mobile subscribers access to 17 multi-lingual radio channels across India as well as international markets such as Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Mobifusion, a leading mobile value-added services provider and partner for media and publishing companies and Pearson Education, world’s largest educational publisher, today announced the availability of CATguru for the mobile handset.
CATguru prepares students for the Common Admission Test (CAT), a test conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) as an entrance exam for management programs in the country’s most prestigious business schools.
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.
Nokia has officially announced that they are going to provide free GPS turn-by-turn navigation service for all Nokia smartphones worldwide.
There are some Nokia smart phones that are currently enjoying the free GPS navigation such as the 5800 Navigation edition and the 2700 Navigation edition. And they’re adding more phones to get the free GPS, which are listed for you after the jump.

India’s first 3G Mobile service operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL),toady announced ground braking Value Added Services for its next generation 3G mobile service subscriber of Delhi and NCR telecom circle in association with Spice Digital a leading Mobile VAS solutions provider.
This launch makes MTNL and Spice Digital the first 3G Mobile Video VAS provider in the country. MTNL introduces Video on Demand, Live Aarti and Video Conferencing whereas there are services concentrated on the urban youth like Video Fun, Video Handy Cam and Video Greeting for its 3G Jadoo Mobile service.

Enable Mobile Technologies Pvt. Ltd. announced today that it has been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring’s Global 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.
The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of 1,200. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.
Spice Digital Limited, India’s leading Telecom VAS player and Finland based Foreca, pioneer in digital weather services, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding for offering Weather services in India through different Mobile connectivity medium. MOU was signed by Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Spice Digital Ltd. and Mr. Marko Moilanen, Vice President, Foreca Ltd. Gracing the occasion were Mr. Mauri Pekkarinen, Finland’s Minister of Economy & Employment and Ms. Terhi Hakal, Ambassador of Finland to India.