Reliance Communications announces launch of 3G Services
December 13, 2010
Reliance Communications, India’s leading telecom service provider, announced the launch of Reliance 3G Services starting with Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chandigarh. With the 3G rollout, Reliance Communications becomes one of the first operators to offer 3G services to customers in the Top 3 Metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Demonstrating its all round execution and innovation capabilities, Reliance Communications has rolled out 3G services in a record time of around 100 days of receiving 3G Spectrum in the major Metros of India.
Reliance Communications will be launching Reliance 3G services across all 13 telecom circles, where it holds 3G licenses, by end of Fiscal 2010-11. The company is targeting a national footprint of Reliance 3G services through associations with other like minded, quality 3G licensees in the balance 9 telecom circles during the course of next year.
Reliance 3G networks has been designed to offer blanket coverage in every town being connected on 3G, with all its 3G sites connected through IP backhaul to provide maximum download speeds and minimum latency. The World class Reliance 3G network is capable of offering peak speeds up to 28 Mbps. The 3G network significantly enriches our Internet Access Services offering, enabling us to further strengthen our undisputed leadership in the wireless data space.
Earlier in May 2010, Reliance Communications emerged as the winner in 13 key telecom circles during the 3G auction including the key metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Reliance Communications holds 3G licenses in the telecom circles of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, North East, Jammu & Kashmir, Orissa and Assam.
BSNL aims at 3G services
December 10, 2010
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched 3G services in 671 cities as on 31 October 2010. BSNL has been able to launch 3G network on Pan India basis except Delhi and Mumbai. BSNL has provided various Value Added Services (VAS) like High Speed Broadband on Wireless, Video Calling, Mobile T.V., Music, Video Download etc. With the persistent marketing effort service roll out, BSNL has been able to capture 20, 32, 564 of 3G subscribers in its network up to 31.10.2010.
In Delhi and Mumbai, MTNL has made all its existing 2G subscriber base of about 5 million, 3G enabled and MTNL customers using 3G enabled devices are able to access high speed data, video calling facility and other 3G Value Added Services (VAS). MTNL has also made 3G services affordable at par with 2G Tariff for the benefit of customers.
Tata Docomo selects Apalya Technologies as Mobile TV partner for 3G services
November 04, 2010
Apalya Technologies, leaders in mobile media and entertainment, has been selected by Tata Docomo as their exclusive partners for providing mobile TV services on 3G platform across India. Tata Docomo became India’s first private telecom operator to offer 3G services.
Apalya’s cutting edge technology will be used to provide high quality mobile TV services on Tata Docomo’s 3G platform enabling subscribers to view television channels at a higher resolution and speed. 3G services enables subscribers to download full length movies, make video calls and watch live television programmes.
Apalya's Mobile Video Delivery Platform seamlessly streams video content to consumers, integrating mobile operators billing system, content owner’s interests and mobile advertising, creating new revenue streams across the new media value chain.
Tata Docomo had bagged 3G spectrum in nine circles of Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh (including Chhatisgarh), Rajasthan, Gujarat, UP (West), Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra.
TRAI recommends changes in ‘National Broadband Plan’
December 8, 2010
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issued recommendations on ‘National Broadband Plan”. An effective National Broadband network would greatly facilitate inclusive growth of the country by including the large rural population in governance and decision making process and extend to the rural areas better education, health and banking facilities.
The salient features of the National Broadband Plan 2010 include:
ICT in general and broadband in particular contribute substantially to growth of GDP and towards poverty elevation by improving access with equity.
Government may notify the charges for Right of Way in consultations with the State Governments on priority basis and ensure availability of RoW to telecom service providers to provide various telecom services.
The program is expected to bring immense benefit when fully operational. The estimated revenue of NOFA and all SOFA is expected to be Rs 26000 crore per year.
The Network will provide easy access to high speed data and information to citizens, promoting thereby the efforts in the field of education, health etc.
The full text of the recommendations is available on TRAI website www.trai.gov.in.
Pyro’s new mCommerce platform to ease bill payments for Citycell customers
December 13, 2010
Pyro, providing innovative mobile technology solutions, has launched its mCommerce solution for Citycell, a leading Mobile Broadband operator with nationwide data coverage in Bangladesh under CDMA/EVDO network.
Through Pyro’s mCommerce platform, Citycell will not only collect bills from WASA (Water and Sewerage Authority) through a hassle free, convenient and quick way but will also enable Citycell customers to pay their DESCO (Dhaka Electricity Supply Company Limited) bills through their Citycell mobile connections.
The roll-out of Pyro’s mCommerce Platform also has an exhaustive suite of financial products and services for Citycell’s retailers and customers besides Utility Payments that would enable Citycell customers to make secure and convenient transactions through multiple access mediums available on their CDMA handsets.
Pyro’s mCommerce solutions are backed with Pyro’s NexGen Forge Platform, which is a technological framework and the first of its kind Service Delivery System with DSC (Dynamic Service Creation) that empowers the operators to build, configure and deploy services in real time. With the ability to rapidly design and rollout meaningful services on behalf of the operators, the platform adds a new dimension to the time-to-market capability of innovative Value Added Services.
iVdopia expands mobile advertising opportunities for airG
December 13, 2010
iVdopia, the video and rich media mobile advertising network and airG, the one of the leading mobile social entertainment provider, announced a partnership to bring InWAP™ and PreWAP™ mobile video advertising solutions to airG’smobile social entertainment products.
AirG has reached more than 50 million unique users worldwide and is interconnected to more than 100 mobile operators and media companies. This collaboration allows airG to incorporate iVdopia’s InWAP and PreWAP video and rich media ads for the first time on the mobile web, optimizing for maximum ad revenue and fill across its social entertainment products. With video and rich media ads having never been done before on the mobile web, iVdopia’s InWAP and PreWAP ads open up an entire avenue of monetizable inventory for publishers.
InWAP and PreWAP video ads can also be combined with the Talk2Me™ landing page to offer customized engagements for users to share on social media sites, email, view multiple videos, or interact with the brand’s WAP site. All this takes place within the phone’s browser, and the user can opt out anytime from the ad and return to browsing the mobile web.
TATA DOCOMO in partnership with Sony Music launches the album ‘MICHAEL’
December 10, 2010
TATA DOCOMO and Sony Music together in partnership have launched the much anticipated album ‘MICHAEL’, not the last, but the posthumous release of the priceless songs recorded by the legendry King of Pop – Michael Jackson. The album carries a total of 10 tracks including the “Hold My Hand” duet with Akon, this song is one of the greatest piece of works created by Michael Jackson and is surely going to be a chartbuster.
The album to be cherished by all music lovers has been exclusively made available to Tata DOCOMO subscribers where in the subscribers can access Michael’s Call Me Tunes, My Song, Full Songs, Videos, Wallpapers & Ringtones. The subscribers can call and enjoy the entire bouquet of services on 55500 at a nominal charge of 2p/sec, they can also set the Call me Tunes directly by sending SMS MJ to 55500 (tollfree).
With Michael Jackson passing last year, the international world grieved together as we lost the biggest entertainment star of the last 40 years. His unmatched track record for incredibly innovative albums, iconic videos and sold out world tours set the stage for fans to admire the trend-setting, superstar exclusively on TATA DOCOMO network.
Tata DOCOMO is also running a contest for its subscribers in Chennai where in a few lucky customers who download the maximum number of songs from the album will be given passes to attend the listening Party on 14th December ’10 in Chennai.
Out There Media announces record-breaking 2.5 million consumer opt-ins in Asia
December 9, 2010
Out There Media, a global leader in mobile advertising announces a record breaking 2.5 million consumer opt-ins in Asia within a few weeks of the recent roll-out of its next generation permission-based programs with Maxis and Globe Telecom.
In October 2010 major brands including HSBC, McDonald’s and Unilever have committed close to US$4 million in advertising spend on the mobile channel in the Philippines for the permission-based mobile advertising program by Out There Media and Globe.
The recent HSBC Red MasterCard campaign launched in the Philippines in October, 2010 to drive uptake of HSBC’s women’s card has been a great success. This SMS opt-in campaign that offered reward of complimentary shoes to consumers who registers for the card, has been one of the most receptive campaigns in the Philippines. It achieved a significant conversion rate of 14.5%, where 40.1% of the subscribers had responded to the initial key message and 36.3% had provided their personal details during registration. The MMS video ad campaign in Malaysia to create awareness and drive footfall to BMW Innovation Days also yielded impressive results and generated the best click-through rate (CTR) of 50.4%.
Brands and advertisers have traditionally exercised caution in experimenting with the mobile channel, preferring to adopt a wait-and-see approach. However, the recent commitment of the top brands in the Philippines and Malaysia, and case studies like the HSBC campaign shows a clear indication towards a changing mindset and the immense opportunity for mobile advertising in the region.
Siemens PLM Software wins 2010 Frost & Sullivan award for market share leadership in India
December 7, 2010
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, announced that it has been awarded the 2010 Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Share Leadership in India. The award recognizes the company with the highest revenue amongst all the players in the Indian PLM industry.
The recipient of this award is evaluated on specific pre-defined criteria. Coupled with primary and secondary research methods, all competitors’ market revenues are tracked and the company that emerges with the highest proportion of market share is a candidate for the Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Share Leadership.
ON Semiconductor unveils BelaSigna® R261 High Performance Voice CaptureSystem-on-Chip
December 14, 2010
ON Semiconductor, the supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics introduced BelaSigna® R261. This complete system-on-chip (SoC) solution for portable consumer electronics incorporates a highly optimized digital signal processor (DSP) with an advanced dual-microphone noise reduction algorithm to improve speech intelligibility in noisy environments, while preserving voice naturalness.
In applications such as smartphones, BelaSigna® R261 eliminates noise from the microphone signal while improving voice quality so that the user can be clearly heard in normal handset mode.
The BelaSigna® R261 SoC simply plugs directly into a digital microphone interface (DMIC) or into a baseband chip’s microphone inputs. It works with inexpensive omni-directional microphones in cost-sensitive OEM designs and offers greater flexibility in the placement of the microphones. Production line tuning of the microphones is not required, saving further time and cost.
The BelaSigna® R261 SoC is targeted at voice capture applications including notebooks, mobile phones, webcams, and tablet computers. Its power consumption is less than 16 milliamps (mA) at 1.8 volts (V), halving that of many competing solutions currently on the market.
BelaSigna® R261 is supplied in Pb-free, RoHS-compliant WLCSP-30 and WLCSP-26 packages and priced at US$2.00 USD per unit in 10,000 unit quantities.
Philips announces new range of televisions
October 13, 2010
Philips, a pioneer in television technology announced its new range of LEDs, LCDs and Ultra Slim TVs. Philips unveiled 15 models of LEDs with sizes ranging from 24” – 55”, 8 models of LCDs with sizes ranging from 24” – 46” and 5 models of Ultraslim TVs in 14” and 21”.
The price range of the LED TVs start from Rs 26,500, LCD TVs start from Rs 16,499 and the range for Ultraslim TVs start from Rs 5,290. Philips will promote its flat panel TV range under the flagship model Cinema 21:9 TV, world’s first Cinema proportion 3D LED Pro TV with Ambilight, which will soon be available in India.
The new range of televisions comes equipped with new features that will take the consumers very close to a theatre like, live experience at the comforts of their homes.
The LCD televisions have the exclusive DDHD3E ( Digital Dynamic Hi-Definition Engine 3rd Gen) technology which enhances colors and contrast by adopting a new generation chip to add crispness, clarity and detail to images so they look alive.
COAI expands membership base in recognition of Convergence in the Telecom Industry
December 6, 2010
Established in 1995 as the key industry representation body for mobile telecommunications, COAI has further expanded its membership base by accepting some of the world’s leading telecom giants as members of COAI.
Major Industry Players CISCO India, Huawei Technologies, Qualcomm, RIM and Alcatel Lucent have joined as Associate Members.
With the advent of 3G and Broadband services and the promise of 4G, LTE and other technologies and services on the horizon, COAI is keenly aware that the eco-system required to sustain world class mobile services depends increasingly on an ever widening circle of players drawn from industries hitherto unrelated to telecommunications. The National interest of promoting manufacturing in India (of handsets and telecommunications equipment) is vitally dependent on increasing the nation’s store of IP capital.
This in turn requires close cooperation with our leading academic institutions. The need for customer driven content, especially over the web, requires our network service providers to establish relationships with the news media, entertainment sources, gaming, VAS providers and other IT oriented companies. The convergence of our network platforms around data requires new relationships with network hardware and software vendors.
All of this will also lead to fresh requirements around the policy and regulatory frameworks presently in place. With these imperatives in mind, COAI, through its members, is committed to leading the way forward.
Juniper Networks to expand India Excellence Center
December 14, 2010
Juniper Networks, the company that deals in the business of network innovation, announced plans to expand the India Excellence Center (IEC), its research and development center in Bangalore, India. The company plans to add 750 seats and 450 equipment racks at a new site in Bangalore over the next two years.
This initiative is designed to provide Juniper Networks with the capacity to continue growing the IEC’s pool of engineering talent and better service its customers. The new office will be located at Bangalore’s new Prestige Exora Business Park and is being developed in two phases.
Juniper continues to expand its business in India, as the push towards high-performance networking is driving demand for more robust security and networking equipment in enterprises and leading service providers.
Openwave® Media Optimiser wins special editor recognition in Telecom Asia Reader’s Choice Awards
December 10, 2010
Openwave Systems Inc., a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions, announced that Openwave® Media Optimizer, an intelligent, content- and context-aware media optimization solution that works to automatically trigger optimization when the network reaches pre-determined thresholds, has won the Special Editor Recognition - Best Network Management and Optimization Solution award in this year’s Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice Awards.
“Openwave is pleased to have been selected by Telecom Asia as a winner for our traffic management product that we consider core to our overall portfolio and an essential tool to help operators intelligently manage the growing demand for data,” said John Giere, senior vice president, products and marketing, Openwave.
The Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice Awards are held annually to recognize the innovations and contributions to the industry of the top telecom vendors operating in Asia Pacific. Nominations were made in September of this year by 61 analysts, consultants and service providers before voting was opened to an online subscriber base of service providers.
O-Zone joins hand with Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf to enhance the flavor of your coffee
December 13, 2010
O-Zone, India’s wireless network solution provider has joined hands with ‘Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf’ to give its customer a joyful experience of enjoying O-zone’s Wi-Fi service while sipping their favorite coffee. The tie-up will enable customers of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf to use O-Zone’s Wi-Fi service at all the outlets of the café chain through pre paid vouchers. The Wi-Fi services can be enjoyed by the customers at all the Wi-Fi enabled devices including mobiles, laptops and tablets.
O-Zone recently expanded its base PAN India and acquired a few key hotspots in various locations and properties across Delhi NCR , Mumbai, Kolkata ,Hyderabad , Chennai , Chandigarh , Shimla , Jalandar , Pune, Agra, Udaipur, Jaipur, Cochin, Bhubaneshwar, Allahabad and Bangalore for an unmatched experience for its customers.
Poynt Corp and Times Internet Limited, part of India’s largest media services conglomerate, bring Poynt to India
December 14, 2010
Times Internet Limited (TIL) has inked a deal with Poynt Corporation (Poynt Corp.), provider of mobile local search services, to make Poynt app available to over 670 million* mobile users in India.
TimesPoynt, as it will be known in India, will provide relevant and local data to the users whenever and wherever they require it. To be available on J2ME devices, Nokia, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry smartphones, the service will be launched during the first quarter of 2011.
Poynt Corp. and the internet venture of the Times Group will establish and manage a local version of the TimesPoynt application that will initially feature sections for local restaurants, nightlife, movies, events, weather and mapping.
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