India now the largest mobile advertising market in the Asia Pacific region with 5.8 billion impressions monthly
January 06, 2011
InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, has released its updated network research report closing the year with a snapshot of mobile advertising trends in India between July 2010 and October 2010. A full download of the data and analysis is available at www.inmobi.com/research.
With so many consumers using mobile devices as a primary means to digital media consumption, mobile is the complimentary media channel to TV for reach extension while still maintaining a compelling brand experience that will only improve as smart phones penetrate at scale over the next year.
InMobi provides advertisers and publishers a display mobile advertising platform reaching hundreds of millions of Indian consumers through nearly 5.8 billion mobile ad impressions monthly. As a leading ad network in India, InMobi is committed to providing the mobile industry a data-driven, distinctly Asian consumer perspective on the state of mobile advertising.
ON Semiconductor expand its presence in Japan by acquiring SANYO Semiconductor
January 4, 2011
ON Semiconductor Corporation, announced the completion of the acquisition of SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SANYO Electric, and other assets related to SANYO Electric’s semiconductor business, by ON Semiconductor.
Under the terms of the purchase agreement, ON Semiconductor paid approximately US$ 144 million in cash to SANYO Electric and drew down approximately US$ 378 million under a loan agreement with SANYO Electric.
With the addition of SANYO Semiconductor, ON Semiconductor expands its product portfolio, adding new capabilities ranging from microcontrollers and custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to integrated power modules and motor control devices for the consumer, automotive and industrial end-markets.
ON Semiconductor plans to operate SANYO Semiconductor as an independent division, utilizing the SANYO logo for up to three years. However, plans are already underway to begin offering both ON Semiconductor’s and SANYO Semiconductor’s products and technologies to all worldwide customers.
Comviva Certified in Western Union’s Mobile Vendor Program
January 4, 2011
Comviva, the global leader in providing mobile solutions beyond VAS, announced that it has been certified to participate in Western Union’s Mobile Vendor Program. The Comviva mobiquity™ platform can now support Western Union® services, enabling its clients to offer the option to send and/or receive money through Western Union's global money-transfer system.
Comviva’s multi-award-winning mobiquity™ platform has been deployed globally in markets in Latin America, Asia and Africa in different bank-led and operator-led business models. The mobiquity™ suite of mobile financial solutions embraces the mobile phone as a convenient transaction and payment medium, enabling storage and transfer of money to and from a stored-wallet account, resident on the phone or the server. mobiquity™ also acts as a catalyst in enabling financially underserved and unbanked segments to gain access to financial services, helping promote livelihoods among low-income segments.
Western Union certifies mobile platform vendors to reduce integration costs and accelerate go-to-market activities for banks and mobile operators by creating standard technical deployments. Once a bank or mobile operator contracts with Western Union to activate the Western Union® Mobile Money Transfer service, its consumers will be integrated with Western Union's core transaction processing system. This system supports Western Union's global network of more than 435,000 Agent locations in over 200 countries and territories.
Telecom Network Grows by over 40 Percent
December 27, 2010
Telecommunications network grew by over 40% during 2010 with addition of 216.13 million connections. Telephone connections stood at 742.13 million on October 31, 2010, whereas it was only 526 million on the same day previous year. Of these 706.70 million are wireless connections. With this, Indian Telecom Network is now the largest wireless network in the world.
The current addition of more than 17 million connections per month puts the telecom sector on a strong footing. The target of 600 million connections by the end of Eleventh Five year plan has already been achieved in February 2010.
The opening of the sector has not only led to rapid growth but also helped a great deal towards maximization of consumer benefits as tariffs have been falling across the board. From only 54.6 million telephone subscribers in 2003, the number increased to 621.28 million at the end of March 2010 and further to 742.13 million at the end of October 2010 showing an addition of 120.85 million during the period from March 2010 to October 2010.
Wireless telephone connections have contributed to this growth as the number of wireless connections rose from 3.57 million in March 2001 to 13.29 million in 2003, 101.86 million in March 2006, 584.32 million in March 2010 and 706.70 million at the end of October, 2010. The year also witnessed two more telecom companies crossing the 100 million mark in terms of wireless connections.
Telecom Subscription Data as on 31st October 2010
December 24, 2010
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 742.12 Million at the end of October 2010 from 723.28 Million in September-2010, thereby registering a growth rate of 2.61%. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 62.51.
Wireless subscriber base increased from 687.71 Million in September-2010 to 706.69 Million at the end of October-2010 registering a growth of 2.76%. Wireless Tele-density stands at 59.52. On the other hand, Wireline subscriber base declined from 35.57 Million in September-2010 to 35.43 Million at the end of October-2010. BSNL/MTNL, two PSU operators hold 83.31% of the Wireline market share. Overall Wireline teledensity is 2.98.
Total Broadband subscriber base has increased from 10.29 million in September-2010 to 10.52 million in October-2010, there by showing a growth of 2.24%
RCOM launches Microsoft hosted exchange 2010 in India
December 27, 2010
Reliance Internet Data Center (RIDC), the IDC division of Reliance Communications has partnered with Microsoft to launch Reliance Hosted Exchange 2010 - a complete end-to-end e-mailing solution which promotes business messaging and collaboration.
The Reliance Hosted Exchange 2010 eliminates users’ needs to invest in hardware, software licenses, security and related management costs by providing a ‘pay-per mailbox’ Service model. This offers the customer a cost-efficient enterprise class mailing solution without the hassle of managing the same. The solution will deliver features such as active sync mobile devices integration, flexible mail box size, web calendaring facility, remote location archiving, and sender reputation filtering.
This enterprise solution is suitable for SMBs and large enterprises:
- Looking forward to implement hosted mail model for the first time
- Looking forward to upgrade/migrate the existing mail setup
The solution will run on Reliance Communications extensive optic fiber network infrastructure spanning 2, 00,000 Route Kms owned and offer Data Management solutions at its nine IDCs based at Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.
Enterprises across India will be able to benefit from the connection that runs across the length and breadth of the country over RCOM’s gigabit capacity with high speed connectivity.
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