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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Asia Pacific's Fastest Growing Operators

Source: Cellular News

8 Mbps Broadband Access From Airtel

Telecom major Bharti Airtel announced the launch of 8 Mbps broadband Internet access for Chennai, Pune, Kolkata and Delhi/NCR subscribers.

Presently, Airtel broadband offers speeds ranging from 256 Kbps to 4 Mbps. BSNL presently offers upto 2 Mbps speed, with plans to introduce 8 Mbps connections later this year.

Source: Cellular News

'Flybuysms' from Kingfisher

Kingfisher Airlines announced its first SMS-based ticketing service ‘flybuysms’ across all mobile networks in collaboration with PayMate. Prospective customers can search, book and pay for tickets on any handset or operator through this service.

Source: Business Standard

Bharti Airtel No. 1 GSM Operator in India

Bharti Airtel
Subscribers- 4,88,75,664
%Market share- 31.88

Vodafone Essar
Subscribers- 3,56,57,546
%Market share- 23.26

BSNL
Subscribers- 3,03,03,230
%Market share- 19.77

IDEA
Subscribers- 1,86,71,860
%Market share- 12.18

Aircel
Subscribers- 80,39,355
%Market share- 5.24

Reliance Telecom
Subscribers- 43,47,593
%Market share- 2.84

Spice
Subscribers- 34,81,710
%Market share- 2.27

MTNL
Subscribers- 27,72,120
%Market share- 1.81

BPL
Subscribers- 11,53,357
%Market share- 0.75

Source: HT

Google Bought Jaiku

Web giant Google bought Jaiku, a Helsinki-based presence sharing service. Jaiku is a micro social network, much like Twitter. Users have options to update their status and location and broadcast this info to the rest of the community.

On a Symbian S60 handset, Jaiku Mobile integrates with the address book, allowing the user to view the latest Jaiku status updates and presence of their friends direct from the contact list. Jaiku users can not only share their availability but also their location and calendar, which obviously gives Google a hook into the location based advertising space.

Source: Telecoms.com

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Google SMS

Google launched 'Google SMS' for mobile users in India. 'Google SMS' beta makes information available on the move, removing the need for a computer or an Internet-enabled mobile phone.

With 'Google SMS' mobile messaging service, users can get business listings, movie show timings simply by sending a text message to the shortcode 54664 [5GOOG] from their mobile phones. A user seeking information on pizza in connaught place (Delhi) can text message (pizza connaught place delhi) to 54664, and a list of pizza restaurants in that area will automatically be delivered to his or her phone within seconds.

'Google SMS' displays results by nearness to specified locales. The service saves a user's location, thus doing away with the need to type the location every time a user wants to search. This service is available for Airtel, Aircel, BPL, BSNL, and Reliance subscribers. The service has on offer relevant local data for mobile users based out of Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.

Source: Cellular News