Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category

Oneindia.in launches Indian language SMS alerts

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Indian mobile user base is growing at a very impressive rate. Few basics, All latest Handsets "manufactured for" India have atleast 2 local languages enabled Number of wireless subscribers has reached 217.14 million (Oct 2007) Number of wireless subscribers being added every month is around 8 million Opportunities in the Tier II cities are ...

What is 3G? Does India need it?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Current WAP speed in India is nothing great but it has improved. I understand from my friends who are experts in telecom that you cannot improve the speed performance of WAP any further on a GSM network (which is 2G). I am told only 3G can improve things. So what ...

What does allocation of spectrum for telcos really mean?

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

These days you read a lot about telcos having a war with the Government about allocation of spectrum. So what does it actually mean?

Will the Mobile replace the PC in India?

Monday, November 12th, 2007

India is in the midst of a mobile revolution. Every month India signs up 8.5 million new mobile users. No wonder all foreign telcos are drooling.

Mobile Advertising in India

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

With Mobiles becoming very popular in India, mobile portals are bumping into a problem which I had encountered a decade ago – how to monetize from this medium. The problems encountered in the web and mobile mediums are very different. Few points that come to my mind are,

Mobile is big in India but…

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Read VSS Mani, Justdial.com CEO's interview about taking local search online. The part which caught my eyes was,