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Airtel promotes a parked domain for GPRS service

bgmahesh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:49:14 +0000

Soon after I changed my mobile handset yesterday I got the following SMS from my mobile provider Airtel,

Your handset does not support gprs settings, please add airtelgprs.com as Access Name and leave the username and password blank in the browser settings menu. For further help, call 12118

Mobile internet: Usage pattern of smartphone users

bgmahesh — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:30:38 +0000

Mobile advertising, they say is big in India (I haven’t fully experienced it yet!). I do see few banners from Indian sites on various mobile sites. When you click on it, they go directly to the PC/web version of the site. I have never understood why a company hesitates to spend a “little” money on developing a mobile friendly version of their site, after all they have showed they are thinking about the future by spending on mobile advertising. There are several tools out there which allow you to convert your website to mobile friendly site (I came across mobiSiteGalore today).

How big is the mobile app industry in India?

bgmahesh — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:32:07 +0000

With India having over 800+ million mobile connections and 50-150m mobile internet users it is obvious mobile apps are becoming very popular. Entrepreneurs are focusing a lot on mobile apps which are internet rather than SMS based (thanks to the recent TRAI ban).

Mobile, Broadband report card for 2011 in India

bgmahesh — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:35:36 +0000

Lot of things happened in India in the telecom sector – 2G scam, MNP (Mobile Number Portability), rise in smart phone usage, profits of telecom companies shrinking. For details see “Spectrum of troubles in 2011 for telecom industry“. The main table from the article has been captured here.

India has anywhere from 46m to 150m mobile internet users

bgmahesh — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:15:31 +0000

IAMAI & IMRB report India will have 46 million mobile internet users by Sept 2011, just recently Google India reported the number to be 150 million. The gap between the two numbers is huge, pick which ever suits you.

Will 3G rescue mobile telcos in India?

bgmahesh — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:52:09 +0000

Mobile companies in India are scratching their heads to figure out how to increase their ARPUs [average revenue per user]. The potential of increase revenues in urban India is saturating, which is the worrying point for all telcos.

Blackberry finally realizes the opportunity it missed, starts support for Hindi

bgmahesh — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:58:00 +0000

Today I got an alert on my Blackberry for updating the Blackberry Messenger. The Release Notes of the latest version (5.0.3.22) of its messenger mentions the introduction of Hindi language support.

Mobile Internet in India: 150 million users

bgmahesh — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:46:54 +0000

Exactly a month ago I had posted India has 40 million mobile internet users. According to Google India as of June the mobile internet users is far larger. Few key points from the article are,

Who installs apps on your mobile? Many say their kids

bgmahesh — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:19:38 +0000

Mobile apps are gaining popularity day by day even in India (while we still have a long way to go compared to the US). Who usually installs apps on your mobile? I think most of us in India use mobiles for texting, voice, the older generation (I am not part of it!) are yet to get onto mobile internet in a big way.

Oneindia releases mobile app for Samsung Bada & iPhone

bgmahesh — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:50:47 +0000

Oneindia.in released its mobile apps for Samsung Bada & iPhone handsets. While Samsung Bada (Wave series of handsets) don’t support Indian languages (yet), our iPhone app supports the 5 Indian languages Oneindia.in covers (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu).