Across Asia Pacific region, India is the fastest growing market with phenomenal 63% growth rate. Mobile value added services market is expected cross 12,000 crore in 2009. Indian Companies like Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications announced decent revenues from Value Added Services (VAS). Mobile VAS market news: 1. Mobile phone users worldwide will spend $ 32.2 billion, by 2010 on music received on mobile handsets- an increase from $ 13.7 billion in 2007. 2. Mobile payment users are to increase to a total of 33 million in 2008 and then further grow to a number of 103.9 million users in 2011. 3. Worldwide mobile gaming and user revenue is to grow to $9.6 billion in 2011. 4. Mobile advertising is projected to surpass $2.7 billion in 2008, an up from $1.7 billion in 2007. 5. The industry is poised for consistent growth and by the end of 2011, the worldwide mobile advertising revenue is forecasted to surpass $12.8 billion. With the arrival of 3G services, Indian VAS services are expected to increase their growth rates in the coming years. Non-SMS services will increase their pie in the total revenues. Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers. … [Read more...]
Indian Mobile news and offers
Vodafone offers: 1. Vodafone announced good offer (Mee Kosam) for its post-paid customers in Andhra Pradesh. This offer will be applicable for both current and new subscribers. There are 27 different tariff plans in this scheme. If they pay Rs 100 monthly subscription fee, one will get Rs 500 talktime on the Vodafone network. Customers can customise the tariff plans according to their needs. 2. Vodafone announced “Friends Circle” service in India. Group of people who subscribe for this service can call each other at 20 paise per minute. Each 'friends circle' can have a maximum of 5 numbers as members. Monthly rental is Rs 15 per member.To know more about this service, sms FRIENDS to 144. India Mobile news: 1. Reliance India Mobile: R-Com acquired 1 lakh subscribers on the first day of its launch in Mumbai. Reliance started GSM service in Punjab on Monday. Rs 900 free talktime will be applicable to Punjab customers also. 2. Tata Telecom: Company will enter into GSM services by the end of 2009. 3. BSNL: ICICI Bank forged an agreement with BSNL regarding online bill payments. BSNL Cellone customers can pay bills online at www.icicibank.com banking portal. 4. Onida Mobiles: Onida will soon introduce new mobile handsets with V-series for low end and i-series for high end customers. Onida F 910 model will work on both GSM and CDMA handsets with 2-mega pixel camera. Onida V 110 model will cater to low end customers with 8-9 hours talktime and 3-week stand-by time. 5. Bharti Airtel: Bharti is group is now second biggest one behind the Mukesh group in market capitalization. … [Read more...]
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