Welcome Vodafone Parrots, bye bye ‘ZooZoos’ – Vodafone’s new mascot

But, Vodafone is now bidding adieu to the much admired ZooZoo mascot and introducing a new mascot for its new bonus cards features. Vodafone feels Zoozoos – the simple, innocent, funny acts of the alien-like white, egg-headed creatures with balloon bodies are quite familiar to consumers now, kind of overdone and wants a new avatar for advertising their forthcoming offers… Animated Parrot ..

Reliance Comm, Tata, Vodafone – big losers of Wireless Broadband Auction! Reliance Industries steps into Telecom via Infotel

The so called telecom heavy weights like Airtel, Reliance communication made a poor show with Airtel winning only license for 4 circles and RCom backing out of the bidding process in last few days. …We all knew about the truce flag hoisted between Ambani borthers few weeks back (after which we saw quite a few new business developments) and this helped Mukesh Ambani to come back to telecom market…

Vodafone handset : infected with virus

Trend Micro, an Internet security firm have discovered a malware, that came pre-installed on a Vodafone mobile phone handset.

As per them, the malware has been shipped out directly on their HTC Magic Android smartphones. When plugged into a PC through a USB, the worm WORM_SILLY.QT infects the PC also.

They think some computer in Vodafone’s production [...]

3G auction : All 9 bidders qualify. Who’s who of the bidders.

All the nine applicants of the 3G auction in India have been qualified to participate in the bid. The bidders include major telecom players like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular. Other bidders include Aircel, Tata Teleservices, Videocon Telecommunications, Etistat DB Telecom and S Tel.

The 3G auction is being held by the [...]

Vodafone to bring iPhone 3GS in India with attractive offers

Vodafone Essar, the leading GSM Mobile service operator today announced the launch of iPhone 3GS in India beginning with a range of tariff and data plans tailored for iPhone customers.

Post Airtel’s announcement of selling Apple’s iPhone 3GS, Vodafone has revealed its plans to do the same. The country’s country’s second-largest mobile phone operator is all [...]

R-Comm launches 7 series mobile numbers in Tamil Nadu circle

Next time when you ask your friend or colleague his/her mobile number then don’t get confused or surprised if they speak out mobile numbers starting with the digit “7″. Yes, the “7″ series mobile numbers are rolled out in India and R-COMM is the first operator to make them available for its customers in the [...]

Bharti Airtel will sell iPhone 3GS in India

India’s top mobile phone company Bharti Airtel said that it has reached a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone 3GS in India.  In a statement, Bharti Airtel said the pact will allow it to bring the latest iPhone to India “in the coming months”.

The announcement came a day after Bharti submitted its bid [...]

Airtel App Central witnesses over 2.5 million downloads in 30 days

Airtel App Central is the first Indian Mobile Application store by Bharti Airtel. It has over 1250 Applications across 25 categories for their business, games, books, social networking and other needs. Also, App Central will offer local and regional Apps.

Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has said that its mobile applications store Airtel App Central has [...]

Reliance reaches 100 million subscribers

Reliance Communications (RCOM) has attained the landmark of 100 million subscribers of its mobile service. This includes both the GSM & CDMA customer base of RCOM. It is the 2nd company in India to attain this high subscriber, after Airtel achieved it last year. It is only the 4th largest company in the world [...]

3G auction : Qualcomm to bid for Broadband Wireless Access in India

The 3G & BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) auctions that have been long pending in India. After many delays and re-schedules, the notice inviting applications has been sent out and the last day for submitting applications is tomorrow, March 19th . The auctions for 3G will start on April 9th. Two days after this, the autions [...]