Will VoIP innovation hit Indian ISD carriers? VSNL & Reliance.
Anyuser Telecom has reduced ISD tariffs again. It now costs just Rs0.99/Minute to call the US and Canada 
Another lesser known Indian firm is at the heart of innovation and leading the bleeding edge of VoIP technology – GeoDesic. GeoDesic has an IM client – Mundu for enterprises, portals and also your mobiles. Install Mundu Speak on your handset and talk unlimited to any phone in the world which has Mundu client. Currently, Mundu is supported on Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682, 6630 & N-Series N70, N90 on the Symbian platform; and phones with Windows Mobile 5.0 / Windows Mobile 2003SE for Pocket PC. Mundu already boasts about 1 Million users within the first 3 months of launch.
Yahoo also supports its YM! client on Nokia N-Series so will all other leading clients(MSN, AOL, GTalk) be ported to popular phones to grab a slice of this market.
Bharti-Airtel has the following GPRS plans which you will need to use Mundu Speak. Rs399, Rs599 and Rs799 per month which lets you download 100MB, 1GB and 1.5GB of data respectively. Above those limits its Rs0.10/KB. Isn’t Mundu really a cool product to keep in touch with your overseas friends and relatives so cheap that you can rant about Ramayana and Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi over your mobile 
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[...] All the Mobile operators in India are planning to build an integrated Mobile Messaging Platform, add a voice enabled application for the same and power your mobiles with WiMax Broadband rather than opting for 3G service. Bingo! you can IM, download songs, place a VoIP call all at the same time at a fixed monthly cost of accessing broadband on the move. Sprint Nextel Corporation in the US is going ahead with a WiMax network. Other hurdles like availablity of gears and equipment at lower cost to the telcos may be the risky issue that needs to be mitigated. Most likely, Indian telcos will opt for 3G as well as WiMax where the latter is expected to be a Broadband pure-play. Your Take ? [...]