Airtel Ties up with Microsoft
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider has tied up with the Redmond giant to offer Windows Mobile services targetted at SME(Small and Medium Enterprise) customers in India. Airtel already offers blackberry services to corporates and SMEs.
Speaking on the ocassion, Manoj Kohli, President of Bharti-Airtel Mobile division said that the company plans to offer both Blackberry as well as Windows Mobile services to its customers. With the enhancement of Windows Mobile, one can expect to have access to compact/mobile versions of Outlook client, Office suite(Word, Excel, Power Point), IE and Windows Media Player.
Airtel Mobile , Windows Mobile , BlackBerry India
Tata Sky TV launched
The long awaited Tata Sky TV(Dish TV) will be soon available to you. Tata Sky is a 80:20 joint venture between Tata and Star TV. With majority of the Telcos opting for IPTV, Tata’s took the Dish TV path while Reliance communications is still in a fix.
Tata Sky intends to provide DVD quality video and CD quality audio through Tata Sky TV. The company is focused on quality and customer satisfaction by having a 24*7 call center and a strong groung workforce of 4000 folks spread throughout India. Tata Sky TV will be marketed through LG, ITC e-Choupal and IOC.
The service has an upfront sign-up fees of Rs3000 and a monthly service charge of Rs200 and will offer 55 channels such as Sony, Discovery, Disney, MTV, NDTV, ESPN STAR Sports, National Geographic, Eenadu, TV Today and Asianet.
Tech Mahindra IPO gets terrific response.
Tech Mahindra’s IPO closed today and according to figures made available by the National Stock Exchange of India, the issue has received terrific response. The institutional part of the issue was oversubscribed by a whopping 104 times leading to a collection of Rs29,000 crores($6.3 Billion). However, institutions will get allotment of just Rs279 crores and the excess will be refunded. The High Networth Individuals quota was oversubscribed 142 times and the retail investors quota was oversubscribed by 7.84 times leading to collection of Rs6,645 crores and Rs1094 crores according to NSEIndia release @ 20:15Hrs on Friday. Rs4600 crores($1 Billion)
Blogs are being blocked ?
On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets till now.”
There’s an ongoing discussion of the censorship on GoogleGroups.
Kindly respect and uphold the actions of Government of India as we are all safe in the hands of an able Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. Lets wait for an official press release from the Government.
Weekend – India Telecom Updates
Hindujas who exited out of Hutch in a shady deal, have said that they see a great potential in Indian GSM based mobile market and want to re-enter if they good stake at the right price – right price ? I doubt if Hindujas know what the right price is, oho well that’s all you can expect from a lifetime Trader who hardly understands what Manufacturing or Services is 
Reliance Communications want to grow beyond India. It has stuck deal in Saudi Arabia earlier this week and now it wants to provide GSM based services in Sri Lanka. The going may not be easy in Sri Lanka as Malaysian Maxis Telecom and Singapores SingTel are also in the race. I would request Anil Ambani to first bring transperency by declaring quarterly results of Reliance Communications
And ofcourse the Tatas are also expanding. I seriously doubt what Ratan Tata’s Telecom dreams are with inter company investments and holdings to launder money and have half a dozen companies to operate under, viz Tata Indicom, Tata Tele Services, Tata Telecom, Tata Power Broadband, VSNL and Idea Cellular from which they have exited.
Quota protestors release ringtone.
Folks opposed to the government of India’s implementation of additional reservation based on caste and race have released a ringtone to create mass awareness and let others know about what they are going through. Ofcourse they are the cerative and innovative pillars for a better and brighter India who have come up with this idea 
They have tied up with PRXOnline and released ringtones for your cell phones. Download them here. Their is no download link visible on the website, you have to click on PRXPro(Gentleman on bottom right hand part of your screen). or Click here to download.
Lyrics is something like
Koi Chota Nahin, Koi Bada Bhi Nahin. Hum Sab Hey Desh Key, Hey Aam Nagrik.
Hum Darengey Nahin, Hum Thakengye Nahin………
Aggressively forward the link and exchange ringtones through Bluetooth or Infrared. Spread the message. Indian telcos have remained silent and are not letting you download this ringtone from their network and have rejected it to be someones caller tune as well. Cellcos have to do business and don’t want to take sides and face embaressment and bashings from our RACIST Netas.
Update: I have got responses asking for the link. Available in MP3 and AMR formats here.
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