June 2010

Nowadays the Indian market is flooded with new cell phones. Every new week, there is a new phone launch happening around, sometimes its budget mobile and sometimes it’s a high end one. This time LG has launched it’s another budget phone LG Viewty Snap GM360. It has been designed specially for giving competition to

India’s largest eCommerce retailer, Infibeam.com has partnered with a global mobile phone manufacturer to launch a series of unique mobiles with features and applications that appeal to Indian consumers. Through the partnership, Infibeam will introduce selected few but highest quality mobiles to cater to fashion forward and tech savvy users in India. Speaking on the launch, Vishal Mehta, CEO & Founder of Infibeam.com said “India has over 400 million mobile phone subscriber base with 10 million new users being added every month. The recent auction of 3G in India opens up great opportunities to think of mobile phones as a platform and offer services such as eBooks, mCommerce, mobile payments as well as other digital media” He added, “The company targets to scale up its handset sales by introducing models with applications that are well suited to offer these services to Indian consumers at competitive pricing.” The company has already launched its initial three models I666 , I5000 and I500 at attractive price points. I666 with its qwerty keyboard is aimed at the business user and is equipped with a G-Sensor. I5000 is a stylish flip phone with glossy red color aimed at the fashion savvy clientele and comes with Bluetooth and EDGE. I500 with a WQVGA touch screen and a 3.2 inch high resolution camera is the topmost mobile in the line-up. All the phones support GSM quad-band and come with features such as FM Radio, Camera, Wi-Fi, Java, Dual-SIM, multi-language support, memory card extensibility etc. The launch of high quality mobile phones is only a pioneering step as there is more in store. Infibeam will continue to introduce specialized phones and is also looking at tie-ups with consumer facing brands in India and providing content services and applications. Offering a wide range of eBooks , Consumer Durables, Gifts , to innovative technology such as Pi, its own eBook Reader ; Infibeam.com is aptly a shopper’s paradise and the most touted online shopping site in India. About Infibeam Infibeam.com owns and operates an e-commerce retail portal www.infibeam.com as well as customized products portal www.picsquare.com . The company also provides e-commerce and interactive marketing services to brands, retailers and media companies in India and internationally. The company’s technology services include e-commerce engine with a set of configurable features that enables Web store functionality, such as product presentation, merchandising, shopping cart, and checkout. It also offers Web store management tools to manage the Web stores administration, product and catalog content, and reporting; Web infrastructure and managed hosting; order management and processing; and reporting and analytics services. In addition, the company provides fulfillment services, customer care services, interactive marketing services, and online advertising and design services. Infibeam.com was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Despite the boom in new additions to India’s telecom subscriber network last fiscal, the growth of the equipment market declined a tad to 18.6 per cent, against 20 per cent in the previous year, a new survey said on Thursday. According to a survey released by leading ICT magazine Voice&Data, the overall telecom equipment revenue in India stood at Rs.136,833 crore ($28.8 billion) during the fiscal, as against Rs.115,382 crore a year before. (One US dollar approximately equals Rs.45) Source

Tata DOCOMO won the Telecom Asia Award for the Best Emerging Markets Carrier, a category that honours the best-performed fixed or wireless carriers. As Asia’s most prestigious awards program, the independent and performance-based Telecom Asia Awards recognize operators for their accomplishments amongst industry peers. Winners in the 12 categories were chosen from more than 100 fixed, mobile and convergence telecom operators from around the region. The most important factor that contributed to making Tata Docomo such a huge success is its single-minded focus on core values of honesty, transparency and consumer relevant innovations. Tata DOCOMO’s ‘Pay Per Use’ paradigm led to a tectonic shift in the market and shaped the third inflexion point in the Indian Telecom industry. Tata Docomo has continued to liberate consumers from the shackles of tariff bondage by offering innovative new products such as ‘Daily Plans’ that do not lock consumers in monthly tariff packs. Tata Docomo with its innovative and fair business approach has gained immense popularity amongst mobile users in India. Tata Docomo grew its new subscriber base from launch to over 35 million subscribers in less than one year and achieved the number-one operator * ranking in terms of net adds for six consecutive months. Deservingly therefore, Tata Docomo is being recognized internationally for its innovative and fair business paradigm and for changing the landscape of Indian telecom industry.