Tata DoCoMo will trail NFC based payment service in Hyderabad (India)
Indian telecom operator Tata DoCoMo in partnership with XIUS will trial Near Field Communications (NFC) based mobile payments in Hyderabad.
Initially, operator based services like mobile phone top-up as well as content like ringtones and wallpapers will be on offer.
Tata DoCoMo will use the NFC based payments to increase its retail points of presence and expand the availability of services to coffee shops and most interestingly, through self-service Active Posters.
Active Posters are paper-thin-self-service terminals with glass touch sensing, enabling as many as 18 retail touch points at any customer gathering point.
Bharti Airtel to Launch 3G Services by End of this year (India)
Bharti Airtel Ltd. will launch 3G wireless data services before the end of 2010. Bharti, which won rights to offer 3G services in 13 of India’s 22 telecoms zones. These 13 telecom circles also constitute 68% of Airtel’s revenue market share. This includes key metros such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, which account for 21% of all data traffic in the country and are expected to have the strongest uptake of 3G services
According to the company, Airtel is also in advanced discussions with other quality operators to offer 3G services to its customers across the country.
The launch of 3G operations is expected to increase Bharti’s revenue amid falling call tariffs for basic services.
According to Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, India and South Asia, Bharti Airtel 3G services will mark the beginning of the next phase of India’s telecom growth story and elevate India’s telecom sector at par with most advanced telecom markets in the world. 3G services have the potential to transform the lives of millions of Indians by taking a variety of life enhancing services on high speed broadband to the remotest corners and bridge the digital divide.
Bharti will be deploying high speed HSPA networks provided by Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Network and Huawei.
Public sector telcos BSNL and MTNL are already offering the 3G services.
Qualcomm acquires Qualphone for $18 m
BANGALORE: Qualcomm, the U.S.-based leader of Code Division Multiple Access or CDMA phone technologies, has announced the acquisition of another American company, Qualphone, which is a key provider of software to drive multimedia content to mobile devices over the Internet, for $18 million in cash. While Qualcomm has laboratories in
Bangalore,
Hyderabad and Mumbai where Indian engineers are helping the company to create tomorrow’s TV-on-mobile-phone solutions, Qualphone leverages its smaller research team in
Bangalore to deliver flagship products in the area of IMS (that is, Internet Protocol-based Multimedia Systems). With the coming together of the two companies, their Indian R&D teams will soon coalesce into an unbeatable combination of talents, feels Qualcomm’s
India and SAARC President Kanwalinder Singh.
He was speaking to The Hindu, in a special briefing on the occasion of the acquisition announcement made on Friday, in
San Diego, California, which is home to both companies. Qualcomm has created MediaFLO, a technology that will help mobile phones of both streams – CDMA and Global Services Mobile (GSM) – to go `3G’ or third generation. This means they can exchange text, data and pictures – and TV – at broadband speeds.
The mobile TV technology that had been adopted by a global consortium of 44 handset makers and telecom providers is being test-run in the
U.K., the
U.S. and
Japan and is likely to be offered to customers starting next year.
Unlike terrestrial TV, the FLO technology was interactive – that meant viewers could respond with requests for additional feeds or order supplementary services, Mr. Singh explained.
And when can Indians hope to view TV on their mobiles? That depends on the telecom companies and how soon they go `3G’ – but it may happen within a year of its global availability: that is Qualcomm’s estimate.
Source- http://www.hindu.com
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