Hutchison Essar Telecom Ltd, India's third largest provider of mobile services, said last Tuesday, that it will invest more than $100 million to roll out wireless facilities in the northwestern state of Punjab.

State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, India's largest telecoms firm by sales, will announce the winner of its mega order for GSM-based telecoms gear by end-July,
a top company official said on Friday.

The Philippines was cited as the Asia’s leader in short message service (SMS) technology besting 17 other participating countries a recognition that the country is a reliable provider of export products in electronics and telecommunications both for mobile and fixed line subscriptions.

India's fragmented mobile phone industry is ripe for further consolidation as bigger carriers gobble up smaller players to cut costs and boost their share of the world's fastest-growing major wireless market.

The Indian unit of Hutchison Whampoa said on Friday it had bought smaller mobile operator Aircel, shoring up the Hong Kong-based firm's position in the world's fastest-growing wireless market.

Siemens and Samsung both aim to boost their handset market share in Finland, home of the world's top producer Nokia, to around 20 percent within a few years, the firms said on Friday.

Nokia has won a GSM network expansion deal from the Indian mobile unit of Hutchison Whampoa that will make it the largest network vendor for the operator there, the Finnish telecoms gear maker said.

Nokia has won a GSM network expansion deal from the Indian mobile unit of Hutchison Whampoa that will make it the largest network vendor for the operator there, the Finnish telecoms gear maker said.

Indian mobile companies, who operate in the world's fastest-growing major wireless market added 1.29 million new customers in May, data from industry bodies showed recently.

Imagine a mobile message that’s from none of your acquaintances—but doesn’t make you grimace. The latest SMS alerts doing the rounds actually benefit the receiver, instead of peddling ringtones and products you don’t need.

Researchers in Australia have reportedly come up with a new Internet-only mobile phone brand that promises to control such sky-rocketing bills.

On an average day, customers of Verizon Wireless, the biggest US cellphone company, use their handsets to send and receive more than 23 million short text messages.

Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's top GSM mobile services firm, signed a deal on Thursday to outsource the operation and maintenance of part of its network to Nokia for $275 million over three years.

Push2talk, the result of a partnership between Hutch and international technology partner Fastmobile, will be available to all Hutch and Orange users and is the first such service to be available nationally.

The days of camping out overnight for a concert ticket are long gone!

JetSMS, developed by Optus and Start Corporation, allows Aussi Airline Jetstar, who are connected to any mobile network within Australia, to make ticketless bookings 24 hours a day with the airline by SMS.

While driving on a Chennai road, if you encounter any accident or traffic violation you can now alert the Chennai City Traffic Police (CCTP) by sending an SMS to 98400-00103.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc confirmed on Monday it has chosen Nokia to build its third-generation (3G) network in Australia and New Zealand.

Soap Confidential, a new program designed to give ABC soap fans sneak preview information from their favourite characters through premium text messaging service.

With the catchy ringtones of the cellular phones drowning out the beep of pagers, the once-coveted beeper is on its way to fading out into oblivion...

Mangalore-based Corporation Bank has launched a new product 'Corp Mobile Recharge', which enables the Bank's customers to recharge their 'prepaid mobiles' at any of the Bank's ATMs...

Nokia and Activision has announced that Spider-Man 2 will be released for the N-Gage game deck under a license between Spider-Man Merchandising and Activision...

Reliance Infocomm is launching speech-based applications...

Canadian mobile phone users can now interact with the country's political parties by sending and receiving text messages...

In this day and age when it is becoming increasingly difficult to reach the target audience, SMS marketing has offered a long-awaited solution...

You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Read for the solution!

The first 10 commandments may have been written by the finger of God and handed to Moses but the 11th has been sent to the Methodist Church in Britain by text message from a pub!...

Vodafone has inked a deal with Warner Bros. to bring the likes of Bugs Bunny and Harry Potter to its Vodafone live! customers.

This year runners in the 2004 Flora London Marathon will be able to keep their friends and family updated with their progress with a free automated text message service...

Pop icon Britney Spears may have invaded your television screen years ago with her music but now she’s all set to rock your mobile phone with her latest wireless service...

Today SMS is no longer viewed as just a convenient way for people to stay in touch...

The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) and the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) have created a seminar series on mobile marketing...

The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Associations (CTIA) 2004 trade show will be held from March 22 to 24 in Atlanta, USA...

With the elections just around the corner, the head honchos of the poll bazaars have left no stone unturned in vying for that veritable piece of the victory pie...

Norwegian airlines and Telenor, Norways largest telecommunications group have entered into a partnership that enables customers to order and purchase air tickets for ‘Norwegian’ flights from their mobile phones.

This New Year’s Eve saw an unprecedented soar in short messaging with an increase of 180 per cent in volumes to 60 million SMS in comparison with last year’s 21 million...

Leading Middle-Eastern regional digital pay-television network Showtime has launched Home Cinema Text, an SMS text service that enables subscribers to order their personal selection of pay-per-view movies via mobile telephone short message service (SMS).

SMS is fast becoming an essential ingredient in companies' media and promotions activities. A notoriously elusive target demographic, teens are latching on to SMS technology with unprecedented enthusiasm...

Singapore Telecommunications said that it will launch Asia's first multiplayer mobile phone game that can locate several users within two kilometres (1.24 miles) and allow them to compete.

JAMDAT Mobile, responsible for the tremendous success of Gladiator, the title that put multiplayer mobile gaming on the map, has expanded its core application and game titles to the Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC...