There will be three other key sponsors, at least one of these is expected to be announced in five days. There may also be seven associate partners.
Warner Brothers plan to make three-four Hindi movies each year and is eyeing producing mid- and big-budget films across genres.
Making its foray into mobile content outsourcing, the CDMA major, Reliance Communications, has signed its first contract with a Singapore-based GSM service provider.
This follows the industry's dissatisfaction with the current data provider, TAM Media Research, which has allegedly not been able to deliver data on all the 70 million cable and satellite households.
On 60th Independence Day, it is bonanza time for telecom subscribers with operators rolling out a range of services.
Next time you answer the phone, chances are there won't be a caller at the other end, but a recorded message trying to sell a product or service. It doesn't expect an answer, but goads you to punch in a few keys in acceptance or simply hang up.
Indian telecom operators are tuning in to digital music as an alternative revenue stream, with income from traditional modes starting to dry up.
The regulator has sought information from telecom licencees on their recovery methods, under an attempt to curb the growing problem.
GSM service provider Idea Cellular might get spectrum to start operations in the Mumbai circle by the end of the year, with the ministry of telecom close to clearing its application.
Leveraging the popularity of their cartoon characters, all the top Indian children's channels - Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney - are getting aggressive in the area of publishing for children as well.
Three leading general entertainment channels - Star India, Zee TV and Sony Entertainment Television - together may lose Rs 11 crore (Rs 110 million) from the underwear ads, which will soon be off air.
The Essar group-owned company's agreement with the Bangalore-based BPL group, which owns the brand through its flagship firm, had expired on March this year.
Pitroda is also considered the pioneer of the Indian telecom revolution, more than his reputation as a venture capitalist, inventor, technocrat and social thinker.
The companies are looking at tapping solar power, wind energy and bio-fuels, including fish and vegetable oil, to run base transceiver systems in areas with poor power supply.
Indian telecom companies are likely to get a windfall of Rs 100-150 crore (Rs 1 to Rs 1.5 billion) when they announce their first quarter results during this week.
Indian telecom operators are world-leaders in terms of profitability, enjoying better EBIDTA margin than their counterparts in developed countries.
Walt Disney finds another platform for its cartoons -- your mobile.
The company is in advanced stages of negotiations with four cellular operators and is expected to announce a couple of deals soon.
Telecom service provider Reliance Communications is to tap the retail international long distance calling space in the UK
Reliance Communications will slash the homebound international call tariffs - calls made by Indians visiting abroad - by around 50 per cent to cash in on the growing Rs 800-crore inbound market.
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