As CEO, Mandyam would be responsible for providing strategic direction and operational focus to Virgin Mobile India and would help drive partnerships and strategic alliances for the organisation. He would also lead the team in market building initiatives in the country.
Tata Teleservices is looking to increase its stake in its joint venture with Virgin Mobile India, where it has 50 per cent ownership.
Virgin Mobile is flying in the face of conventional wisdom with a niche strategy for the Indian market. Virgin is faced with a market that is crowded by telecom players. It would take some good strategies to break through the thick maze. Their strategy is to deliver a tailored & relevant offering for a single, distinct segment - the youth. 70 mn Indians aged between 14 & 25 years own cell phones. Over the next three years, Virgin expects 50 mn new subscribers in this segment.
It has been reported that Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile and Tata Teleservices are joining hands to launch Virgin in India.
The company is also bringing in a regime of 'getting paid for receiving calls,' while offering local calls at 50 paise per minute.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday asked fintech firms to focus on risk management at a time when criminals are using AI to mimic voices, clone identities and create lifelike videos to manipulate people.
Jio has partnered with AeroMobile to launch mobile services on 22 flights on international routes, with plans starting at Rs 499 per day.
Microsoft Corp on Thursday announced the India launch of its software Office 2010, which incorporates the popular Word, Excel and Powerpoint applications.
The Anil Ambani group company is in advanced talks with France Telecom for a branding, marketing and franchisee agreement. The company plans to launch the brand by the second quarter of FY09, according to sources close to the development. Initially, the Orange may be launched on RCom's CDMA network -- spanning across 23,000 towns and 5 lakh villages in India -- and later extended to its 8 GSM circles. The Indian company has a total of 44.5 million subscribers in India.
Telecom operators in India appear to be gung-ho over the prospects of value-added services which help them to differentiate, add substantially to their margins while simultaneously be a precusor to third generation or 3G regime. The recent creative campaigns of majors like Vodafone (ZooZoos), Airtel (R Madhavan and Vidya Balan), Virgin Mobile (music download) and Aircel's (Internet applications) are a case in point.
'We operate in 16 countries already, and therefore adding the UK to it, and beginning a chapter in the European continent is the next step.'
A new generation of mobile phone games is slated to hit the market in the next two months: Ramayan 3392 AD, 3D-Sachin Tendulkar, Rounders (a poker game based on a Hollywood movie) and a host of other film celebrity games.
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