Two Indian companies have announced plans to enter the country's fast-growing mobile handset market by launching low-cost devices. According to India's Economic Times, the electronics and home appliances company Orpat is launching two new GSM handsets based on NXP Semiconductors' chips. It will promote the devices at its 50,000 retail outlets and is targeting sales of [...]

Street repair services for mobile phones are a big industry in India, with technicians getting a full fledged diploma from a "Mobile Repairing Institute."Jan Chipchase is leading Nokia's team which is trying to lower the cost of phones for emerging markets, an effort that also has an eco-friendly character. The group of 15 has scanned bazaars [...]

Russian telecom giant Sistema, which recently acquired a controlling stake in India's Shyam Telelink, announced that it will be launching a nation-wide mobile services by April 2009. Sistema-Shyam is the first company among the new players to get CDMA spectrum in 13 circles and it hopes to get the frequency in remaining ones to become a [...]

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended a nationwide deadline for implementing complete mobile number portability. Set for June 2009, this last deadline has been sent by TRAI to the country's Department of telecommunications, which already said that the facility will be available in the metropolitan cities by December 2008. June 2009, is thus [...]

We've already covered India's mobile phone market in the past and they keep growing like crazy. That being said, they are about to reach somewhat important milestone to become the second largest mobile phone market in world, trailing only China. At the moment, China leads the world with 540.5 million subscribers and is followed by U.S. [...]

We know India is the fastest growing mobile phones market on the planet, but… This November mobile operators attracted an additional 8.3 million wireless users. In total, there are now 264.8 million mobile and fixed-line users in the country and that number is expected to hit the half-billion mark by 2010. Now imaging every 100th user buys a ringtone, wallpaper or some other mobile content. No wonder why so many companies want to enter the mobile content business… [Via: textually.org ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:India Looks To Triple Wireless Users By 2011 - Among Fastest Growing Wireless Telecom MarketsChinese mobile phone users sent 429 billion text messages last yearChina and India lead the globe in new wireless subscribersIndia now has more than 200 million mobile phone usersAT&T looking to expand oversease?