India’s major telecom players Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices launches SMS-based push e-mail service in alliance with iseemedia. It offers access to customers their Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo emails on any type of handset via SMS.

Vodafone Essar announced the Unlimited SMS offer in Mumbai. This unlimited SMS offer is valid for both prepaid and postpaid customers of Vodafone in Mumbai. Vodafone prepaid customers in Mumbai can now avail 500 free local or national SMS daily with a Bonus Card of Rs. 89 with a validity of 30 days. To activate the offer, prepaid customers should SMS ACT SMS89 to 144 (toll free) from their mobile phones. Under this scheme, first SMS of the day will be charged at Re1 and thereafter the customer can send …

Aditya Birla Group telecom firm, IDEA Cellular has expanded its network in the North East by launching its 2.75G EDGE enabled GSM network in Meghalaya. It comes close on the heels of IDEA’s recent launch in Assam.

MTS, the mobile telephone brand of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) launched mobile telephony services in Mumbai with its popular per second billing along with its high speed MBlaze data service.

MTNL launches half paise per second plan for 2G and 3G customers it Delhi and Mumbai Networks and One paisa per second for calls made to any other network across India. SMS rates have also reduced to 25 paise for local, Re.1/- for national and Rs.2.50/- for international SMS. Along with this MTNL also introduced lowest-in-the-industry data usage rate of just 1 paisa/10KB both GPRS & 3G services.

Reliance Communications (RCom), announced the launch of mVDO service for its mobile subscribers that will allow RCom users watch, share, search and upload videos on their GSM mobile phones. The unique mVDO service would be available to users through an excellent subscription offer varying in different price points for different periods of validity from a month to as less as a week. However, all prices for varying validities cost no more than Re. 1/- per day.

Reliance Communications (RCOM) launched pay per second billing plan. RCom expands its Simply Reliance Initiative with two new tariff variants effective November 5, 2009. These new variants aim to offer an all-round product portfolio under Simply Reliance Initiative.

India’s leading cellular service provider Vodafone Essar, has introduced 1paise per second tariff plan. This will allow customers make local and STD calls to Vodafone numbers at 1 paisa/sec.

Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom SA said that they intend to combine their British mobile phone units- T-Mobile UK and Orange UK to form the country’s biggest mobile operator in a new 50:50 joint venture company. The new joint venture will create the UK’s leading mobile operator. It will have a combined mobile customer base of around 28.4 million, representing approximately 37 percent of UK mobile subscribers*, based on figures at end December 2008. By integrating Orange’s broadband activities, the joint venture will also have the capabilities to offer convergent solutions to its customers in the future. The business will have pro forma 2008 revenues of approximately Euro 9.4 billion (£7.7 billion) and EBITDA of euro 2.1 billion (£1.7 billion).

Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider today unveiled its Global Wholesale Service Portfolio with a network that will reach 50 countries across the continents of Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Enables Global Carrier community access to Bharti Airtel’s services to and from any part of the globe. Over $500 million investment made to expand connectivity reach on its global network to 50 countries across five continents.