As a smartphone user you must have had what-if-i-loose-this-phone moment. You are worried about all pictures, video and documents you keep on your device. Next you think: how will you get those calendar / sms/ address book/ and that imp number still in call register.
I absolutely love the possibility of controlling your device remotely. Lock it, Track it, Wipe it and yes get backup/restore done so easily. Check the video in Darius of TenCube’s voice.
This app is available to download from Ovi / Andriod / WinMo app stores. Here are few interesting links and videos of wavesecure. Read more »
‘We Want To Be A Cisco In Our Space’
Vijay Shekhar Sharma of One97 says the idea is to have a core business and then everything that surrounds it.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and managing director of One97 Communications, can be called an early starter. A child prodigy, he passed class XII at the age of 14 and started his first business venture while doing his third year at engineering college. His company, Xs! Corporations, was later sold to Lotus Interworks in 1999. After working for Lotus for a year, he founded One97, which provides a platform for delivering mobile value-added services, in December 2000.
From starting with astrology forecasts over the phone in 2001 to becoming one of the largest mobile value added services players today, his company has come a long way. “I think we were lucky to enter this space early, which gave us a lot of opportunities to learn,” said Sharma. It was also tough to convince operators to put up One97’s platform.
I am a non-believer of predicting ten things for next year or next decade. (What better than doing those things, instead of predicting?) This kept me from posting this post for a while.
We have a very happy start of a new year in India’s telecom market, consumer has more choices and these choices will grow even more as year progresses. Value Added Services or as I like to call our business Telecom Applications and Services business is reaching center stage and hopefully will empower consumer even more.
A wise consumer, who has started to get more out of phone than a call is now wanting more bang for buck + many more services. Cloud (network) side hosted services are favorite for our market. Simply because they are easy to distribute/discover and available to everyone. They can be updated easily and there is QoS control of service provider.
Market is ripe for sizeable telecom applications / services business, here are my 5 items that should be growth drivers for next 12 months.
Matured Consumers: Consumers are now expecting more from their phone. It is very obvious from kind of handset features today we see them buying. The more they wish, better are the opportunities for us to make and sell services to them. Also majority of our target consumers are on network for more than 6 months – a typical time after which they start exploring additional features. Read more »
I got this email from Tie asking few questions for their upcoming Tiecon’s handbook. They are planning to put few interesting facts about people, part of TieDelhi Network. Here are my answers, why don’t you also do it and let us know more about you.
I was born in : Aligarh
When not in office, I like to: Travel places. I like to think, when you go places, you are going places.
Favourite holiday destination: Any place with adventure tourism options. In India : Rishikesh for rafting
The quality that impresses me most in people is: Way they reach their destinations in life or choose their journey. Their beliefs and life’s learnings.
Book I recommend others to read: Two form my side: Straight from gut and Pour your heart into it. Read more »
While climbing the stage at V&D Awards night in New Delhi yesterday, I could not stop the feeling I use to have in school award functions. A feeling that all of us have worked hard and someone is acknowledging that.
We have got couple of more awards but our stage of business; I would give this one as best acknowledgment of all of us. I am told that the Jury had liked our approach to market and work / business we have delivered. They expect us to emerge out as one of key companies in the space.
And we love that :- )
As always I have said, any company is worth the company it keeps, minds it has. This is truly an award to great team we have : a team that is aggressive, agile and of strong minds.
I will love to dedicate this to our mission which marks as Emerging Company in Telecom Application space : To become $100 M telecom applications and Services business in next 2 years. Markets will challenge us and wanna-be opportunist will make it tough but our purpose and principle will guide us. Read more »
TRAI sent a directive today to telecom operators directing them to change the way majority of Value Added Services are sold in India.
Ring Back Tone service (aka Hello Tunes/Caller Tunes/Welcome Tunes etc) has a feature on many networks that a user can press * while calling a person on same network and listening ring back to copy it as his/her own ring back. TRAI “figured out” this has generated in significant number of wrong provisioning as user does not know if it is going to cost her some cost. Whoops !
Though it acted like a good content discovery tool but it probably generated enough noise for TRAI to suggest extra confirmation on it.
Secondly, many VAS are offered to user by an interactive dial out call (Out Bound Dialer ’s Call , OBD) in which user listens to about the service, its charges and even options of content. If user wants to activate the service, he is asked to press a key to select and to reconfirm and avoid any confusion a second confirmation key is asked so that any chance of pressing a key by mistake are avoided.
This has been working good, giving users a chance to know about service and content which sits inside the network. No promotion method could peer it as this is very simple (in local language, detailed) and even has experience of content (like listening the exact song clip) which user can get by paying clearly stated amount. A confirmation of charging and suggesting to recheck eliminates possibility of erratic provisioning.
