There’s a new way to pay people. If you have a mobile phone (who doesn’t) and a bank account with about nine banks, you can transfer money from your account to anyone else’s account, directly, cheaply and instantly. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has a (relatively) new offering – the Interbank Mobile Payment [...]

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Two interesting things are happening in the Telecom world. Mobile Number Portability Starting Jan 20, you’ll be able to change your cellphone service provider without changing your number. Wow, you think. Everyone will move away from Airtel? But to w…

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New Telemarketing Rules are here from Jan 1. Fairly major, it seems, with some interesting implications. (Full Regulation is here) All telemarketers to register, and will get numbers starting from 70. You can choose to be fully blocked (no call…

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Grabbing data from TRAI, I managed a few quick graphs on what I’m really looking for. First, a generic look at the Telecom growth in India. Phenomenal, with telecom penetration at 58% in July 2010 compared to 24% in Jan 2008. The recession has been …

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Reading about Spam SMSes I’ve realized that the reason spam is prevalent is that costs are low. [Warning: Long, rambling post] From LiveMint: Today, Singh sends close to 20 million SMSes per month, roughly half of them on behalf of real estate …

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Reuters reports on the process: Each of the auctions for 3G spectrum in India’s 22 telecoms zones would be a separate but simultaneous process conducted over the Internet. Bidders have authentication tokens and passwords to access the electronic…

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