Aircel kolkata

Aircel launches GSM package with localised content

Kolkata: Aircel has expanded its footprint in eastern India with the launch of its GSM service in Kolkata on Monday. The company, which has already invested Rs 500 crore in the Kolkata Circle, hopes to double its investment here within the next one year.
According to Gurdeep Singh, Chief Operating Officer of Aircel Cellular Ltd, the launch of the GSM service in Kolkata was with a Nokia-Siemens enabled network. The number of base transmitting stations currently stands at 550 and the same would be ramped up in due course.

Aircel shall have on offer a competitive set of products and value-added services with localised content. These would include SMSs in Bengali and local information and entertainment offerings.
Singh said Aircel was already present in nine telecom circles and has a customer base of 10.6 million. The launch of the Aircle service in Kolkata completes the company’s footprint in eastern India and marks its presence in 10 telecom circles.

You can dial unlimited local call through Aircel recharge voucher of Rs 246

Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile USA, a venture of Sprint Nextel and Richard Branson's Virgin Group, raised $412.5 million on Wednesday, with an initial public offering that priced at the low end of expectations.
The pay-as-you-go mobile service provider, which focuses on the youth market, sold 27.5 million shares for $15 per share, compared with a forecast range of $15 to $17 a share, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The offering price gives it an initial market capitalization of about $795 million.
Based in Warren, New Jersey, the company said it will largely use proceeds to repay debt, and to buy out 16.7% of Sprint Nextel's interest, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Virgin Mobile estimated it had a share of roughly 15% of the prepaid market in 2006 and cited a forecast from Yankee Group that the prepaid market would grow to about 53 million people in 2001 from 29 million in 2006.
As of June 30, the company had 4.83 million customers, compared with 8.6 million at its biggest prepaid competitor, Tracfone, which is a unit of America Movil
Virgin Mobile markets its products under its own brand but relies on Sprint's PCS network to carry its customers' calls. It says this leaves it free of the extra cost of pumping capital into operating a physical network.
But if the appeal of the Virgin Mobile brand fades for new customers, or if its target audience of 14- to 34-year-olds proves fickle in loyalty to that brand over time, it has little else to fall back on, one analyst pointed out.
That, and the fact that the operator had a string of losses from 2002 through 2006, may have contributed to the IPO pricing at the low end of its forecast range. "They have the brand, and that is about it," said Francis Gaskins, president of research firm IPOdesktop.com.
Since it began operations in 2002, the company has racked up losses of more than $600 million. It posted its first net profit earlier this year, earning $26 million in the first six months of 2007, on revenue of about $667 million.
"They have turned the corner of profitability," said Gaskins, but questioned if two quarters of profitability was enough to paint a longer-term trend.
Under the terms of the IPO, about 44% of the company is being floated to new investors. Sprint Nextel
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will have a reduced stake of about 17.2% after the offering, and Branson's group about 35.7%.
Underwriters, led by Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns, have the option to buy another 4.1 million shares to cover overallotments.
Virgin Mobile USA's shares are expected to begin trading on the New York stock exchange on Thursday, under the stock symbol "VM."

The LG LP5500

What happens when you fuse a digital camera and a high-end CDMA mobile phone? The LG LP5500.
With its heavy, shiny metal touch to it, this phone is just the right gadget to give me back hope in powerful CDMA Handhelds. LG has come out with the LG LP5500 (aka LG KV5500), a 5 megapixel camera phone with built in GPS receiver.
Standard features include Media Players, a miniSD slot and Bluetooth.
To put these pixels to good use, the LP5500 also comes with a buil-in Flash and a decent sized screen. You get then the Dica phones or the LG-SV550/KV5500/LP5500.
The 5 megapixel camera has Autofocus and Strobe Flash (a first in mobile phones). Another first is “Semi click shutter” which is present in digital cameras, on pressing the shutter half way the lens autofocuses. The screen can rotate 180 degrees. It also has a burst mode of 6 pictures. More features include:
. 2,62,000 color TFT display (176 x 220 pixels). 5 Megapixel Camera with Autofocus, Lens cover, Half click shutter. 30 FPS Video Recording, TV Out. 64 chord polyphony, SMS Filter, MP3 Player. Mini SD Card slot, USB Port, Infrared, GPS. 109 x 50 x18 mm,
This phone is being released mainly in Korea, but also in smaller lots this phone is sourcable in China.

This model has a built-in TV what allow to watch local TV chanels on the mobile phone.
Main Features:
> Built-in TV > Touch Screen
> Band: GSM 900/1800> Full screen mp3/mp4 Multimedia player > 1.3M Camera> 2.6? Touch Screen TFT display, 260K Colors & 320*240 pixel > Handwriting> 64 polyphonic> Built in 265MB, Support T-Flash Memory Card > Support WAP 2.0/GPRS 12 which enable to surf the Internet> Compatible with messenger, telephone firewalls, mobile QQ & MMS > SMS messaging > Dual loud sound stereo speaker > Language : English ( Russian, Thai, Arabic, Vietnamese, French are optional)
Accessories:
> 110-220V Charger > Battery> Earphone >Stylus

Mobiles to help track disease.

"Mobile phone technology is being developed to help manage the spread of diseases such as HIV and bird flu.The software is designed to allow field workers using handsets to send and receive data on disease outbreaks along with patient and drug information.The project is a collaboration between technology firm Voxiva and the trade association for mobile operators, GSMA.Trials of the relatively low-cost application are underway in Rwanda, Africa and in Indonesia.When a disease is spreading rapidly, health authorities need information that is bang-up-to-dateRob Conway, GSMAThe program works by sending the data through the general packet radio service (GPRS) network, and if this is unavailable, it can divert to an SMS data channel, normally used for text messages."

Samsung Mobile Tracker phones

Samsung Telecommunications India, has just unveiled a new range of cell phones which has been dubbed “Mobile Tracker Phones”. The three new entry-level mobile phones from Samsung are the SGH- E250, SGH-X520 and SGH-C140.
The highlights of the new mobile phones launched by Samsung include new security features like Mobile Tracking (MT), emergency SMS, and privacy lock. This surely empowers consumers with security during mobility.
Speaking about the new security features of the newly launched Samsung mobile phones, Ryu Hyun Chul, MD, Samsung Telecommunications India, said, “Samsung understands Indian consumer needs and through our secured phones, we have tried to address three of the lager issues of mobile security i.e. securing mobile phones and preventing any untoward usage or incidents through MT, securing the safety of near and dear ones through emergency SMS, and securing the confidential data’s that are stored in that phone.”
The SGH-X520 mobile phone from Samsung is a very chic and slim phone, which comes in exotic colors such as Indigo Blue and Wine Red. The Samsung SGH-X520 mobile phone has features such as FM Radio, VGA Camera, and 65K color CSTN LCD screen that measures 4.8cm with a resolution of 128×160 pixels. Moreover, this mobile phone comes with an internal memory of 2.8MB.
The second phone launched by Samsung is the SGH-E250, which according to the company is the most fashionable slide-up style mobile phone available at a very low price. The SGH-E250 is embedded with a VGA camera and the latest multimedia features. Besides, it also sports a 5cm TFT screen, stereo FM radio, video recording, Bluetooth wireless support, 12MB internal memory and a MicroSD slot that is expandable up to 2GB.
Lastly, the SGH-C140 mobile phone from Samsung is an entry-level bar phone which has a compact and stylish design. It sports a 65K color LCD, a speaker phone meant for Handsfree communication, and 16 polyphonic ring tones. The Samsung SGH-C140 mobile phone has a screen that measures 3.8cm with a resolution of 128×128 pixels, and an internal memory of 700KB.
However, the most important features, which are common to all the three newly launched mobile phones from Samsung, are mobile tracking, emergency SMS and privacy lock. The Mobile tracking feature detects unauthorized usage of the mobile phone. When a different SIM card is inserted into any of the three newly launched mobile phones, the Mobile Tracker-enabled phone automatically sends an SMS to up to two numbers pre-defined by the original user revealing the IMEI number of the phone along with the new SIM number. This helps to retrieve the mobile phone back incase it lands up in wrong hands.

Nokia officially announced three new N-Series mobiles - Nokia N93, Nokia N73, and Nokia N72. N93 will feature a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics with an astonishing 3x optical zoom. N73 will also boast a 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optics camera. Both phones will have 2.4″ high definition displays. N72 will have a 2 megapixel camera and a 2.1″ display.
The first of the new mobiles and the technologically most advanced is the Nokia N93. We published some pre-release photos of N93 five months ago. N93 is successor of the popular N90 and it has a lot of improvements over its predecessor. It is based on Symbian S60 3rd Edition software and one of the most attractive features is the Carl Zeiss optics digital camera offering 3X OPTICAL zoom. The phone has 50MB internal memory, as well as a hot-swap MiniSD card slot. Among the highly advertised features of the phone will most surely be its camcorder capabilities which allow it to capture DVD-like quality videos into the MPEG4 format with 30 frames per second. Those features are backed up by digital video stabilization, 20x digital zoom, autofocus and macro mode. It will have a 262K QVGA display (N90 has higher resolution display) with wide viewing angles and will support 802.11b/g WLAN, 3G (WCDMA 2100 MHz), EDGE and GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) networks. Unfortunately, the N93 will most probably suffer the same criticism as N90 did for its large size and weight. What remains to be seen is whether the phone will also miss the vibration feature as N90 did, which would be a great disappointment to all Nokia fans.
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The Nokia N93 is expected to hit the market in July 2006 at an expected price of approximately 550 euros.
Nokia N73 is targeted at the camera fans and its highlight is the 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and autofocus. The camera will have a mechanical shutter and should provide real photo quality print outs of sizes up to 10″ x 8″ (25 x 20 cm). The mobile multimedia device will also feature a large 2.4″ display along with integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound. The phone will also offer picture uploading on the Flikr photo-sharing internet community. It will support either 3G networks with a second built-in VGA camera or quadband EDGE/GSM networks and all that in a fairly compact size. Finally, this feature-packed device will be equipped with the latest version of the Symbian OS along with the 3rd edition of the S60 User Interface.
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It is expected be available again from July 2006 in three color combinations: silver grey/deep plum, frost white/metallic red and frost white/mocha.
The last of the pack is the Nokia N72 - a non-3G version of N70. The designs of both phones are pretty similar but the N72 will be the first N-Series mobile without a UMTS support. The 2 megapixel camera covered by an active sliding lens cover will be backed up by a built-in flash, a photo and a video editor, and a picture album.
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The Nokia N72 will be available in two fashionable colors - pink and black and is expected to be available from June 2006 in markets such as Middle East and Africa, Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia.