Author Archives: Vijay Shekhar

Voice & Data awards One97 Emerging company of the year!

By | August 7, 2009

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 [...]

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TRAI's new directive on VAS promotions

By | April 27, 2009

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 [...]

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Challenges for VAS Industry in India

By | March 21, 2009

Yesterday, I was on panel of Convergence India’s VAS in Indian telecom industry  and had a chance to see Telecom Value Added Services Industry’s challenges. Here is my take:

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SIXth Sense

By | March 4, 2009

Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. ‘SIXth Sense’ frees data from its confines and releases it into the world, seamlessly integrating information and reality. Check out SIXth Sense. Here is very interesting Video:

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Free or not to be Free

By | February 27, 2009

Content has gone thru the cycles of being freely available (on internet) to (sometimes insanely) priced (on today’s telecom networks). I love getting into arguments if this is about keeping it all free or keeping it paid at right value (read: right pricing but not zero). I loved reading this article in TIME magazine, How [...]

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