Unitech Wireless, which is a joint venture between India’s Unitech Ltd. and Norwegian telecommunication company Telenor ASA, has decided to expand its horizon with launching its service in five more circles.

Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator has now entered the app store market. With the huge success of Apple’s app store, many handset makers like RIM, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have imbibed the business model. This is the first time that an operator has introduced the app store, though, we had slight idea that Aircel is about to launch its own app store soon when it tied up with Infosys for the same.

Earlier we saw Reliance Communications launching Push Mail VAS to its millions of subscribers, in the competitive spirit even Tata Teleservice has launched the similar service for its subscribers. Tata Subscribers, Indicom and DoCoMo can now read their mails on low end handsets.

Reliance Communication launched SMS based Push Mail for its subscribers in tie-up with Canada’s ISeeMedia.

Airtel launches yet another amazing plan for light users.

About more than 300 towers in Noida and few nearby cities were closed down by the authorities in a dispute over whether they had been built on private properties where commercial activity is banned.This action This left subscribers clueless and furious over call cut-off and no reception.

With Valentine’s day coming closer, the love is sure in the air. The most difficult question of all during such times is what to gift your sweetheart on 14th Feb. Well, Nokia has come up with excellent offer for Valentine’s day in the UK.

If you remember, Mobile Number Portability (MNP) was to be introduced back in December 31st, ‘09 but that didn’t happen cause the operators weren’t ready technologically back then. The deadline was then extended to 31st March and now state owned telecom operators BSNL and MTNL are ready to meet the deadline. If you turned in late, MNP allows users to change their service provider without having to change their number.

Ovi Maps Racing is a location-based racing game from Nokia, which is available for free on the OVI Store for limited period of time. The game would be played on the drawings on Ovi Maps, in which you can race on the tracks through real world cities by utilizing the maps data by NAVTEQ and the GPS of the mobile device.

It’s time that we should really stop hoping for 3G auction to be ever held in this fiscal at least.

As we had posted earlier that today Nokia would be releasing the firmware version 21.0.045 (RM-505) / 21.2.045 (RM-507) for the Nokia N97, it’s here. Its time to rejoice for all the Nokia N97 users. This upgrade is made available via Nokia Software updater on your PC and not via OTA (Over The Air) as it’s a major upgrade.

This week’s Indian Telecom weekly roundup where we discuss what’s happening in the Indian Telecom sector.

Infibeam, the shopping portal has come up with its own eBook reader. The eBook reader is called “Pi”.

Today, we have BSNL launching not one, not two but five new GPRS plans for its 2G subscribers.Along with limited download plan, BSNL also offers an unlimited day and night plan

Bharti Airtel, today announced the launch of its new value added service for its fixed line subscribers. Airtel has around 2.9 million fixed line subscribers to its base and all of them would now be able to set up a pre-recorded welcome message customised to the customer’s individual family name to greet callers.