Spice Mobile unveiled Spice M-6464 and Spice M-6262

Spice Mobile launched two new music phones M-6464 and M-6262 in India. Both of them are mulit-SIM phones and come with Yamaha amplifier and dual speakers. Users can easily access his MP3 player by one touch. The memory can be expanded up to 8GB. Both the phones support “Smart Hinglish” text which is very popular among youth these days.

Spice M-6464 features:

• 2.2 inch display
• Yamaha amplifiers with dual-speakers
• MP3 player and FM recording
• FM transmitter
• Motion sensor
• 80 MB integrated memory
• Expandable up to 8GB through T-Flash card.
• GPRS/JAVA
• Stereo Bluetooth
• 2 megapixel camera with 4X zoom and video recording capability.
• ibibo, Reuters, Opera Mini, Mobile Tracker, and mgurujee
• 1000 mAh battery

Spice M-6464 comes with FM Transmitter which “broadcasts and plays through an FM broadcast band frequency,” which enables the user to play music from his mobile handset to car stereo or any FM enabled mobile phone. The motion sensor enables the user to change songs, wallpapers and play games with double flick of the wrist.The Spice M-6464 is priced at Rs. 5349.

Spice M-6262 features:

• Yamaha amplifiers with dual-speakers
• MP3 player and FM recording
• 8GB expandable memory
• 1.3 megapixel camera with video recording

The Spice M-6262 offers value added services like ibibo, Opera Mini, SMS scheduler, Privacy Lock and call blacklist. The M-6262 is slated for launch next month.

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Bharti Airtel reaches 90 million subscriber base

Bharti Airtel, one of the Indian telecom giants, achieved another major milestone by doubling the gap with its nearest competitors. With its 90 million subscriber, the current difference between Bharti Airtel and its nearest competitor rose to 25 million which was previously 10 million-12 million. The company also announced to start its own 3G services within the next six months. In addition, its DTH business that started from October, 2008 is doing quite well. Currently, Bharti Airtel is providing DTH services in 92 cities in the country.

In an interview, Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Group, said that his company is doing well even in the middle of hard economic times and from now on, number of subscribers would not determine the top position of a mobile operator in India but the revenue share. Mr. Mittal said that his company now has 30% share of the total revenue generated by mobile operators in India.

Mr. Mittal said that they are now waiting for the allotment of the spectrum by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) through auction. Unfortunately, no specific date has been set for the auction due to various unresolved issues including reserve price of each block and number of blocks to be auctioned. Currently, the DoT recommended reserve price for each block is Rs. 2,020 for pan Indian operation. Finance Ministry suggested to double the price. Regarding the reserve price, Mr. Mittal said that they would go for pan-India operation if the reserve price is reasonable. The company’s finance is in good shape and it would be able to get investors to finance its 3G project. However, Bharti Airtel has no plans to raise funds in near future. Mr. Mittal also denied the foreign acquisition rumor at the moment. Bharti would not get into any developed countries as there are high risk factors.

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(This entry was first published in February 2009. Because of a technical problem, the entry had to be deleted and I am reposting again now.)