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Blanket 28% GST could hit online gaming badly in India, says industry

The country's gaming industry is currently estimated at $1.5 billion

In five years, 39% mobile users in India will use 5G, says Ericsson report

Sees half a billion such users by 2027, high growth in number of smartphone users and spike in average usage per smartphone

Koo user base at about 15 mn; eyes expansion in SE Asia in H2 2022

Homegrown microblogging platform Koo's user base has touched about 15 million now, with five million users added in the last quarter, its co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna has said. Koo will maintain its sharp focus on the Indian market, onboarding more and more users, even as it plans to venture into one new market in Southeast Asia after June 2022. The Indian microblogging platform, which has enjoyed a meteoric rise in usage, is currently also available in Nigeria, a market that "continues to grow". Overall, the platform has hit about 15 million downloads now, with 5 million added in the last quarter, Radhakrishna told PTI. "We have seen rapid growth. We are making sure that everything that India celebrates, whether it is language or culture, is resonating on Koo... Be it the cricket, politics, movies, spiritual leaders and their following, everything is being celebrated on Koo in their (users') languages," Radhakrishna said. The platform, earlier this year, made inroads into ...

Short-lived glory for SMS

At its peak, the SMS service could make up for as much as 10 per cent of a telco's total revenues, now it's negligible in the overall share

InMobi wants more mobile users to Glance at lockscreens with Live

The feature, called LIVE, currently has 20-25 daily live shows currently, which are between 5-20 minutes long

Clothing & accessories to home appliances, a digital festive season's here

An on-device survey of 2,500 Indian mobile users over Inmobi Pulse

Ericsson's India share in global sales doubles to 4% in Jan-Jun period

Ericsson on Friday said its share of sales from the India market doubled in the first half of the current year 2021 to four per cent, making the country third-highest revenue contributor for the group

Mobile users may soon be able to switch from postpaid to prepaid using OTP

Mobile phone subscribers may soon be allowed to switch from a postpaid connection to prepaid and vice versa by using an OTP-based authentication and without a need to change SIM card

ICEA seeks minimum base rate of 1.5% for electronics sector under RoDTEP

Mobile devices industry body ICEA on Wednesday sought a minimum base rate of 1.5 per cent for the electronic sector under the RoDTEP scheme to push exports.

India has over 500 mn active Internet users, 14% aged 5-11: Report

According to IAMAI's 'Digital in India' report, India had 504 million active Internet users, who logged onto the web at least once in the last one month, at the end of November 2019

Women's share of India's mobile subscriber base is a meagre 17.4%: DoT data

Mumbai has only 11.85 per cent women mobile subscriptions, which is higher only to Haryana, where the rate is 10.99 per cent

Movies, TV series gain favour among mobile viewers

Successful roll-out of 4G services has been an important driver in the growth of digital videos and specifically the over-the-top (OTT) market

The next billion mobile users will rely on video and voice

Tech companies are rethinking products for the developing world, creating new winners and losers