Logia Group Launches “Play Ground Mobile” With Globe Telecom Philippines

September 17th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - Arvind Rao, the Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of OnMobile, was yesterday awarded the prestigious Dataquest 'Pathbreaker of the Year 2009' award. It was presented to him in recognition of his contribution to the telecom and information technology industries in creating the biggest telecom VAS company in India.

August 13th, 2009 HERZLIYA, Israel - Logia Group, a leading global provider of innovative mobile entertainment services, announced the launch of Mo-Tip (www.mo-tip.com), a smart personal mobile alert service that matches publishers with end consumers. Mo-Tip is the first service that enables publishers to create and manage personal SMS programs without going through any integration challenges or red tape.

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - Football legend Sir Geoff Hurst will be available for a photo opportunity this Thursday 13th August at 12.30pm at West Ham FC's home ground, Upton Park. Sir Geoff is fronting the launch of a new sporting initiative for disabled children and adults across the UK.

June 23rd, 2009 BARCELONA, Spain - - Visa and Globe Telecom Named as First Two Founding Partners The GSMA, the body that represents the worldwide mobile communications industry, announced the launch of the Mobile Money Exchange initiative at the Annual Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona. Visa and Globe Telecom are the first two founding partners of the Mobile Money Exchange, which has been launched to engage with new stakeholders and sectors that are entering the mobile ecosystem.

June 23rd, 2009 HERZLIYA, Israel - Volas Entertainment Ltd, part of Logia Group and a provider of mobile video solutions and value added managed services, have recently signed an agreement with leading mobile games developer Redboss Games, part of MLiven, to distribute and resell Redboss mobile games in Israel. The new partnership will create an Israeli presence for MLiven's Redboss Games via ICQ's gaming site (mobilegames.icq.com) using a mobile billing solution provided by Volas.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Mercantile Investment Group Ltd., today is very pleased to announce that Mr. Nadim Jawhari has joined the company as a Group Senior Vice President and President of the Telecom Division.

May 27th, 2009 SAN DIEGO - Pure Play Music, Ltd., (Pink Sheets: PPML) ("Pure Play") and WSA Distributing are partnering to launch a first of its kind music download service providing content from new and emerging artists. Under the terms of the agreement WSA will act as Pure Play's exclusive provider of microSD flashing and distribution in NA.

May 10th, 2009 TEL AVIV, Israel - Revamped Strategy Endorsed by Investors and Customers Zlango, an Israeli innovator in the space of rich-media mobile messaging has announced today the appointment of Roni Haim, a telecom industry veteran with over 25 years of experience to the CEO position. Mr. Haim replaces Yoav Lorch, Zlango's founder, who will continue to serve on its Board of Directors.

April 22nd, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway Deployed to Substantially Increase Usage of Voice Service Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, have launched the world's first fully convergent solution that works across both fixed and mobile networks for post-paid subscribers. Enabled by Acision's innovative real-time, location-based charging solutions, Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway, the service is designed to boost network traffic, primarily voice, by offering free calls within a set city zone.

March 16th, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Advanced SMS Features Provide Filipinos With Market Leading Personalisation and Flexibility Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Sun Cellular, the fastest-growing mobile network provider in the Philippines, have partnered to come up with the world's most advanced SMS services using Acision Message Plus. As part of Acision Text Suite, the first open text architecture, Acision Message Plus provides Sun Cellular's mobile subscribers with personalised message management functionality, enabling them to block SMS spam, set up automatic replies and automatically copy or forward messages to another mobile number or email address - all from their handset.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reliance Mobile, the GSM arm of telecom operator Reliance Communication (RCom), Wednesday said it would launch a new mobile number series beginning with the digit "8" in the Delhi-National Capital Region circle. Reliance will be the first telecom operator to shift from the practice of beginning a cell phone number with the digit "9".

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Wednesday said it has accepted the telecom regulator's proposal to allow companies to offer mobile phone services without owning network infrastructure or spectrum. The government decision would pave the way for foreign and Indian companies to set up mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) in India which can roll out wireless telecom services by renting spectrum and networks from existing telecom companies.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Telecom service provider Virgin Mobile Wednesday launched an online cricket fantasy game, Indian Hatke League (IHL), with an aim to leverage the cricket mania during the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) season. The online game will provide users the option to play for any of the eight teams participating in the 47-day IPL, to be held in South Africa April 18-May 24, while their scores on the basis of performance will determine their standings.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata communications has signed an agreement with Poland-based mobile phone operator Play to route the latter's entire international call traffic, it was announced Wednesday. Play will implement Tata's voice termination product VTS Prime Solution to manage customer call quality.

April 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With phone operators expected to run out of 10-digit mobile numbers soon, the Department of Telecom (DoT) is now considering an 11-digit numbering system. 'With so many telecom service providers and a growing customer base, the need for new numbers and their consequent shortage will be felt soon,' a senior telecom official, who did not want to be identified, told IANS Saturday.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's telecom regulator Wednesday issued guidelines on mobile number portability (MNP) that will allow subscribers to change operators while retaining the original number, but only within a particular circle. The new facility will become a reality from Dec 31 in metros and by March 20, 2010 in the rest of the country, said a statement from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - A Nepali telecom firm is set to be the first to offer mobile coverage at the top of Mount Everest. Nepal Telecom said that it would set up mobile towers in Thakdin, Manjo, Pheriche and Gorak Shep, to bring the summit within the network coverage.

January 5th, 2009 JAIPUR - Reliance Communications (R-Com), India's only telecom service provider to offer GSM and CDMA services nationwide, has launched mobile GSM services in over 1,450 towns and more than 10,000 villages in Rajasthan. The company also launched a first-of-its-kind Customer Experience Programme (CEP) for subscribers opting for its GSM services, which offers up to 100 percent savings to sub-Rs.300 Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) mobile customers for a one-time subscription charge (including GSM SIM) of Rs.25.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new policy for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) will be announced next month, Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura said here Monday. Under the policy, a telecom operator can buy airtime for mobile phones in bulk and retail it to subscribers.

August 22nd, 2009 TAIPEI - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has decided to pick Taiwan's electronics giant Hon Hai Group as its supplier of electronic readers, a top company official said Saturday. "We have picked Hong Hai Group to make electronic readers for us and we believe the electronic reader market will be huge," said Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, on the second day of his nine-day visit to Taiwan.