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Social networking on mobile soon

September 16, 2008, Chandigarh, India.

Shimla-based Altruist Technology will soon be bringing social networking from the sole net-domain to your mobile phones. The value-added service (VAS) provider is presently working on the technology that will allow social networking on mobile without being online.

The chief executive officer of the company, Dheeraj Aggarwal, said they had already created the technology for mobile-based social networking at their research and technical development centre in Shimla. "We are fine-tuning the technology that will be offered to mobile users by December. In fact, this is a step up from the mobile-based chat service that we had launched last year. We are in talks with Airtel, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications for starting this service on their networks," he said.

Aggarwal said a rapid increase in mobile penetration vis-à-vis an increase in the computer penetration, has prodded VAS providers to create services that were so far restricted only to the net users.

"Presently, there are about 50,000 VAS available and innovation in this area would propel further growth not just for VAS providers but also in mobile penetration and usage," he said.

The VAS provider also hopes to clog a turnover of Rs 155 crore this year - an increase of almost 300 per cent. "By expanding our product portfolio and increase in mobile penetration will help us achieve this turnover," said Aggarwal.

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