Bharti airtel
Yesterday Bharti Airtel, an Indian carrier, launched it’s appstore. Last month we covered the announcement of the appstore of Aircel, but Bharti Airtel took the lead and launched India’s first domestic app store. The Airtel App Central has over 1,250 apps available for download across 550+ devices categorized under 25 customer categories, both free and paid applications. Payments are settled by adding the costs automatically to the customer’s mobile bill or deducted from the available talk-time. Airtel App Central has apps for as low as Rs 5.
Reliance communication
Meanwhile, Reliance Communications (RCOM), India’s second largest operator, revealed its first version of the Reliance Application Store planned to go live by month end for GSM users, expanded by CDMA users later this quarter. Allowing customers to browse and download both free and paid applications. At this moment, there is no information available about billing. RCOM claims to have already over 10,000 registered developers through their Reliance Developer Program (RDP) which provides a platform and act as a catalyst to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among the vast student talent pool in India.
We added Airtel App Central to Appstores.info and will add RCOM’s appstore when more information is available.
Gert Jan Spriensma