The recently concluded VAS Asia 2010 in New Delhi  had exciting experts speaking about the future of VAS.

The telecommunications industry is laying huge potential upon the growing value-added services (VAS).

Industry experts have estimated that the Value Added Services will be a huge industry soon. They believe that  VAS will have a turnover of Rs 100,000 crores annually by 2020.

According to OnMobile Chairman and CEO Mr. Arvind Rao VAS would be a “transformational force” and even by 2015 when its turnover would rise from Rs. 15,000 crores now to Rs 50,000 crores it would be a larger industry than advertising or media.

Over 2.5 lakh villages would be connected to wireless broadband and 3G by 2012 enabling them to access the whole range of value added services, said Department of Telecom Secretary Sh. P. J. Thomas inaugurating the conference. The entire lot of panchayats would be connected through optical fibre and computers providing them broadband services, he revealed.

From ringback tone the next big money spinner for the telcos would be Mobile VAS, Mr. Rao said.� Though VAS was providing only 10% of the revenues for telcos, within this decade the situation would be reversed with value added services ringing 80% of the revenues and voice revenue shrinking to 20%. The trend abroad was for services like mobile music, mobile video, mobile TV, smart phones, converged devices at home enabling users to switch between fixed and mobile phones, use of mobile for social networking� and a host of other services on the mobile phone. The OnMobile Chairman envisaged a world where the mobile service providers would act as a “bank’ among several other services they would provide covering health, education, entertainment, life style, personal services etc.

Source : Media Mughals

Alootechie.com has featured VASJobs.com in their digital media news portal today. Alootechie is the leading resource for interactive marketing news, information, commentary, advice, opinion, research and reference for the Indian Internet and Mobile Industry.

Following is the link :

VASJobs.com offers a niche job portal for the mobile VAS industry

Source : AlooTechie

Mobile TV Middle East,
15th & 16th November 2009,
Jumeirah Beach, Hotel
Dubai

VASJobs.com Media partner at Mobile TV Middle East, 15th & 16th November 2009, Jumeirah Beach, Hotel Dubai. Check out the event its going to be a top event.

Mobile TV Middle East will bring together key thought-leaders from across the sector to demonstrate how to capitalise on this opportunity and how to take Mobile TV forward into 2010.

Now in its third year, and co-located with the IPTV World Forum Middle East & Africa event, Mobile TV Middle East 2009 will focus on the specific regional challenges and opportunities being faced by Companies working within this fast-paced market.

The 2009 programme brings keynote speakers from major operators, device brands, content publishers and regulators to establish how Mobile TV can continue to move forward and generate a sustainable andlong term revenue stream for the ecosystem.

Covering a Host of Region Specific and Global Challenges Being Faced by Mobile TV Professionals Today – Topics Include:

* Identifying profitable and sustainable business models
* Understanding how to manage and overcome network capacity constraints
* Assess how to improve customer experience through technology
* Examine how Mobile TV is being approached by broadcasters and operators
* Negotiate revenue share agreements and stay abreast of digital rights and legal constraints
* Consider the opportunities provided by mobile advertising and user generated content
* Analyse the Mobile TV customer and examine segment content consumption
* Create simplified packages and pricing options to tempt customers

The WEEK magazine , published an interview of me in the print edition, on Jobs & Careers in Telecom (VASJobs.com) – Telecom Jobs, dated 15th November, 2009. Following is the scanned interview. The full story is available online in The WEEK’s website here.

VASJobs.com was recently reviewed by IndianWebStartups.com

” An exclusive job portal for the fastest emerging market in India, the Mobile Value Added Services, is certainly a great initiative.

VASJobs has almost all the routine features available on a typical job portal, its uniqueness lies in its target base. As the website is exclusive, it will help attract only serious VAS professionals and other domain people will stay away. This will help the employers receive only the valid candidate applications.

One of the other features is the ‘upcoming events’, which certainly will attract many eyes. ”

Read the full review at  :
VASJobs.com – Exclusive Job Portal for Mobile Value Added Service Professionals

AfricaCom closes for another year – hailed as the best telecoms event. Our representative attended the show and we will soon be posting photos and videos of the event.

With 4,000 attendees from 120+ countries attending over the 2 days, the AfricaCom congress held this week in Cape Town provided a great showcase of the continent’s dynamic telecommunications market.

Now in its 12th year, the event has grown to become the annual meeting place for market leaders and innovators from the whole telecommunications sector:

established and alternative operators from the fixed, mobile and wireless sides, network infrastructure vendors, telecoms solutions providers from across the world and locally, investors, consultants and more.

“AfricaCom is the best event we’ve been to, said Angela Gahagan of MTN; the attendance has been great and MTN is proud to be associated with this kind of event which allows people to show what Africa has to offer”.

The 200-stand exhibition provided opportunities for participants to learn about the latest technologies and new products, while the high-level conference brought together CEOs and senior executive of the leading companies to share their expertise and strategies for their markets:

operators such MTN, Zain Africa, Orange, Vodacom, Etisalat, Safaricom, Comium and solutions provider from international infrastructure vendors to local companies offering specialised solutions for the African markets. The strategies to major points of discussion over the two days were strategies to continue growth, innovative services for the local markets, cost-effective strategies and broadband connectivity.

“The high attendance and the level of the debates held this week at AfricaCom is testimony to the continent’s great opportunities, said Julie Rey of organisers Informa Telecoms & Media; while most of the world is facing challenging economic conditions, African companies are leading the way with innovative models and services which enable continued growth”.

For the second year, the AfricaCom Awards were held at the end of the opening day to celebrate the achievements of Africa’s telecommunications players, with a glittering ceremony hosted by comedian David Kau. Special guest Yvonne Chaka Chaka delighted the audience with an impromptu song to help raise funds for Unicef. “We are delighted to support Unicef as the official charity of the event, said Emily Cottam from Informa Telecoms & Media; this year, the event helped us raise 225,000 rand for their worthy cause, even more than last year”.

Welcome to VASJobs.com’s Blog. Finally we decided to let you all know whats going on at VASJobs.  Through this blog we will bring News, views , feature launch, guest posts, the career scene in the VAS industry, HR related issues and all updates that concerns VASJobs.

Do feel free to write to us. Both me and Sharada will be regularly posting updates on the blog.

So watch out and let us know what would you like to see at VASJobs.com