Thursday, February 3, 2011

Exclusive : BSNL To Launch Mobile App Store

India’s PSU telecom company, BSNL will very soon launch its own Mobile application store for its 2G and 3G GSM mobile customers. The company has signed an agreement with Accenture  for development of application store. The application store would allow its customers to download applications from a portfolio of around 3400 applications of various genres. The app store will comprise of both paid and free apps. Almost 80 % of apps would be in paid category while remaining 20% would be available for free.


The APP store is a service for the mobile phones which allows users to browse and download applications . The applications are downloaded directly on to the mobile phones. App store is basically the collection of Mobile applications from across the world. As per the agreement between Accenture and BSNL, the later would work only as publisher of the application acting in  pass through manner and the app store will be established by Accenture.


In India Aircel was the first company to announce the launch of  mobile application store in association with Infosys. But Airtel was the first company to actually launch Mobile app store  ”Airtel App central “for its customers. Later Vodafone and Reliance too launched their  mobile app store.

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