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Komli Media, Asia Pacific’s leading digital media network, today announced the acquisition of Aktiv Digital, one of the largest and fastest growing digital media companies in Asia. The acquisition will enable Komli Media to get access to the leading advertisers and publishers in one of the fastest growing digital markets in the world and be the only ad network that can offer marketers and publishers a single marketing and monetization window across three of the largest and fastest growing markets in the region –India, South East Asia (SEA) and Australia.

Aktiv Digital has a consolidated platform for buying online media across its Premier, Target and Performance product suite that delivers single-site buys, content channels and a CPC and CPA performance based offering with re-targeting capabilities. Aktiv has been working with over 500 brands in the last 3 years across this platform.

Speaking on the occasion, Prashant Mehta, CEO, Komli Media said, “Aktiv Digital and its team have been at the forefront of bringing leading digital solutions to their clients, and we see them as a fantastic partner to expand in SouthEast Asia and bring our range of product and media offerings to this region.”

Matt Sutton, CEO, Aktiv Digital, added, “We are really excited to be a part of the Komli family. We were looking for the right strategic partner to accelerate our growth in this region and Komli offered the right mix of financial muscle, product vision and entrepreneurial DNA.”

As part of the focus on accelerating growth in the region, all the staff of Aktiv has been retained, with Sales Director Chris Pattinson promoted to Chief Revenue Officer. The team has been further enhanced with addition of Calvin Choi, previously with TravelZoo, as Business Development Director to expand its publisher footprint across the region. The company plans to leverage its strength and expand into more markets in SEA and bring new product offerings to the market.

“We are assembling a top-notch team to grow our business in this region aggressively. Having a footprint in SouthEast Asia gives us the ability to present a pan-regional solution to clients looking for marketing and monetization opportunities in APAC, and furthermore allows us to offer a broader set of Asian ethnic audiences to our clients in North America, Australia and the UK.” said Akshay Garg, VP International, Komli Media.

Komli Media’s network reaches out to more than 60 million users across Asia Pacific. Komli Media offers solutions across the digital landscape which includes Performance Marketing, Brand Solutions, Video Advertising, Search, Social Media and Mobile.

About Komli Media

Komli Media is Asia Pacific’s leading digital media network. Its digital advertising technologies enable marketers to reach, acquire and foster audiences and publishers to maximize their revenues. Komli Media provides marketers with innovative solutions across brand marketing, performance marketing, social media, and video advertising. ViziSense, India’s leading online audience and ad measurement platform is powered by Komli Media technology. PostClick, Australia’s leading site representation firm, and Indoor Media, the UK’s leading ethnic ad network, are both subsidiaries of Komli Media. Headquartered in Mumbai, Komli Media also has offices in London, Melbourne, New Delhi, New York, Palo Alto, Singapore, Sydney and Toronto. Find out more at http://www.komli.com.

About Aktiv Digital

Aktiv Digital was established in 2007 with the opening of its Singapore headquarters. Within three years it has established itself as the most accessible touch-point for the purchasing of online media for branding, lead generation and acquisition based objectives. Aktiv has met the demands of the Asia Pacific market with a multi-channel solution that includes representation of high profile sites, channels for targeting by audience type, performance buys based on acquisitions targets, email and mobile offerings. This has been coupled with an aggressive and strategic sales approach to acquiring clients and matched by professional, knowledge driven account management to maintain them. For more information, please visit http://www.aktivdigital.com.

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In Bangalore BSNL is the only 3G service provider. BSNL launched 3G on 20/02/2010. You may call 9400024365. 3G service from BSNl offers video all, mobile TV, speed upto 7.2 mbps etc. Apart from BSNL the only other operator who offers 3G services is MTNL ( operates in Mumbai and Delhi). The bidding process for 3G services are on and competition is just hotting up. 3G technology has found wide acceptance and telecom operators see big gain by providing data services.

From the business prospective big handset makers like Ericssion, Nokia etc and other network developers will gain in the long run and wireless providers, 2G service providers, land-line cable connections are expected to lose. Technology changes so fast in the internet and mobile domain that one set of technology hardly gets chance to settle. With 3G yet to consolidate, 4G is already making news. The history of 3G service dates back to 2001 when NTT Docomo of japan launched a test network. Yes, the same Docomo guys who partnerted with Tata for Docomo sims in India.

As a landline user of BSNL I have received privileged customer offer of free 3G connection with following benefits:

1. Free 50 ins of Local/STD video calls
2. Free 500 MB of data download to access internet, BSNL live portal, watch mobile TV etc.
3. Free subscription to mobile TV for 1 month
4. 180 days of validity
5. Talk value of Rs 20

Looks really attractive. Also, you can make video calls for 30 paisa per minute. If you are a BSNL landline user, may be you can avail this offer by calling 9400024365 before March 31st, 2010. You may also send an sms CUP your landline # to 9448077777 and BSNL representative will contact you to activate 3G connection. Please note that, for 3G service one need to acquire a new 3G enabled sim card.