Geodesic launches Mundu Radio providing consumers access to internet radio on mobile phones worldwid
Written by Geodesic Information Systems Ltd
Sunday, 17 September 2006
Geodesic, a leading provider of communication and collaboration products on the internet and mobile phones, announced the launch of beta version of Mundu Radio, an innovative mobile internet radio service. Mundu Radio offers free access to unlimited music or broadcast content of choice to its users from any part of the world on their mobile devices.
Mobile phone users can now listen to Internet Radio
stations from around the world on their phones
Mundu Radio provides access to thousands of digital Internet Radio stations and the broadest array of International and Indian music and other content available on the Web today such as Pop, Rock, Classical, Oldies, Instrumental, Bollywood, News and many more. Users can also personalize their playlist and manage their profile using an easy to use interface giving users ultimate freedom to listen to their favorite stations and their favorite genre commercial-free.
Commenting on the launch Mr. Kiran Kulkarni, Managing Director – Geodesic said,“ Mundu Radio heralds a new era of unlimited mobile entertainment for the new generation who are constantly on the move. Mobile devices today are ubiquitous and users have shown a clear preference to have all their content available on their phones. With Mundu Radio user’s choice of music, news and other content explodes without the need to carry separate devices. Mundu Radio will create even more compelling opportunities for online music fans, artists who are established and new and for broadcast content providers and publishers who are looking to take their content onto the most widely available avenue – Mobile phones.”
Mundu Radio operates on mobile phones with internet connection (GPRS - CDMA and GSM) and eliminates the need to carry separate devices for listening to high quality unadulterated music. This service is compatible with popular handsets based on Symbian, Windows Mobile and Palm OS platform. Mundu supports streaming at 24Kbps and 32Kbps, which is superior in sound quality experience than currently offered Mp3 streaming on mobile phones.
The beta version of the product, which runs on S60 devices (Nokia 6680, 6681, 6682, 6630, N70 and N90), is available for free download at the Mundu Radio website http://radio.mundu.com/
About Geodesic
Geodesic Information Systems Ltd. is Software Solutions Company. Formed in 1999 Geodesic focused its inventive capabilities across all aspects of communication and collaboration and is now widely recognized for its pioneering universal instant messaging (www.mundu.com) that successfully combines AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, Mundu and Yahoo with deep content collaboration across the Internet, wireless devices and platforms. The company’s flagship product Mundu has been a huge success worldwide. Geodesic reported consolidated revenues of Rs 1004.1 million for the year 2005-2006.The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. Geodesic is currently a team of 160+ people with core competencies in Wireless Technologies, RDBMS, Networking Applications, Web Technologies and Security protocols.
Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Geodesic has offices in Bangalore, US, UK, Sweden and Hong Kong.
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