DOCOMICS the new range of mobile comics by released by Tata DOCOMO

Posted by blog master Saturday, January 9, 2010

Continuing with its earlier offerings of comics on the mobile medium, Tata DOCOMO, a GSM mobile services operator in the sub-continent, will now be delivering the world renowned Manga and Marvel comics to its subscribers.

Tata DOCOMO is collaboration between India’s Tata Teleservices and Japan’s NTT DOCOMO.

In October, 2009 Tata DOCOMO unique industry first m-Comics service, tagged as ‘Comix on the Go’; offering its customers the enthralling experience of reading full comics books on the portable mobile devices along with special effects like character vibration, sounds, zooming text bubbles, and above all downloads smoothly on a 2.5 Edge Network.

Continuing with the service of the ‘Comix on the Go’ Tata DOCOMO has launched DOCOMICS that will entertain the readers with popular Marvel titles like Spider-Man, X-Men, Civil War and Japanese Manga titles like GEOBREEDERS, TAMAHAGANE, AQUA PLANET CHRONICLE, Silent Mobius Complete Edition, SHINESMAN, and Old Friend.

Remarking over the addition of this remarkable service to its portfolio, Mr. Zubin Jimmy Dubash, Assistant Vice President, VAS – New Products, Tata Teleservices Limited, said, “We are pleased to strategically partner with NTT DOCOMO to offer world popular Manga and Marvel comics to our subscribers. In India, the market for mobile comics is significant with the number of customers with rich-media devices increasing rapidly. Tata DOCOMO leads the way in providing largest range of comic titles read by all genres and we are looking forward to the uptake of comic books as a new revenue driver for the company and the industry at large.”

“It is one of important achievements of the collaboration between NTT DOCOMO and TTSL in order to develop and introduce enhanced services and technologies into Indian market. I look forward to seeing that Tata DOCOMO users enjoy sophisticated Manga service in DOCOMICS” said Murat O. Karadeniz, Executive Advisor, Global Business Division, NTT DOCOMO in a prepared release.

The introductory charge for the service has been fixed for Rs 15/- per comic chapter and there will be no data charges in home network. DOCOMICS is the service brand for reading mobile comics through a viewer application. Customers can view the content frame by frame and can also download the same from WAP site or through the application, says the release by the Company.
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