Vodafone launches:

Vodafone launches Worldspace Radio, a new VAS across 18 circles in India:

Vodafone India has launched new Worldspace Radio service that lets the Vodafone subscribers listen to more than 1,00,000 songs on 10 stations on their mobile phone. You can also get music trivia on some of the greatest voices in Indian music – Kishore Kumar, RD Burman, Lata Mangeshkar, KJ Yesudas, Bhupen Hazarika, Gurdass Mann and many more.

It has 10 stations that offers music from different genres ranging from old Hindi films, regional folk songs and ghazals. Farishta – Best of Bollywood!, Falak – The greatest ghazals!, Sonar – The best Bengali music ever!, Umang – All the flavours of Gujarat!, Surabhi – The best of Marathi music!, Tunak – The greatest Punjabi hits!, Sparsha – Legends of Kannada music!, Thenisai – The greatest hits in Tamil ever!, Spandana – Best Telugu classics! and Madhuri – Classics and latest Malayalam hits!

Vodafone India has tied up with Timbre Media in association with Saregama to provide its customers with the best of radio/music programming and sound packaging. Timbre Media specializes in genre-based radio programming in popular songs and Ghazals in Hindi (old and new), International music, Carnatic & Hindustani classical, songs in different regional languages.

Vodafone customers can call 58000 (toll free) Or SMS ACT Wradio to 111 (toll free) or USSD on *514*580# to activate this service at a price of Rs. 30/month along with 300 minutes of free usage.

Worldspace Radio service on Vodafone is live in Uttar Pradesh East & West, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Mumbai, Bihar, Kerala, Rest of Bengal, Assam, North East, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Orissa, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Chennai. The service is not live in AP, Gujarat, Kolkatta and HP.