Nokia to bring Ovi internet services to India

Apple iTunes might not be present in the Indian market but Nokia has plans to launch their Ovi services here.

The service features three segments: music, gaming and navigation.

Vineet Taneja, Head of Go to Market, India, Sales, Nokia India spoke about their plans for the Indian market: “Ovi will open the door to Nokia’s Internet services. We are looking at giving a unified user interface for mobile, PC and online media. India has close to 40 million Internet users and we are moving towards the 250-million mobile subscriber mark. With Ovi we will try and bring the power of Internet to a greater scale.”

He added: “Ovi means a lot of things packed into one. However, to start with in India, it would be music, games and navigation. We already have N-Gage, which is integrated as part of Ovi. We would be launching the gaming part in India in the next three months. Users can share games seamlessly with this. Music is another focus for us. Nokia Music store has more than two million songs on the web. With Ovi these can be accessed via PC or mobile. As far as navigation is concerned, we have Nokia Maps where we are covering close to 150 countries. Within India we have already covered eight cities so far and moving forward we would be adding more to this.”

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