BANGALORE, India, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --     Arvind Rao, the Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of OnMobile, was yesterday
awarded the prestigious Dataquest 'Pathbreaker of the Year 2009' award. It
was presented to him in recognition of his contribution to the telecom and
information technology industries in creating the biggest telecom VAS company
in India.

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OnMobile has done innovative work in voice portals and grew both
organically and inorganically. Under the leadership of Rao the company
created, retained and maintained a great team and achieved global scale,
touching a billion consumers worldwide, and breaking a path for others to
follow.

"IT (http://www.ciol.com/News/Interviews/IT-Of-going-green-and-enabling-
business/22509119995/0/) stalwarts like Wipro and Infosys have brought India 
on global map as best IT services destination. We want to bring India on 
global map as best IT products destination," said Rao, after receiving the 
award.

Working across 30 global markets OnMobile's services have reached a
billion customers through brands like Orange (http://www.ciol.com/News/News-
Reports/Telecom-Asia-honors-Orange-Business-Services/1409117911/0/), AT&T, 
France Telecom, T-Mobile (http://www.ciol.com/Global-News/News-Reports/T-Mobi
le-UK-launches-first-prepaid-Android-phone/3909124521/0/), Wanadoo and T
urkcell. Onmobile has competed successfully with much larger MNC companies 
and has been at the center of India's mobile VAS industry that has today 
grown to Rs. 10,000 crore with its innovative products, business models, 
technology and partnerships.

Earlier, while at McKinsey & Co, Arvind specialized in the IT, telecom
and electronics sector, providing strategic counsel to high-tech clients on
new business entry and development strategies, acquisitions, alliances,
product marketing and distribution strategies.

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About OnMobile Global

OnMobile is India's largest white labeled VAS company for
Mobile, Landline and Media Service Providers. OnMobile offers a one-stop
solution for all needs through an innovative array of products in M-commerce,
entertainment, media portals & interactive television programming, mobile
marketing, user-generated content & social networking, mobile utility, data &
3G, and information & network products. The services are available across a
range of channels like SMS, Voice, WAP, USSD and On-Device Portals, enabling
end-to-end solutions.

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