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Love is in the air
Online matchmaking sites in India to offer profiles of eligible partners on cellphones.
- Reuters
- Published: 23:53 August 29, 2008
Mumbai: Looking for a partner? For millions of Indians, taking the first step towards getting married could be as easy as picking up a mobile phone.
Online matchmaking services in India have announced tie-ups with telecom service providers, enabling subscribers to view profiles of eligible partners on their mobile phone screens.
India's booming economy has given rise to a new category of young urban professionals, with easier access to technology, but no time to scan traditional matri-monial columns in newspapers.
"They spend a lot of time commuting or working and we would like to use that 'dead' time to enable them to access services such as this one," said Harit Nagpal of phone operator Vodafone.
In a country with nearly 300 million mobile phone users, but where only 11 million people have access to the internet, taking matchmaking directly to customers' fingertips makes sense.
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