Virgin Mobile ties up with GetJar

Virgin Mobile India has announced its alliance with GetJar, a cross platform mobile applications store.
With this alliance Virgin Mobile customers will have access to a wide gamut of applications ranging from games, education, social networking, entertainment, finance, food, health, search, lifestyle and several other utility applications.
It will also allow users to access Facebook Mobile, Yahoo!, Nimbuzz, Opera Mini Browser and eBuddy GetJar currently offers more than 70,000 free mobile games and applications to its users.
MA Madhusudan, chief executive officer, Virgin Mobile India, said, “Mobile applications and games garner a significant share of time spent on the phone by the youth today. We are excited to announce our alliance with GetJar; the world’s largest cross platform application store. This will provide our users free, easy access to globally acclaimed applications, games and will further reiterate our commitment to offer the best value-for-money services to our valued customers.”
As per a company statement, with over 300 per cent growth every year, GetJar achieves an average of almost three million downloads per day globally and adds hundreds of new applications every week to its repository. GetJar supports all major platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Java and Symbian phones, among others and delivers applications for every kind of smart phone and feature phone across 200 countries.
This link to GetJar application store is currently available on Virgin Mobile India’s WAP portal (Vbytes) on GSM platform across 16 circles.
Virgin Mobile India users will be able to download all applications free of cost. Only the data browsing charges of one paisa per KB will be charged on access.