Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading cellular service providers, today launched the Portfolio Tracker for its customers across the country. Portfolio Tracker is a downloadable application which allows Vodafone customers to get live and near-live stock prices and financial markets information instantly on their GPRS enabled mobile phones.
The Portfolio Tracker is a total portfolio solution on ones mobile phone at a subscription fee of Rs 99 per month. Vodafone customers can search and add stocks to their portfolio, while mentioning the quantity of stock held by them along with the price at which they have bought the stock. This enables them to see the market value of the portfolio at any given time. The application also allows users to track stocks they are interested through “Stock Watch” and have a personalized ticker through the “Manage Ticker” function of the application.
There is also an Alerts service wherein subscribers can be notified when the price of a stock reaches a specific high or low price set on the stock. Apart from this, subscribers are provided with dynamic and relevant market news in the “Market News” section and can get a feel of the overall market performance at any given time by looking at the Market Indices of BSE, NSE, Sensex and others.
Besides Stocks, the application also allows users to manage their Mutual Fund portfolio. Users can search for and add funds to their portfolio by adding the number of units along with the NAV with which they bought the funds. The latest price of the fund and its value of gain / loss can be seen at a single glance in the Fund Portfolio section. Apart from this, customers can get exchange rate values of major global currencies including US Dollar, Euro, Yen, Canadian Dollar, Pound Sterling, etc. in the Forex section.
Harit Nagpal, Director Marketing and New Business, Vodafone Essar, said, “It has been our endeavour to constantly bring innovative products and services to our customers. Portfolio Tracker is one such initiative that enables our customers to create, access and update their stock and fund portfolios and track market movements even while being on the move.”
Vodafone customers can download the Portfolio Tracker application from the portal-Vodafone live. Alternatively, customers can download the application by sending an SMS “PT” to 111 from a GPRS enabled device. On sending PT to 111, user receives a message with the link to download the application. Customers can unsubscribe the application by sending an SMS “CAN PT” to 111.
About Vodafone Essar
Vodafone Essar in India is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc and commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellular license for Mumbai. Vodafone Essar now has operations in 21 circles with over 56.70 million customers*.
Over the years, Vodafone Essar, under the Hutch brand, has been named the ‘Most Respected Telecom Company’, the ‘Best Mobile Service in the country’ and the ‘Most Creative and Most Effective Advertiser of the Year’.
Vodafone is the world’s leading international mobile communications company. It now has operations in 25 countries across 5 continents and 40 partner networks with over 280 million customers worldwide. Vodafone has partnered with the Essar Group as its principal joint venture partner for the Indian market.
Essar Global Limited (EGL) is a diversified business group spanning the manufacturing and services sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping & Logistics, and Projects. The group has operations and investments in India, Canada, USA, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and South East Asia and employs 30,000 people worldwide.
