[by Cerius Shah] MTNL has launched its CRBT (NYSE: BT) service sooner than expected. The service powered by soon to be IPO’d OnMobile can be activated via IVRS, SMS and WAP. The service is priced at Rs 25 per month. Download charges for premium content are Rs 12 per song, per month and Non-Premium for Rs 9 per song per month. I presume the difference between premium and non premium is in the eyes of the IPR holder, don’t expect the subtle spread of Rs 3 between the two to be communicated clearly though. [via release]

To put this in perspective, the last launch of CRBT services I could find indexed by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was by BPL…in 2004.