Roundup of all the Telecom providers and Operators
MChek is one of the most used mobile payment processing service, using which you can easily send and receive money to your bank account or else pay for goods or services, book air/railway tickets from your mobile, or pay your postpaid mobile bill and recharge prepaid mobiles. MChek is one the most used payment processing service and was first adopted by Airtel about a year ago.
Continue reading “After Airtel, TATA Indicom Ties up with MChek for Mobile Payment Processing!”
I remember well, its not too long that we posted about Aircel’s launch in Bangalore followed by Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh). And now its turn for New Delhi circle and as expected, the whole NCR region has been covered with Aircel’s network initially.
Continue reading “Aircel Continues its National Launch Drive; Launched Services in NCR”
There’s a lot of good news coming in for BSNL customers since the last 1-2 months. First it got the most awaited 3G services, then number of VAS followed by very good STVs that we discussed in our recent posts.
Continue reading “BSNL to Start Blackberry Services from April”
BPL Mobile- One of the country’s oldest cellular service provider has recently changed its brand name to Loop Mobile. So, if you are tired looking into the old fashioned BPL logo, then here is the brand new revamped logo of BPL mobile (now called as loop mobile.)
A good news coming in for BSNL customers out there. Just a couple of hours ago, BSNL has launched many Special Tariff Vouchers (STVs) for its customers, the best among which is the BSNL to BSNL unlimited calling STV worth Rs. 300/-.
Here are the list of other STV launched with their corresponding calling rates and respective STV cost.
Continue reading “Make BSNL to BSNL Calls for Free With Special Tariff Vouchers”
Since this morning, there were rumors around the telecom industry that the top managing personnel of Bharti Airtel, Manoj Kohli, CEO may soon resign from Airtel and jump over to some other leading telecom service provider.
Continue reading “Will Manoj Kohli (CEO, Airtel) Resign Bharti?”
Recently, Aircel rolled out its services in many parts of the county including Bangalore and assured many of its customers that, its services would soon be rolled out across the country so that its customers can seamlessly roam on its network.
Continue reading “After Bangalore, Aircel Rolls Out its Services In Hyderabad!”
Its really sad to know that, after the launch of 3G services with lots of hardships, they are now being convicted to create some security issues for the nation. As of now, there are no ways to monitor 3G calls on real time basis and the Intelligence Bureau is concerned about how secure they are (3G services) for the nation.
Reportedly, its been said that, the Intelligence Bueareu of the country wants to halt 3G services in the country until such real time monitoring mechanism is implemented, whereas telecom companies are of the view that, such monitoring mechanism should be implemented by the security agencies of the country as they are concerned about such security issues.
Well, as of now, there are no such official notice about pausing the services but its for sure that 3G will be a hot point of debate in the days to come.. Hope everything goes well! 🙂
Just a couple of hours ago, BSNL has announced the launch of a new service, wherein, Prepaid mobile users can easily recharge their mobiles online using their net banking account or credit cards.
Though, there were already online services for paying postpaid bills, but the ability to recharge prepaid mobiles online is an innovative offering by BSNL.
For recharging your mobiles just head over to this page, and create an user id. Once you have access to login to BSNL portal, you can recharge your mobiles online at any point of time.
Link: BSNL Online Recharge
If you remember, in a recent post, our co-author – Ritu published about a unlimited email plan for Airtel Blackberry users worth RS. 499 per month. This plan once activated, lets a blackberry users access unlimited email and Instant messengers (like Gtalk & Yahoo) for one complete month. But surprisingly, immediately after Airtel’s announcement of this plan, Vodafone too launched exactly a similar plan but for a better and competitive rate.
This plan by Vodafone costing Rs. 299 per month would give a Vodafone customers exactly the same benefits as in the case of Airtel but the only difference is its price. Airtel charges Rs. 499 and Vodafone declared the same services for just 299 bucks a month. Well, if you are planning to activate this plan, let me tell you, unlimited usages will be only for accessing Email and not browsing the Internet.
I say Vodafone is finally curious about attracting more and more corporate users towards its brand. Hope there would be more such competitive offers in the days to come. 🙂
Related: Unlimited Email and Instant Messaging plan for Rs.499 on Airtel BlackBerry
BSNL has recently announced the launch of a special SMS booster plan for its customers using which one can send unlimited SMS to National and Local mobiles for just 10 paisa.
Initially a customer need to recharge their BSNL mobile with Rs. 50 worth SMS booster pack and then, as said earlier, they can send as much SMS to any number (mobile) or any network across the county for just 10 paisa for one full month.
So BSNL customers what are you waiting for? Just recharge your mobile with this SMS Booster plan and celebrate women’s day with joy!! 🙂
Happy Women’s Day!!
Link: Official Release
Airtel and Research In Motion (RIM) introduced a new service plan specifically for Airtel customers in India.
The BlackBerry® Personal Mail service plan is an innovative offering that provides Airtel customers with unlimited email and instant messaging (IM) on BlackBerry® smartphone for just Rs. 499 per month. It is the first service plan priced at less than Rs. 500 to offer unlimited email and IM to BlackBerry smartphone customers in the Indian market.
Unlimited BB Rentals as high as Rs.1500 . And this plan comes as a surprise.
Looks like users are using accessing email from their devices much more nowadays.
And interestingly RIM has started to sell Unlocked BBs in India. We will update you on tat as well
Continue reading “Unlimited Email and Instant Messaging plan for Rs.499 on Airtel BlackBerry”
I just went to the local BSNL Mobile Counter and enquired about the availability of 3G SIM Cards..
I was a bit sad to hear when the person at the counter told me that , they are expecting the cards by April 20th 2009.
That’s nearly 2 months away from now
We have see the service beeing demoed by the ministers .. when will the common man get it ?
Please bring out the service soon guys ..
Japan is already using 4G and thinking of improving it ..
As all of you have already read, Chennai said hello to some serious technology development, though not commercially available as of yet. Yes Chennai witnessed the launch of 3 G services yesterday . But we covered it yesterday.There is another technology the government has been promising to launch for a long time.
Yes you got it right, it’s about MNP or mobile number portability. Continue reading “Come August, say Hello to Mobile Number Portability”
Well BSNL Launched 3G Services in Chennai yesterday.
Now BSNL has announced the 3G Tariffs and plans .
The good news is that it will be available both on Prepaid and PostPaid.
You have to purchase a new 3G SIM card for Rs.300 and the website says that migration from 2G to 3G would not be possible.
We are not sure if it means just getting a new SIM card or getting a new number as well. Its most likely that it would be just the SIM.
Just in case if your wondering what kinds of speeds are possible on 3G
2.1 Tariff for 3G mobile service
2.2.4 Initial SIM Charges for both postpaid and prepaid service:
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Particulars |
Amount |
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Cost of SIM (Inclusive of Service Tax) in Rs. |
300 |
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Talk Value in Rs. |
NIL |
|
Initial Validity in days |
7 |
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Migration from 2-G to 3-G |
Not feasible at present |
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Applicable to |
Voice & Data plan |
