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Bulk SMS Ban Creates Confusion Among Customers and Operators – Five SMS a Day, or Five SMS together in Bulk at a time?

2012-08-20T12:51:00.000+05:30

On August 17th, Govt of India banned all “Bulk SMS” and MMS services for 15 days across the country to curb spread of rumors which has led to exodus of North Eastern people from certain parts of country by issuing directive to all mobile service operators.

While the ban was on “Bulk SMS” it soon became apparent that the ban did not intend to restrict only BULK sms but also all SMS sent from individual SIM cards, once the count of SMS exceeded 5 text messages per day per SIM.

It has been just 2 days since this restrictive order, however it has already created huge confusion among operators and has impacted almost all prepaid subscriber (more than 90% of total mobile users) in India.

The Directive to Ban Bulk SMS and MMS clearly asking all mobile operators not to allow mobile phone users to send more than five SMSs or MMSs in Bulk or at one go over the next 15 days (as we shared in earlier post) but many operators have interpreted it as “Not more than 5 SMS per day per SIM card”, which has in turn ended up creating huge communication hurdles for many prepaid mobile service consumers across all circles.

At TelecomTalk we were flooded with Email, Calls, Tweets and comments on posts regarding this SMS Ban. We also got customer feed back from all circles across India from our esteem active readers, many postpaid subscriber had no problem sending as many SMSs as they wanted to at one go while many prepaid customers were barred from sending more than 5 SMSs during the day even some reported that they cant even send one sms.

There is huge confusion among almost all mobile operators about the government/ DoT order to ban bulk SMSs / MMSes leading GSM Operator Vodafone India informed its prepaid subscribers in twitter stating “As per the instructions received from the Government Regulatory, there is a restriction on sending more than 5 SMS per day from prepaid numbers for the next 15 days. We regret the inconvenience caused.”

We also spoke with our sources across several operators including Airtel, Idea Cellular, Uninor, BSNL, and almost all operators. Each of them said that they could not implement this directive for all their postpaid subscriber due to technical limitations in their GSM/CDMA system. However the same was not true for prepaid users, as the ban was almost immediately implemented as 5 SMS per Day per SIM. This has been done, as the DOT requirement of “5 SMS in One GO or Bulk’ for each or every subscriber is technically not feasible in current system across operator.

Its the era of twitter and FB but it was surprising to see even the most active operators who are in social media didn’t care to inform its users except Vodafone India who was responding its each and every user stating why it was banned.

Tata Docomo Launches Unlimited Local Call Pack at Rs 666

2012-08-20T12:49:00.000+05:30

Tata docomo has always been innovative in launching new tariff plans to its customer. Tata docomo has launched a new plan at Rs 666 for both existing and new customers in karnataka which will offer unlimited local calls to any local network including landlines with an validity of 30 days.

Tata docomo had already launched a unlimited local and std pack at 899 few months back which has got a good response.

This pack is aimed to those customer who has got high local calls usage and average recharge of rs 1000 on recharge. With this special recharge customers can also recharge any std sms or isd rate cutter to reduce other call rate.

So what’s your suggestions will this plan be suitable if launched in other circles? Should other operators also offer unlimited local calls at a feasible rate ? Do share your views via comments.

Tata docomo had already launched a unlimited local and std pack at 899 few months back which has got a good response.

So what’s your suggestions will this plan be suitable if launched in other circles? Should other operators also offer unlimited local calls at a feasible rate ? Do share your views via comments.

MTNL Launches “Name Tune” Service – Greet Your Caller With Your Name !

2012-08-11T13:51:00.000+05:30

India’s first 3G Mobile service operator, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today announced the launch of its all new ‘Name Tunes’ service which allows MTNL Prepaid and Postpaid mobile customers (2G/3G) to personalize their Caller Tune (Ring Back Tune -Play Tune) with their own name.

Name Tunes is new Value Added Service in CRBT segment that allows subscriber to greet callers with his/her Name & personalized message of their choice from a set your template messages, instead of listening to a traditional Tring-Tring or musical caller tune.

With this, MTNL Mobile customers in Mumbai circle can get their caller tune with their Own NAME by following a simple SMS process that allows them to set their name as their Caller Tune.

How To Activate MTNL Name Tune Service (Mumbai) ?

To avail the “Name Tune” service, MTNL mobile (Trump/Dolphin) customers should send simple SMS NT Your Name to 56799 (Toll Free). For example if the name is “Sanjay” then Type “NT SANJAY” and send it to 56799. Subscription charges are Rs.25 per month and Name Tune download will be charged for Rs.12 for 30 days.

Uninor To Add 150 New Network Sites In Kolkata and West Bengal

2012-08-11T13:46:00.000+05:30

After announcing its decision to prioritize investments and expansion in eight circles including Kolkata and West Bengal Uninor has now announced that it will add an additional 150 new network sites within the coming months in Kolkata and West Bengal.

The company has already added a similar number of additional sites in the last three months across the state.

Uninor has also emerged as the highest subscriber gainer in Kolkata circle for the second consecutive month according to the COAI June 2012 subscriber addition report.

Since its launch in 2010, over two million subscribers have chosen Uninor in Kolkata itself. This makes Uninor the most preferred service in the circle since the past two years.

The company had earlier launched the Sabse Sasta Challenge, promising a full refund to anyone who can find a tariff more affordable than what Uninor offers. One month and no challenge later, Uninor now extends the offer to a full campaign that will aggressively use print, radio and outdoor advertising inviting customers to the undisputed and most affordable mobile service of Kolkata and West Bengal.

Aircel Introduces Exciting New Offers for Andhra Pradesh on Ramzan

2012-08-11T13:43:00.000+05:30

Aircel has announced the special Ramzan Offers for its Andhra Pradesh prepaid subscribers. The newly introduced schemes comprise of the most competitive Extra Talk time recharge voucher and a special Gulf Card to help people stay connected with their loved ones in select gulf countries at a very low cost.

Also, for the first time in the world, Aircel has introduced Ramzan Status Dialer Tune which helps customers set a unique busy status while offering prayers. One can also activate Ramzan special Natts, Duas, Hadiths and much more.

The Extra Talk time recharge voucher comes at a cost of Rs. 149 and gives the subscribers a talk time worth Rs. 200 .The special Gulf Card comes at a recharge value of Rs. 18 enables subscribers to make calls to select Gulf countries like Saudi and Kuwait at Rs.5.50 per minute and Dubai and UAE at Rs.7 per minute.

For the benefit of users in the old city, Aircel is also conducting free sampling of the product from select retail outlets in the city on the eve of Ramzan enabling them to connect with the near and dear ones staying abroad.

Ramzan Status Dialer Tune helps customers set a unique busy status while offering prayers. The customers can set up the status message in a language of their choice between English, Telugu or Hindi.Customer can send a simple message DTRamzan to 53000 to activate the service. Besides this, the customers can also make their Ibadat stronger in this holy month by simply dialing 53000786 and set their all-time favourite Naats as their Dialer Tune.

India Govt To Give One Mobile Phone Free to Every BPL Family With 200 minutes Talk Time

2012-08-09T14:08:00.000+05:30

The Government is finalizing a Rs.7000 crore scheme to give one Mobile Phone to every family living below the poverty line (BPL Family) with 200 minutes of local calls worth Rs.100 for free, as some media sources claims.

The scheme will be called as Har Hath Mein Phone is expected to be announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 15 during 65th Independence Day, this scheme will help 28 million poor people (6 million family) across India to have access to free connectivity.

Sources claims that 50% cost of “Har Hath Mein Phone” scheme will be funded from the Department of Telecommunication’s Universal Service Obligation (USO) funds and rest of 50% of the cost of the scheme is likely to come from the bidder who gets the right to provide mobile phone service (Prepaid SIM Card) and the remaining 50% from the USO fund. The USO fund is meant for providing access to phone services to people in rural and remote areas at affordable prices.

The PMO is directly involved with the Planning Commission, PM’s advisor Sam Pitroda and Telecom Ministry in giving a final shape to this scheme. The Planning Commission and DoT have been asked to submit a final workable solution for this scheme by August 10, so that the Prime Minister can announce the scheme on 65th Independence Day – August 15.

Do you think mobile phone is need of the hour for poor people when the country is heading towards drought? Do share your views via comments.

MTNL Mumbai Launches Independence Day Offer

2012-08-09T14:05:00.000+05:30

India’s first 3G Mobile service operator, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), today announced the launch of ‘Independence Day offer‘‘ for its ‘Trump’ prepaid customers (2G and 3G) in Mumbai circle to commemorate the 65th Independence Day.

MTNL has come up with ‘Independence Day’ special recharge voucher, priced at Rs 65 and Rs.1508. The RC-65 stands for India’s 65th Independence Day celebration while other RC-1508 stands for 15th August the day of Independence.

RC-65 enables its customer to enjoy extra talk time of Rs.75 as main balance. While RC-1508 which comes at Rs.1508 provides hyper talk time of Rs.1786 as main balance.

Here are the details-:

MRP/RCV	Benefits	Validity
Rs.65	Talk Time- Rs.75	As per main account
Rs.1508	Talk Time- Rs.1786	As per Main account
Note: (1) The above recharge coupons will be available for only 8 days from 14th to 21st Aug 2012 and will be available as E-Recharge/ flexi recharge from retailers and MTNL Customer Service Centers (CSC) in Mumbai circle. (2) For more information call 1503 or 9869012345 / 022-22221503 (toll free from any MTNL phone)

Uninor Launches Freedom Plan-101, Offers Free Unlimited Own Network Calls

2012-08-09T14:03:00.000+05:30

Freedom is everyone’s right. And this year as we celebrate Independence Day, Uninor is offering its subscribers across Mumbai the freedom to talk nonstop for as long as they want with the new STV Unlimited 101.

For a recharge of as low as just Rs 101, Uninor customers can avail of unlimited Uninor to Uninor calls. Which means now Uninor customers can enjoy uninterrupted conversations for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 30 days a month for just Rs 101/-! This offer is available for Mumbai circle customers and is valid for a period of 30 days.

While other operators might offer similar services, Uninor is the only GSM mobile operator to launch the unlimited calling pack at a best value of Rs 101/- . The freedom unlimited pack is part of Uninor’s ‘Daam Kum Baatein zyada’ proposition.

Exclusive : Uninor To Shut Down GSM Operations in Four Telecom Circles, Asking Customers To Port Out From Its Network Before 31st August

2012-08-07T11:34:00.001+05:30

Uninor the joint venture of Unitech and Norway telecom major Telenor whose mobile service licenses has been canceled by the Supreme Court under 2G verdict, has started its ‘Operation Shut Down’ in four telecom circles – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Orissa.

Our exclusive sources confirms that Uninor will soon ask its users in these circles to port out their mobile number to another operator using Mobile Number Portability (MNP) prior to the scheduled suspension of Uninor Mobile services on 31st August, 2012.

Uninor has also discontinued some of its popular STVs and Special offers in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Orissa.

Earlier Uninor said that it will scale down GSM operations in four circles out of the total 13 telecom circles where it is commercially active to focus resources on the remaining areas like Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa and seven other best performing circles such as UP East, UP West, Bihar and Jharkhand, Kolkata, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.

Uninor have time till September 7 to offer their mobile services in all 13 telecom circles after which they will be forced to close down or shut down their operations in case if they fail to get a new 2G licence and spectrum in fourthcoming auction of spectrum by DoT.

The Supreem Court in February cancelled 122 licences (inclusing all / Pan India licence of Uninor) issued by the Telecom Minister A Raja in 2008 and asked the Government to conduct fresh auctions by August 31.

So whats next any predictions as a reader you would like to make ? Do share it via comments .

Tata Docomo Rollback Its National Roaming Pack

2012-08-07T11:29:00.002+05:30

Bad news for frequent travelers who are on Tata’s GSM or CDMA mobile services. Tata Docomo has decided NOT to extend its most popular Roaming Vouchers STV 47 / RC 46 which provides free incoming calls to its prepaid customers (GSM and CDMA) while on National Roaming.

As shared on May 9th, 2012, Tata Docomo was the second GSM operator after BSNL to offer its FREE Incoming calls facility while Roaming Service on promotional basis.

Going forward with RC 46 , only those customers who had activated the pack before 31st July can continue to enjoy the benefits till 60 day periods end. Tata Docomo GSM and CDMA Customers wishing to avail incoming FREE Incoming Call facility while on National Roaming can still do so by availing any of the postpaid roaming free plans from tata Docomo GSM and CDMA 299 799 499 postpaid plans.

What do you feel ? Do share your views on Incoming Calls while National Roaming not being free anymore on prepaid plans except for BSNL users using Roam Free Plan-150.

New 3G Tablet From Reliance with Android 2.3 OS, 512 RAM

2012-07-19T21:27:00.003+05:30

New 3G Tablet From Reliance with Android 2.3 OS, 512 RAM

Reliance announced the launch f new 3G tablet.New 3G Tablet is enhance the user experience with incredible affordability and bundled offerings.

Reliance 3G Tab feaures

7-inch capacitive touch screen
Android 2.3 OS
processor of 1.4GHz
better screen resolution of 1024 x 600
512 MB RAM,
Multi Touch
3.0 MP rear camera
and also front camera, support video calling.

Reliance Communications is offering free benefits worth Rs 6250 to its 3G customers where in they can enjoy Free 3GB of 3G data for 3 months, 3 months Free video calling for Local and STD to Reliance 3G, Free voice rental for 12 months (Postpaid) along with Free Global calling worth Rs. 250, 1 year free subscription on McAfee Mobile Security, 2 months free subscription of BigFlix, a Free 4GB micro SD card all together valued at Rs. 6,250.

Reliance 3G Tab is attractively priced at Rs. 14,499 with attractive plans.

Uninor New Update Free Local Calls on Sundays

2012-07-19T21:15:00.001+05:30

Uninor New Update Free Local Calls on Sundays

Uninor Launches new unique offer - free unlimited local calls on Sundays.In this offer you calls unlimited Uninor to Uninor.

This offer applicable to all new and existing customer. The ofer valid on every sunay starting from 22nd july to 26th august 2012.

Uninor recharges are available across telecom retail outlets , exclusive Uninor Stores across Tamil Nadu also available on Online and also most of ATM's.

BlackBerry Premium Stores opens in Mumbai

2012-07-19T21:03:00.002+05:30

Blackbrry Premium Stores opens in Mumbai

Research In Motion (RIM) opened BlackBerry Premium Stores in Mumbai.Located at Fort and Palladum Pheonix Mills.

Research In Motion (RIM) opened ther first first BlackBerry Premium Store in Delhi and 2nd in Gurgaon and 3rd in Bangalore.

In BlackBerry Store a knowledgeable team in store will deliver expert information and advice to create the finest customer experience.

BlackBerry Premium store will be open 7 days in a week and company also plans to open more stores in merto cities including Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad.

BlackBerry Premium Stores address in Mumbai :

1. BlackBerry Premium Store, Palladium, Phoenix Mills Compound, Lower Parel (West), Mumnbai-400013. Phone : 022 – 66150834.

2. BlackBerry Premium Store, 325, Nawab Building, Dr. D.N. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400001. Phone :022 – 66150974.

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2012-07-19T00:01:00.001+05:30

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Sony announce new phone Sony F800 ICS Walkman [Price in India]

2012-07-18T21:58:00.000+05:30

Sony Announce new F800 smartphone in its walkman range. F800 comes with Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich).

It features a 3.5 inch multi-touch display.
Sony F800 commes with pre-installed apps, including email, and also features Bluetooth and Wifi.

The Sony F800 will be available with a choice of either 8GB, 16GB or 32GB of built in storage and it also comes with S-Master MX Digital Amplifier and five Clear Audio technologies.

Sony have not release any details about pricing and when its available.

HTC ONE & DESIRE Smartphones now support Indian Language

2012-07-18T21:49:00.000+05:30

HTC ONE & DESIRE Smartphones now support Indian Language

Now HTC ONE & DESIRE Smartphones full language support for Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Bengali. HTC became the first global smartphone brand who support full language support on its innovative smartphones range.

Now HTC smartphone user will be able to write and read in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Marathi through all functions on HTC smartphone. while browsing the Internet and all applications available through Google Play.HTC has kept its promise of integrating full native language support for its smartphones in India, beginning with the HTC Explorer in Q4 20111.

BSNL Launches USSD Based ‘Mobile Money’ Services

2012-07-18T21:34:00.000+05:30

BSNL Launches USSD Based ‘Mobile Money’ Services

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and State Bank of India (SBI) announced a patnership for Mobile Money Service.

BSNL and SBI patnership to extending banking and payment service through through the ubiquitous USSD SMS based mobile platform.

Now BSNL customers having their with State Bank of India can enjoy mobile banking facility with all banking transactions including Mobile Transfer, Mobile Fung Transfer, Balance Inquiry, mobile Top-Up, Mobile Recharge, Mii Statement, Prepaid Racharge, Postpaid bill payment and lots other service. BSNL charge Rs. 15 per month. The service work over USSD based SMS system.

MOST IMPORTANT
The new USSD based Mobile Money service is instant, easy to use and work without any Mobile Internet service facility on mobile phone.

BSNL Prepaid or postpaid customer have to register with SBI.User has to dial *595# to view menu choices and key-in your choice.Customers will be able to view account balance, get mini statements, do Fund Transfer, change MPIN or recharge their mobile account. He will also receive confirmation regarding successful transaction over USSD SMS.

New Tablet from Zen - Ultratab A100 7.0

2012-07-18T21:10:00.000+05:30

New Tablet from Zen - Ultratab A100 7.0

Mobile TV content provider DigiVive has partnered with Zen mobile. DigiVive's TV service - nexGTv now comes with Zen Mobile Tablet

nexGTv wil be embedded service in Zen Ultra Tab 7.0 free of charge.nexGTv gives more than 100 premium channel and Video-on-Demand at a click of a button.

nexGTv has various features like replay TV, streaming, and 24x7 customer care support. some top channels from sony, star, Aaj Tak UTV movies etc.nexGTv seamless live streaming even on 2G network.

The Zen Ultra Tab 7.0 is comes with Android 4.0 that support high speed internet connectivity and 3g enhancing live streaming of video and content.