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S TEL MNP Advise

Kaushik — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:56:22 +0000

Recently I was discussing 2G Spectrum Scam Impact, where I had said Bahrain Telecom (Batelco) has decided to sell off its entire 43% stake from S TEL and they’ll quit from the telecom sector. Now the news is, S TEL has finally started to advise its users to opt for Mobile Number Porting and they’ll gracefully [...]

New Vodafone Prepaid

Kaushik — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:50:44 +0000

Today I went to visit Vodafone Store at Merlin Manor building at 32 D.P.Sashmal Rd in Kolkata 33. I went there to get a new prepaid connection. But the security person, who issues tokens, told me that they cannot activate new connections after 1 pm. I was a bit surprised ti hear this. However, when [...]

2G spectrum scam impact

Kaushik — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:39:07 +0000

After the much awaited Supreme Court verdict on the 2G spectrum scam, we’ve come to know that as many as 122 licenses have been cancelled. Anticipations are on about the impact on market, share values falling and speculations of some telecom operators quitting from the mobile operator business etc. From a normal user’s point of [...]

BSNL in Indian mobile telecom sector

Kaushik — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:45:01 +0000

BSNL or the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is also a major stakeholder in the Indian telecom sector alongside Airtel, Vodafone & many other mobile operators. Infrastructure runs on government cost, there’s no shortage in state of the art service quality. But still, BSNL stands nowhere near the two big giants Airtel & Vodafone. But why? [...]

Memory card for your phone

Kaushik — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:17:03 +0000

Like many other electronic gadgets, modern mobile phones require memory cards to store data like music, pictures, videos and other documents. MicroSD cards are available in the market and their prices vary, mostly on two grounds: capacity and class rating. Capacity is basically the amount of data it can hold and is stated in gigabytes. [...]

New Uninor tariff plans

Kaushik — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:26:05 +0000

Telecom operator Uninor has revised tariff plans for prepaid users in Kolkata/WB telecom circle. First of all, note that the Rs. 197 and Rs. 198 recharges have been moved from STV to FRC, i.e., these special tariff vouchers are now applicable as first recharge coupon. As for the STV, the newly revised & updated rates [...]

Account Services For Prepaid User

Kaushik — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:26:15 +0000

Recently TRAI directed mobile operators to make prepaid services more transparent. Vodafone has already started to work on it and My Vodafone services are now available on beta testing phase for prepaid customers. Now you can register for My Vodafone services and when the services are fully operational you’ll get access to many services. What [...]

Nokia Mobiles With High Megapixel Camera

Kaushik — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:22:49 +0000

Today, let’s take a look at some high end Nokia mobile phones which has at least 8 megapixel camera. Right now in the market, there is Nokia E6 and Nokia 701 which offers 8 MP camera. And off course, there is Nokia N8 smartphone with 12 MP camera. Some people prefer a higher megapixel camera [...]

Cheers mobile network outage

Kaushik — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:05:29 +0000

In July 2009 Etisalat DB announced a long term passive infrastructure sharing agreement with Reliance Communications to accelerate Etisalat’s roll-out of GSM Mobile and other telecom services in 15 telecom circles in India. On 20th Jan Cheers mobile users suddenly faced network outage, Delhi was the most affected zone, with customers unable to make or [...]

Buying Android phone?

Kaushik — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:48:55 +0000

Are you planning to buy a Android smartphone sometime soon? Then you should know that some 56% of the top 20 smartphones in the market runs on outdated and insecure versions of the Android OS most manufacturers don’t update their phones after they’ve been in the market for just one year. This sounds the alarm. [...]

SIM Card Re-issue or Replacement

Kaushik — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:38:49 +0000

For the past few months I’m noticing that Google is sending some traffic to my website where there are increasing number of queries regarding mobile phone SIM Card re-issue or replacement and people want to know the sample letter format for this purpose. So my post here today is about SIM Card Re-issue or Replacement. [...]

Vodafone on-net recharge offers

Kaushik — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:46:35 +0000

As mobile phone calls are getting dearer, Vodafone, a major telecom player has some exciting recharge vouchers in store for its customers. Unlike Uninor and Idea Cellular, Vodafone hasn’t come up with combo offer of on-net & off-net recharge vouchers but kept it separate and here I’ll take a look at these prepaid recharge offers. [...]

Reliance 3G Tab: 3G Data Offer

Kaushik — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:18:10 +0000

News is that Reliance Postpaid and Prepaid 3G users who buy Reliance 3G Tab for Rs. 12,999 will now get free 500 MB 3G data per month upto 3 months and its worth Rs. 1,050. The pack includes Value Added Service of 2 months free subscription to BigFlix+ worth Rs. 500 and enjoy large collection of [...]

What is Call Divert & How to activate and deactivate

Kaushik — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:46:54 +0000

What is call divert? In your phone’s settings menu there is a call settings sub menu wherein this call divert feature can be found. Its a process to divert or re-route or send an incoming call to another mobile or landline phone. This may be required under certain circumstances when phone is switched off or [...]

Uninor prepaid recharge online

Kaushik — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:34:07 +0000

On the 10th of December last year, I had asked @Uninor in Twitter whether they’d start the facility of online recharging for their prepaid customers and they replied “very soon”, you probably read my post here. Well, within a month of this, I can see a “Recharge online” link on selected pages www.uninor.in website. Means, [...]