TELECOM TALK

With the heightening Cricket fervor in the country, this season, Pan India GSM mobile service operator IDEA Cellular has stepped up the tempo by announcing a multi-year sponsorship agreement with the current IPL Champions, The Deccan Chargers of Hyderabad. The pan-India mobile operator, IDEA Cellular will be the Principal Partner of Deccan Chargers, starting with the third edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 Cricket Tournament, scheduled to start from March 2010.

The tie up is unique and significant as it brings together last season’s IPL Champions and IDEA, which believes in being a ‘Champion, Elevating and Humane’ brand. Further, IDEA is a strong telephony brand in the home of Deccan Chargers, with over 6 million subscribers in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

During the upcoming IPL 3 T-20 Tournament, all 27 players of Team Deccan Chargers, along with the Coach and support staff, will be seen sporting the IDEA Cellular logo on the front of their jersey and trousers. Read more…

MTS India, the youngest CDMA mobile service operator today announced the launch of lowest local and STD tariff for its mobile service users in Mumbai telecom circle. The operator offers all Local calls with in MTS network 1paisa/4 seconds and all other network local call at One Paisa/2 seconds, while STD calls at just 1 paisa per seconds, on any mobile or land line network in India.

To avail the new lowest tariff, MTS India’s  pre-paid subscribers can recharge with the new special tariff vouchers priced at Rs.49, Rs.98 and Rs.148, which comes with the validity of 60 days and 90 days respectively. Read more…

Tata Docomo today announced the launch of ‘2gether’ platform. The ‘2gether’ platform is a fun and youthful platform, created with the objective of connecting people with their loved ones this Valentine’s Day without exposing them to the fear of rejection.

The ‘2gether in Love’ program helps people innovatively connect on this Valentine’s Day. In this program participants will be given the option to anonymously express their feelings through either email or SMS.

What makes this program distinctive is the fact that it doesn’t reveal the identity of the sender and the receiver keeps guessing who the possible admirer could be? If the guess is right, Tata DOCOMO brings them together. If the guess is wrong, the guess chain goes on and there is no fear of suffering heartbreak for anyone! So this Valentine’s Day, reach out to the one you secretly like or who likes you. Read more…

In an attempt to add the transparency and protect the interest of the subscribers of Landline and Mobile services, The Telecom regulator of India, TRAI has directed all basic telephone service providers, unified access service providers (UAS) and cellular mobile service providers (CMTS) to publish the performance with respect to the “TRAI benchmark of Quality of Service (QoS)” parameter on their website on quarterly basis.

According to the telecom Regulator, all the Telecom operators need to display the QoS benchmarks within forty five days of issuance of TRAI’s direction and thereafter forty five days after the end of every quarter.

The TRAI QoS parameter includes Accessibility of call center, Response time Read more…

Uninor announced today yet another exciting and special offer for its prepaid mobile customers. This offer from Uninor gives the ultimate freedom to its customers, now they can talk freely and without looking at the clock. With this offer, Uninor once again demonstrates its commitment towards customers and brings the best of services along with the best value for money as compared to any other cellular service provider.

This Uninor offer comes with a choice between two STVs (Special Tariff Voucher) recharges of Rs. 199 and Rs. 32 denomination. The subscribers will get a talkvalue of 10,000 minutes on a recharge of Rs.199 and 1,000 minutes on a recharge of Rs 32. Both STVs offer local Uninor to Uninor calling benefits. The recharge amount is inclusive of service tax and processing fee and valid for 30 days. Read more…

In an attempt to provide greater benefits to the GSM mobile users,IDEA Cellular, the pan India GSM mobile operator initiated Connecting People with special arrangements for the millions of devotees going to Haridwar in Uttarakhand during the Maha Kumbh festival. The mobile service operator has launched customized products for visitors and is offering special recharge coupons at retail counters, and has also installed PCO booths to provide telephony services to them.

Idea Cellular’s Prepaid recharge coupons are available at 500 retail outlets, ashrams and akharas in Haridwar and all the nearby regions. The Brand Idea hoardings  are placed at important points across the city, including some of the prominent ghats. It has also installed over 150 PCOs in Haridwar across major locations such as Har-Ki-Pauri, ashrams and surrounding areas. Read more…

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state run GSM mobile service operator today introduced an exciting 20% extra talk time offer on all the top-ups recharges for its prepaid mobile subscribers in Maharashtra and Goa telecom Circle.

The latest recharge offer is launched as a gift for upcoming Valentine’s Day and keeping affordability in mind and giving more value for the money spent. The new Bonus talk-time up to 20% extra from the existing talk time offer is valid on all Top Up recharges starts from Rs.100 to Rs.5500 denominations.

This new offer is different from similar offers of other service providers as it comes with no hidden terms. It can be used for all types of calls including local, STD, ISD, SMS and other VAS services also. The most striking feature of this offer is Read more…

S Tel, the latest entrant in the Indian GSM mobile space, launched some exclusive special tariff vouchers including Unlimited Own-Net callings just at Rs.99 to its Prepaid Mobile subscribers in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar-Jharkhand and Orissa telecom circles.

S Tel’s bunch of special tariff vouchers includes  SMS packs targeted to those who does SMS less as well as those does more; now SMS to any number in India at just 11paisa! Apart from these S Tel also offers unlimited onnet local calling pack at as low as Rs 99 for a period of 30 days.

We have summed up all the details of  STVs ; Just look at here-: Read more…

Uninor has opened an exclusive company owned customer outlet in Madurai.The outlet located at No – 20, North Veli Street, Madurai – 1, is one of the experience stores that Uninor provides its customers a one touch interface for Uninor customers in Madurai.

Uninor plans to establish exclusive retail outlets in the top 10 districts in Tamil Nadu and expand further progressively, at present Uninor operates its company owned customer outlet in Chennai ,Puducherry and in Cochin.

By December 2010, the company plans to have in place another 15 company owned customer outlets in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala Hub. Read more…