Vodafone India Slashes Data Charges by 80% for Prepaid and Postpaid Customers
Vodafone India today announced a massive 80% price cut in charges for its data customers in Karnataka, UP West and MPCG which will be further rolled out nationally in phased manner. This rate would be applicable for all pre-paid and post-paid customers using 2G network on a ‘Pay as you Go’ basis. The rate cut from 10p/10KB to 2p/10KB will make internet access affordable for customers who use mobile internet ... [Read more]
Aircel Announces Short-term Prepaid Yatra SIM Cards for Amarnath Yatris
In its endeavor to make Amarnath Yatra more comfortable and memorable for the pilgrims, Aircel, one of India’s leading telecom players, announced the launch of special short-term prepaid Yatra SIM Cards. Aircel will also set-up special counters in Jammu, Pahalgam, Baltal and many more locations in J&K to make these special SIM cards available to the yatris. Aircel aims to ensure that the yatris have seamless access to the telecom ... [Read more]
Smartphone for Masses: Lava Mobile Plans for Super Affordable FirefoxOS Phones
Mozilla’s ambitious mobile platform Firefox OS is all set to get a new handset partner in India as home grown Lava Mobiles is set to launch smartphones running on Firefox OS. In a recent media interaction with Hari Om Rai, co-founder and Director at Lava International has confirmed that Lava is working on a Firefox OS smartphone, which could be priced below Rs 3000 ($54 approx). He did not reveal ... [Read more]
Roaming charges to fall from July 1, 2013
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has announced new tariff structures for voice calls and text messages, a move that would result in a reduction of roaming charges.The new tariff structure is effective July 1, even though the telecom regulator said that there will be no free national roaming as of now. “TRAI has reduced ceilings for national roaming calls and SMS and instituted a new regime for providing flexibility ... [Read more]
BSNL Revised Unlimited Onnet Packs
State owned telecommunications giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has revised its unlimited onnet calling packs in the telecom district of Chennai and Tamilnadu circle. In recent time, with cheap tariff offering phased out and operators in huge debt pushed themselves to raise the tariff. Market dynamics is changed, price power returns to the telcos and A-Vo-Id group try to make a monopoly in the market. In this situation BSNL is ... [Read more]
Weekly Telecom Bytes: AUSPI asks DoT to reject COAI Plea on Tata Teleservices Spectrum Withdrawal, Lava to Launch Iris 504Q
AUSPI asks DoT to reject COAI Plea on Tata Teleservices Spectrum Withdrawal Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI), which represents dual technology players such as TTSL, Reliance Communications and Sistema Shyam Teleservices, has asked DoT to reject the COAI plea to take back spectrum from Tata Teleservices in 18 service areas. Earlier, The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing GSM players, had written to DoT asking ... [Read more]
Micromax Teases Canvas 4, Preorder Starts June 28th
India’s handset giant Micromax is working on its latest flagship product Canvas 4. The company has released one teaser video on youtube as well as on tv; and puts a teaser picture on its facebook cover – Can Life Be Endless? Micromax who is selling its 5 inch Android smartphones under Canvas brand, is highly successful with Canvas smartphones as the sales figure says. There is no details of the ... [Read more]
Aircel Inks Deal with Techzone to Offer Mobile Videos at Re 1
In an attempt to strengthen value added services portfolio country’s leading mobile operator Aircel has partnered with world’s one of the top VAS provider Techzone to offer mobile video download at Re 1. Techzone is considered to be one of India’s largest aggregators, developers, publishers and distributors of Entertainment content. It has its own vast content library of 20,000+ videos in more than 12 languages of the country. Aircel has ... [Read more]
ZTE to Launch Open Market SWIFT 3G Data Cards Soon
Chinese mobile device and telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that the company will launch own branded data cards in India in mid-June this year. ZTE becomes aggressive in Indian soil to tap the end-consumer mobile device market, earlier it announced to launch several smartphones under own brand. Currently ZTE is the second largest data card seller in the country, but they don’t directly sell the data cards, rather it ... [Read more]
Uninor Brings Local & STD Calls at 25p/min
Uninor, continuing their effort to be ‘Sabse Sasta’ has introduced new special tariff vouchers in Maharashtra and Goa circle to offer local and STD calls at just 25 paisa per minute. The new recharges priced Rs 22 and Rs 31 will offer local calls to any network and local & STD calls at a flat rate of 25p/min. There is no capping of calling minutes – unlimited local and STD ... [Read more]

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