TELECOM TALK

Vodafone Essar, the Indian subsidiary of Vodafone Group, will launch new series to feature its Zoozoos starting November 27 .

Under the new campaign, the company will feature three new Zoozoo advertisements every week on television.

“The Zoozoos campaign resonated strongly with viewers in creating an emotional connect and communicating our various offerings. The Zoozoos are back again to tell viewers about our various innovative and customer-centric offerings in a simple and endearing manner,” Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Vodafone Essar said in a statement. Read more…

Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited and Research In Motion (RIM) a global leader in wireless innovation, today unveiled the BlackBerry CurveTM 8520 smartphone priced at just Rs. 14990/-.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, together with TATA DOCOMO offerings, will appeal to a broad spectrum of retail and business customers who want an exceptional mobile experience with easy mobile access to email, messaging, social networking and mobile Internet, as well as powerful multimedia features including a music and video player and camera with video recording.

Announcing the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 Mr. Pradeep Dwivedi, Senior Vice President, Tata Teleservices Limited, said “TATA DOCOMO recently rolled out its BlackBerry solution and has received an enthusiastic response. When we launched our BlackBerry services, we had promised our subscribers that we would bring them the best products and services. Living up to that brand promise, we are launching the stylish new BlackBerry Curve8520 smartphone for our customers. The major attraction of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is that it brings the exceptional BlackBerry smartphone experience within the reach of a larger population.” Read more…

Reliance Communications, today initiated a radical move in the Indian telecom industry by making SMS’s more affordable to all mobile customers in India. Reliance Mobile customers can avail of two revolutionary SMS tariff plans:

o    ONE PAISE PER SMS

o     UNLIMITED SMS’s @ Re. 1 PER DAY

The new SMS tariff plans are add-on plans and are applicable for all Reliance Mobile customers irrespective of CDMA or GSM network as well as prepaid and postpaid customers.

The tariffs are applicable for non-commercial use only. To prevent these attractive SMS tariffs being misused by telemarketers a fair usage cap of 15000 SMS’s per month is applicable Read more…

Aircel has launched mGurujee on their Value Added Services. Aircel introduces MLearning! Get instant access to extensive learning content at your finger tips. Away from home, books or computers? Traveling in a bus or train? Waiting for your next appointment?

Need quick access to reference materials? All you need to do is pick up your mobile phone, subscribe to MGurujee and get instant access to extensive learning content.

Extensive content in areas of Test Preparation (Engineering, Management , Civil Services, Medical, etc), School Syllabus (CBSE, ICSE, etc), Skills development, Vocabulary, General Knowledge, Health, History, Arts, Mythology and much more! Read more…

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom service provider has launched their Pay Per Second tariff scheme for all its customers in US for calling their dear ones in India. Airtel will be the first to offer Pay per Second plans for the US to India calling card market.

Airtel CallHome has announced the launch of the Pay per Second plan for US to India calling. With this, Bharti Airtel becomes the first to offer Pay per Second plans for the US to India Calling Card market.

The $6.99 plan comes with an administration fee of $0.49, offering customers a tariff of just 0.03 cents/sec on the balance $6.50. The plan comes with a validity of 30 days. Read more…

Tata Docomo has launched a recharge coupon – RCV 99 – which entitles the user to 500,000 seconds of on-net usage with a validity of a year.

“We wish to express our deepest gratitude by now offering Full-On BoL with 5,00,000 seconds of talktime across the Tata Docomo network spanning Maharashtra and Goa. We now invite everyone to enjoy long conversations coupled with the pioneering benefit of per second billing for life,” Tata Docomo Head (Marketing) Abdul Khan said.

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Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), India’s first 3G mobile service operator, has introduced “New Trump Bonus Recharge 108” with lowest MTNL(Mumbai-Delhi) callings just at 20 paisa per minute for its Trump 2.75G GSM Prepaid mobile subscriber in Mumbai telecom circles.

MTNL Mumbai’s new Bonus Card-108 comes at just Rs.108 with talktime of Rs.22 and tariff validity of 6 months (180 days) from the date of recharge.All calls to MTNL Mumbai and Delhi  network will be charged at 20 paisa per minute.

Other network local call to  Mumbai-Maharashtra and Goa will be charged  at 50 paisa and all STD calls will be charged at 75p per minute. Local SMS to any network will be charged at 25p while National SMS at 50p. ISD and Other charges will be applicable as per 2G prepaid plans. Read more…

Nokia, the world’s largest phone manufacturer, has shared a first glimpse of the upcoming Nokia E72 mobile phone for customers in India. The company is also offering a chance to ‘pre-book’ the phone, thereby ensuring that you can be among the first few to own the new Nokia E72 when it’s available in the market.

Nokia E72 allows one to stay in control of all your business needs. Be it business or finance, one can respond at the right time and capitalize on every opportunity that comes your way. Collaborate with colleagues, share financial spreadsheets, manage meeting requests, and answer work emails on the move. Which means, you now have that unfair advantage.

The phone is being promoted with the tag-line “How we respond is who we are” and its main highlights are Read more…

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that Mr. Lloyd Mathias , President & Chief Marketing Officer, Tata Teleservices Limited, has elected to be the co-chairperson for the Device Strategy Council of CDG

Lloyd Mathias has a proven track record in sales and marketing, having been directly responsible for the success of some of brands in India like Motorola, PepsiCo Beverages, UB Spirits and Onida.

Prior to joining TTSL, he was working with Motorola Inc. as senior director, sales and distribution. Read more…