TELECOM TALK

In its endeavor to enhance Email experience while on move India’s 5th largest GSM Mobile Service operator Aircel today introduced a new specially tailored device dubbed as “Peek”.

Peek is a low cost email device brought by Aircel which has email as the centre of all features.The devices is being offered at price point of Rs.2999 and it comes with a plethora of features built around Email. The Device is available Aircel stores, Croma, E-Zone or Staples stores.

With this device one can set up multiple accounts in a matter of few seconds overcoming any complicated settings unlike other devices. Push mail delivers new emails to your Inbox automatically. Users notified of a new email in 3 ways like the blinking envelope indicator on the top left, a vibrate alert, and a sound alert. It also supports Microsoft Exchange MS Word, Excel and PDF etc and come with QWERTY keypad. According to the operator Peek comes with Remarkable battery life measure battery life by days – not hours. Read more…

MTS India the CDMA mobile service operator’s Honeymoon time with Kolkata is over. Earlier we reported of MTS India has withdrawn daily 100 sms pack and introduces new sms packs offering 10p/sms. Now here is another sad news for MTS customers in Kolkata and WB circle that Missed Call Alert service is now chargeable service. However from the launch in these two circles MTS India is offering missed call alert free of cost to all customers.

Now MTS has issued a SMS to all MTS customers in Kolkata circle which states: Missed Call Alert service will be deactivated from 20/03/10. To avail the service reply with with SUB to 50009. Charges Rs. 15/month. That means no more free missed alert from MTS India, pay for them. Read more…

For those, anxiously waiting to play Idea Oongli Cricket, here’s the first question which Sirji (aka Idea Brand Ambassador Abhishek Bachchan), will ask the nation today - “How many times bowlers will ‘Appeal’ in today’s match?”

So brace your fingers and SMS your answer for Aaj Ka Sawaal to ‘9594939291’. Any mobile user can participate in this Game by simply responding on SMS. The number is toll free for Idea subscribers, and standard messaging rates apply for other mobile subscribers. All Idea customers who send in the correct answer will get Idea VAS Packs for three days. Responses can be sent in until the last ball of the match. Read more…

In its endeavor to provide affordable mobility to its GSM subscribers in Delhi, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), India’s first 3G mobile service operators today introduces Full Value Recharge worth Rs.200 and above with some extra freebies.

MTNL Delhi’s new Full Value Recharges with Extra Talk Time for any network Calls/SMS or Data usage, which are aimed at bringing in affordability, by offering extra benefits to reduce the cost of mobility.

Now MTNL Trump Prepaid GSM 2G and 3G subscribers in Delhi-NCR circle will get full and extra talk time as well as free local SMSs. For example if MTNL prepaid subscriber recharged with Top up of Rs.200, he will get talk time worth Rs.200 in his main balance plus free 50 local SMS. Read more…

In a bid to leverage the cricket mania during the DLF IPL season-3, India’s largest GSM Mobile service operator Bharti Aitel launched the Indian Fantasy League(IFL) Online Cricket game in association with TIMES Group.

IFL the fantasy Online Cricket game conducting along with IPL matches any one can select players for his/her team and win prizes. Whenever they can select players play well in real IPL and the fantasy team gets points. It is completely free and fun. The registration of teams starts from 12th Mar 2010 to 25th Apr 2010.

The online game will provide initial credits of 1200 points to buy 16 players to users when he joins IFC. The game is very simple. Read more…

TATA Indicom, the CDMA brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today launched a ‘Special Tariff Voucher 8’ (STV8) priced just at Rs 8, for all new and existing CDMA pre-paid mobile subscribers across all 22 telecom Circles in the country. This special offer allows customers to make all STD calls at 50 paise per minute for 30 days.

Mr Vineet Bhatia, COO Delhi and NCR, Head North Region, Tata Indicom said: “This easy-on-the-pocket Special Tariff Voucher is aimed at providing enhanced affordability and convenience to our customers who want to stay connected with their near and dear ones across India .” Read more…

Here is the bad news for Mobile Service users who are waiting for the Mobile Number Portability (MNP). India has pushed the implementation of MNP across all the telecom circles to a delay of some more months from the earlier deadline of March 31, 2010.

The Government of India would soon announce the new deadline for implementation of MNP. The revised time line will be announced after ascertaining the status from all the stakeholders and reasonable time required for Acceptance Testing etc., so that no network problem in call processing/completion, surfaces out after MNP Services are launched.

The MNP shall allow mobile subscribers to retain their existing mobile number when they switch from one access service provider to another irrespective of mobile technology or from one technology to another of the same or any other access service provider within same service area. Read more…

From Bringing the Per-Second Billing concept to Refreshingly Different offers to suit the customer needs, TATA DOCOMO has come with the POST-PAY plan builder wher in you can make your own Post-Pay plans as per your needs.

These plans are designed to charge you only for what you use. If you talk for 15 seconds why pay for a minute. You will be charged only for 15 seconds. All STD and ISD tariffs are on a second pulse, and the local tariffs are either 1 paisa / 1 second and 2 paise for 2 seconds.

The interactive Post-Pay plan builder application helps you the reduce your FAT bills to DIET one with ingredients like 200 LOCAL minutes, 150 STD minutes and 500 local SMSes. Read more…

On the line of Happy to Help, Vodafone Essar the leading telecom carrier today comes out with an online survey to enhance user experience with its website. With the online survey Vodafone also giving a chance of getting zoozoo mugs to the people visiting there website.

The survey captures information regarding frequency of visit, objective of visit and most important it take feedback of various factors related to website like content, images, ease of navigation and organization of information. Some of the questions are What kind of connection do you have from Vodafone? OR Approximately how many times have you visited Vodafone.in in the last 3 months? and Your reason for visiting Vodafone.in? Read more…