TELECOM TALK

Raising the spirit of Ramzan celebrations and keeping it’s promise of being closest to the customer, Uninor the GSM mobile service brand of Unitech Wireless announced the launch of a Ramzan Special Tariff Voucher ‘786’ for its subscribers in Andhra Pradesh.

This voucher once activated is valid for 30 days, and offers a talk time of Rs786 as a main balance along with 786 free Local and National SMS.

Over and above these, the customer also gets one month FREE subscription of My Tunes with unlimited song changes and a Quran pack that offers SMS alerts containing verses from the holy Quran. Read more…

Videocon Mobile Services today launched a new innovative Special Talk Time voucher (STTV) for Mumbai Circle dubbed as ‘Regular Balance Plan’ which offer extra talk time in every 15 days after the recharge.

This ‘Regular Balance Plan’ is priced at Rs65 which gives an instant core balance of Rs55, not only this but also after every 15 days your main Balance will be credited with Rs10 for 4 times over a period of 2 Months, which means you will get Rs40 in all extra apart from Rs55 within a stretch of 2 Months.

The details of Regular Balance Plan are tabulated below: Read more…

The Government of India will start allocation of 3G spectrum to telecom companies that bid the highest in the May 2010 3G auction.

Earlier the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had set the deadline to September 1 for allocation of 3G spectrum.The defence forces had already released two slots of 3G spectrum before the auction.

Leading Mobile Service operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Reliance Communications (RCOM), Aircel, Tata Teleservices, Idea Cellular, and Stel had bagged the 3G spectrum. All the 3G spectrum winners are confident that if the spectrum is handed over to them by September, they can roll out services by the end of 2010 or beginning of Read more…

Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading cellular services providers, today announced the launch of Vodafone Person-to-Person recharge service.

This convenient service enables Vodafone prepaid users in Jammu & Kashmir to transfer talk-time from one Vodafone user to another. The Person-to-Person recharge is one such service which will give our customers the flexibility to stay connected with their friends and family even when they are unable to immediately recharge their accounts.

The Vodafone prepaid customer needs to send an SMS RC (receivers no) (transfer amount) to 144 (toll free) from their Vodafone mobile phone and the account of the other number would be updated immediately. Read more…

Videocon Mobile Services, one of the fastest growing telcos in India launches a new innovative yet cheapest tariff options for Local, STD and ISD callings for the customers of Chennai, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

This new tariff option for Local and STD callings enables its customers to enjoy 180 second pulse (3 Minutes) for all their Local and STD Calls.

The tariff voucher is priced at Rs. 24 which also provides a talk value of Rs. 10, making the effective tariff voucher cost to Rs. 14 and comes with the validity of 30 days. All Local and STD calls will be charged at Re.1/3 Minutes, making the effective per minute charge to as low as 33 Paise for Read more…

Nokia India today unveiled its long awaited 2-in-1 dual SIM (GSM+GSM) mobile phone, Nokia C1 (C1-00) and Nokia C2 (C2-00).

The two new devices, in the Nokia Cseries family, are available at very attractive and affordable price points and will address the consumer need for a Nokia phone boasting multiple sim functionality.

Nokia C1 and Nokia C2 will enable users to take advantage of a rounded feature set including multiple phone book options, long battery life, large screen and local language interface.

Unveiling the new devices, Mary McDowell, Executive Vice President, Mobile Phones, Nokia said, “As per our deep consumer insights, entry level consumers need dual SIMs Read more…

Videocon Mobile Services, one of the fastest growing telecom operators recently launched 2 new “Truly Unlimited Mobile Internet” offer apart from the existing Rs96 Unlimited Internet offer.

The new Mobile Internet (GPRS) packs which are launched are priced at 2 different price points enabling customers to enjoy services at really affordable rates.

For Gujarat, Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (including Chennai) telecom circles, the 2 new Truly Unlimited Internet packs are priced at Rs13 and Rs251. With an e-recharge of Rs13, you can surf/download Unlimited without any fair usage limits for 3 days whereas with Read more…