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Srikapardhi December 30th, 2013 1:20 AM 22 COMMENTS

Aircel shows a friendly gesture to it’s Chennai users for its Network outage on Dec 26, Offers Free SMS

Not only the bad, even the mi-nute of the good things should be highlighted and with that responsibility and response to the feedback received from our Readers we just wanted to highlight a nice gesture from Aircel Chennai. It happened that on 26th December Aircel's Chennai network was affected for more than 2 hours due to a technical glitch from Operator's end. All Voice & Data services were affected and... Read More

Srikapardhi December 29th, 2013 1:23 AM 28 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular users have a reason to rejoice on New Year, Offers Free SMS Benefits During Blackout Days

As the New Year count down begins generally our Operators send their customers reminder sms about Blackout days as defined in TRAI regulations and inform users that they will be charged as per their Base Tariff on special days. But this time seems like Idea Cellular users have a reason to rejoice as Idea Cellular is offering its users with special SMS pack saying "Just for you!" which gives SMS... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas December 26th, 2012 12:19 AM 53 COMMENTS

Airtel Joins Idea Cellular: Blackout Days Extended to Voice Calls Starting 2013

As expected after Idea Cellular, Airtel extends black out days on voice calls along with SMS. It is already shown on Airtel's website and it says: ' On Black Out days all person to person SMS and Voice calls will be charged at normal rates and not at discounted rates'. On Black out days,No SMS packs benefits will be applicable. Normal SMS rates of Re 1 for local SMS, Rs 1.50... Read More

Sanjay September 15th, 2012 1:16 AM 37 COMMENTS

TRAI to Telcos : Don’t Charge Extra for SMS, Calls on Blackout Days

In order to further improve transparency in Mobile services, India’s telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has today issued directive to all Mobile Service Providers (GSM/CDMA) prescribing additional measures with a view to enhance transparency in the matter of charging on Blackout Days. TRAI said that Mobile operators should not charge customers on calls or SMSes beyond their existing tariff plans on 'Blackout Days' like Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali,... Read More

Sanjay December 21st, 2009 6:07 PM 102 COMMENTS

Reliance Mobile Now Triggers Rivals On SMS Black Out Days

After the Pay Per Second and new Roaming tariff now the focus of Indian mobile price war completely shifted to the SMS tariff.Reliance Mobile which is first operator to roll out lowest Local and National Roaming and SMS tariff, once again targeted its rival on Over charging for SMS while festive season. Reliance Mobile the GSM and CDMA mobile service brand of Reliance Communications today initiated another radical move to... Read More