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P K Tarun November 27th, 2009 6:33 PM 20 COMMENTS

Vodafone Zoozoos Make A Comeback On Television

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... Read More

P K Tarun November 27th, 2009 3:34 PM 204 COMMENTS

Reliance Mobile Unveils Two Revolutionary SMS Tariff Plans

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... Read More

P K Tarun November 27th, 2009 10:54 AM 42 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Launches New Recharge Coupon ‘Full-On BoL’

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... Read More

P K Tarun November 25th, 2009 6:32 PM 5 COMMENTS

Samsung Launches 3G-Enabled Slider Phone C5130 In India

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has launched C5130, a 3G-enabled entry-level slider phone in the Indian market, targeting the youth segment. “The C3150 mobile is targeted at the youth who are looking at staying connected with their friends at all times, need fast and easy internet access and good multimedia features in their phones, all features being made available to them in an attractively priced package, as indeed the C5130 does,”... Read More

P K Tarun November 24th, 2009 12:47 PM 1 COMMENTS

Tata Communications Wins Best Global Wholesale Offering Award 2009

Tata Communications today announced that it has received the Best Global Wholesale Offering Award from Capacity magazine. The awards were announced on Nov 23 at the Capacity Europe 2009 event in Amsterdam. The judging panel comprising senior Capacity editorial staff as well as a range of senior industry analysts recognized Tata Communications’ pole position in the wholesale business. Which is anchored by a globe-spanning network of submarine and terrestrial cables... Read More

P K Tarun November 23rd, 2009 1:36 PM 8 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Launches GSM Service In Assam

Idea Cellular today announced the launch of its 2.75G EDGE enabled GSM network in Assam with this launch idea cellular is in near completion of its pan-India network rollout with presence in 21 telecom circles in India. IDEA has started an exclusive portal 'Asomi Aai Rupohi' in Assamese language for the mobile users in the region. The portal will offer Assamese songs, movie reviews and other rich content targeted at... Read More

P K Tarun November 23rd, 2009 12:28 PM 4 COMMENTS

India Telecom User Base Rises To 525 Million

The number of telephone subscribers in India has increased to 525.65 million as on October 31, 2009, compared with 509.03 million posted in September-2009. The subscriber growth registered a 3.26 per cent, which helped in which helped in improving overall tele-density in India to 44.87. Wireless subscriber base increased from 471.73 million in September 2009 to 488.40 million at the end of October 2009 at a monthly growth rate of... Read More

P K Tarun November 20th, 2009 1:23 PM 17 COMMENTS

Airtel Reduces Roaming Rates By Nearly 60%

Bharti Airtel today slashed its roaming rates by nearly 60% Airtel mobile customers who enroll into the Airtel Turbo plan will be now charged at 60 paisa per minute for all incoming calls while on roaming. Airtel Turbo offers Local and STD outgoing calls to an Airtel mobile customer while roaming at 60 paisa per minute. While Local and STD outgoing calls to another network while roaming will be 80... Read More

P K Tarun November 19th, 2009 7:32 PM 13 COMMENTS

Samsung Introduces Corby TXT, Corby Mate In India

Mobile handset-maker Samsung Electronics Co. Limited has launched Corby TXT (model no B3210) and Corby Mate (model no B3313), both message-centric mobile phones for heavy text users, in the Indian market. This follows the company’s earlier launch of Samsung Corby (model: S3653). “These phones are designed to meet the heavy messaging needs of youth, with their QWERTY keypad for quick messaging access,... Read More

P K Tarun November 19th, 2009 6:13 PM 5 COMMENTS

Interview With Nimbuzz Country Head Vikas Saxena

One of the fastest growing mobile social messengers, Nimbuzz, combines instant messaging, (geo) presence and VoIP across popular communities including Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, and social networks including Facebook, Orkut and MySpace. The free application is available on the mobile, web and PC, for instant messaging, location sharing, (group) calling, file sharing, and chat rooms. It enjoys extraordinary success by word of mouth, registering nearly... Read More

P K Tarun November 19th, 2009 12:18 PM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel Cuts In-Bound Call Rates To Gujarat,Maharashtra At 1.25 Cents

Bharti Airtel today announced flat call rate of 1.25 cents per min for calls from US to Gujarat, Mumbai, Maharashtra and Rajasthan on its calling card service, Airtel Call Home. The plan is targeted at non-resident Indians (NRIs) in the US who have friends and family spread across these states in India. The $14.99 plan has a talk time of 1199 minutes on local access. This is applicable on calls... Read More

P K Tarun November 18th, 2009 1:41 PM 17 COMMENTS

BSNL Launches One Paisa/Sec and All@49 Prepaid Plans In Gujarat

BSNL Gujarat has come up with a SMS based Tariff voucher which will help subscriber to make local call and STD call to any network at 1 paisa per second to avail this offer one has to send an SMS ACT 1S to 53733 . The plan will be applicable for all the customers of general Prepaid and Saral Anant Subscribers with the tariff Validity of 365 days from the... Read More