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Chethan S August 2nd, 2014 8:04 PM 343 COMMENTS

BSNL Broadband Customers Anxious about Upcoming bills due to Sudden Plan Changes

TelecomTALK readers by now would be very familiar with BSNL's unethical move wherein night unlimited broadband plans were heavily revised without prior notice. Due to this one-sided move, scores of BSNL customers will be facing huge bills and possible disconnection this month. One of our readers has already faced the disconnection on 1st August for this very reason. For the past two months, several readers have been expressing anxiety over... Read More

Chethan S August 1st, 2014 9:58 PM 9 COMMENTS

BSNL to Introduce Three New STD STVs in Karnataka Circle

BSNL Karnataka will be introducing three new STD STVs in Karnataka Circle starting tomorrow. After revising STV-47 that offered 20p/min local/STD to BSNL network to local only this is a good move from BSNL. Details The BSNL STD STV 16 offers all std voice calls at Rs 1.3/3 with 30 days validity, whereas Rs 84 offers better deal offering all STD calls at 0.35/m with 84 days validity . Read More

Chethan S August 1st, 2014 8:03 PM 11 COMMENTS

Beam Fiber Increases FUP by 50%, Offers Wi-Fi router for Rs. 1499

Beam Fiber customers can enjoy more downloads at Jet Speeds as the FUP limits have been increased by up to 50%. The base plan which used to come with FUP of 20 GB will now have 30 GB, an increase by 50%. The changes came in to effect on 31 July 2014 midnight. Here are the change details: Incidentally being a Beam customer myself I noticed higher FUP of 35... Read More

Chethan S July 31st, 2014 2:51 PM 7 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches 4G in Nashik, Offers 10 GB 4G data at Rs. 999

Airtel has launched its 4G services in Nashik with this roll out Airtel Customers can enjoy 4G services in 4G dongles and Wi-Fi CPEs. The dongles are priced at Rs.1500 the CPE is priced at Rs.2500. Customers can select from a host of affordable 4G postpaid plans. Special plans have been introduced for heavy data users, while CPE customers can enjoy 40 GB data... Read More

Chethan S July 30th, 2014 5:14 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel launches 3G Wi-Fi datacard in Delhi-NCR

Airtel has launched its 3G Wi-Fi datacard in Delhi-NCR. The Delhi-NCR roll out of the Wi-Fi data card follows after the success of its launch in Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai and Tamil Nadu recently and will be introduced across the country in a phased manner . Powered by the HSPA+ technology, the data card will enable customers to enjoy download speeds of up to 21 mbps on 3G and also create... Read More

Chethan S July 29th, 2014 7:57 PM 17 COMMENTS

Mobile Data Boom: How Indian Operators can Chart a Growth Strategy?

With unprecedented penetration of smartphones across users of all socio-economic strata, demand for mobile data is ever growing all over the world. Telecom service providers around the globe are bracing up to come up in terms with this trend and improve their offerings in terms of network quality and pricing. Airtel's new The Smartphone Network campaign asserts the fact that even operators are aware about the significance of data being... Read More

Chethan S July 28th, 2014 12:09 PM 10 COMMENTS

Vodafone Launches Customer Experience Centre (CEC) in Gurgaon for its Enterprise customers

Vodafone India Ltd. has unveiled a first-of-its-kind Customer Experience Centre (CEC) in Gurgaon for its Enterprise customers. The CEC enables Enterprise customers to experience the world of latest and emerging business communication solutions that can help them to better Communicate, Collaborate and Connect. The CEC has on display the complete suite of Total Communication Solutions comprising Wireline and Mobility offerings, Machine to Machine Solutions and more, hosted in a high-tech and futuristic... Read More

Chethan S July 24th, 2014 7:43 PM 48 COMMENTS

BSNL to Introduce Unlimited Data Plan & Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter Packs in South Zone

BSNL will be launching its unlimited data add on plans and social add on packs for south zone. It may be noted that data add-on packs and social packs were always offered by private operators like Airtel, Uninor, Reliance and Tata Docomo previously BSNL has already launched these packs for north zone sometime back. BSNL Whatsapp add on pack : BSNL Whatsapp packs will be available in the market starting August 1st. The... Read More

Chethan S July 23rd, 2014 12:31 PM 4 COMMENTS

BSNL Offers STV-786 on holy occasion of Ramzan

BSNL will be offering a special tariff voucher of Rs 786 for to its prepaid mobile customers on the holy occasion of Ramzan. The New STV provides talk value of Rs. 786 and 786 free SMS (393 National + 393 Local) with 30 days validity. This promotional offer is effective from 24th July 20 14 for 90 days. BSNL Board Director (CM) Shri Anupam Shrivastva stated that the offer has been... Read More

Chethan S July 20th, 2014 4:11 PM 25 COMMENTS

Was @VodafoneIN twitter handle hacked this afternoon?

In probably a first occurrence in Indian telecom industry, the twitter handle @VodafoneIN was compromised this afternoon. The account was used to send unrelated tweets mentioning random users. The activity almost went unnoticed for around two hours and was fixed later. Several tweeple noticed the tweets and poked fun at Vodafone! Fortunately for Vodafone, the account was only used to send mentions and hence did not impact all the 1.9... Read More

Chethan S July 20th, 2014 2:45 PM 9 COMMENTS

BSNL to Withdraw 9 Combo STVs and Regularize 3 STVs

Continuing the tariff hike and reduce freebies trend BSNL will be withdrawing nine Combo STVs. At the same time, three STVs will be regularized and two promotional offers would be introduced. The combo vouchers that are being withdrawn were providing host of benefits like free SMS, data and reduced call rates. The vouchers which are being regularized and the promotional combos do not offersame kind of benefits. The above changes... Read More

Chethan S July 17th, 2014 9:35 PM 37 COMMENTS

BSNL to Introduce Three New VDSL Unlimited Broadband Plans in all Circles

BSNL will be introducing three new VDSL unlimited broadband plans on 21 July 2014. The 3 new VDSL plans are BBG Speed Combo 1745 VDSL , BBG Super Speed 2845 VDSL and BBG Super Speed Combo 3445 VDSL. These plans will be offering speed ranging from 8 Mbps to 24 Mbps depending the plan you opt the post FUP speed will be 512Kbps . BBG super speed combo 2845 and BBG super... Read More