BSNL has been reporting straight losses consecutively for four years now. Though, loss for last financial year (2012-13) of Rs. 7884 Cr was lesser than the loss in 2011-12 (Rs. 8851 Cr), it is reported that it would take few more years for BSNL to be profitable again. While BSNL can get bailouts from Government like any ailing PSU, no amount of bailout would help in the longer run. A... Read More
On one side BSNL is reducing benefits of landline users and on the other side mobile phone users are given additional benefits. The latest benefit on offer for GSM mobile customers is full usage value. Unlike offers which used to be valid for few days, this time BSNL has decided to run the festival offers for a longer period - from 24 December 2013 to 31st March 2014 applicable PAN... Read More
Cellular services like any other services can face downtime. In the recent years we have seen uproars over Blackberry services going down very frequently. While operators worldwide make efforts to keep downtime minimal, they also try to pacify customers and keep them informed. The situation however appears different in India. The latest fiasco is with leading operator Airtel. Since evening I had seen tweets from Airtel customers citing no network... Read More
Inspired by the response to our previous post on prepaid plans by BSNL Karnataka we decided to publish more such posts comparing different prepaid plans by BSNL. This post is about Aajeevan and Mithram plans offered by BSNL Kerala. Telecomtalk helps you take a decision on which plan to choose to reap maximum benefits. Aajeevan is a life-time validity plan (subject to cumulative top-up of Rs. 200 every 180 days)... Read More
Just two days ago we reported how state run telecom operator BSNL is encouraging its Landline and Broadband customers to Go Green by switching to e-bills. It appears to us that Idea has taken a cue from BSNL's move and decided to promote e-bills in what they call "Idea Loves Green". We have learnt that Idea Cellular has started reaching out to customers subscribed to paper bills encouraging them to switch... Read More
Circle specific plans have always been a speciality of BSNL Prepaid - they come with catchy names and are packed with benefits. In this post we decode two such plans available in Karnataka Circle - Savinudi and Cauvery. The USP of both the plans is full talk value on recharges of Rs. 200 and multiples of Rs. 200. This is a first of its kind offer from Karnataka BSNL. With... Read More
These are days where everyone is encouraging customers to go green - right from bus operators, IRCTC with their tickets through SMS and banks with their statements through email. It is said that switch to SMS/electronic tickets by IRCTC saves around 1.5 lakh pages everyday. This could be a conservative estimate. Apart from saving paper such e-initiatives save electricity, printing ink, dispatch charges borne by the source agency and above... Read More
BSNL is still the favorite mobile service provider for many Indians because of transparent billing and good network coverage. Anyone who travelled to remote regions of the country would vouch for BSNL’s service. Despite of all these, BSNL losses are ever growing. We at Telecomtalk had conducted a survey in January to find out reader’s opinions about BSNL/MTNL and 53% of the readers were happy with their choice. Out of... Read More
Given the speed and virus-free environment offered by Linux distributions, many users are switching to Linux from Windows these days. Out of the several Linux variants available to a user, Ubuntu has seen wide adoption rates in India. Soon after installing any operating system a user’s first activity would be to configure internet connection! Though wired (ethernet) and wireless (Wi-Fi) connections work fine with first try, configuring a USB modem... Read More
It was in September 2011 that we launched TelecomMap.com, a site to help you to rate your 3G operator on a map. Since then we have been receiving good number of reports and suggestions from you. After few days of testing new things, we decided to come out of beta stage. Now TelecomMap bears a new refreshing look and submitting reports has become more easier. Taking a cue from your... Read More
In our earlier article we had written about Vodafone India’s policy of discontinuing inactive mobile numbers i.e., numbers with no voice calls (incoming/outgoing), no SMS and no data usage for a continuous period of 60 days. Just to make sure industry leader Airtel has a similar policy I tweeted the following message to Airtel. @Airtel_Presence I just read on @TelecomTalk that like @VodafoneIN you deactivate numbers unused for 60 days.... Read More
It’s been five days since we launched TelecomMap, the first of its kind initiative to map 3G/Wi-Fi networks in the entire nation. All these days we have been receiving good number of reports about 3G coverage. As mentioned in the earlier post Making best use of TelecomMap, many of you are failing to provide detailed location information. Providing specific location information can be advantageous in many ways: Telecom companies can... Read More
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Found the loophole here
Jio to hike value plans soon. Shaadi ke side effects. ?? Rs. 479 only calls + sms Rs. 539 (Previously…
Look like Airtel reading Telecom Talk comment :D . Now they removed data from their value packs 509 & 1999…
This year there were elections, so everything got delayed.
But that effectiveness is nowhere to be seen since long time back.
